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SJSU Wrestling Archives The Spartan Daily 2-14-84 |
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Wrestling Team Whips Stanford |
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by Joe Roderick |
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| Marvin Jones hadn't had a taste of the Spartans' iron man routine in three weeks and it showed. "I lost a lot of my leg conditioning," the Spartans' 177-pounder said after beating Stanford's Jeff Wilson 8-5 to help lead the Spartans to a 43-5 blowout Friday night at Maples Pavilion. Jones, 23-4 and ranked fifth in the nation, returned Friday for the first time since dislocating his thumb Jan. 14 against the University of Oregon. There may have been one consolation for Jones during the injury, he didn't have to participate in the dreaded iron man practice session. "Sometimes it's called the 'christian and the lions' or the 'shark and bait," said Spartan head coach T.J. Kerr of the iron man. The iron man begins with one man, Jones for instance, wrestling upwards of four three minute rounds, interspersed with one minute running sprints across the mat. After every round, Jones must face a fresh wrestler. "Sometimes it goes on longer than four rounds," Jones said. "One time i looked at the coach to see if i was done. He told me to keep wrestling." Jones had to wrestle just three rounds Friday against one man, but his legs were rubbery by the second period. "Physically and mentally i'm fine," Jones said. "I just got to build up my stamina." Maybe a week's worth of the iron man will tame care of stamina problem. "It was good to see Marvin back out there," Kerr said. "But he needs a little work. He did some things he's never done before." The one thing that most wrestlers avoid is slacking off near the end of the match. Although Jones didn't purposely dog it, a few spectators at Maples accused Jones of stalling, a cardinal sin for wrestlers. "I have to get tougher," Jones said. "I have to start thinking about conditioning now. Conditioning wasn't Jones' only problem, he was battling perhaps Stanford's best wrestler in Wilson, now 21-5 overall. "He's no slouch," Jones said. Jones may not have the most powerful of legs these days, but nobody is questioning his upper body strength. Leading 6-4 in the second period, Jones and Wilson were locked up in what seemed like a stalemate, but suddenly Jones picked up Wilson and body slammed him to the mat. Jones had Wilson trapped for a second, but then Wilson wiggled free and had the Spartan wrestler in submission near the edge of the mat. "I thought i was off the mat," Jones said. "That's why i relaxed. When i realized the official hadn't called us off the mat, i had to scoot off the mat." As expected, a couple of Spartan wrestlers were effected by a lack of motivation against the 5-14 Cardinal. Two SJSU wrestlers, Anthony Palomino and Jay Slivkoff were noticeably unenthused. Palomino, a state champion at San Jose's Independence High, had Jeff Bradley in control, leading 6-4. With seconds left, Bradley maneuvered around Palomino to record a two point takedown, ending the match in a 6-6 draw. "The guy just caught him," Kerr said of Palomino. "I wasn't really mentally tough," said Palomino, now 21-11-1. "I wrestled him last week. I beat the guy 8-4." Slivkoff, 23-10) lost to Pete Rogers, just 5-4. "I was just down for this meet," Slivkoff said. "That's the only excuse i can think of for my performance." There's nothing down about this week for the Spartans, who face fellow Pacific Coast Athletic Conference rival Fresno State Friday at SJSU, before hosting arch-rival Cal Poly-SLO Saturday. Fresno is 4-0 in PCAA duals and 17-5-2 overall. "We'll get it going against this week," Kerr said devilishly. That meant one thing...the dreaded iron man routine. |
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