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Page 4 WILKES COLLEGE BEACON Friday, March 10, 1967
MAC championship is ours
NCAA tournument held
here Friduy und Suturduy
by Bob Thompson
'Wrestling is the big news on campus
this week with the fifth annual
NCAA Small College Tournament being
held today and tomorrow at the
gym. Approximately 400 wrestlers
from 90 colleges will participate in the
two-day event. The first four finishers
in each division will then be eligible
to participate in the NCAA University
Division Tourney on March 23-25, at
Kent State, Ohio.
Among those expecting to be contenders
for the crown ares California
Polytechnica!, defending champion;
Portland State of Oregon, last year's
third-place winner; Monkato State,
last years fourth-place winner; and
host W'ilkes, last year's runner-up. Six
champions and twenty-one place winners
will be back to either retain their
crowns or better their previous performances.
Those defending their titles
ares 123 pounds - Warren Crow, Albany
State, New York; 130 pounds -
Bob Soulek, Monkato State, Iowa; 145
pounds - Dennis Downing, California
Polytechnical; 177 pounds - Don
Parker, State College of Iowa; 191
pounds - Fred Johnson, Augustinia
College, Illinois; and heavyweight -
Fred Becten, Western State, Colorado.
The College intends to make this the
best tournament ever and special
praise should be given to Dean Ralston
for a fine job in heading the
event. Yesterday, teams and officials
registered at the gym from 8 p.m. to
Il p.m. At 9 p.m. a buffet for coaches
and officials was held at the Fine Arts
Center. The schedule for today and
tomorrow is:
Friday
12 Noon - Preliminaries and firstround
competition
7 p.mQuarter finals
Saturday
7 am, to 8 am. .- Weigh-in (gym)
8:30 am, - NCAA coaches' breakfast
meeting (dining hall)
10:30 am. - Coaches' Clinic (gym)
1 p.m. .- Semi-finals (gym)
1:30 p.m. - Consolations (gym)
8 p.m. - Third place (gym)
9 p.m. - Finals (gym)
Tickets will he $1.25 for adults and
college students and 75 cents for children
for the afternoon sessions. For
the evening sessions the prices will be
$1.50 for adults and $1 for students.
by George Pawlush
With two weeks remaining on the
intramural league schedule, F Troupe
has taken over as the league's pacesetter
with an unblemished 8-0 record.
Wing F is in second place with
a 7-1 tag. Rounding out the top five
teams are National Garages and the
Trojans with 6-2 records. The number
live team is Hainna, sporting a 6-3
record. At the conclusion of the 12-
(lame regular-season schedule, the top
faur teams will playoff for the allleague
championships.
In one of the surprise games of last
week, the Trojans, led by Rick Simonmonson's
29 points, walloped the previously
unbeaten F Wing, 78-55. Bill
As mentioned before, the Colonels
are one of the favored squads and
boast five returning place winners,
They are Joe Kiefer, second at 137;
Joe Wiendl, fourth at 152; Dick Cook,
sixth at 167; Barry Gold, sixth at 191;
and Fran Olexy, sixth at 177, who will
not participate due to an injury sustained
in the MAC Tourney.
Last year John Carr successfully defended
his crown by taking the 160-
pound division. Several Colonel grappIers
have good chances to nail down
crowns this year. Dick Cook is a
heavy favorite at 167, while Joe WiendIe,
after gaining an MAC crown,
could go on to better last year's
fourth-place finish, Jim McCormick has
performed well all year and put on
quite a performance in nearly upsetting
Temple's Don Milone in the
MAC's. Without Milone to stop him,
he could capture the 130-pound crown,
Joe Kiefer captured a second-place
trophy last year in one of his few
appearances of the season, and perhaps
he can do it again this year. The
dark horse of the tournament is likely
to be freshman Andy Matviak. He has
seen limited action this season at 123,
but this weekend he is going at 115
pounds. In the Wilkes Open he took
third place at 115 in his first college
appearance and is looked on to be one
of the Colonels' top prospects.
