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Marshall Avener leaving Rec Hall
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RICK STARR
Assistant Sports Editor
•'lt's always difficult to repeat after
you have had a season like we had
last year." Temple baseball coach
Jim Wilson said, reflecting on last
year's 33-15 season, which included a
trip to Omaha for the College World
Series. The Owls finished third in the
nation last year. behind two perennial
college baseball powerhouses,
Southern Cal and Arizona State.
Wilson's team apparently hasn't
heard his words, as it works through a
42-game schedule at a .750 winning
percentage. The ON\ is are currently
21-7 and, along with Delaware, they
comprise the competition for the Lion
nine this weekend.
Lion hurler Mitch Lukevics will be
on the mound for this afternoon's 3:30
p.m. game with Delaware. Like
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Temple, the Blue Hens are locked in a
battle for their conference title with
Lafayette at present, but wouldn't
mind knocking off the Lions.
The Owls will get a chance to get by
Drexel once and for all in their
conference battle when the two meet
tomorrow on Temple's home field.
Then the following day, the Owls
travel to Penn State for a 1 p.m.
doubleheader at Beaver Field.
Wilson said he is confident that his
pitching staff can handle the test. The
fact that his top three hurlers have a
combined record of 13-1 just might
have something to do with that.
"We have nine good college pitch
ers so we feel we're pretty deep on the
mound," he said.
Righthander Rich Huges heads the
Owl mound crew with a 5-0 record and
a 1.17 era He is backed up by Rich
By MARK SIMENSON
Assistant Sports Editor
Following a poor 10th-place
showing by its men at the 1972
Olympics, the United States
Gymnastic Federation sought
out an idea that would help
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Quick facts
The first annual
"Championship of the
USA" at a glance
Place: Rec Hall
Time: Compulsories
tonight 7 p m , optionals
tomorrow 1 p m , in
dividual finals tomorrow B
pm
Teams: East - Marshall
Avener, PSU, Mike Carter,
LSU, John Crosby, SCSC,
JUT) Culhane, NYAC, Mel
H,II, Temple, Jay Whelan,
SCSC, all Gene Whelan,
Mass,
Mideast Randy Balhorn,
MSU, Dave Butzman, Ray
Gura, Mich. Ted Marti,
Gary Morava, SIU, Chuck
Wanner, 111 alt Jeff Rock
Minn
Midwest Jim Ivicek,
NMU, Jim Stephenson,
ISU, Mark Graham, ISU,
Doug Fitziarrell, ISU, Bob
Roth, ISU, Carl Walin,
lowa, all Dave Repp,
NMU
West - Clarke Johnson.
Cal. Steve Posner, Cal,
Gordon Jones, UW, Jim
Messina, UA, Ron Nissen,
Port St., Joe Sweeney, SJS,
alt Bill Barnwell, SJS
Admission: Tickets for
the three sessions are 52. A
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for Penn State students
wishing to attend one
session
rejuvenate the American
gymnastic program.
What developed was the
"Championship of the USA,"
a meet that pits the top six
gymnasts from each of the
for
Casale (5-1), Dave Chapman (3-0)
Lion lefthander Brian Masella
probably will start the first game of
Sunday's doubleheader and, provided
he's not called upon for relief work,
righthander John Maier should start
the second. Lion coach Chuck Medlar
said he'll use Maier today or in
Sunday's first game if the need
arises. In that event, Rick Sherkel or
Steve Correll will step into his start
ing role.
"The first thing I'm worried about
is Friday's game and we'll use
everything we have to win that one,"
Medlar said. "We'll do the same for
the first game of the Temple
doubleheader. The only thing you can
do is approach these games one at a
time."
Temple didn't get to Omaha last
year by pitching alone. The Owls
four regions in compulsory
and optional excercises for
the six Olympic events.
The USGF, which unveils
the Championship tonight at
Rec Hall, plans to use the
meet as a yardstick for
measuring talent for up
coming international com
petition.
