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SJSU Wrestling Archives The Spartan Daily 1-29-81 |
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Matmen Fear Upset |
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by Jerry McDonald |
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| After its shocking upset of Cal Poly SLO last week, the Spartan wrestling team finds itself i the position of being
prime upset material for other schools. Long Beach State will take its turn tonight against SJSU at 7:30 at Spartan Gym. "We've talked about the fact that everyone will be shooting for us," head coach T.J. Kerr said. "I think we'll be ready." The Spartans were certainly ready in their last action, a 51-4 pinning of UC Davis last Saturday at Independence High. "We wrestled very aggressively," Kerr said of the mismatch. "Davis came out fired out, but after they found out we beat Cal Poly, they kind of sunk. They also showed a lack of conditioning." The loss of Wayne Jones, who found himself injured with two pulled hamstrings after the Cal Poly upset, concerns Kerr. Jones had a record of 16-4 before his injury. "We can't be singing the blues because Wayne is hurt, we've got to move on," Kerr said. "I've told his replacement, David Barnes" that this is his chance to go to the nationals." Barnes has a record of 9-5-1 and has been exclusively a 134-pounder and will have to move down to Jones' weight of 126. "David will be a good-sized 126-pounder," Kerr said. Following the Long Beach State meet, the Spartans will split, with some of the wrestlers traveling to Portland, Oregon, for the Portland Invitational beginning Saturday, and the rest wrestling in the San Francisco State Invitational the same day. Most of the first team wrestlers will be going to Portland, where the Spartans can get a measure of revenge on the only schools to defeat them in dual meet competition, Oregon and Oregon State. Some of the top individual records for the Spartans include 134-pounder Eddie Baza at 20-4, 118-pounder Brian Canali at 13-3, 150-pounder Reggie Thompson at 23-5, 160-pounder Dave Brouhard at 17-3, and 177-pounder Andy Tsarnas at 16-7-1. |
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