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Grapplers Take 5th Consecutive PCAA Title
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| The SJSU wrestling team won the PCAA championship for the fifth consecutive year last weekend in Santa Barbara. |
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| SJSU finished first with 87 points. Long Beach University was virtually favored to defeat the defending champs. |
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| "I think by having the team ranked second helped our momentum, as we really wanted to win," coach Terry
Kerr said. |
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| Long Beach had crunched the Spartans twice this year. According to Kerr the team from Fullerton changed their line-up
in a way that helped Long Beach. |
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| "I think those two coaches got together to beat us," Kerr commented. |
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| Long Beach lost a lot of momentum when 118-pound Spartan Rusty Lockwood pinned his opponent John Smithson. |
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| "Rusty was losing at the time, he saw his opportunity and pinned the number one seeded wrestler for that weight
division," Kerr added. |
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| Senior Rudy Guevara, with a record 81 wins and 25 losses, was injured during his bout. He was defeated by J.D.
Hawkins from Fullerton. |
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| Freshman David Brouhard switched weight classifications just last weekend and according to coach Kerr was very
impressive in his victory over opponent Bob Jones from Santa Barbara. |
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| The team is headed for the National Conference Championships this weekend. |
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| "I think the team has a good shot at third place. Cal Poly and Portland State will be the teams to beat,"
Kerr said. |
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| Kerr thinks Randy Fluery, Kevin Hejnal, and Nick DeLong or Brian Allen have a good chance of placing in the national
finals. |
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| Hejnal pinned his opponent at the PCAA championships and was chosen most valuable player. DeLong also defeated
his opponent, Darrel Goodwin 6-1 at the PCAA championships. |
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| "The whole team is disappointed Guevara won't be able to make the nationals, he really gets the team sparked,"
Kerr commented. |
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| It had been Guevara's dream to make the nationals and now there is no way. |
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| "I had always been a 2nd or 3rd ranked wrestler, i wanted to be number one," he said. |
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| Coach Kerr was selected Coach of the Year by the Western Conference for the second time. |
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| "Being coach of the year feels really good. I hope i can recruit as good a team as this one next year,"
Kerr said. |
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