Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 32

tieiw Evening Gazette Reno kicker takes anm at state record "I'd say he (Manca) is one of the top five high school place-kickers in the United Slates. He's very smooth. He has good natural leg strength." Ray Pelfrey grew up on soccer and it's still his favorite sport. "I help out coaching a soccer team in my spare time," he says. "I like football, but I admit I still don't understand everything about it." The stereotypical picture of a soccer-style kicker is the smallish, balding gentleman who appears at practice and announces in a thick foreign accent: "I keek touchdown." But Pelfrey admits that picture doesn't fit Manca.

"He's an intelligent kid," Pelfrey said. "He's very coachable; a quick learner. There's no doubt in my mind that he's going to a major college on a full-ride scholarship next year." Manca says he's heard from "five or six" colleges with the most interest shown by Oregon and Texas Christian. Manca hasn't made up his mind, but he admits he's flattered by TCU's interest. "They've (TCU) sent me four or five letters and they've called a few times," he said.

"They, said they'd be looking at films of all my games." Nevada-Reno has apparently also shown some interest. The Wolf Pack sent him a questionnaire to fill out last summer. "1 think UNR is also in- leged expert on kickers, has a II By FRANK BENSON high opinion of Manca. Pel- rOOlDall ranKinSS GaKlte 8Prtswriter frey, a former NFL player 0 with the Green Bay Packers For the first time this season the Reno Kvc Massimo Manca simply and a subject of a feature nsrUotMM h's and won" in September's Inside teams ders wnat 3,1 tne fuss ls Sports Magazine, has been The high school football poll had contained two called "the punter's In AA schools. Elko and North Tahoe.

in recent But when the Reno High addition to working with WWks place-kicker enters a football punters Bobby Grupp (Kansas North Tahoe was upset bv Wtuttell. 18-7. last game, players on the Reno City Chiefs) and Greg Cole- Saturday and dropped from a first place tie with bencn start chanting: "Mass-i- man Minnesota Vikings), he -Elko inthe AA poll and out of the Super Poll. mo- Massi mo, Mass-i-mo!" has also worked with NFL North Tahoe, ranked ninth in the state last week, And more often than not, field goal kickers Nick Lowery did not receive a vote for the Super Poll this tne curly-haired senior from (Kansas City Chiefs) and Pat week. Italy boots another long field Leahy (New York Jets), Elko, unranked this week in the Super Poll and 8al among others, ranked No, I in the AA poll, remains unbeaten "He's something else," says "I'd say he (Manca) is one with a 4-0 mark.

Elko defeated Hawthorne, 48-7, Reno coach Gene Scattini. "1 of the top five high school last Friday. Both the A and poll remains uiv don't think anyone around place-kickers in the United changed from last week. here has seen a kicker quite States," Pelfrey said. "He's The only newcomer to the Super Poll is Fallon, like him." very smooth.

He has good nat- The Greeimave. who were dropped from the poll Last Friday night at Carson ural leg strength." after losing to Wooster two weeks ago. defeated City, Manca drilled a 52-yard Manca was born in Sassari 4 Reed 7-0 Friday and was ranked No. 10 this field goal and then topped it on the island of Sardina. His week.

off with a kickoff that landed father teaches English at the A key matchup this week pits the top two teams about 10 feet past the point University of Sassari, and against each other Friday night. The defending where the end zone stops. But Massimo spent most of his state champion Bishop Gorman Gaels will play all Manca could talk about early years there until moving host to No. 2 Vallev at 7:30 p.m. in Las Vegas.

was "the one that got away." to Indiana in the early 1970s. Manca attempted a 63-yard Massimo moved with his par- PREP field goal in the first quarter ents to Reno in 1975, returned 't ream uper Points and the ball hooked to the left, to Sassari in 1977 and then Bishop Gorman 4 0 so although it had plenty of dis- came back to stay in Nevada 5 3 tance. 1979. He currently lives with 4. ctark 34 "i Hned up wrong," Manca an older brother and a youn- I.

said later. "I didn't step right ger brother, Maurizio, a 7 Rancho i 3) ZlZ'-lZZiZZ 17 into it. 1 missed it because of kicker on the Reno JV team. ho er" ii i 13 technical reasons." "When I first came to Reno, 10 Faiton'u Ray Pelfrey, an acknow- I was going to Clayton Middle 1 Elko (5) (4 0) is 2. whrtteii (4 20 II 1 I I terested," Pelfrey said.

"And I wouldn't be surprised to see Michigan offer him a scholarship." Pelfrey was instrumental in landing a full scholarship to Michigan punter Don Bracken and to Texas-Arlington place-kicker Brian Happle. Manca has hit a 62-yarder in practice and has attempted at least a 50-yard kick in every game this year for the Huskies. Last season Valley High's Sean Fryatt, the All-State kicker, set what believed to be the Nevada state high school record with a 54-yard boot. Manca is taking dead aim at that record. "He lifts the whole team up when he goes out there to kick," Scattini said.

"We like to use him whenever we can. We think he's as good as any high school kicker around." MASSIMO MANCA Kicks 50-yard goals School and me and my brother watched this football game," Manca recalls. "It was kind of strange but we liked the part about kicking the football. After the game me and my brother went out and kicked the ball around and we found that we were as good as the other guys were." Of course, Manca was a soccer-style kicker. He says he raOflOIBD gfflFraflDgZ? AT EUEGV Complete paint jobs FIM WW.

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The Redskins weekend. At South Tahoe she ran 17:31 on a suffered a 30-17 drubbing' at the hands of the San 3-mile course and at Nevada Union she ran a Francisco 4ers. ,7 -w Thnmncfln h-5 nm four raws and set The Redskins currently are 0-5 and comfortably 17... thompson nas run four races and set jn Qf Natonal Football Confer. lour course records this season.

ence's Eastern Division, two games behind their clo- it NtKKI MOHR INCLINE Scored 43 sest rivals. The last time a Redskin team started this points in a 76-61 win over Yerington. Mohr Is poorly Lyndon Johnson was in the White House, averaging 28 points per game this season." Sandy Koufax was pitching the Dodgers into the SANDI AUBLE, HUG Outscored the on- World Series and Bill McPeak was coaching the tire Fallon team, 16-15. in Hug's 55-15 win over SJ Stoat 1965 revived, the first chink the Greenwave. in the city's ironclad love affair with its football team Last Week's top DOyS has been heard.

it -it ROBERT CRUTCHER, McDERMITT Despite fair weather and the promise of a game Rushed tor 294 vards on 25 carries in a 59-40 featuring two wide-open offenses, over 3.200 ticket win over Coteville holders were no shows on Sunday. a prin roiTQf-wt: mi iri ri.irM fAr Those who did show wasted little time in showering FRITSCH5 HUQ LauS wf the home team with boos and catcalls. touchdown passes and one other pass for 94 fans havc a rjght to their said quar. yards as the Hawks sirprised previousty-un- terback Joe Theismann, a target of much of the fans beaten Douglas. 36-23.

displeasure. MARK BEST, REED Scored a second "You can't avoid hearing it. You think of the times among almost 40 schools at the South Lake when they were cheering and screaming for you and Tahoe Invitational cross country meet with a hoP can brilg them back." he said IV timo and IPd the RViriers to a first Dlace Coach Glbbs looked elsewnere to Wln back the la. 53 time and led the uaiaers to a ursi piace harts Qf lhp crowd Qn Sunday Denching Theismann team finish. jn lhe third quarter.

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