VAULTERS KEY TO WIN: Tumblers edge Ilini The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, January 22, 1980-Page 11 Minnesota, Michigan compete for Florida prep basketball star By LEE KATTERMAN There aren't innings, periods or *iarters. Only a single team member is on the floor at any one time. All of which means a gymnastics team can't come up with the 'big play' to capture victory. Baloney ! All those present at Sun- day's gymnastics meet with Illinois saw the Michigan vaulters rally for the 'big play a it gymnastics.' THE HALF DOZEN Wolverine s lights" over the vault ng horse, valued at 9.15 or greater by the judges, earned a decisive three point edge over their Illinois counterparts. "Vaulting started us on the way to victory," said Michigan coach Newt Loken of the 261.65-259.0 defeat of Illinois. Up to the vaulting event, though, the contest had been a virtual tie. Fresh- man Kevin McKee opened his floor exercise routine with a cleanly executed double back somersault followed immediately by another hack handspring and went on to score 9.5 for first place; And although he said he was "disappointed" with his performance, senior captain Jim Varilek took second with his 9.4 and Michigan had a tenuous lead, 44.7-43.95. SIDE HORSE, the second event and often a soft for the Wolverines, held together despite the unnerving presen- ce of two nationally ranked Illinois hor- semen. And if the vaulters are credited with the big play, the horsemen deserve recognition for keeping the meet close and enabling it. All but one Wolverine completed his routine without a fall. Senior John Rieckhoff led the Wolverines with his best home meet performance to date, earning 9.0. The tension on both teams grew during the ring competition, with the Illini bench erupting with rhythmic clapping before each Illinois gymnast mounted the apparatus. With the meet so close, it only took a few .unsteady handstands by Wolverines for the Illini to gain their own small (0.1 point) lead. But by the time the next event-vaulting-ended, a Wolverine victory looked likely. Marshall Garfiled and Gordy Higman both hit their parallel bar routines, building up a four point lead over Illinois. AFTER THE MEET, Loken said he. was happy with the win, but admitted his squad wasn't as sharp as during last week's meet at Stanford, when the Wolverines scored 266. "We can't rest on previous laurels," said Loken in reference to last week. "There's no reason we can't get a 270 by the Big Ten meet in March." By ALAN FANGER Derek Harper, a 6-4 guard who is con- sidered to be the finest prep basketball player in Florida, is likely to sign a let- ter of intent with either Michigan or Minnesota this spring, sources both here and in Florida said yesterday. Harper, an extremely quick player who has been described as having "un- canny basketball sense," averages nearly 30 points a game for North Shore High School in Palm Beach. Wolverine coach Johnny Orr is very interested in signing Harper, and has maintained close contact with him during the past few months. ACCORDING TO one source in Palm Beach, Harper is "leaning" toward Minnesota, since his former teammate, Darryl Mitchell, plays guard for the Gophers. The same source indicated that Wolverine wide receiver Anthony Carter, a graduate of crosstown rival. Riviera Beach High School, had spoken to Harper, and apparently urged him to sign with Michigan. Minnesota coach Jim Dutcher has a knack of luring players from Florida to the colder climes of Minneapolis to play their college basketball. In addition to Mitchell, there are two other former prep All-Americans from Florida on this year's Golden Gopher team. They are freshman forward Zebedee Howell, and sophomore forward-center Gary Holmes. Howell has stepped into the starting spot at one forward. Assistant basketball coach Bill Frieder confirmed that the Wolverines were interested in signing Harper, bui° cautiously added, "A lot of schools are interested in him." Worldwideboycot urge byCarter, (AP)U.S. government and Olympic officials launched an effort yesterday to convince other western nations that they should follow President Carter's suggestion in trying to get the Summer Olympics moved out of Moscow, postponed or canceled. Failing that, they hoped to develop a groundswell of boycott sentiment that would take the propaganda edge off the Olympics for the Russians in retaliation for their military intervention in Afghanistan. However, the International Olympic Committee, which owns the Games' and which signed a contract with Moscow officials in 1974, reiterated that despite Carter's remarks on American television Sunday, the Games would not be moved,'postponed, or canceled. Monique Berlioux, director of the IOC, said Carter's call for transfer or postponement was