Page 8--The Michigan Daily- Sports Monday -April 8, 1991 Five blue gymnasts reach nationals by Charlie Wolfe Daily Sports Writer The odyssey continues. Invading Ohio State's St. John Arena Saturday night, the Michigan men's gymnastics team prepared to do battle with nine other squads for the East Regional gymnastics crown. The Big Ten's reputation as the toughest conference in men's gymnastics came searing through, as the top nine teams were from the conference. Not surprisingly, the Wolverines' very respectable score of 275.75 only garnered them eighth place in the region. While a score of 280 or more was rare and usually guaranteed victory during the conference season, they were common place Saturday evening. The Buckeyes made for a rude host and used the home mat to their full advantage. Ohio State posted an astonishing and season- best score of 285.5, besting Penn State's equally-outstanding 284.05. With the top four teams from each region qualifying for the NCAA Championships April 18, Iowa (280.8) and Minnesota (280.75) also needed to score over 280 to earn their trips to nationals at Penn State. "It was a real close and high- scoring meet," Michigan coach Bob Darden said. "There were a couple of events that we could've and should've done better on, but this is a very respectable finish for the team." In the all-around competition, Wolverines Jim Round and Ruben Ceballos both tied for 19th place with scores of 55.2, but only the top 12 all-arounders go to national competition. Adam Carton of Penn State took the all-around crown with a score of 57.45. But even if Michigan can only take solace in a "respectable" per- formance from its team or all- arounders, the quest for some of Michigan's gymnasts continues. Five Wolverines earned invitations to the Nittany Lions' den via their shining performances on selected events. Frosh Ben Verrall is the only Wolverine that will be competing in multiple events at nationals, qualifying in both the floor exercise (9.55) and vault (combined score of 18.45 for two vaults). Juniors Glenn Hill (9.65) and Round (9.6) qualified on their specialty events, the pommel horse and still rings re- spectively, and rookie Jorge Camacho (9.55) will join Verrall in the floor exercise. But in what Darden termed "a heck of a set," frosh Royce Toni provided the biggest surprise of all, scoring a 9.7 on the parallel bars. The stellar performance not only bought Toni's ticket to Penn State with his four other teammates, but gave him a third place finish in the event. Especially pleased to have three of his rookie phenoms qualify for the NCAA Championships, Darden said: "It shows we're climbing, not only competing on a regional level, but national, too." Which way to Hawaii? The Michigan crew team works together to thwart the competition. The co-ed squad had an excellent weekend, defeating Marietta in all the varsity events at Ford Lake in Ypsilanti. Next week, the team heads to South Bend, Ind., to take on Notre Dame. .' ...:...: \'::\.:\\.: fbew....~n n~+VA ~ \ ...\N .\ .1\\ \\\\Y v"\\\ . ... \\\ :::::. . . . .i:L\: tt ... .1 ..rN:: L. 'M' gymnast Wendy Wilkinson practi competition. Wilkinson and teammat becoming Michigan's first regional qt 'M' gymn season at: by Andy Stabile Daily Sports Writer As all good things must come to an end, two Wolverine gymnasts competed this weekend at NCAA regional competition and brought the Michigan women's gymnastics team's record breaking season to a close. At Auburn University, frosh Wendy Wilkinson and sophomore Allison Winski put the finishing touches on five months of competi- tion by finishing 19th and 21st, re- spectively, in a field of 70 all- around gymnasts. Wilkinson scored 37.4 and Winski tallied 37.225. Alabama's Deedee Foster won the all-around with a score of 39.375. The meet was won by the University of Alabama with a score of 195.575. Host Auburn finished second in the seven team field, fol- lowed by LSU. The Michigan contingent was very pleased with the outcome of the meet. "We were excited to get to re- gionals and do well there," Mich- igan assistant coach Megan Shields said. "Our girls did great, we had a blast, and we're real excited with how our season came out." Men swimmM World Univ by Ken Sugiura Daily Sports Writer Behind a collection of strong in- dividual performances and a fourth- place 800-meter freestyle relay, Michigan finished eighth after cafloue)c Se dinter? Y ANTHONY M. CROLLDaly ices in preparation for regional :e Allison Winski competed there, ualifiers in 10 years. asts finish* regionals Since the two Wolverine gym- nasts qualified individually, not with a team, they competed sepa- rately with teams that did qualify. Wilkinson competed with runner- up Auburn and Winski with fifth- place Northern Illinois. "This is a very tough competi- tion," Wolverine coach Bev Fry said. "As individuals, it's harder to do a great job because you don't have the team support." However, what the Wolverines may have lacked in team support, they made up for in crowd support. "They had dynamic floor rou- tines," Shields said. "The crowd was really with them and that was helpful. It was kind of an eye-opener for these people to see Michigan gymnastics." The two Wolverines saw their highest level of competition all year as the top three teams all quali- fied for NCAAs - the Crimson Tide will go into the meet as the first seed. "At this level of competition, having gymnasts compete at this meet is like a football team getting a bowl-bid." Shields said. "It was just a great event for Michigan gym- nastics." ers try for ersity Games. Saturday's competition with 93 points in the U.S. Swimming Spring Senior National Championships in Seattle. Senior Mike Barrowman, swim- ming for his home club of Curl- Burke, garnered a victory in the 200 breaststroke and a second place in the 100 breaststroke, with times of 2:12.61 and 1:02.12, respectively. 0 Junior Eric Namesnik claimed a second place of his own, in the 400 individual medley, with a 4:19.50 clocking. Brian Gunn in the 200 butterfly, Eric Wunderlich in the 100 breast- stroke and the 800 freestyle relay team all placed fourth in their re- spective events. Because the meet served as try- outs for the World University Games, the Wolverines represented both their personal clubs and the University. At the meet, Stanford's Janet Evans and Tennessee's Melvin Stewart,both announced they were renouncing their eligibility. 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