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the Rapid City Journal 23 Thursday, March 31, 1983 Black Hills area stars edge West Germans in opener Wrestling wL TryjjMislK Wm RsMsflT 'l9Hlsiiw Las anWRaaaaaaaaaaaa. JBaaa) WJgm jfc" HHIniL aaaaaaaaaaatfo anJiiSsSsE' Jm aHsVksH aaavi. TsPl'M's LaaKaL EH i LBttXtaJaV Jr point for a reversal as time expired. The whole incident took no more than four or five seconds at the end of the match and it took the official! a few minutes to properly figure the scoring. The only Greco-Roman match came at 176 pounds where Stove Gorwill of Belle Fourche lost by default to Wolfgang Dagott after he landed hard on his head and neck.

Gorwill was losing badly at the time. With the win by Dagott, the West Germans had completed their comeback and the team score was now tied 7-7. Kirk Bierschenk of Belle Foruche employed some unique strategy to score and eventually pin Werner Moser at 4:04 of their 190-pound match. At the end of the first period the score was tied 4-4 and it looked as though a tough match was in process to determine the team champion. When the second and final period started, Bierschenk used a different strategy of going in for a takedown on Moser, scoring his one point, and then letting Moser get up so he could do It again.

Bierschenk ran the score up to 7-4 before setting Moser up for the pin. Coach Boehm smiled and said he would have preferred to have wrestled like they do back in Germany with five freestyle matches and five Greco-Roman matches. "They are better than us in freestyle," he said of the Black Hills area team. "We just want to worry about friendliness," he added, "not winning and losing." The team arrived in the United States on Monday, and Tuesday rode a bus from Sioux Falls to Belle Fourche. They stopped along the way to take in Al's Oasis, the Badlands, and, of course, Wall Drug.

Wednesday was spent touring the Black Hills, including Mt. Rushmore, Lead, Deadwood and other points. Boehm said he enjoyed the town of Deadwood with all the old west figures like Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane. After Wednesday's meet the wrestlers were given a potluck 'supper in Belle Fourche and most probably were glad to call it a day. The West German team will head on to Mobridge Thursday and will wrestle there on Friday.

Other stops and In a 128-pound match Ed Clark of Spearfish got a number of takedowns to down Hans-Dieter Trinkle 6-2. Greg Andrew of Rapid City Stevens won a 134-pound match over Manfred Fuessl by getting a 12-0 lead. When a difference of 12 points is reached in a match, the match is ended and it is called a technical superiority. Todd Bierschenk of Belle Fourche registered the first pin, over Gerhard Mannes in just I 37 at 138 pounds. Criteria points were used to break a 6-6 tie between Lead's John Nelson and Johann Bachleitner, also at 138 pounds.

Bachleitner received the win by virtue of a three-point takedown. Jonas Wiess of Hot Springs scored a technical superiority win In another 138 pound match, over Helmut Stock when he went ahead 13-0 in the final period. TimHughes of Sturgis kept the Black Hills team rolling with a pin over Uwe Koch in 4:28 of the fourth 138-pound match. At 145 pounds, Steve Lockhart of Douglas upped the Black Hills lead to 6-2 with a 9-2 win over Thomas Kretschmer. Erwin Bucholz outlasted Mike Schultz of Belle Fourche 16-10 in a 150-pound matchup.

Joe Giaccometto of Belle Fourche found his hands full as he wrestled Walter Heller, one of the West German assistant coaches. Heller took the place of Andreas Nutsch who was unable to wrestle. Heller downed Giaccometto 7-4 at 164 pounds. In another 164-pound match, Lester Hagen of Hot Springs pinned Winfried Steger in 3:52. Christian Klein turned things around for the West Germans with a pin over Corey Hansen of Spearfish in just 58 of their 166-pound match.

Uwe Maier pushed the West Germans closer to the Black Hills team, 7-6, when he squeaked out a 3-2 win over Steve Breidenbach of Newell. The score in the 166-pound match was knotted at 1-1 until just seconds left to go. Breidenbach made a move to take down Maier but Maier was able to use Breidenbach's momentum against him and score a two-point exposure (similar to a near-fall). Breidenbach was awarded one Joe Rauseh Sports Writer BELLE FOURCHE "Welcome to the Center of the Nation," said Belle Four-che mayor Robert Helmer. He was speaking to the West German wrestling team from Nattheim West Germany on the first stop of a five-city tour of South Dakota.