After tomorrow afternoon's
optionals conclude the all
around race, the USGF will
name the four-min squad to
face China in New York later
this month.
The Championship also acts
as a qualifying and selecting
meet for the National Team
that faces Bulgaria in June,
the Maccabiach Games in Tel
Aviv in July and the World
University Games in Moscow
in August.
The last phase of the
Championship determines a
ranking for American
gymnasts. The first 15 all
around finishers comprise the
Elite 15, a new category of
national honors.
The meet brings together
the finest gymnasts in the
country, with three Olym
pians and 11 of the top 15 all
arounders at the NCAA
championships last month.
Penn State Olympian
Marshall Avener, who tied
Stanford's Steve Hug as the
top gymnast at the Nationals
with a 110.05 compulsory
optional total, rates as a good
bet to take the all-around title
because Hug is skipping the
meet. Hug is a photography
major and has taken his
camera and gone into
Owls,
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seclusion for this semester's
work.
At NCAAs Avener enjoyed
a two point edge over
Southern Illinois' Gary
Morava, who placed third.
Louisiana State junior Mike
Carter edged John Crosby of
SConn by five one-hundredths
of a point for the fourth spot.
Avener, Carter and Crosby
are members of the East,
while Morava leads the
Mideast. The Midwest has
four gymnasts who placed in
the top 11 spots at the
Nationals. New Mexico's Jim
Ivicek (6) is joined by three
lowa Staters in Jim
Stephenson (8), Doug Fitz
jarrell (9), and Mark Graham
t 11).
Jim Culhane earned a spot
on the East team on the
strength of his third place at
the Amateur Athletic Union
tourney last weekend.
Culhane, who graduated
from Penn State in 1966, was
fourth on the American team
at Munich.
With the meet coming a
month after the Nationals,
whichever gymnast comes
Hens
world series roster included four
hitters with averages better than .312.
According to Wilson, this year's team
is better.
Part of the reason is team captain
and catcher Jack Dom. The Owl
senior has a .368 average and 22 runs
batted in at present.
Outfielder Earle Chew, Dom's co
captain, is close behind him with 19
RBIs and a .333 average.
Medlar, uninterested in any
tournament talk at the present time,
said that while the weekend's con
tests were very important, they were
not yet crucial. Penn State still has
nine games remaining plus some
make-up games not yet rescheduled.
"We still have a long way to go,"
Medlar said, "but we're approaching
these games the way we always do.
We'll go out and do the best we can."
Friday. May 4. 1973----7
into Rec Hall in the best shape
could win it.
Culhane says being in shape
is important, but adds,
"There's a lot of luck in
volved."
The all-around battle
should center around Avener,
Crosby, Carter, Culhane,
Ivicek, Morava and
Stephenson.
Tonight's compulsories
could decide the team
John Maier (24) is in Chuck Medlar's weekend strategy
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championship, because most
of the gymnasts have top rate
optional routines.
"In many ways they (the
compulsories) are the truest
test of a gymnast's ability,"
says meet director Gene
Wettstone.
Wettstone, a two-time
coach of the U.S. Olympic
team and head of this
country's Olympic
development program. says
the American gymnasts need
to perfect their compulsory
exercises.
"Americans have always
lallen behind in the com
pulsory exercises," he points
out. "Our temperament is
more suited to the freedom
and individuality of the op
tional exercises."
Compulsory exercises are
designed by the Technical
Committee of the In
ternational Gvmn'astics
Federation (FIG) and are
used for four years. They will
be changed again next year
for the World Games.
"The compulsory routines
do not allow a gymnast to hide
his weaknesses. He has to
face them and overcome
them to succeed," he says.
"The compulsories impose a
certain amount of discipline
on the gymnasts so they never
lose sight of the purpose and
style of international style
and learning."
In the optionals tomorrow
afternoon, the routines with
the most flair and originality
should score well with the
Judges
When the optionals are
completed, those scores are
averaged with the com
pulsories and the top six in
each event advance to the
individual finals tomorrow
night
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