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Show Sunday, March Qualifies Two for Trip NCAA Gymnastics Finals BYU Svv'Ters To Records m By PHIL SHURTLFFF New SALT LAKE CITY Mexico continued its domination of the Western Athletic Conference gymnastics championships by taking three first places and qualifying eight men in 12 spots for the NCAA meet during the concluding Friday Night session at the University of Utah. - Arizona State, which as a team finished fourth, placed three men in the NCAA, second place BYU will travel with two as will Colorado State and Utah's lone side horse competitor will also make the trip to Michigan Thursday. The Lobes defending champion on floor exercise started the night off right for his team by repeating his first place and teammate Fred Cardenas followed suit on the next event, side horse, to pull ahead of BYU's defending champ Darryl Miller who finished second and Utah's Dennis Jones who was third. Jon Aitken, the Lobos during his tenure at the Y and Pan American Games." The will finishing first on rings is fitting Pan American competition later in America South in held be WAC way to conclude his is sort of an and the year Apparently competition. marriage has agreed with the junior Olympics for the North outstanding gymnast and since and South Americas. Looking ahead to the NCAA his marriage in November his which begins Thursday at meet at least have performances become more steady. Having a the University of Michigan special rooting section of one Cougar Coach Johnson feels his two competitors, Darryl Miller must make a difference. Besides the first place on rings on side horse and Hughes on should Hughes will also compete for the rings and the all around, all around title in the NCAA by do fairly well "Miller should be virtue of his second place in that in the top five and John should WAC test which concluded have a good chance for the top five in the all around," he said Thursday night. BYU coach LaVon Johnson hopefully, adding, "Rings will be had nothing but praise for his tough but John could very well prize Cougar gymnast and qualify for the finals (the top pointed out that "John did some eight)." On two other events Hughes 15 routines during the three day meet and only had two breaks missed qualifying for the NCAA I'd consider major." by a hair. He was third on bars going ir.io the himself parallel obviously Hughes, pleased with his efforts, said finals and turned in his best that "if I do well in the NCAA in score for the event Friday but the all around, 111 try to go to the was dropped to fourth when off-ye- ar superb high bar performer, rounded out the New Mexico iirst places by taking the top spot on his specialty. into the third, and final, qualifying spot. Hughes was edged by only .30 point On high bar Hughes remained in fourth place during the final two nights of competition and only missed the qualifying spot by 1 point. The final standings (top three go to NCAA): Floor Eaton, exercise: N.M.. 37.4; 1 2 Stormy Dana Shelley, N.M., 37.05 ; 3 Bryan Scott, ASU, 35.55. Side horse: - Freddy Cardenas, NM., 35 85; J Darryl Miller, BYU, 35.45; 3 Dennis Jones, Utah, 35.30. 1 Still rings: John Hughes, BYU, 35.8; ? Dave Reop, N M., 35.5; 3 Joe Kinkel, N.M., 35.0. Long horse. 1 Dave Ryan, ASU, 36.2; 2 MarU Hopkins, N.M., 35 4; 3 Jim Ivicek, N.M., 35.5. Parallel bars: 1 Lee Wayman 2 Jim Ivicek, N.M., 35.8, 3 Steve Zamora, CSU, 35.45. High bar: 1 Jon Aitken, N.M., 37.9; Jim Ivicek, N.M., 35.4; Da ton, ASU, 35.35. CSU, 35.9; THE HERALD, Provo, 13 Utah-P- age 0rem Gains Impressive Wjnpver West, Olympus - w.iun..n., Discus Orrin Olsen, Orem, ; O'Bagy, Brent Hansen, Orem, 139-Nielsen, Orem, Orem, 23.4; Krenshaw, triangular track meet Friday W. swimmers continued their as- afternoon at Olympus High Shot Put Sterzer, W, ; sault on the record books School in Salt Lake, The Tigers O'Bagy, W; Wayne Stout, Orem, Friday night at the swimming compiled 7? point to defeat Orrin Olsen, Orem, 48-and diving championships aa West with 61 and Olympus with Pule Vault Jim Graff, two more American records "32. Orem, 13-- Jim Barry, Orem, fell Olympus is the defending state 13-Lamson, W; Miner. W. and West is expected Fetzer, O, After Friday night, a total of champion, High Jump ' Kevin five American and NCAA meet to be one of the state's Barry, Orem, Davis, O. Orem, records had been set