 | The Cavalier daily Friday, December 5, 1969 |  |
Grapplers Open With
Quadrangular Meet
The Cavalier wrestling team,
second place finishers in last year's
ACC tournament, opens its season
in a quadrangular meet in
Lexington this weekend with a
lineup featuring many new faces.
Coach George Edwards' matmen
will face three opponents in
separate dual meets at VMI, starting
with Virginia Commonwealth at
7:30 tonight, followed by VMI
tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., and
Washington and Lee tomorrow
night at 7:30
Of ten returning lettermen from
last year's squad which lost only
one starter by graduation, only four
will start this year, as the rest have
been beaten out by newcomers and
first-year men. Co-captains John
Pegues and Ted Moore will lead the
Wahoos. Pegues, last year's ACC
champion in the 137-pound class,
will wrestle at 150 pounds this
year, as the weights for the classes
will change. Moore, a third-year
man who will wrestle at 167, was
runner-up in last year's conference
tournament.
The other returning lettermen
who will start are John Pitas, a 126
pounder who finished second in the
conference last year, and heavy
weight Dick Opp, the only
fourth-year man in the starting
lineup.
Paul Boehm, at 190, is a
newcomer to the team. Although a
third year man he did not wrestle
last year.
The five remaining positions in
the starting lineup are occupied by
first-year men, led by 142 pounder
Shelly Zablow, who twice won the
Virginia High School League
championship in his weight class.
Kim Hatcher at 118 pounds, Dave
Damico at 134, Wayne Hoffman at
158, and Kevin Michaels at 177 are
the other first-year men.
The Cavaliers have some depth
in the 118, 126, and 150 pound
classes, but little elsewhere on the
squad of twenty wrestlers.
"They should get a fair test this
weekend, said Coach Edwards
yesterday. "We should be able to
take all three matches, with the
toughest opposition coming from
VMI who we beat 18-17 last year."
As for the outlook for the
season, Edwards says, "Maryland
will be tough as always, as will
William and Mary, Virginia Tech,
and N.C. State."
| The Cavalier daily Friday, December 5, 1969 | |