The complete lineup for the Colonels
is:
115 pounds -. Andy Matviak
123 pounds - John Marfia
130 pounds - Jim McCormick
137 pounds - Joe Kiefer
145 pounds - Galen Cruse
152 poundsDoug Forde
160 pounds - Joe Wiendl
167 pounds - Dick Cook
177 pounds - Barry Gold
19! pounds - Ralph DeVane
Heavyweight - Don Brugal
With the "home town advantage"
on their side, the Colonels have a good
chance of winning the NCAA Small
College crown. A few surprise winners,
like Joe Kiefer last year, could
turn the tide. The loss of Olexy and
Arnould have hurt the Colonel cause,
but perhaps Brugal and DeVane could
pull a few upsets.
In any case, the Beacon wishes all
participants the best of luck.
Two weeks remain
for intramural action
Hinkle was high for F Wing with 25
counters. In another close game Hamna
beat the Scrubs, 60-50. Jeff Bridges
led the victors with 20 points while
Barry Davenport had 14 points for
the losers,
Another tight game last week found
F Wing eking out National Garages,
71-70. Chip Gillespe racked up 24
points for the winners while Fred
Bauer led National Garages with 25
points.
Hainna had little trouble with the
Aces, pounding them, 71-37, Rich Mc-
Kay led Hainna with 17 counters while
Dennis Galli paced the losers with 14
points.
Wilkes has
The Colonel grapplers once again
emerged as the MAC college and university
division wrestling champs by
protecting an eleven-point team advantage
and toppling heavily favored
Temple University, 73-62.
In the early going, the Colonels took
the lead after the quarter-final round
in the tournament held at Moravian
College last Friday and Saturday.
Wilkes had 20 points and placed six
wrestlers in the semi-final round while
West Chester was in second position
with 16 points and three semi-finalists.
Threatening both was Temple with 14
points and six wrestlers qualifying for
the semi-final round.
A total of 150 wrestlers from 23
colleges were entered. Finalists are eligible
to enter the NCAA Championships
held later this month at Kent
State University, Ohio.
Surviving for Wilkes were: Dick
Cook, defending champion at 167; John
Marfia, 123; Jim McCormick, 130; Joe
Wiendl, 160; Barry Gold, 177; and
Fran Olexy, heavyweight. Galen Cruse
of Wilkes was decisioned in the quarter-final
rounds by Mike Dowhower,
145, of West Chester, another defending
champion.
The finals of the twenty-ninth MAC
mat classic were held before a packed
crowd of slightly more than 4,000 fans
at Archbald Hall on the Moravian
College campus.
As predicted in last week's Beacon,
the Colonels took their crown with
back-to-back victories by Joe Wiendl
in the I 60-polnd class and Dick Cook
in the 167-pound class.
The victory for the Colonels was
the seventh in the eleven years since
the MAC Championships combined
both the college and university divisions.
Five Wilkes wrestlers went into
the finals of the MAC Championships.
Jim McCormick, at 130 pounds,
was the first Colonel performer on the
mats in the finals. He took on TeinpIe's
Don Milone, a defending champion
for the last two years. Last year
Milone and the Colonels' John Carr
shared honors as the MAC Tournament's
Most Valuable \Vrestlers. Late
Fran Olexy takes
this week's award
The spotlight this week shines on
Fran Olexy as the Beacon's Athlete of
the Week. Co-captain of this year's
outstanding squad, Fran is a junior
enjoying his third year as a regular,
mostly at 177 pounds. But for the second
half of the past season and for
the MAC Tournament he wrestled
heavyweight and for his outstanding
performance in the tournament he
merits Athlete of the Week.
