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Gymnasts prepare for ‘best meet on coast’
Photo by Steve Dykes
Kelly Crumley will be one of Oregon’s top all-arounders against
UCLA Saturday.
Eighth-ranked matmen
host noontime match
Oregon’s wrestling team will
try to improve its 10-1 record
today as the eighth-ranked
Ducks host Central
Washington State College at
noon in McArthur Court.
Oregon has nine wrestlers
with winning percentages of
75 or better. Jeff Stuebing
(167) leads the Ducks with a
14-1 record.
Ryan Kelly (190) and Mike
Miller (177) “are both im
proved and have made the top
part of our lineup real strong,”
says coach Ron Finley.
The combined record of
Oregon’s wrestlers in the top
four weight classes is 49-8-2
(Stuebing, 14-1; Miller, 12-4;
Kelly, 13-1-1; and heavyweight
Dan Cook, 10-2-1).
Bruins bring bevy of heavies
By DOUG LEVY
Of the Emerald
Oregon's men's gymnastics
team faces its biggest test today
at 8 p.m. in McArthur Court
when they take on UCLA in what
coach Bill Ballester calls “the
best meet on the coast this
year."
Last week’s national rankings
placed Oregon third, based on
the Ducks’ 274.0 score in the
exhibition Japanese all-stars
meet. Oregon’s official record
stands at 2-0.
This will be UCLA’s first dual
meet, so they are not yet ranked.
Earlier in the week they posted a
279.95 score in an intrasquad
meet, a score that would be the
highest in the nation if it was
official.
“UCLA is capable of chal
lenging Nebraska for the title, if
anyone can,” says Oregon
coach Bill Ballester.
The Bruins strength lies in a
balanced attack which features
all-arounders Mitch Gaylord,
Peter Vidmar and Carlos Spivey
— all members of the U S.
Federation Gymnastics team.
Two more promising all
arounders are sophomore Mark
Caso and freshman Tim Daggitt,
an international performer in the
Junior Olympics. "They have
balance in every event," says
Ballester. "There are six guys
who are capable of getting
nines in every event."
So the pressure will be on the
Oregon all-arounders — Kelly
Crumley, Johny Moyal, Raul
Tello, Dino Manus and Bob
Leverance.
For the first time this season,
all of Ballester’s gymnasts are
healthy, but he cautions, "After
you’re injured, for every week
you lose, it takes two weeks to
get back to where you were, so I
think we can still improve a lot
more.”
Can the Ducks beat UCLA?
"Realistically, no. It would be a
fluke if we did," Ballester says.
“UCLA is the odds-on favorite
to win the Pac-10 and be the top
team on the West Coast, and we
are only the second- or third
best team on the coast.
"Gymnastics meets are pretty
easy to predict. I'm not saying
we can’t win, it would just take a
great meet for us and a sub-par
meet for them.”
Although Ballester has main
tained Oregon's ultimate goal is
to go to nationals, there has to
be a lot riding on this meet. A
year ago, UCLA was the favorite
to take the Pac-10, but the
Ducks swept by them in their
dual meet on the way to the
Pac-10 title and a third-place
ranking. The Bruins were
second and sixth, respectively.
Ballester says "UCLA is in a
class by themselves. We are
young, and we lost a lot of good
people. I would say it will be at
least another month before we
reach our potential."
Swimmers dunk Sacramento
With both coaches’ minds on
tonight's University of Washing
ton meet, the Oregon swimming
teams registered easy wins over
Cal State-Sacramento Thursday
night.
The men's score was 78-35
and the women’s 71-42.
Men’s coach Rich Schleicher
and women’s mentor Virginia
Van Rossen used their entire
roster to rest their principal per
formers for the powerful Wa
shington teams.
‘‘We haven’t had everybody at
practice because of illness until
this week,” Schleicher said. He
added the Husky meet would be
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close if Oregon was up to full
power.
“If everybody performed 100
percent and everybody was
healthy, we would win by four.
But five of our top six have been
ill since school started this
term.”
One of the healthier ones,
George Koch, won the 200 in
dividual medley and was on the
winning 400 medley relay. Ted
Colombo won both diving
events.
But Schleicher thinks Oregon
will fall just short of the Huskies.
“It’s going to be touch-touch,
and I'm afraid we re going to be
the ones touching second."
“We pretty much used our
secondary people,” Van Ros
sen said. “We’re resting the
people who will have to come
though tomorrow night."
The women’s team, in the
midst of a five-meets-in-seven
days schedule, will give Wa
shington “a run for their mon
ey,” Van Rosen said. She feels
the women’s chances against
the Huskies are about as good
as the men’s.
“If the gods are in good spirits
and the good fairy taps us on the
shoulder, we might sneak in.
“I don’t think we can beat
their depth.”
Man — one-meter dive Colombo (O) 188.05;
400 MR, Oregon 3:48.4; 1000 free Glass (O)
9:39.2; 200 free Steidley (O) 1 53.14; 50 free
Carrington (Sac) 22.16; 200 IM Koch (O)
2:09.03; three-meter dive Colombo 199.30;
200 fly Lagergren (O) 2:03.59; 100 free
Carrington (Sac) 48.59; 200 back Mulvaney
(0)2:14 46; 500 free Conroy (0)5:06.13; 200
breast Bernett 2:21.93; 400 FR Oregon
3:31.4.
Women — one-meter dive McNaught (O)
216.0; 200 MR Oregon 2:03 12; 1000 free
Cuddeback (O) 11:39 64; 200 free Helm (O)
2:04 96; 50 free Hemmer (O) 26.55; 100 IM
Borchardt (O) 1:04.41; three-meter dive
Light (O) 228.75; 100 fly Sprague (O)
1:06.91; 100 free Ringenberg (Sac) 58.40;
100 back Deardorff (O) 1:10.13; 500 free
Menth (Sac) 5:41.10; 100 breast Mery (Sac)
1:25.23; 200 FR CS-Sac 1 46 58.
PSU’s Davis considers Cal job
PORTLAND (AP) - Portland
State football Coach Darrel
"Mouse" Davis will become of
fensive coordinator at Califor
nia, the Oregon Journal report
ed Wednesday.
Davis said he was considering
a job offer from the California
school but said the report was
premature.
The Journal said reevaluation
of PSU footbal will lead to the
program being down-graded to
Division II status.
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