Duck gymnasts get upper hand on Cal
By MIKE MARINO
Ot the Emerald
BERKELEY — “We were trying
to be within five points, but it’s def
initely better to be on the other
side,” said coach Bill Ballester,
whose Oregon team did what it
wasn’t supposed to do. It won the
compulsories, and leads defend
ing champion California after the
first round of the 1977 Pacific-8
Gymnastics Championships
Thursday night.
Cal, who has won the event the
last nine years, met disaster at the
pommel horse and finished the
night with 210.35 points. Oregon
on the other hand, was fairly con
sistent in all events and finished
on top with 213.25.
The team championship will be
decided tonight with the optional
exercises; the totals being added to
the compulsories for the final team
score.
Cal seemed to be on its way for
the first four events, scoring over
36 points in the vault, parallel
bars, horizontal bar and floor ex
ercise. But when Olympian Tom
Beach could manage but a 7.0 out
of a possible 10 on the pommel
horse, the rest of his teammates
collapsed and fell to a 29.90.
“I am very disappointed on how
we did on the horse,” said a dis
turbed Cal Coach Hal Frey.
“We’ve never been so inconsis
tent on one event as we were to
night.”
Frey also was disappointed at
the scoring given his Bears on the
rings. He felt the total of 33.85 was
much too low.
“The rings were definitely un
derscored,” said the coach. “I’m
lodging a protest because the ring
officiating was just terrible.”
Ballester, on the other hand,
had no violent objection to the
judging although he admitted that
the scoring given Oregon on the
horizontal bar (33.85) could've
been a bit higher.
“Sure, the scores could’ve been
a little higher, but I’m not angry,”
he said, “and besides, you can’t
protest gymnastics scores any
way, so I don’t know what the
bleep Frey is doing.”
Oregon also appeared to be
headed toward disaster on the
horse, but a 9.4 by Tom Truedson
and a spectacular 9.7 by Curt
Rodgers allowed it to eke out a
respectable 34.50 and stay in con
Sophomore Wendy Halberg will be one of the key Ducks in their attempt to knock off Washington at the
NCWSA Championship in Missoula, Mont., today and Saturday. Halberg may be limited, however, with a
sprained ankle.
Menkens, Wheeler to be lone Ducks
in A!AW national swim championships
Most of Oregon’s students will
be studying for finals, but two
women, for sure, will place text
books number two on their priority
list.
Both Michelle Menkens and
Robin Wheeler will represent
Oregon next week at the AIAW
swimming championships in Prov
idence, R.I., March 17-19.
The pressure of championship
competition will be nothing newfor
Bonnies win
St. Bonaventure downed Rut
gers 79-77 in overtime Thursday
night in Princeton, N. J. to advance
o the National Invitation Tourna
ment quarter-finals against
Oregon, Tuesday night in New
York.
In other first round games
Thursday, Alabama defeated
Memphis State 80-63 in Birming
ham and Massachusetts nipped
Seton Hall in Springfield, Mass.,
86-85. Alabama will open the NIT
against Virginia Tech Monday
night, and Massachusetts will face
Villanova Tuesday.
Menkens as she held the
50-freestyle national title in 1975
and scored 45 points in last year’s
AIAW meet, singlehandedly plac
ing Oregon 20th in the team stand
ings.
Wheeler also went to nationals
last year and finished 18th in the
100-butterfly, which wasn’t
enough to score.
Coach Virginia Van Rossen
plans to have Menkens swim in
the 50- and 100-yard freestyle,
100-yard butterfly and 100-yard
individual medley. Wheeler will
enter the 50-, 100- and 200-yard
butterfly.
Menkens will face several top
flight athletes, in particular, Kim
Peyton (Stanford), Cindy Schilling
(USC) and Vicki Stanley
(Alabama, and the defending
. -r OVERNIGHT
2 2C NO MINIMUM
COPIES UNBOUND
KINKOS
IIZS Alder 344-7894
Also in Corvallis
50-freestyle national title-holder).
In the butterfly events, Wheeler
will swim against Shilling and Kim
Worthen (UCLA).
Van Rossen said Menkens, “is
ready physically and ready men
tally” for the meet, and Wheeler’s
butterfly times are high enough to
finish well.
“I'm looking to see them both in
the finals,” she said. “They look
chipper, and their spirits are up.
“They can always make mis
takes and that’s what we’ll have to
watch for.”
PSYCHIC
CAN BEWITCH
(MESMERIZE)
LOVED ONES,
OTHERS TO
YOUR BIDDING
WRITE REQUESTS:
DONATIONS
APPRECIATED.
JAMIL
P.O. BOX 10154.
EUGENE, OREGON 97401
PHONE ANYTIME:
342-2210 484 2441
V _J
tention.
Oregon’s Scott McEldowney
and Jerry Bush took first and sec
ond place in the rings, but it was
the parallel bars that took the
Ducks ahead by six points with
two fine routines by Breck Grigas
and Miki Moyal.
While Oregon appears to be in
contention as far as the team scor
ing goes, there is a tight battle
going for the all-around cham
pionship. Defending champ Beach,
by virtue of his break on the horse,
fell to third place, and although
Frey said “he’ll still win the all
around” Moyal, Oregon’s Mr.
Consistent,is currently on top with
53.25.
