NCAA Playoff Ticket Packages Michigan Union Call 763-TKTS SPORTS Men's swimming Wolverine Invitational Saturday, March 16 Matt Mann Pool The Michigan Daily Wednesday, March 13, 1985 Page 7 .: >= ! 'M' tumblers roll over Kent State By SCOTT G. MILLER It was a weekend of personal and team bests for the men's gymnastics team. The tumblers defeated Kent State 269.5-265.45 on Friday. The team score was the squad's highest in the last two years. "IT WAS AN outstanding meet for us," said Michigan coach Bob Darden. "The parallel bars and the pommel horse have been thorns in our side all season. Our scores in these events were consistent across the board against Kent State, and this factor really in- creased our team score." The Wolverines' score was also helped by the performance of the fifth and sixth members of the team whose scores usually make the difference in the final outcome of a meet. "Steve Scheinman, Ken Haller, and Nick Lanphier are our trench workers like offensive linemen in a football game," commented Darden. "These guys set the base scores and break the ice on each event. They are unsung heroes." WITH THE "table setters" doing so well, the team's top members perfor- med to their capabilities. Mitch Rose set three new career high scores. They included a 55.25 in the all-around which was good for second place, a 9.25 on the parallel bars which tied him for first place, and a 9.75 on the ring which put him in first place for that event. "Mitch had a super meet," said Dar- den. "We were banking on Mitch doing well so we seeded him in better positions in the lineup. The moves gave him more confidence and really paid off." Rose's high scores also should help him in his quest to qualify for the 1985 Maccabain World Championships in Israel. Rose is currently in fifth place nationally, and his weekend perfor- mance may boost his rank. ROSE'S TEAMMATE Gavin Meyerowitz had another great meet. Meyerowitz had a 55.9 in the all-around and a 9.75 on the pommel horse. Both of these scores were personal bests and good for first place finishes. Meyerowitz also had a 9.25 on the parallel bars to tie him for first place with Rose and a 9.35 in the floor exer- cise to take second place. "Gavin showed great consistency, and he is knocking on the door of scoring a 56 in the all-around which is a world class score," said Darden. "If he can just clean up the small tenth of a point deductions, he could get his 56." Other personal bests were registered by Craig Ehle, Greg Nelson, and Scott Moore. Ehle had a 9.2 in the rings, Nelson had a 9.55 in the horizontal bar, and Moore had a 9.55 in the vault. The tumblers are peaking at the right time of the season with the Big Ten championship coming up in two weeks at Minneapolis. Rose ... ranked fifth nationally THE SPORTING VIEWS International competition .. . l You're out! New York Yankee infielder Dale Berra is tagged out at second base by an airborn Jeff Kunkel of the Texas Rangers. Texas won, 5-4, in yesterday's exhibition game played in Pompono Beach, Florida. Royals, still chumps; Tigers wmnagain , 11-2 FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - The .Detroit Tigers, who defeated Kansas City in the American League playoffs last fall, rapped out seven conse*iive hits against the Royals in a six-run fifth inning on the way to an 11-2 exhibition baseball victory yesterday. The Tigers trailed 1-0 when Barbaro Garbey started the rally with a one-out double off pitcher Mike Griffin. The only other extra-base hit in the big in- ning was a double by Nelson Simmons. BOTH STARTING pitchers, Detroit's Jack Morris and Charlie Leibrandt of the Royals, worked three scoreless in- nings. Morris didn't allow a hit and struck out two, while Leibrandt gave up one hit. . Rooke outfielder Jim Weaver had a two-run homer for the Tigers in the nin- th. The Royals' took the lead with a run in the fourth on George Brett's RBI single to center after rookie outfielder John Morris led off with a double. Kan- sas City's only other run came in the ninth on Mike Brewer's solo homer. By STEVE HERZ A little patriotism can go a longway in sports. Anyone who is old enough to have seen any Olympic competition is aware of that. There are many who claim that the miracle at Lake Placid in 1980 was a case studyin the effects of nationalism. Hockey is a tough sport with men in armor following a puck that travels at speeds close to the sound barrier. Therefore it's no surprise that emotions can run high when athletes are playing hockey under theirown flag. But what about a more gentlemanly sport such as tennis? Tennis is just a sport for those polite men and women who prance around the country clubs sipping glasses of wine and Perrier. Even the scoring in ten- nis lends itself to pacifism and etiquette. In what other sport is there a hint of reference to love? Don't talk to John McEnroe about etiquette. While playing for the United States in Davis Cup com- petition last fall, McEnroe waved his middle finger around as though it was an American flag. His ac- tions received public reprimand from a Davis Cup sponsor, but the issue quickly died down. McEnroe is not the only-athlete guilty of spreading an ugly gesture in the name of his country. Just last December, in a match between his team All-Star team, Toronto Maple Leafs' Ha :flashed a message across the scoreboa Leaf Gardens while his team was being read, "remember, don't cheer for them, ones who downed the Korean Airliner." Controversy surrounds the sports regular basis. McEnroe regularly ma gestures towards fans and officials and been making headlifies for his outland since the 1940's. Yet, when two natio peting, a different set of rules must be longer is it a question of athletic suprem; often it becomes a political event. Unfortunately, athletics is no longe escape from reality it once was. When time a coach or manager won a major sl without the President calling up and spo aspect of the event itself? The Olympics have long been a hotbe activity.From the 1936 games, when planned to show the world the domi Aryan race, only to be upstaged by thei of Jesse Owens, to the Soviet boycott of mer games in Los Angeles, the Olympi marred by politics. . .. politics reign supreme and a Soviet It's too bad, but the world of athletics is already arold Ballard well entrenched inside the grasp of world politics. No ard at Maple longer will an Olympic event of any sort or a Davis trounced. It Cup tennis match be just a sporting contest. Perhaps, they are the coverage of such competition should go in the news section of newspapers and magazines. world on a kes obscene The latest Davis Cup competition began to spawn Ballard has controversy and is sure to become an international [ish remarks event with the sport of tennis surely to be dragged ns are com- through some political mud. followed. No It seems that Frenchman Yannick Noah allegedly acy, but very struck a linesman after a match versus Paraguay. Noah and French Davis Cup captain Jean Paul Loth, er the great who was also involved in the incident have both was the last denied the allegations. Although denials have been porting event made, an Associated Press story carried nation- iling the true wide claims "Noah rushed onto the court and pun- ched a linesman... There was danger of a riot." The d of political problem apparently stems from the fact that the Adolf. 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