Olexy pinned his first opponent in
the quarter-finals. Then in the semifinals
he upset his opponent from
Temple, 14-6, although outweighed by
70 pounds. Had Olexy lost, Temple
would have had a good chance of taking
the tournament. Furthermore,
Olexy entered the tourney with injured
ribs which forced him to miss
the last two meets of the season. In
the last ten seconds of the match,
Olexy suffered a shoulder separation,
but he finished the match. He was
forced to ferfeit his final match to
Piper of Lycoming whom he beat last
year.
Olexy is a business major from Falls
Church, Virginia, where he was an
outstanding athlete. He was a state
champion in 1964.
Last year Olexy received the Tim
Adams Award for the most courageous
athlete of the year. He was seriously
injured in an automobile accident over
two champs
Joe Wiendl, a sophomore, is shown in the semi-final bouts. Joe captured the 160-
pound crown vacated by John Carr. On his way to the MAC championship, Wiendi
had little trouble in any match winning via pins or lopsided decision wins.
in the contest Jim McCormick was 130 - Jim McCormick, W., pinned
down by one point, 11-10, and he McCartney, Juniata, in 4:58,
decided to risk everything by going for
137 .- Siglon, Temple, decisioned
a take-down. However, he made two
Joe Kiefer, W., 5-4.
costly mistakes and dropped the decision
to this year's most valuable 145 - Galen Cruse, W., decisioned
wrestler, Don Milone, At the end of Weaver, Albright, 4-2.
the match, McCormick and Milonc
were given a standing ovation for
staging the most spirited bout of the
night.
Wilkes took its first individual
championship when Joe Wiendl, in
the 160-pound division, had little
trouble in piling up a 14-I decision
over John Ericson of Albright. The
Colonels caine right hack with their
second individual title when Dick
Cook successfully defended his 167-
pound crown with a 13-3 victory over
Roy Resavage of Temple,
The Colonels' Fran Olexy had qualified
for the finals with a victory in the
afternoon, but had to forfeit his match
due to a shoulder separation suffered
in the afternoon's bout, Fran won the
bout despite being hampered with this
injury midway through the semi-final
match.
Wilkes' Preliminary Results:
123 John Mania, W., pinned Sadot,
Delaware, in 3:59.
FRAN OLEXY
semester break, but came back to compete
in the MAC and NCAA tourney
in which he placed sixth.
Fran was 9-1 this season, losing
only to Miller of East Stroudsburg at
the heavyweight position. While wrestling
in the heavyweight division, he
won on four pins and a decision while
losing only once. He had four straight
wins at 177.
Olexy was expected to place again
this year, but he will not compete due
to his injury.
152 - Yates, Haverford, decisioned
Doug Forde, W., 5-1.
160 Joe Wiendl, W., pinned Gembering,
W. Chester, 4:10.
167 - Dick Cook, W., pinned Eure.
Ursinus, 2:27.
177 - Barry Gold, W., pinned
Broughal, Dickinson, 2:58, Gold then
pinned Cone, Lycoming, in 3:52.
Wilkes' Quarter-Final Results:
123 - Marfia, W., decisioned Hooper,
Juniata, 3-2.
130 - McCormick, W., decisioned
Taylor, Elizabethtown, 13-2.
145 - Dowhower, W. Chester, decisioned
Cruse, W., 7-2.
160 - \Viendl, W., decisioned Dacheux,
Lycoming, 5-2.
167 - Cook, W., decisioned Biles,
W. Chester, 14-6.
177 .- Gold, W., decisioned Nicoll,
Delaware, 11-4.
Heavyweight - Fran Olexy, W..
pinned Funk, W. Chester, 5:47,
Wilkes' Final Results:
130 - Milone, Temple, decisioned
McCormick, W., 16-10.
160 - Wiendl, W., decisioned Ericson,
Albright, 14-I.
167 - Cook, W., decisioned Resavage,
Temple, 13-3.
177 - Mucka, Moravian, decisioned
Gold, W., 8-0.
Heavyweight - Piper, Muhlenberg,
won by forfeit over Olexy, W.
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