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Show SUSC gymnasts close with 5th CEDAR CITY The Southern Utah State College gymnastics team has closed the 1982 season with a respectable fifth place in the NAIA national meet held at Milledgeville, Ga. Brenda Shaw, freshman fresh-man from West Valley City, scored her personal best of the year in all-around all-around competition, a 30.45, to lead the SUSC women. Her score was good enough to place her 11th in all-around. As a team, SUSC scored 116.95 points. The team championship went to the host Georgia College team with 129.05 points. Following in order were Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference champion Southern Colorado, 127.40; Minot State, 126.95; Adams State, 120.95; SUSC 116.95; Valley City State, 115.10; Fort Hays State 113.20; and Western State (with an incomplete team) with 56.35. . "We had a terrible time on the balance beam. Other than that, I was very proud of the way our girls performed," Kathryn Berg, SUSC coach says. Several SUSC entrants placed high in individual event competition. Karen Smith, freshman from West Jordon, had a two-day two-day score of 16.75 to place eighth in floor exercise. Shaw was 14th in the same event. Janet Jorgensen, sophomore from Sigurd, and Shaw tied for llth place on the uneven parallel bars; and Shaw finished 13th in vaulting competition. Shaw and Jorgensen both finished the year with average all-around scores over 29. Smith and Hebberd both averaged over 28 points in all-around all-around competition. |