PAGE SIX Gym 2d, Mat sth in NCAA's Vega, Mullen Natl Champs By VINCE CAROCCI Armando Vega and Phil Mullen won lhe only two Lion National Gymnastic Championships in the parallel bars and the rope climb in the National Collegiate Ath letic Association meet Saturday at the University of North Caro lina. The Nittanies finished second in the team standings with 67 'k points to Illinois’ 123t£ points. Florida State was third with 64 l k. points. Vega's 279 in the parallel bars was the highest individual score of the meet, 24 points ahead of Michigan’s Ed Gagnier. Places 3rd in All-round The Lion sophomore failed to repeat his winning Eastern per formance in the All-round compe tion, finishing third Friday night. Lion coach Gene Wetlstone said that a spill from the high bar during his routine probably cost him the All-round championship. Vega also tied for second in the free exercise with Dick Brown, Michigan State, and took a fourth on the flying rings. Wins in 3.5 Mullen posted a first in the rope climb with a 3.5 time, one tenth second better than Paul Dean, Army, and Bill Waddill, North Carolina, who tied for second place. It was Mullen’s second indi vidual championship of the year he won the rope climb in the Eastern tournev at West Point. Teammate Dick Rehm tied for fifth in the rope climb with a 4.0 time. Sophomore Bob Foht scored a fifth on the parallel bars with 247 points while Bill Paxton placed sixth in tumbling with 245 points. Weissend 71h Dion Weissend. after finishing second in the high bars in the Friday afternoon preliminaries, ran into difficulty Saturday when he finished seventh. Bob Amsler, Florida State, won the event with 247 points. The NittAnies failed to place in the trampoline or sidehorse when ils entries were eliminated in the preliminaries. One of the big surprises of the meet came when Don Harper, Ohio State, _ edged defending champion Dick Albershardt, In diana, by a single point in the trampoline. 276-275. Although the regular season is over, Wettstone is keeping his team in shape for the AAU Olym pic tryouts April 27 and 28 at Recreation Hall. Tickets go on sale April 4, he said. The combined men and wo men's tryouts will be held in four sessions: preliminary and final sessions for compulsory exercises (Continued on page seven) Announcing the Opening of the CAMPANIS Shoe Repair Shop at 348 E. College Ave. Monday, Mar. 19 • Introductory Prizes •No Obligation •Come in and register Prixos consist of: $ 25.00 War Bond 1 Pr. Full Soles and Heels 1 Pr, Half Soles and Heels 4 Pr. Heels THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA I <• .1 ? ' AS <* V ARMANDO VEGA 'above Phil Mullen (below) won Na tional championships in the parallel bars and the rope climb Saturday. Vega finished the season with an unbeaten rec ord on the parallel bars while Mullen equalled the best time of his career, 3.5 on the rope. (Jb>e6 'Utfu,, n!fc it ft* WMWM'WW •onuo UNMt AUTHORITY Of THE COCA-COLA COMPANY SV ALTOONA COCA-COLA SOTTLIN6 COMPANY "CeW k • raghtarad troda-meffc. jPepe, Adams, lOberly Place | By FRAN FANUCCI j Trying to determine a Western team as wrestling’s national 'champion is becoming an unsur , mountable task for the East. For ;the 25th time in the 26-year his tory of the NCAA wrestling tour nament a Western team, Okla 'homa A&M, has won the coveted ! title. I The best the Nittany Lions ! could do was finish fifth with a j total of 27 points. In front of the ! Lions were the Aggies in first, with 65; Oklahoma second, with 62; Pitt third, with 51; and lowa fourth, with 43. Three Lions—John Pepe, Dave Adams, and Bill Oberly—were the only wrestlers to place in the final results. Adams was the only one of the three to enter the' finals. Pepe and Oberly ended in I third place in their respective! weight class. J Adams, after leading 2-1. fell behind to Lehigh's Ed Eichle berger and could not recover as he lost, 6-2. It was the second l lime within two weeks that the 1 two met in tournament finals. : Eichleberger pinned Adams in 1 the EIWA tourney at Lehigh. Bill Oberly, following a first round loss to Gordon Roesler, of Oklahoma, roared back scoring j four wins on Saturday to cop; third place in the unlimited divis ion. I Pepe scored two victories andj drew a bye before losing to Jim Sinadinos, Michigan State, in the jsemifinals. 8-4. In the consolation match Pepe defeated Lehigh’s Joe Gratto, 6-2, for third place. ; Pepe was beaten in the finals of the EIWA tournament by Gratto for the 137-pound title. Johnny Johnston, Joe Humph reys, and Joe Krufka were elim inated after their first round defeats. Sid Nodland was de feated in the quarterfinals by Michigan Stale's JBob Royce. 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