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Wrestlers Suffer Worst Loss Under Coach Hejnal's Reign
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by Ron Haynes
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| After a convincing 30-11 win over UC-Davis a week earlier, the SJSU wrestling team was outmatched by a good Cal
Poly-San Luis Obispo team on Saturday. |
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| As indicated by a lopsided 46-0 score, coach Kevin Hejnal said his team didn't wrestle well. |
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| "They're a good team," he said of Cal-Poly. "They beat the tar out of us." |
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| Although Hejnal admits that traveling to San Luis Obispo might have hampered the team's performance, the loss was
due mainly to better execution by the Spartan opponents. They were just better wrestlers. |
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| Hejnal is hoping that this bitter defeat will rejuvenate the team as they prepare for the Pacific 10 championships
to be held at Cal State Fullerton on Feb. 28 and 29. |
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| A "warm-up" match with Stanford in Palo Alto at 4:30 pm Saturday might aid in that preparation. |
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| "We'd better wrestle a lot better in the Pac-10--it's going to be a dogfight," said Hejnal, who is well
aware that the loss to San Luis Obispo did little to seat the Spartan wrestlers in the upcoming tournament. Top
winners at Fullerton will advance to the NCAA championships to be held mid-march at Aames, Iowa. |
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| The defeat--the worst under Hejnal--was compounded when the Spartans were pinned in the 167-pound, 177-pound, and
190-pound weight classes after losing each of the other individual matches. |
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