University of Nevada Las Vegas - Epilogue Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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Sports Overall 5282-4532-1412: i . .2 Coach Gordon Edwards LAS VEGAS, NEV. - Five school records fell as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas track team ended the 1972 season with a 10-9 dual meet record. Senior sprinter Angelo Stefanelli broke the only track event as he ran a 221 220 yard dash to eclipse the old mark of 2213. The tour field events broken for Dr. Gordon Edwards' squad were the shot put, discus, Javelin, and triple jump. Senior John Morgan heaved the shot 52-71A for a new mark while Junior Kyle Nelson threw the discus 155-6, Barry Hammon sent the javeiin 198-9 and jun- Ior college transfer Kevin Patterson soared 47- 7 in the tripie jump. Winning eight of their last 11 meets, the Rebel spikers were led by three-event special- ist Patterson who scored 202 points in dual meets this season. He also had the team's best mark of the year in the long jump t22-31 also tied for the top mark of 6-2 in the high jump with Craig Falk. Stefaneili, who scored 162 dual meet a 5 36:41.! Coach Bill Ireland points, had the best time in the 100 along with Larry Wright of 10 seconds flat. Mel Turner, third in dual meet points with 1111A, ran the best time of the year in the 440 with a 49.6. In the distances, Ed Brown had the best 880 of the season for UNLV, 1:590. Doug Clarke ended his track career ttour years at UNLVt with a 429.9 mile and Blaine Clarke had the best three-mile time of 16:22.4. In the hurdles Carson Madison ran a 15.5 120 HH and Ruben Perez ran a 60.5 in the 440 IH. The 440 relay team of Stetaneili. George Sherman and the Turner twins, had a 43.3 clocking and the mile relay team of Brown, Doug Clarke, and the Turners had a best time of 3:235. It's on to next season for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, football team as the Rebels finished the year with a whomping 63-6 victory over the National University of Mexico for a 5-4-1 season record. Coach Bill Ireland's Rebels finished their fourth year in history and it was also the fourth straight winning season for UNLV. M High point of the season for the youthful ,1: program was a game against a major col- lege opponent - Utah State. The Aggies won 27-7 in Logan but it was a giant step for the progressive program the Rebels have established. Next season's schedule will see the first 11-game slate highlighted by a trip to the Orange Bowl to play the University of Miami on Nov. 4. Coach Ireland and his staff have recruited some 30 junior college transfers to till the vacancies in t starting lineup. Most to be missed on offense will be the record-setting wide receivers for the Rebels 4 Greg Bro and tour-year veteran Nathaniel Hawkins. Hawkins became the first player in the school's history to - drafted into the pros as he went to the Pittsburgh Steelers in last season's annual college draft. Brown was the leading receiver this year with 38 catches for 626 yards and five touchdowns. He ai. returned nine punts for 270 yards and one more six-pointer. The Hawk was the leading scorer on the team with eight touchdowns for 48 points. He caught passes for 456 yards and seven TDs. Also missing next season will be offensive stars fullback Charles Cooper t402 yardst and linemen D. Morrison and David Nett. The tough Rebel defense will also lose some key players in linemen Bill Booker, Grant Fawce Tommy Rowland, Shayne Skipworth. linebackers Bruce Gray and Ken Mitchell and defensive bac Milton Leonard and Jim Farnham. 87.n- 1 2 Coach Biiiscdbie With records tailing galore, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas freshman basketball team finished t 1971-72 season with a 16-5 record and a player who could be the number one frosh scorer and r bounder in the nation. Jim Baker, 6'9 from Olney High School in Philadelphia, Pa, singIe-handedly rewrote the fresh reco books as he scored 738 points for a 36.7 average and ripped off 448 rebounds for a 22.4 per ga average. Coach Bill Scoblels yearlings won their last 13 straight as Baker really came into his 0 The freshman tied the single-game scoring mark in their 137-57 triumph over Paio Verde J Baker was sensational. He scored 51 points tsecond high in fresh history; was 20 of 28 fro the field, 11 for 11 at the charity stripe, grabbed 40 rebounds ta trosh recordt and added assists tanother trosh recordt to his brilliant performance. For the season Baker was .495 from the field t275-5561 and .817 from the tree throw Ii 083-2241 and although those are both excellent percentages, he did not lead the team either category. Speedy