The West German team then took on a group of Black Hills area wrestlers Wednesday night at the Belle Fourche High School armory-gymnasium. The 15-member Black Hills area team had wrestlers from Belle Fourche. Spear-fish, Lead, Rapid City Stevens, Hot Springs, Sturgis, Douglas-EAFB and Newell. It was a little surprising to see the Black Hills team take an 8-7 victory in matches over the West Germans since all the wrestling was done according to international rules of which the West Germans are familiar. The Black Hills team, although not familiar with the international rules, did have an advantage of sorts when one considers the West German wrestlers had just traveled 8,000 miles and were eight hours out of their own time zone.

In other words, they were wrestling at 4 in the morning! Were they tired? "Very definitly," said Coach Gerhard Boehm with a smile, "We are all pooped out!" "Freestyle," was the type of international wrestling used for 14 of the 15 matches. The international rules for freestyle do not differ drastically from those used in South Dakota high school wrestling, so it was easy for the area wresters to adapt. The other style of wrestling seen Wednesday night was Greco-Roman style. Wolfgnag Dagott showed Steve Gorwill of Belle Fourche what Greco-Roman was all about in a 176-pound match. The Greco-Roman style of wrestling does differ drastically from South Dakota high school rules in that all moves must originate from above the waist a style that none of the area wrestlers have much experience.

Other matches saw Marcus Mackamul give the West Germans an early 1-0 lead with a 6-1 win over Mark Heinbaugh of Belle Fourche at 110 pounds. Belle Fourche's Jonas Wiess scored victory over West German's Helmut Steck (Staff photo) lae-Christian Klein, WG, pin. Corey Hansen, SP. i6 Uwe Maier, WG, def Steve Breidenbach. 176- Wolfgang Dagott, WG def Steve Gorwill.

by default 190-Kirk Bierschenk, BF, pin Werner Moser, WG. 4 04 Attendance-700 Referees-Kelly Baier. Andy Caller, Graydon Dailey IM-Johann Bachleitner, WG, def John Nelson. LO, on criteria 13-Jonas Weiss. HS, def Helmut Steck.

WG, 13 0 lis Tim Hughes. ST, pin. Uwe Koch, WG, It us- Steve Lockhardt, Doug, def. Thomas Kretschmer, WG, 9-2 150 Erwin Bucholi, WG, def. Mike Schulti, BF, 16 10 164 Walter Heller, WG, def.

Joe Giacometto, BF, 74 164 Lester Hagen, HS. pin Winfreid Steger, WG, 352 wrestling meets are scheduled Monday at Pierre, Tuesday at Kimball and Thursday, April 7 at Sioux Falls. no Marcus Mackamul, WG, del. Mark Hein baugh, BF.6-3 128 -Ed Clark, SP, del. Mans Dieter Trinkle, WG, 61 134-Greg Andrew, RCS, del Manfred Fussl, WG, 1J0 lM-Todd Bierschenk, BF, pin.

Gerhard Mannes, WG. 1:37 Alexeev rallies to beat Lewis Doland native has Olympic hopes the Marines, he's been able to get a lot of international experience." Among the wrestlers Koslowski faced in Europe were the current world champion, Romand Wrociwski of Poland, and 1980 Olympic silver medalist Keijo Manni of Finland. Koslowski lost to Wrociwski 5-1 but pinned Manni in 30 seconds. Koslowski is preparing for the National Championships in Chicago April 8-9 where he might get a chance to wrestle Gibson again. Two wrestlers from each weight class will make up the Olympic team one as an alternate.

The Associated Press Doland native Dennis Koslowski has his sights set on participating in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Koslowski, a 1977 graduate of Doland High School, is the No. 2 ranked 220-pound Greco-Roman style wrestler in the United States. He recently returned from a three-week European tour where he posted eight wins in 11 matches during three tournaments. Those performances have given him confidence he's within reach of a spot on the Olympic team.

"My chances are real good excellent. I wrestled some of the best in the world, and that's just what you need," he said in a telephone interview from his home in St. Paul, Minn. "You have to wrestle good competition to get good." Koslowski, 23, was a two-time NCAA Division III national champion while attending the University of Minnesota-Morris. He currently is attending the Northwestern Chiropractor College.

Greg Gibson is the top-rated wrestler in Koslowski's weight class and has beaten him three of the four times they've met. "We wrestled to a 0-0 tie the last time we met," said Koslowski. "He's a real good wrestler and since he belongs to Chris Campbell, who won by disqualification over Soviet world champion Teymuraz Dzgoev at 180.5. The victory by Campbell, who was the 1981 world champion and the 1983 World Cup champion, was controversial. The two wrestlers battled to a scoreless draw before the Soviet was disqualified for stalling with 1:04 remaining in the match.

