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AWC Wrestlers Set For Pima, CentralArizona Western Collet's wrestling Matadors will be gunning for their second straight dual meet win tumor* row afternoon at 3 when they host Pima College Tucson.Saturday at 1 the Matadors will be at Signal Peak (near Casa Grande) to battle the Central Arizona Co liege Va-querns in another dual meet.W extern ent ers t he weekend with a 1*1 dual meet record.“1 don't know that much about Pima, but 1 understand the A* uvs have at least ill rtf-super wrestlers. 11 this is true, we could have our work cut out for us said Glenn Mayle, AWC s coach.’‘Central should be plenty tough.” Mayle said. “Mesaclobbered Central in the season opener for both teams, but Central came back last Thursday to defeat Mesa 25-2U,“The following day Mesacame back to beat us 21-18 ina match that wasn’t as dost?as i he score indicates.”Central also took secondplace in last year's state meetIk-hind Western while Pima iscompeting lor the first timethis year in state competition.We just weren’t ready forMesa,” Mayle said. Mentallywe were flat. But yon can’ttake anything away fromMesa. Thev were ready, we * ■weren’t.”One bright spot Inst wifk-end lor the Matadors was 190-pmmd wrestler Ira Murphy, who wrestled at Yuma High last year.ira is doing a super job for us,” the second-year AWC couch commented, “lie is always kicking for a pin and a couch couldn’t ask for any more than that.”Another local prospect. 177-pnumi Martin Bailey, alsohas drawn Mayle s attention.“Martin has really come on strong, Mayle noted. “He reported late because of football and had some difficulty adjusting from football to wrestling. He will get stronger as the season progresses “For the first time this season. Mayle has been forced to make some minor changes in his starting lineup.“Greg Garcia, our 167 pounder, is lighting flu and won’t wrestle this weekend,” Mayle said. “He will be ready next week.Ben Rowe (150), Mike Grue (158), Steve Camjxis (157) all have moved up a weight to cover Garcia’s absence.Other than that the line-up remains the same with 118-pound Reed Greenwell, 126-pound Jim May, 134-pound Mark Bert sc h and M2-pound Jeff Mercer,
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Yuma Daily Sun
Yuma, Arizona, US
Thu, Dec 13, 1973
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