Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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held to 14 points os the Rgs won. The seoson come to its inconsistently typical ending, however, os USU lost the following night to Fresno Stote, giving Tueller ond company o 12-16 seoson record. The ftggies’ key cost member. Brian Jockson. overoged 23.1 points o gome. He passed Cornell Green os the second highest career scorer in Utah Stote basketboll history, wos MVP of the In-Bonk Tourney ond wos nomed to the PCRR oil-conference teom. Jockson's next role will be with the Portland Trail Blozers of the National Basketball Rssociation. os he wos picked in the second round of the NBR draft in June. Meonwhile. women's volleyball wos on track to the notionol tournament; ogoin. During the previous two years o veteran squod hod placed first ond second in the notionol tourney. But graduation drained Coach Marilyn McReavy of oil but Jo Vrazel in the stor-studded teom. Despite the personnel losses, the Rg-gies ployed respectably in several UUest Coost invitotionols ond then breezed through their conference schedule to eorn on invitation to notionols. Rt the tournament, o tough three-gome match loss to Pacific took the wind out of the Rggies soils. The Rgs' seoson ended loter ot the hands of Col-Poly Pomona, giving USU on eighth place finish. The women's basketball teom hod o

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story more closely reloted to the men's progrom. With o 12-19 record. Cooch Cindy Perkins ond teem come close to mok-mg the region's playoffs. but Weber Stote ond powerful Colorado stood in their way. The Rggies dropped on emotionally draining 91-76 gome to Colorado ond to Weber. 93-86. Possibly the most difficult coaching ossignment of the year fell in the lop of women's gymnastics cooch Roy Corn. Corn steered the team through o number of eorly seoson problems ond into o notional tournament for the third yeor in o row. The figs got into the tournoment the hard way. vio on ot-large bid. The bid come after scoring o school-high 142.4 teom score ot regionals. Wanita Lynch. Deb Peterson. Julie Kueng ond Lori Kreikemeir provided most of the scoring. Corn's teom wos hurt by generally lower scoring in the eorly rounds of the notional tournoment ond settled for o 132.7 score ond 14th place. USU’s wrestling teom qualified two athletes for the NCRfi tournoment ond captured third place in the PCRR conference. Trocy Moore won his fourth PCRR individual title, winning the 118-pound weight doss this yeor. However. Moore foiled ogoin to win o match once he got to the notional meet. The Rggies olso qualified heavyweight J.L. Coon. Coon, who olso ploys football