little Eddie Taylor, a teammate of Baker at Olney High, was 121 148 from the charity stripe tor an .818 accuracy rate and 6-11 Dan Cunningham, from Ali High in Salinas. Calit., carried a .535 field goal percentage to lead the young Rebels. There were four scholarship players on the freshman team this year and all four lived up Scoble's expectations Besides Baker, Taylor averaged 22.3 points a game, Cunningham 1 rebounds each game and added 15.1 points and 6-9 Don Weimer. from Chula Vista, Cal High, picked up 13.1 rebounds and 11.1 points for same. Baker has seven high scoring games that are second through eighth 0n the all-time fro list. Besides his 51 point effort, he had one game of 50 points, three of 48, one of 47 a another of 45. This was a great rebounding team for UNLV, getting 58.8 each outing. Ba now heads the all-time list while Cunningham is sixth and Weimer eighth in the record boo Weimer had a high rebounding game of 29 while Cunningham's best effort was 26. Cunnin ham's 316 points places him 10th on the books while Taylor's 469 markers put him in t number five spot. Although the 1968-69 frosh team had an 18-4 record, Scoble feels that this was the b. team in UNLV cage history tfreshman team; The schedule this year was the roughest ever t a UNLV team and the five losses were early in the year when the squad had not begun to pl together. The best example of the improvement made would be the two games with big regarded Arizona Western JC. Early in the year the Rebels lost to them 94-78 and then ne the end of the season the young Rebels ended AWCts 28-game winning streak, 93-80, behi Baker's 47 points and 25 rebounds. With players like these. it's easy to appreciate the optimism Rebel coaches have for t 9 future. ; The tennis team, directed by assistant basketball coach Bill Scobie, posted an 8-5 reco and finished fifth in the WCAC meet. The tennis team's top performer was senior Mike Roe. The Rebel racketmen shut out five opponents this season, and the only time they were sh out was by college division champion U.C. lrvine early in the season. Also on this year's tennis team were Alex Nash, junior, Bob Berg. junior, Lyn Boozer, juni- Harry Byrge, junior, and Ron Johns, sophomore.

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Coached by John Bayer, the varsity basketball team finished the season with a 14-12 verall. Bob i'Phantom Phenom Florence. a 6-4 forward from Des Moines, la., led the Reb- IS in scoring with a 22.1 average while another super sophomore, Jerry Baskerville, a -7 forward from Philadelphia, Pa., led the squad in rebounding, getting 11.3 a game. Iorence made .584 of his field goal attempts for the YEAR t209 of 3581 and was the -cond-leading field goal shooter in the West Coast Athletic Conference with a .618 ercentage rate t1 18-1911. On January 13, the Phantom set a new singIe-game tield- oal percentage record for both UNLV and the WCAC as he hit 16 of 18 while scoring is seasonal high ot 37 points against Pepperdine University. Florence led the team in scoring on 13 occasions and used his timing and leaping bility to pace the squad in rebounding 10 times. For the year he got 9.3 rebounds a ame, 10.3 per contest in the WCAC, and will finish as one of the top three scorers in e league with a 23.6 average for the 14 league battles. In the narrow, 84-81 loss to nationally ranked South Carolina this season, Florence as the leading scorer and rebounder in the game with 23 points and 12 rebounds. outh Carolina coach Frank McGuire likened Florence's moves to those of Earl The earl Monroe of the New York Knicks. Jerry Baskerville just completed his second year of organized basketball the did not ompete until his senior year at Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia1. During e 1971 Las Vegas Holiday Classic he rewrote the rebounding marks by getting 24 in ne game and 37 for the two-game tourney. Jumpin' Jerry led the team in rebounding with 11.3 per game 01.6 per WCAC tilt1 nd chipped in 13.4 points each outing 04.4 in league1. He paced the team in re- ounding in 11 games and was the top scorer in tour. His high scoring games were 34 gainst Southern Illinois, 23 against Nevada, Reno, 20 against Loyola tCal.1, and 31 gainst WCAC champion University of San Francisco. Baskerville had a tine shooting .uch as he hit on 51.2 per cent of his shots in league action t84-1641. The end of the season also brought the end of a brilliant three-year career of super uard - Booker Washington. Booker averaged 21.2 points a game t20 in Ieague1 and as the top scorer in 10 Rebel games. Booker finishes his college career as the third- ighest all-time scorer in Rebel cage history with 