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Sun-Standard Newspapers. Thursday, October 20, J977Vidovic closes fall campaignwith a near-record 6 under parIf winter comes, as it will ail too soon, can spring be far behind for Illinois State University’s outstanding men’s golf team?Captain Jerry Vidovic of Blue Island, for one, can hardly wait.Vidovic, the reigning National Public Links champion, closed his fall campaign with a near-record six under par 66 when ISU captured its fourth team championship in five outings last week.The strong fall showing has Vidovic, Coash Marshall Miller and other members of the balanced Red-bird squad thinking in terms of a berth in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament next summer.“We’re optimistic,” Vidovic says. “We have goodreason.”The chief reason is that string of fall team titles in the ISU Invitational, the Illinois Intercollegiate and most recently the Michigan Invitational, * as well as a triangular victory overDame and Bradley. The squad’s only misadventure was in the rain-abbreviated Murray, Ky., Invitational where ISU was in a nine-team field.Vidovic, a senior from Blue Island (Eisenhower), heads a battle seasoned sextet that includes three other seniors —John Kasch of Normal, Bob Milligan of Bloomington (U High) and Jim Zartman of Dol: ton (Thornridge)—and two juniors, Scot Regner of Brown Deer, Wis., and Craig Ridley of Mt. Prospect.Collectively, they averaged an impressive 74.57 strokes for 51 holes of tournament golf.“In college golf,” Miller asserts, “If you can average 75 as a team you’ll either win or scare the heck out of the team ahead of you.” 'Vidovic’s closing 66 came on the spacious and rains-oaked par 72 Blue Course at the University of Michigan. “It has some of the biggest undulating greefts you’!!ever see, Miller said. “You can four-putt them pretty easy,” Zartman added.“That round was as good as any I’ve played,” Vidovic said. “It’s the kind of. round you always think you should have, but seldomget.”Only one other Illinois State golfer ever scored lower in a collegiate match. That was back in 1950 when Harry Mussatto had a five under par 65 at Bloomington’s Highland Park, a much shorter course.Depth is Illinois. State’s forte. When ISU sent five golfers to defend its state title, Kasch was unable to make the trip as scheduled. He was replaced by Ridley, who was with a second unit in a tournament at SIU-Ed-wardsville. Ridley responded by sharing the state’s individual title. A teammate, Regner, had been medalist in 1976.Illinois State’s only trip to the NCAA’s major tournament came during Vidovic’s freshman vear. He wasISU’s lone representative last season, but he thinks he’ll have company when the meet is held in Eugene, Ore., next summer.“We’re going to play all-the right teams on our spring schedule,” he said. “I think now everybody knows we can do it. If any of our players didn’t know it before, they know it now. More important, we showed the other teams that we’re capable.”ISU will meet all of the Big Ten and Mid-American Conference teams next spring in tourneys at Ohio State, Purdue, Michigan State, Miami of Ohio, the University of Illinois and Eastern Kentucky.Vidovic’s 73.36 average was low for the ISU squad, followed by Regner with 73.64, Ridley with 75.82, Kasch with 76.25, Milligan with 77.67 and Zartman with 77.73.Vidovic was medalist in both the ISU Invitational and Michigan Invitational.V 7s: isyrx-V.., • «v -r/-'' *•/ ■ •«'/ -r- rIllinois State University’s golf team displays the hardware it collected from the fall season. Left to right, front row: Bob Milligan, Jim Zartman and John Kasch. Back row: Captain Jerry Vidovic (Blue island), Craig Ridley, Scot Regner and Coach Marshall Miller.Film on Cubs availableThe Chicago Cubs have transferred WGN-TV’s videoa****4 :_
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Thu, Oct 20, 1977
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