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Wrestlers Win Meet By Taking Mumby Tournament
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by Les Mahler
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| If early competition is a premonition of things to come, perhaps teams within the PCAA should heed the warning
signs coming from SJSU's wrestling team. |
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| For the fourth time in as many tries, the Spartan grapplers walked away with a victory. |
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| This time the win came in the Mumby Tournament held Saturday in the Men's Gym, at SJSU. |
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| With eight schools competing in the invitational, the Spartans walked away victorious with 58 points over the nearest
competitor San Francisco State's 35. |
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| Spartan head coach T.J. Kerr credited the win to "good team performance," but he was dissatisfied at
SJSU's placement in the finals. |
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| In the finals, SJSU placed five wrestlers with Wayne Jones (134) and Casey Gulliford (hwt) placing first. |
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| While Jones and Gulliford copped first place awards, SJSU's Dave Ciprian (118), Eddie Baza (142), and John Torrise
(190) each took second place finishes. |
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| Perhaps the most disappointing loss in the 142-pound competition was when Baza lost to Don Williams of Chico State
10-9. |
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| Baza and Williams had competed once before. That was at the second match of the season. |
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| Baza took the first meet, but lost this one with only 15 seconds remaining in the second round. |
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| With both wrestlers tied at 9-9 and Baza controlling Williams, Baza gave up control awarding Williams one point
for an escape. |
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| According to Kerr, the intent in letting Williams go was to have Baza score two points on a takedown, but Williams
avoided Baza in the third round and got the victory. |
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| "Williams just scored at the right time and Ed (Baza) just had things go wrong for him," Kerr said. |
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| The loss for Baza is the first of the season and Kerr said that with the loss, Baza should be able to wrestle without
the pressure of being undefeated remaining as a "monkey on his back." |
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| In the heavyweight competition, Gulliford swept through the tournament, going undefeated by beating Chico State's
Bill Kropog 6-4 for the first place win. |
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