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December I, 19881Western Maryland College/Page 3 Wrestlers Easterday confident about swim season anticipate third. WMC could still lose the and that numbers alone will not Matt Cook, Keith St. Amand, and by Helen Lowe meet. win meets. Trevor Wysong. Strong showings victory Suffering defeat by Widener young teams. The women's team high under the direction of co- at MAC's are also expected by Team spirit seems to be at a two is Easterday coaching John Ehlman and Mark Woodard. in its first conference meet, the has eleven new swimmers, and captains Steve Hegna, Mark along with the four other returning swim team may seem to be of the only five returning letter winners. Woodard, and Colleen Dolan. lettermen. by Bill Desciak same caliber as last year. How- The men's Learn h:l~ eight newcom- Members of the team are working Easterday expressed her ap- ever, the dual meet season is de- ers and six returning lettermen. hard to achieve individual goals preciation for the time and effort the team as a whole has shown. In The Green Terrors Wrestling ceptive as coach, Kim Easterday These numbers reflect the largest which will aid the team. MAC particular, the leadership from the team got it's first taste of competi- points out. "Even it you don't win swim team WMC has fielded in ten hopefuls include for the women: upperclassmen has created a more tion of the year by hosting their you can be successful." Swim- years. Easterday is confident with Freshmen JJ. Boggs, Tracey cohesive team than in the past. annual takedown tournament. ming isa team sport which is based the significant size increase that Eagan, Dawn Rotermund, and With both teams dominated by The Terrors did well, having on each individual's performance there will be improvements across Valerie Shearer, as well as the promising underclassmen, the seven wrestlers finishing in the in an event. So. technically. even the board, and hopes for a 500 rec- returning letter winners. For the Terror swim team hopes to finish top three of their respective if WMC won each event, but the ordthisseason. Shealsostatedthat men, in addition to the returning successfully. classes. Jamie O'Neill (167), other team placed second and theteamisstillinitsgrowing stages letter winners, hopefuls include Chris Madden (177), and Mike Martinovich (190) captured firsts in their weight classes, freshman "I wasnt rubbing Gerard Johnson (126) took sec- ond, while freshman Rick Callin itin- Ijustwanted (134), Joe Bakewell (142), and John Antonelli (158) finished Eddie toknow third. "It was an informal tourna- the score of ment with seven teams compet- ing", comments Head Coach Sam lastnights game.~~ Case, "I think we wrestled very well for this early in the season." Assistant Coach Skip Sinak had a successful first outing as assistant coach, handling most of the coaching chores while Sam con- centrated on keeping the tourna- ment running smoothly. Coach Case and transfer Chris Madden will be going to New Zealand torepreseru the U.S. in the Deaf Olympics. Sam will be anassistantcoachwhileChriswill be competing in the upper weight classes. Good luck Sam and Chris! Gisolfi speaks on exercise Go ahead and gloat. You can rub it in ailtbe w