6 - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, March 27, 1995

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Berman said.
As seems to be a recurring theme,
the star of the meet was once again
Michigan All-American Beth Wymer.
The senior co-captain won three of
the four individual events (beam,
floor, and vault), placed third on the
bars and won the all-around competi-
tion for an unprecedented fourth
straight year.
Ironically, the bars are Wymer's
strongest area. She received perfect
scores in the past four meets.
Wymer shared the vault title with
freshman teammate Heather Kabnick,
both scoring perfect 10s.
Spartan senior Wendy Minch cap-
tured the individual title on the un-
even bars with a score of 9.975.
"I'm very proud of the team,"
Wymer said. "We pulled together and
did great. It takes a team to win a
championship."
The Wolverines were showered
with accolades after the meet. Coach
Bev Plocki was honored as the Big
Ten Coach of the Year for the fourth
consecutive year.
This year, however, she shared
the honor with Minnesota head coach
Jim Stephenson.
Wymer was named the Big Ten
Gymnast of the Year for the third time
in her career and Kabnick was named
the Big Ten Freshman of the Year.
Michigan also had five members
on the all-conference team. Sopho-
more Andrea McDonald, senior Kelly
Carfora and junior Wendy Marshall
joined Wymer and Kabnick along with
Joanna Knox (Penn State), Wendy
Minch (Michigan State), Seymin Lau
(Ohio State) and Mindy Knaeble
(Minnesota). a
For Wymer and her four fellow
seniors, the only thing they have ex-
perienced over the past four years has
been championships.
"It's just as exciting as the previ-
ous three," Berman said. "We came
in here as freshmen and won. And
now leave here as seniors with a vic-
tory.
FinuiStandim i
1. Michigan 196.540
2. Penn State 192.375
3. Iowa 189.975
4. Michigan St. 144.725
5. Illinois 144.125
6. Minnesota 143.575
7. Ohio State 141.625

Men gymnasts finish 6th in league.

By Julie Keating
Daily Sports Writer
CHAMPAIGN - The Michigan
men's gymnastics team concluded its
conference competition this weekend
at Illinois. The seven teams repre-
senting the Big Ten made up the pre-
mier teams of men's collegiate gym-
nastics.
The Wolverines placed sixth over-
all with a score of 225.100. Minne-
sota won the title with a score of
229.825.
Falling one place from last year, the
Wolverines received lower scores for
theirefforts as judging was consistently
tight throughout the competition.
"For Michigan to place sixth is a
little disappointing score-wise," Wol-
verine coach Bob Darden said. "But the
overall effort and intensity definitely
showed. It was just up to the judges."
Senior Brian Winkler placed sec-
ond in the floor exercise and fourth on
the parallel bars. Royce Toni recorded
a 9.65 on a near-flawless rings rou-
tine. Flavio Martins placed 15th over-
all with an all-around score of 55.0.
Bob Young finished 16th in the all-
around with a score of 54.875.
Raul Molina, competing in only
three events due to a sprained ankle,
earned a 9.25 on parallel bars. Rich

Dopp placed 10th overall and second
on the highbar.
"I came here wanting to beat my
second place score on the high bar
from last year," Dopp said. "Unfortu-
nately, I only repeated it, but I am still
pleased with the way the meet went
overall."
Kris Klinger scored a 9.725 on the
high bar, just a quarter of a point shy
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- Bob Darden
Michigan men's gymnastics
coach
of top three honors.
"I am really happy about making
finals," Klinger said. "Rich did a great
job and we are both happy with our
sets."
Ohio State's Blaine Wilson placed
first in the all-around and was named
Big Ten Gymnast of the Year. Brian

Yee of Minnesota took second.
Iowa finished second with a strong
quad, Ohio State captured third, foil
lowed by Penn State and Illinois.
Michigan State placed last.
The Wolverines have consistently
been among the fourth and fifth teams
in the Big Ten beating powerhous
Iowa, Illinois and Penn State in t
regular season.
"With our program being out twb
years ago, it is really difficult to mair-
tain a higher ranking in the Big Teo
because it is such a strong confer-
ence," Darden said.
"The school decided to cut our
funding right at a highlight in Michi-
gan gymnastics, so it is going to take
a couple of years to get back to tl
level," he added.
It is still unclear who will qualify
individually for the regionals, which
are being hosted by Penn State in twb
weeks.
"It is really a salute to the guys to
be able to still compete at this level
against such teams as Minnesota and
Illinois, who have twelve-year win-
ning streaks," Darden said.
"The team is full of talented at
letes and has been trying to give back
to the school for what it has given
them," he added.