1,190 points for a 17.5 per game oring average tor the 68 games in which he saw action. The Book was a tremendous utside shooter and would have shot better than .423 from the field this year it he had at been double and tripIe-teamed. UNLV used three centers this year with a 6-9 junior Toby Houstone of Des Moines arting most of the games. Toby averaged seven rebounds and scored five points a ame while alternating with 6-8 Loverd Coleman tsix rebounds and 6.3 points1 and 6-8 .phomore Warren Walk t3.1 rebounds and 3.9 points1. Al Clise, a 6-2 hustler from ellevue, Wash, closed out his college career with 251 points for a 9.7 per game aver- ge while starting at the other guard position. Florence was first team all WCAC and co-sophomore-ot-the-year tor the league while ashington snared second team aII-Ieague and Baskerville received honorable men- on. Walk was selected to the alI-Jewish bas- -tball team of America. LAS VEGAS, NEV. - Setting 13 school and dividual records, and tieing two more, the niversity of Nevada. Las Vegas baseball team nished the 1972 season with a 23-24-1 over- ll record and a 7-11 record in the West Coast thletic Conterence. Ten of the new records, and both ties. were -t by the UNLV pitchers, while the only other dividual mark was established by junior cen- -rtielder Art Platanitis who stole 16 bases dur- g the season. The two team hitting standards at were rewritten were most doubles t641 nd most times struck out t2861. - ll Coach Dr. Bob Doering Coach Mike Drakulich Athletic Director Sophomore southpaw Herb Pryor, who quit the team because of personal reasons with six games left to play. singIe-handedly accounted for five new pitching records and tied one more. The 6-0 Coos Bay. Ore.. product set records for innings pitched 0091. most complete games t101. most wins t81, most hit batsmen t91, and lowest earned run average t2.221. He also tied the mark for appearances with 16, and would have set the record lad he remained with the team because he had two starts remaining. The other individual record set for assistant coach Fred Dallimore's hurlers was for fewest walks allowed, 18 in 72Va innings by senior Dennis Chambers. Pryor was also good in that department, giving up only 21 free trips in his 109 innings worked. Coach John Bayer The team pitching marks established included most complete games t291. lowest ERA $3.231, most hit batsmen t2511 and fewest walks allowed 032 in 384 innings pitched1. 23 victories also tied a school record. Three Rebel hitters finished the year over .300 led by sophomore rightlielder Jim DiFiore. of Las Vegas. DiFiore led the team with a .320 batting average t49 of 1531 and also led the team in runs scored t301. home runs t61. and RBI t301. DiFiore was third in WCAC batting tor UNLV with a .333 average. Freshman thirdbaseman Randy Grigg was second in hitting tor UNLV both for the year and in league play. Overal he hit .309 and in conference he batted .338. He also tied the school record for doubles with 11. He was only struck out seven times in 165 otticial plate appearances. Senior letttielder Mike Lombardi was the third Rebel to hit over .300 tor the year with his .308 average. Lombardi was the team's leading hitter in WCAC play with a .350 average t21 for 601. The other regulars tor the team this year included centertielder Art Platanitis t.290 tor the year and .283 in league1, secondbaseman John Hogan t.277 and .3231. tirstbaseman Tom Crine, t.238 and .2341, shortstop Pat Leary t.230 and .1761 and catcher Jerry Eklund L181 and .2631. The other starting pitchers for University of Nevada. Las Vegas this season, besides Pryor and Chambers. were juniors Jim Bonnell. 7-4 with a 2.89 ERA and Jack Lazzarotto. 4-5 with a 4.13 ERA. Coached by athletic director Michael Drakulich. the UNLV golf team posted a 13-9 dual match record and finished third in the eight-team West Coast Athletic Conference championships. Only one player on each squad will be lost by graduation. and he is Bob Cork, who led the golf team with a 798 average round. Two lreshmen were the number two and three men for the golfers as Terry Webber, who finished fourth in a field 01 46 golfers in the two-round WCAC tour- ney. carried a 80.1 average and Leonard Watch, who finished the season with a one-under-par 71 against Northern Arizona, finished the year with a 81.0 aver- age. The other members of the golf team this season were junior Frank Cork, 82.3. sophomore Hollis Barn- hart, 83.0, and freshmen Scot Kallsen. 85.9. and Mark Bailus, 88.8. As a team, the average individual score for the Rebel linksters was 82.5. Z '99'91 111185110 SRIOdS' 127

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