Statistics
FLOOR EXCERCISE — 1, Warren Long, Cal,
9 60. 2, Don Lester, Ore, 9.20. 3, Stu Domeier,
Wash, 9.15. 4, Sieve Dobrus, USC, 9.10. 4, Tom
Beach, Cal, 9.10. 6, Miki Moyal Ore, 9.06.
POMMEL HORSE — 1, Curt Rodgers, Ore, 9.70.
2, Tom Truedson, Ore, 9.45. 3, John Maseng,
Wash, 9.40. 4, Chris Takimoto, Stai, 9.35. 5, Vic
Herzfeld. UCLA, 8.60. 6, Steve Matsuo, Cal, 8.55
VAULTING — 1, Steve Wejmar, Wash, 9.45 2,
(tie) Dave Eby, Cal, 9.20.4, Ben Corr, Cal, 9.20. 4,
Rod Minaker, Wash, 9.20.
RINGS — 1, Scott McEldowney, Ore, 9.45. 2,
Jerry Bush, Ore, 9.30.3, Mike Dubos, Cal, 9.20. 4.
Miki Moyal, Ore, 9.10. 5, Gary Ino, Cal, 8.90. 6,
Breck Grigas, Ore, 8.80
PARALLEL BARS — 1, Breck Grigas, Ore,
9.25.2, (tie) Tom Beach, Cal, 9.20.2, Warren Long,
Cal, 9.20. 4, Miki Moyal, Ore, 9.15. 5, Tad Bostick,
Stan, 9.00. 6, Mike Dubos, Cal, 8.95.
HORIZONTAL BAR — 1, Tom Beach, Cal, 9.55.
2, Melvin Cooley, Wash, 9.25. 3, John Hart, UCLA,
9.15. 4, James Taylor, USC, 9.00. 5, (Tie) Mike
Dubos. Cal, 8.90. 5, Warren Long, Cal, 8.90.
ALL-AROUND — 1. Miki Moyal. Ore. 53.25. 2,
Mke Dubos, Cat, 52.70.3, Tom Beach, Cal. 52 55.
4, Warren Long, Cal, 51.90. 5. Breck Grigas, Ore,
50.70. 6, Gene Christensen, Ore, 50.25.
TEAM — 1, Oregon 213.25.2, California 210.35.
3. Washington 193.80. 4, UCLA 189 30. 5, South
ern California 188 90. 6. Washington State 172.10.
7, Stanford 142.70.
Gymnasts challenge
UW at regionals
A berth in the national AIAW
gymnastics championship will be
at stake when the University of
Oregon competes in the North
west College Women’s Sports
Association (NCWSA) regional
championship today and Satur
day in Missoula, Mon.
The Ducks, who finished third in
this meet last year and 12th in the
national meet, will be shooting for
the 134.00 AIAW team qualifying
score.
The NCWSA team winner au
tomatically advances to nationals
if it scores 134.0C or higher. Re
gional non-winners who also
score 134.00 or higher will be
considered for seven at-large
berths. Individuals who score
34.00 or higher in all-around at re
gional also qualify for nationals.
Defending NCWSA Champion
Washington is the only team en
tered in the Missoula meet that
has already scored 134.00 this
season. The Huskies are the fa
vorites to win the 1977 NCWSA
title, led by all-around performers
Lynn Osborn, Liz Kite and Nan
Yasutake.
Oregon and Pacific University
are the two teams that could chal
lenge Washington and Oregon
Coach Henriette Heiny hasn’t for
gotten that last year the Ducks
beat Washington in the national
meet by one place.
The Ducks have a season best
of 131.20 but a compilation of
season bests by individuals totals
135.25.
Sophomore Wendy Halberg,
Oregon’s top all-around per
former, sprained her ankle last
week and has only been able to
work out on the uneven bars. Jan
Model and Elaine Fisher have
also been hampered by leg in
juries during the season.
Halberg finished second in the
NCWSA uneven bars last year,
behind Seattle Pacific’s Debbie
Halle who also won the floor exer
cise. Halle will be back this year to
defend her NCWSA all-around
title as well. Her 36.20 last year
outdistanced the rest of the field
by 2.40 points.
Pacific University’s Cindy
Wacker and Creslynn Drumm will
be among the top all-around gym
nasts in the meet and Halberg,
Model and teammate Karolyn
Wold are favored to place in the
top ten in all-around.
Sportfolio-=
Nine spikers in Preview
The Oregon women’s track team will send nine members
to the Beaver Preview meet at 1 p.m. Saturday in Corvallis.
Senior Debbie Roth will run the 800, and sprinter Rose
Ann Klingerman will run the 400 for the first time. Quartermiler
Georgene Rose will step down to the 100 and 200 with Mary
Lou Armstrong running both the 100 and 400 meter hurdles.
Marathoners Leslie Hillman and Jennifer Daniell will also run
the 1500.
In the field events, Mary Stevenson will compete in the
shot put and will join Kathy Picknell in the discus. Leslie
Winbigler will make her debut in the javelin.
10,000 meters time altered
The starting time for the first running event of the Oregon
Invitational, the 10,000 meters, has been changed from 1:15
p.m. to 1 p.m. on March 19. The hammer throw will open the
meet at the listed time of 12:30 p.m.
VOLKSWAGEN
MERCEDES • DATSUN • TOYOTA
GUENTER SCHOENER 2025 Fra"*"n B'vd
Eugene, Ore. 97403
Bus. Ph. 342-2912 Home ph 746-1207