Michigan broke the Individual event record at Big Tens Saturday.
GYMNASTICS NOTEBOOK:
Floor record tumbles at
Big Ten Championships

By Sarah DeMar
Daily Sports Writer
CHAMPAIGN - At long last,
the remaining individual event
record was broken Saturday when
the Michigan women's gymnastics
team scored a 49.4 in the floor exer-
cise at the Big Ten Championships.
The Wolverines' previous all-time
high was 49.3 in 1994.
"The floor was the only team
record we hadn't broken," Michi-
gan coach Bev Plocki said. "It was
fitting that we did because the first
two events didn't go so great for us,
but the floor really kicked us into
gear and then we closed out with a
bang."
YEAR OF THE WOLVERINE: The
Big Ten Championship awards cer-
emony may be getting repetitious
for some of the other teams. For the
third time in four years they have
heard "and Big Ten Gymnast of the
Year... from the University of Michi-
gan... Beth Wymer."
Furthermore, Michigan also
boasts a string of athletes who have
received the Freshman of the Year
awards. Wymer received the award

in 1992, Andrea McDonald in 1994
and Heather Kabnick this year.
"I didn't really know (the award)
was out there," Kabnick said.
"People kept telling me about it and
I just thought that it would be really
cool to get."
Kabnick placed eighth in the all
around Saturday, scoring a 10 in the
vault and tying with Wymer for the
top spot in that event. Kabnick's
vault came right after Wymer's,
symbolizing that Kabnick appears
to be following in the senior's foot-
steps.
"Obviously, Beth is a great gym-
nast," Kabnick said. "But I'm my
own type of gymnast and it's hard to
compare myself to her."
Finally, Plocki was named Co-
Coach of the Year. She received
Coach of the Year honors for the
fourth year in a row.
GLOOMY GOPHERS: No. 25 Min-
nesota came into the Big Tens with
the blues. The Golden Gophers fin-
ished fourth Saturday with a score
of 191.675, nearly 2.5 points more
than last year's third place Big Ten
ranking.


Baseball splits with the Hawkeyes

By Marc Diller
Daily Baseball Writer
The Michigan baseball team split
Saturday's Big Ten doubleheader at
Iowa (I-A Big Ten, 8-6 overall) af-
ter Wolverine pitcher John Arvai
(2-1) gave up a three-run shot in the
bottom of the seventh to Hawkeyes'
C.J. Thieleke. The home run cost
Michigan (1-1, 8-12) a three-run
lead and the second game, 5-4.
"We were very happy with the
way we played with the exception
of the last pitch," Wolverine coach
Bill Freehan said. "We played well
defensively and did everything we
needed to do to win, but unfortu-
nately we just came up short with
our bullpen ace on the mound."
After being forced to sit out
Wednesday's extra-inning win over
Eastern Michigan for "precaution-
ary reasons" regarding allegations
within the baseball program, Michi-
gan starters Scott Niemiec, Chad

Chapman and co-captain Ryan Van
Oeveren were all declared eligible
by the NCAA prior to the team's
departure. The seniors won't have
to sit out any more games. The
NCAA will continue to review the
controversy regarding complaints
made last weekend by former assis-
tant coach Dan O'Brien that players
were promised pizzas and the use of
Freehan's Corvette as rewards for
good performance.
Van Oeveren was active in his
return to the lineup. The senior led
the Wolverines with three hits, one
RBI and three runs scored over the
two- game set.
"Van Oeveren played real well
and did a good job in his return,"
Freehan said.
With the exception of closer John
Arvai's four earned runs in two-
thirds of an inning, Michigan's er-
ratic pitching staff had its best per-
formance of the year. In his Big Ten

debut, Wolverine freshman pitcher
Tyler Steketee (2-2) allowed just
one run in five and two-third i*
nings, but got a no decision.
In Michigan's opening game, a
9-3 victory, junior Mark Temple
improved his record to 2-3 after
pitching the staff's first complete
game of the year.
Outfielder Brian Simmons con-
tinued his hitting barrage for the
Wolverines. Simmons raised his
team leading average to .378 wit,
home run and a triple in a 3-for-
performance.
After being rained out of
yesterday's doubleheader, Michigan
will send pitchers Matt Ferullo and
Brian Steinbach to the mound to-
day.
"We're a much better team than
(Iowa)," Van Oeveren said. "We're
confident that we're not going to
Saturday's loss bother us. We'll
ready to get them."

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