Three American judges overruled a Soviet judge that the third caution on the Russian wrestler must be upheld. The Soviets will finish their four-city tour next week in Stillwater, Okla. The squad is composed of seven world and three Olympic champions. have met three times with Alexeev holding a 2-1 advantage. An enthusiatic crowd of 7,000 was on hand.

Davis scored an 8-4 decision over world junior champion Andre Fartzev at 125.5 pounds. He used a high-crotch through midway through the second period to take a commanding 6-2 lead to hold off Fartzev. Zalesky, who was unbeated for the Iowa team this season at 158, scored what he termed "the biggest victory of my career" in the 163-pound match. The two-time NCAA champion deci-sioned Yuri Vorobyev, 7-4. The United States collected other victories from Joe Gonzales, who decision-ed Osman Effendiev, 6-4, at 114.5, and CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) University of Iowa wrestlers Barry Davis and Jim Zalesky pulled off upset victories over their Soviet opponents Wednesday night, but the world champion Soviet Union team dominated the upper weights to score a 7-4 triumph in an exhibition wrestling meet.

Randy Lewis of Rapid City, competing at 136.5 pounds, lost to Victkor Alexeev 7-4 in an action-packed match. Lewis led 2-1 after the first period and held a 4-3 lead with 40 seconds left in the match when Alexeev scored a three-point throw to go ahead. Alexeev, the 1983, 1982 and 1980 World Cup champion, is the Soviet that Lewis met in the 1980 Rapid City dual meet with Lewis winning that time. The two Tennis tourney deadline is Friday Deadline for entries in the Spring telephoning the Rapid City Recreation Black Hills Tennis Club and the recreation department, will be held Saturday Singles tennis tournament is Friday Department (j4-4ib) The tournament, sponsored by the and Sunday at Sioux Park in Rapid Ci noon. Entries may be made by ty- "This is our biggest victory ever," Grant said after Fresno State dealt DePaul a 69-60 defeat Wednesday night in the championship game of the 46th annual NIT at Madison Square Garden.

"Winning it here is like a dream." The Bulldogs beat DePaul the same way they've been beating teams all year in the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference, where they finished fourth with a patient offense, despite a 30-second shot clock here, and an intense defense that ranked second in the Fresno State celebrates its biggest victory Ben Walker NEW YORK (AP) "At first, we probably didn't know what to expect with all that goes with the National Invitation Tournament," admitted Fresno State Coach Boyd Grant. In the end, he and his Bulldogs learned what it was like to win it. ANNUAL FARMER'S FEED 'N SEED Spring Lawn Care Carload Sale A- "We wanted to make them have trouble handling the ball," said junior forward Bernard Thompson, who scored a game-high 22 points. "We came out with good intensity and it seemed to bother them." Fresno State, 25-10, overcame a shaky start in which they fell behind 10-2 and trailed 30-29 at halftime. The smaller Bulldogs, who had beaten Texas-El Paso, Michigan State, Oregon State and Wake Forest on their way to the final, inched ahead midway through the second half and then salted away the game from the foul line, extending a 56-55 lead with 4:40 left to a 67-56 margin in the final seconds.

"Give their defense credit," said DePaul's 65-year-old coach, Ray Meyer. "It was no fluke. We shot 25 of 74 from the floor. There's no possible way you can win with shooting like that." Meyer, the winnigest active coach in college basketball 697 victories in 41 seasons had hoped an NIT championship might help ease recent disappointments. In the last three seasons, aided by Ail-Americans such as Mark Aguirre and Terry Cummings, the Blue Demons had often been ranked No.

1 but had been knocked off each year in their first NCAA tournament game. "We really wanted to win this for Coach Meyer," said Bernard Randolph, a senior who saw his four-year career end on yet another unfulfilled note. "When it was over and I heard the final horn, I thought 'that's it, I'm all said Randolph, who led DePaul, 21-12, with a 13.7 scoring average this season. "You can't dwell on the past." Randolph, who had 13 points before fouling out in the final minute, was joined on the NIT all-tourney team by teammate Tyrone Corbin who had 12 points and 16 rebounds along with Thompson and Tyrone Bradley of Fresno State and Dave Hoppen of Nebraska. Ron Anderson, named the NIT most valuable player, had 14 points for Fresno State.

Kenny Patterson added 12 for DePaul. "I don't know what to expect now," Grant said, smiling. "Right now, people are talking about Fresno State." Early Spring CONTAINS -rrr SHOP Early Summer AND Early Fall COMPARE Spring, Summer, Fall Orten Gold Prevent or Groan Gold Turf Food 10,000 sq. ft. bag Groan Gold Feed and Weed 5.000 sq.

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