Oregon daily emerald., January 16, 1978, Page 13, Image 13

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Indiana's Rick Thomas, here winning one of his three events on the
day, led powerful Indiana to the 78-18 win over Oregon in the
weekend's meet.
Oregon pulls off big upset
in weekend wrestling sweep
By NICK DAWSON
Of the Emerald
The giant killers are becoming
giants themselves.
Oregon’s wrestlers pulled off
another upset of a nationally
ranked wrestling squad on their
way to a weekend sweep of two
dual matches. The two wins im
proved the Duck’s dual record to
6-8.
On Friday night, the Ducks top
ped No. 5 Brigham Young Univer
sity, 24-18, then lost only two
matches on the way to a 29-14
defeat of Utah on Saturday.
Earlier this year, Oregon de
feated Missouri and Clarion State,
then ranked fifteenth and
eleventh, respectively.
Scott Bliss led the Ducks over
the two Utah schools. Bliss ran his
season record to 23-3 with a pair
of pins.
Oregon's 190-pounder, Don
Brown, moved one step closer to
breaking Greg Gibson’s season
record for pins, of 14, as he floored
his BYU opponent in only 58 sec
onds. Brown also won a decision
to complete his perfect weekend.
Two other Oregon wrestlers
went 2-0. Jeff Stuebing, 167, con
tinued his good wrestling of late,
gamering a pin and a win by deci
. sion in the weekend action. Dan
Hollembaek won two decisions for
the Ducks at his 158 pound divi
sion.
Oregon was without the ser
vices of 118 pounder Norm
Knight, who stayed home to nurse
a shoulder injured in the Fresno
State match last Wednesday.
Though they had to give up six
points due to the forfeit, and
dropped the next three matches,
Oregon managed to battle back
from the 15-0 deficit to beat
BYU’s Cougars.
Bliss started the Duck come
back by registering a fall, then
Hollembaek won to get the Ducks
back to within 15-9. Stuebing, a
former McMinnville All-Am
erican then got an important pin to
pull the Ducks even.
After a BYU win at 177, Brown
then gained his thirteenth pin of
the year to give Oregon a 21-18
lead. Oregon heavyweight Dan
Thorsness provided the final mar
gin, winning by decision.
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Hoosiers battle only snow
en route to swim meet win
By MARK STEWART
Of the Emerald
It is said that neither hail nor
snow nor sleet keeps the postman
from making his apponinted
rounds. Inclement weather didn't
keep the Indiana men's swim
team from doing what it does best
either — winning meets.
After having to ride a bus from
Bloomington to Indianapolis to
catch a flight because of snow
and freezing weather conditions,
the Hoosiers soundly trounced the
Oregon men’s swim team 78-18 in
the Oregon-lndiana Invitational
held here over the weekend.
The Hoosiers won every event
— they swept (1-2-3 finish) two
events, and finished 1-2 in four
others out of the eleven in the
meet. The best Oregon could do
was four second-place finishes.
Indiana was led by senior Rick
Thomas who won three, the 50
and 200 yard freestyle and 200 yd.
individual medley, and was
beaten by one-tenth of a second in
the 100 yd. freestyle.
Thomas was pleased with his
performance. He has had ten
donitis of the shoulder the past
two years and was tired from
a grueling training trip in Spain.
"I was satisfied with a couple of
swims," said Thomas. We just
came back from Spain and I
haven’t recovered from the travel.
‘‘Last summer I trained hard
and I’m getting back into good
shape. It’s my last year of college
eligibility and I’m trying to get back
to where I was."
Right behind Thomas was
freshman Chuck Sharpe, a high
school All-American freestylist
last year. Sharpe gathered first
place laurels for the 100 and 500
yd. freestyle and second in the
200 yd. freestyle.
Sharpe also broke the Leighton
Pool record in the 500 yard frees
tyle, swimming that event nearly
six seconds faster than Mark
Greenwoods of USC did last year,
and qualifying for the national
meet at the same time.
Austrailian freshman Mark
Kerry from Indiana also broke a
pool record and qualified for na
tionals with his 1:52.01 time in the
200 yd. backstroke.
It was a homecoming of sorts
for Indiana freshman Bob Van
Vleet, who swam last year for
Sheldon High School. He mus
tered a third (50 yd. freestyle) and
two fifth place finishes (200 yd.
individual medley and 100 yd.
freestyle.)
“I was not too pleased with my
times,” said Van Vleet. “I thought I
would be faster.” Part of the prob
lem was a lack of rest from the
training trip Van Vleet just got
back from. “But,” he said, "it’s
hard to be rested when you’re a
sprinter.”
Oregon coach Rich Schleicher
said the score was about what he
expected. “I would have liked to
have had the score a little different
though," Schleicher smiled.
“As far as the times go, there
were some disappointments and
some happy moments,”
Schleicher pointed out.
One he was pleased with was
junior Chris Remey, who swam
his best time ever in the 200-yd.
breaststroke, and another was
freshman George Koch who gar
nered two seconds (200 yd. indi
vidual medley and breaststroke)
and a third (100 yd. freestyle).
“He miscalculated a turn on the
200 breast,” said Schleicher
“With a couple more meets he
could have done a good job.”
Oregon’s women won their
meet, beating Willamalane Swim
Club by the score of 51-28.
The most exciting race of the
meet was the 1 (X) yd. butterfly be
tween Oregon’s Michelle Menk
ens and Willamalane’s Margaret
Hoeflich — Hoeflich beat Menk
ens by .01 second.
Oregon coach Virginia Van
Rossen was pleased with her
team's performance, particularly
Kathy Hemmer, who gathered
three firsts (200 yd. freestyle and
individual medley and 500 yd.
freestyle) and a second place
finish (100 yd. backstroke).
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