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SJSU Wrestling Archives The Spartan Daily 1-30-81 |
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Matmen Wipe Out Long Beach 49-4 |
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by Jerry McDonald |
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| Going into last night's wrestling match against Long Beach State, Spartan coach T.J. Kerr knew nothing about the
visiting 49ers. As it turned out, he didn't really have to, as the Spartans demolished yet another wrestling foe, wiping out Long Beach State 49-4. The win runs the matmen's record to 13-2-1 overall and 3-0 in PCAA meets. "It's obvious that the amount of work they do in their program to the amount of work we do in ours is like night and day," said Kerr. First, Long Beach State freshman Pablo Saenz won an 18-10 decision from mike Rodrigues for a 49er 4-0 team lead, but that was all the joy the visitors were going to experience for the evening. Consecutive pins by Brian Canali at 126, Eddie Baza at 142 ran the score to 18-4 Spartans before the 49ers knew what hit them. Long Beach State then contributed to its own demise, forfeiting the next two matches at 150 to Jay Slivkoff and 158 to Reggie Thompson. A pair of freshmen, Andy Tsarnas (SJSU) and Eddie Lopez squared off at 167, with Tsarnas coming out the victor for a SJSU 33-4 lead. Next up was David Brouhard for the Spartans, the number seven rated 177 pounder in the nation by Amateur Wrestling News. Brouhard proved he deserved his ranking by taking only one minute to pin the 49ers' Scott Seeley, a wrestler who Long Beach State coach Fred Rodrigues had touted to beat Brouhard in competition last year. 190-pounder Jerry Morrison then toyed with 49er freshman Dan Smith, beating him 19-5 before heavyweight Guy Heath dominated Vince Hardesich by a 29-14 count. The bad news for the Spartans was the loss of star 126-pounder Wayne Jones for the rest of the season with a torn hamstring muscle suffered in the upset win over Cal Poly SLO. "Everybody is really disappointed about that," Kerr said. "It doesn't really seem fair, after he had worked so hard all year. If he hadn't won his match we wouldn't have beat Cal Poly." "It's really depressing," Jones said on crutches on the sidelines, "but i'll be back next year." |
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