Tuesday, March 18, 1986
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By Jeff Apel
Senior Reporter
Baseball is a game of numbers, but
former Nebraska catcher Bill McGuire
is hoping he doesn't get caught up in
them.
McGuire, who is now a member of
the Seattle Mariners' organization, is
one of 102 players trying to earn a spot
on Seattle's 25-man, Wausa, Wis., farm
club team.
With a total of 48 pitchers and nine
other catchers in camp, McGuire said
t hat he knows the competition will be
tough.
"No one gets any favors here,"
McGuire said. "Everyone's goal is to
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finished third in the NCAA championships last weekend.
make the major leagues, so everybody
is treated just the same."
McGuire said that while there are
some spirited battles between indivi
duals for jobs, no one in the Mariner
organization goes to the point of trying
to "back stab" one another in hopes of
gaining an upper hand.
Instead, McGuire said, the members
of the Seattle organization choose the
teamwork concept.
"It's so much different than college,
really," he said. "There's a lot of guys
here who are caught up in the numbers
game who are really good players but
who haven't had the opportunity to
advance."
McGuire spent last season, his first
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with Wausa, the Mariners' A-league
farm team, splitting the starting catch
ing duties with Keith Komegi.
In 56 games with Wausa, the former
All-Big Eight player hit .246 with three
home runs and 19 runs batted in.
That performance, McGuire said,
left a lot to be desired.
"I wasn't overly satisfied with my
performance because I know I can do
better," McGuire said. "I've set some
definite goals for myself this season. I'd
like to hit above .250, hit 12 home runs
and knock in 60 to 70 runs while play
ing in 120 of our 140 games."
McGuire said that the most difficult
adjustment he had to make when he
stepped out of the program at Nebraska
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earlier this season. Albright
and into the Mariners' organization
was how to deal with all of the free time
he suddenly had on his hands.
While he was a Cornhusker, McGuire
said that all of his time was filled for
him between going to class, attending
baseball practice and then studying.
But when he reached the profes
sional ranks, McGuire said, he found
out that suddenly his schedule was not
all planned out for him.
"We'd have to be at the park at 4:00,
play a game at 7:30 and then we'd be
done by 11:00," he said. "There was a
lot of us who didn't know what to do
with all the free time we had. Usually,
we went back to the hotel and talked
Wrestler Albright
finishes third
By The Associated Press
IOWA CITY, Iowa Nebraska's
Gary Albright pinned Oklahoma State's
Tom Erickson to finish third Saturday
in the NCAA wrestling championships.
Nebraska finished 12th in the meet.
Iowa dominated the championships
so thoroughly that even Hawkeye Coach
Dan Gable, a demanding perfectionist,
was talking in superlatives.
Iowa treated the partisan crowds at
Carver-Hawkeye Arena to a record
breaking performance in crowning five
individual champions and winning its
ninth consecutive team title.
"This is the best team I've ever
coached. Unbelievable," Gable said
after the three-day tournament ended
Saturday.
Iowa's team total of 158 points broke
the old record of 155 set by the Hawk
eyes in 1983 and also created a new
high margin of victory. Oklahoma fin
ished a distant second, with 84.75.
The Hawkeyes' five national cham
pions were the most ever from one
team. Iowa's 1983 team produced four
champs, and six Oklahoma teams have
had four champions.
In 44 matches, Iowa's eight wrestlers
lost only five times.
"Iowa was phenomenal." Oklahoma
coach Stan Abel said. "To lose five
matches total in a tournament that's
unheard of. They just dominated the
tournament, it's that simple."
Iowa's 167-pounder, Marty Kistler,
was named the tournament's outstand
ing wrestler. He won his early matches
by scores of 14-6, 21-8, 20-4, 9-3, then
whipped Oklahoma State's Mark Van
Tine 15-3 in the title bout.
Kistler, who was last year's national
champ at 158, said it's sweeter the
second time around.
"I kind of did it in more style this
year. I had more points and more fun,"
he said.
The senior from Riverside, Calif.,
said he never doubted he would win.
"I just used my old favorite move a
high crotch and it worked well on
him," Kistler said. But the key to it
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Chaid, the defending champion.
Goldman, who lost to Chaid 5-3 in
last year's finals, built a 3-0 lead on a
second-period escape and takedown
and held on to win.
"I don't think I wrestled all that
well," Goldman said. "At the end, I just
backed up and stalled. But I figured it
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until about 2:00 a.m. and slept until
about 12:00 the next day."
McGuire said he is hoping he has
solved his problem of what to do with
all of his free time since he is now
married.
His wife, Lori, is a senior at UNL.
Although the two are currently sep
arated from one another because she is
finishing her education while Bill is in
Tempe, Ariz., for spring training, Mc
Guire said he hopes that the two can
combine their careers.
"My wife is great. She really stands
behind me," he said. "We both respect
each others' careers, so we're kind of
roughing it now."
was better to play it safe than to play it
courages."
"I don't really know how to put it,
but I've had enough of second places."
Iowa's other champions were Brad
Penrith at 126, Kevin Dresser at 142
andJimHeffernan at 142. Iowa had one
other wrestler in the finals, Greg Ran
dall at 134, but he lost to defending
champion Jim Jordan of Wisconsin.
Penrith had to battle back from
deficits in nearly all his early rounds,
but never trailed in defeating Army's
Dennis Semmel 9-4 in the finals. Dresser
won his title with an 1 1-6 victory over
Lehigh's Peter Yozzo and Heffernan
defeated Arizona State's Adam Cohen
10-4.
Jordan won his second straight title
with a 6-2 decision over Randall.
"I thought I'd be able to tire him out
and ride him down and it worked out,"
Jordan said. "He just got a little tired
because he had to stay underneath
longer."
Iowa's two other wrestlers failed to
advance to the championship round,
but finished high enough to win All-
American honors. Royce Alger finished
fifth at 158, and Rico Chiapparelli was
fourth at 177.
Oklahoma's Melvin Douglas success
fully defended his national title at 177
with a 9-5 victory over Syracuse's Wayne
Catan.
"Last year when I won I was on top of
the world," Douglas said. "This year, I
was just trying to prove to the world
that I am the best that there wasn't
any fluke to it."
Douglas, a senior from Topeka, Kan.,
was one of only two champions that
wasn't from Big Ten Conference schools.
The other non-Big Ten winner was
Bloomsburg's Ricky Bonomo, who beat
North Carolina's Al Palacio 9-4 for his
second straight title at 1 18.
The 158-pound class had the only
upset of the finals. Ohio State's Jude
Skove, the No. 6 seeded, defeated top
seeded Greg Elinsky of Penn State 5-2.
At heavyweight, Michigan's No. 3 seeded
Kirk Trost recorded a 6-3 decision over
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cans. Iowa State, which defeated Iowa
in the final dual meet of the season to
end the Hawkeyes' 36-meet winning
streak, was fourth with 71 points.
Iowa's ninth consecutive team title
ties an NCAA record. The only other
teams to even win nine straight NCAA
titles are Southern California in track,
1935-43, and Yale in golf, 1905-13.
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