THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, March 25, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, March 25, 1969 _._r. . a :$ i. yI . r .~.,~ ~ 4 Gymnasts tc cke bitter crown By DAVE BEEMON To Michigan's gymnasts, taking the Big Ten crown on Saturday was like eating ice cream after a tonsils operation. It just didn't taste as good as it should have. After failing in their bid for the NCAA spot on Friday, nothing will taste very good to the Wol- verines for a while. The trip to the national finals is what Mich- igan really wanted, but missed by 45 hundreths of a point. The margin of failure was so slight that one could give any number of reasons for the Wol- verines' faltering. The most glar- ing of these is the sidehorse score. Michigan started the meet off on the wrong foot by losing over two points to Iowa in the event. This is not the easiest way to win a gymnastics meet, as the Wolver- ines will attest. They spent the rest of the day just trying to over come the deficit. There was even some speculation as to the credi- bility of the scores, which totaled only 25.3. Michigan coach Newt Loken states, "The sidehorse scores really hit us hard. The 25.3 was one of our lowest scores all year and actually the boys performed quite well. We were very shocked by the scores." Another incident which could have cost Michigan the meet was the injury of George Huntsicker during the floor exercise. His 6.95 total forced the Wolverines to use Rick McCurdy's score of 8.75. Huntsicker can usually be counted on to score a 9.3 in the event. Lo- ken points out, "Huntsicker's in- jury could have cost us the whole thing. We were hurt by .5 points, which would have been enough to pull out the meet." Michigan almost did pull it out.. They performed brilliantly the rest of the day, only to fall short by a fraction. Final score; Iowa * e 161.55, Michigan 161.10. Illinois qualified for third place. Loken was, nevertheless, proud of his team. "In the rest of the events the men did a fantastic job. We bombed everybody out of the rings. The parallel bars were great." The trampoline score of 27.45 didn't count, of course, in the NCAA qualifying. The Wolverines woke up on Sa' turday with a sour taste in their mouths, probably not quite be- lieving that they wouldn't be go- score. The .45 margin of defeat in ing to the NCAA's. The Big Ten the preliminaries becomes even finals were still to be held, how- more ridiculous, ever, and Loken knew that his Iowa was obviously content to team would have to pull itself to- leave with the NCAA qualification, gether. and nothing else, under its belt. "I was concerned whether t h e Michigan blasted them 189.9-185.- team could fire up for the finals, 525. they were so depressed after Fri- Michigan was forced to be con- day." tent with sending only individual Michigan took the hurt in stride, entries to the NCAA's. Saturday however, as they managed to cap- night six Wolverines qualified, ture their seventh Big Ten title with Dave Jacobs and Dick Rich- in the past nine years. This time ards taking Big Ten champion- the Wolverines not only beat ships. Going to the NCAA's will be Iowa in the total score, but also in D a v e Jacobs (floor exercise), the six NCAA events. Without the Charley Froeming (rings), Sid trampoline score Michigan still Jensen (all-around). Richards came out on top by over three (parallel bars), Ron Rapper (par- points. allel bars), and Ri c k McCurdy This time The Wolverines scor- ! (all-around). ed a 26.05 on the sidehorse. Loken McCurdy also finished first in states, "We scored higher on Sat- the overall all-around competi- urday in the sidehorse, but o u r tion. Jensen will also compete in performance in the event was not the long horse and high bar. He that much better than on Friday.," finished the weekend with a total This only underlines the possible of 23 different routines under his discrepency in Friday's sidehorse belt. Unseld wins MYP; Pats wheel and deal By The Associated Press * NEW YORK - Wes Unseld, the rookie from Louisville who helped Baltimore from last place in 1968 to the Eastern Division title this season, has been named the Most Valuable Player in the Nation- al Basketball Association. Unseld, the first rookie to win since Wilt Chamberlain in 1960, easily beat out Willis Reed of the New York Knicks, 310 points to 137, in the balloting among NBA players. Billy Cunningham of Philadelphia was third with 130, Bill Russell of Boston fourth with 93 and Elgin Baylor of Los Angeles fifth with 89 in the voting based on five points for a first place vote, three for second and one for third. * 0 BOSTON - The Boston Patriots traded Nick Buoniconti, five- time All-American Football League 4middle linebacker, to Miami and 1969 All-Star corner-back Leroy Mitchell to Houston yesterday in a pair of multiple-player deals. The, Pats got quarterback Kim Hammond, linebacker John Brani- lett and an undisclosed draft choice from Miami for Buoniconti. Houston gave up cornerback Larry Carwell, flanker Charley Frazier, running back Sid Blanks and linebacker Ron Caveness in exchange for Mitchell and an undisclosed Boston draft Choice. 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