unrealistic, that the IOC can't break its Moscow contract, and that if the U.S boycotts the Games it could lead to rethinking about Los Angeles as the site for the 1984 Games. Although Carter has no legal basis to order American athletes not to go, a U.S. boxing team planned to go to Russia today for competition, though it was learned strong pressure was being applied for the boxers not to make the trip. There was some indication yesterday that some other nations were seriously considering Carter's position. The Australian government is likely to give Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser formal backing today to support Carter's stance, government of- ficials said. Fraser has talks scheduled with Ca: ter Jan. 31. The conservative block in the Bonn Parliament strongly endorsed Car- ter's position yesterday and urged West Germany not to send a team to the Games as long a4 Soviet troops are in Afghanistan. The USOC had said before Carter's message that if he called for a boycott, prospective Olympic athletes might be polled to get their sentiment. American public opinion narrowly favored the United States pulling out of the Moscow Olympics, 'the Associated Press-NBC News poll showed yesterday. The margin in favor of not sending a team was 49 to 41 per cent, with 10 per cent saying they were undecided. Big Ten Standings Conference w 8PEiiTO Men's Basketball Jan. 24-MICHIGAN STATE Jan. 26 - at Northwestern Women's Basketball Jan. 23-WAYNE STATE Jan. 26-at Wisconsin Hockey Jan. 25, 26-at Minnesota Wrestling Jan. 25-PURDUE Jan. 27-ILLINQIS Men's Track Jan. 26-MICHIGAN RELAYS Women's Track Jan. 26-at Michigan State Relays Men's Gymnastics Jan. 23-at Western Michigan Jan. 27-MINNESOTA Women's Gymnastics Jan. 26-at Windy City Invitational (Chicago) Jan. 27-at Michigan State Men's Swimming Jan. 25-at Indiana Women's Swimming Jan. 26-INDIANA Ohio State........ Purdue ............. Indiana ............ Minnesota........ Illinois ............. MICHIGAN........ Iowa ............. Wisconsin........ Michigan State ..... 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University Ann Arbor, MI 663-0511 Expires January 3 a, 1980 - m--- DE F E A T ILLINOIS BY . 05: Women gymnasts take close meet By DAN CONLIN Michigan women's gymnastic coach Sheri Hyatt will never again view her team's score in terms of whole numbers - from now on it's down to the nearest hundredth - as Michigan nipped Illinois by .05 points, 125.7 to 125.65 on Sunday. "This was a special win for us," said Hyatt. "Last year Illinois placed second in the Big Ten Conference meet and we placed third. This win will eally spark the girls and set us in fine osition in the Big Ten race." SUNDAY'S PERFORMANCE was reassuring to Hyatt as her team begins to show consistency and confidence un- der pressure. "Our strong points again were in the vault and floor exercise," said Hyatt. "Sara Flom, with her floor routine, and Dana Kempthorn's strong scores at the right time highlighted the meet." Under the mounting pressure of the r lose match, Cindy Shearon placed &econd in the vault with a score of 8.65, Dana Kempthorn boosted the Blue tumblers' cause with an 8.1. Sara Flom showed her experience in dealing with pressure as she took first in the uneven parallel bars with a score of 8.2, as Dana Kempthorn and Laurie Miesel supplied third and fourth places with identical scores of 7.45. DIANE MCLEAN showed much more control than her freshwoman *tanding would imply, as she overcame the pressure and mastered her beam routine to capture first place with a score of 7.84. Dana Kempthorn scored 7.55 to take third place for the women. The two previously undefeated teams provided a competitive meet indicative of the score, but the quality of the per- formances was much higher than the unimpressive total scores. Last week at Central Michigan the women gymnasts had a terrible meet and scored only 125 points. Sunday per- formances can't even be compared to the meet with Central, yet the scores are almost identical. Hyatt was very disappointed in the judges and their harsh evaluations. "I REALLY FELT we did much bet- ter than our score shows," said Hyatt. "We should have scored 128 or 130." A new rule concerning the selection of teams for the regional championships puts more importance on the total score and not on the overall record. Both coaches were frustrated by the stingy scores awarded their gymnasts. "They didn't realize it's by score and not by team standing," said Hyatt. "They thought the top two teams still held positions at the regionals." Illinois coach Bev Mackes summed up the controversy about the generally low scores in the state of Michigan by suggesting "That's why Michigan has so many away matches." 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