at the powerhouses this year. Thu, the Orem for was Javelin Russell, O; victory very Iowa held tournament at State Tim Soffe, Orem, Poulo, impressive. University's Beyer HaL pool Orem swept all three relay W; Bjurson, O. Indiana's Gary Hall set his events, which helped carry the Broad Jump Crawford, W, second American record when to the big victory. Barnes, W; Pergler, O: Tigers he raced to a 3:58.2 in the However, in two of the three Jim Marshall, Orem, 194. individual medley. Hall, relays the Tigers won because who broke his own NCAA meet one of the other teams was record in the preliminaries, disqualified. became the tournament's first Winning first places for the double winner. He won the d Tigers were Steve Jensen in the individual medley in mile, Jerry Jensen in the 440, American record time Thurs- Jim Graff in the pole vault, and day. Orrin Olsen in the discus. The evjt by event summary: Southern California successEddie Scott, High hurdles its fully defended 14.2; West, West; water, Bridge title in the and freestyle relay process shaved 8 seconds off its Loveridge, Orem 14.7; Fslt, O. 100 Yard Dash Crawford, W, own American record set in 1970 with a 6:52.4 clocking. The 10.0; Tom Nielsen, Orem, 10.1; Trojan Quartet was sparked by John Jaurez, Orem, 10.2; Jim McConica, who also nabbed Barnes, W. Steve Jensen, Mile Run an individual title in the d Orem, 4:33.0; Madsen, W; freestyle. Jones, O, Player, O. Indiana, which had set an 440 Yard Run Jerry Jensen, NCAA meet record in the Orem, 52.4; Kevin Johansen, was disqualified preliminaries, 53.2; Magnum, O; Ebert, second in the Orem, Iowa AMES, CSU's Steve Zamora turned in one of the best scores and moved 28, 1971 (UPI)-NC- AA - 14-2- 50-5- 133-8- 4. Orem Medley Relay (Jclley, Marshall, B. Jensen, Hunsaker) 3:55.0; West, 48-3- Olympus. 0; Mile Relay Orem (T. Hansen, J. Jensen, Johansen, Murdock) 3:33.8; Olympus, West 6--3; 6--1; - 0; 170-1- W0 Relay l"-4-ll; - Orem (Nielsen, Jaurez, Eager, Loverdige) 1:33.2; Olympus, West Total scores: Orem 74, West 61, Olympus 32. 20-1- 1; 400-ya- 200-yar- 800-yar- d - 200-yar- ? One other outstanding Lobo performer Jim Ivicek, may have failed to gain a first place but he qualified for the NCAA championships on i'our events, the all around (id), long horse (3rd), parallel bars (2nd) and Horizontal bar (2nd). Remaining firsts went to BYU's John Hughes on rings, ASU's Dave Ryan on long horse, and Colorado State's Lee Wyman on parallel bars. Two of the first place finishers, Eaton of New Mexico, and BYU's Hughes are among the nominees for the Nissen Award to be presented at the NCAA tourney next week. The Nissen Award is made to the outstanding senior gymnast in the country and is similar to the after finishing O. - Mur-doc- USC, which finished second in team standings last year, held on to the same spot after the first two days of competition, trailing Indiana's 239 points by 74. Heisman Trophy in football. Hughes has been a consHent r 1 . bred to fit your needs-sho- rter hybrids for high grain content, or taller, later maturing hybrids bred to give maximum tonnages. m k, - y DeKalb has silage varieties IK GRAIN "Any time you beat Indiana's Eyre, W; Oliver, W. 220 Yard Dash Crawford, W, champions, it's a sweet victoAll 23.0; McConica. said Loveridge, Orem, 23.1; Trojan ry," swimmers felt their team had won a major victory by keeping defendclose to the three-tim- e Sox' Knoop To Royals ing champion Hoosiers. ' V 1IGE! finals. Officials said the Hoo-sie-rs 180 Low Hurdles Scott, W, John Kinsella jumped 19.6; Felt, O; Bridgewater, W; into the pool to congratulate his Allen, Orem, 21.8. teammates before all squads Andy 880 Yard Run Doug had finished swimming. Orem, 1:58.3; Winegar, W; IN TONNAGE lie:) IN ENERGY SARASOTA, Fla. (UPI)-T- he Chicago White Sox announced the sale of second baseman Bobby Knoop Wednesday for $30,000 to the Kansas City Ask your DeKalb Dealer for -specific "nety "DEKALB' It a Nam. Kgutrl tttn ftrmtrt Flint DiKsIt Mm Mf tlktr ttmt. RoNtt,BINJAKS9l Royals. Brand 798-353- 5 c performer for the Cougars Remains Critical TAMPA, Fla. (UPI)-Ed- win PuerMaldonado, a to Rican jockey, remained in "guarded" condition at St. Joseph's hospital Friday, suffering from a cerebral concussion he suffered when thrown from his horse in a race at Florida Downs on Monday. 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