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Gymnasts regain
'sense of pizzazz'
in quadrangular
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By Patty Prycr
Nebraska Coach Francis Allen says his gymnasts
have regained their sense of "pizzazz". Judging from
their performance Saturday night, he's right.
Bouncing back from last week's loss, the first at
home since 1978, the Huskers outscored the Penn
State Nittany Lions 278.85 to 275.15. Ohio State
placed third with 274.75 and Louisiana State was
fourth with 270.30.
"We thought we'd lost some of that pizzazz, but the
formula's working again," Allen said. They've got a
renewed faith in themselves; they performed like
national champions again tonight."
In addition to the team title, Nebraska placed two
all-arounders in the top three. Senior Jim Mikus
won with a 57.65 and sophomore Wes Suter was
second with a 57.30, the first time in his career he's
scored more than 57. After dipping to a 9.25 in a
shaky pommel horse routine, Suter led the competi
tion on high bar with a 9.8.
Penn State's Terry Bartlett placed third at 57.10
and the Huskers' final all-arounder, sophomore
Chris Riegel, came in fourth with a 56.85.
Injuries affected outcome
Penn State Coach Karl Schier, while pleased with
Bartlett's performance, said the team's overall scor
ing was hampered by injuries.
"We did not have our best lineup here tonight," he
said. "Mario Gonzalez still has his linger in a splint,
and he's normally a 2 to 3 point input for us. And
just as we started the meet tonight, Ken Viscardi
hurt his ankle on warmups. He's probably our
second best on both floor and vault"
The Nittany Lions had additional problems on the
high bar, as Spider Maxwell missed a release and
fell, scoring an 8.8.
Mikus placed in the top three in every event, never
scoring below a' 9.51 Just under his career best
57.70, he competed Saturday with a bad cold.
' I was real pleased with my score, considering I'm
under the weather," he said. "I had a pretty high
fever yesterday and I waa a little tired, but as soon as
the meet started, everything seemed to come back."
Mikus said last week's loss helped fire up the team
and prompted them to work a little harder.
"When you've won as many times as we have, you
think you're always going to win," he said. "But you
cant take other teams for granted. They coached us
hard this week and it produced results."
UCLA InYitticiuJ cpccakig .
Both Mikus and Allen were thinking ahead to next
weekend's UCLA Invitational.
"UCLA has hit 280 this season, and we havent,"
Allen said. "But we're going to be ready, more so than
I thought"
"We hope to go 280 next week," Mikus added, "but
you cant control what UCLA does."
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A month ago, Huppert
said he was sure the Okla
homa dual would have
been a blowout. But be
cause of improvement -that
he thought the Okla
homa team had made, he
said before the meet that
he expected it to be close.
Nebraska men finished
first in all 13 events to
blast Sooner swimmers
right out of the water 97
16 in their dual in Nor
man Saturday.
The Huskers had three
double winners. David
Hecker won the 1 00 back
stroke and 200 freestyle
events, Mike Edmondson
took first in the 50 free
style and 100 butterfly.
Keynaldo Castro won both
diving events.
The UNL men host Kan
sas Saturday. The women
wm face Wyoming and
UNO at a dual meet here
also on Saturday.
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Chris Eleel performs on the rings at Saturday's gymnastics meet Riegsl finished fourth in the
all-around standings.
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Nebraska's Jim Mikus performs a routine on
the pommel horse during Saturday's quad
rangular at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Mikus won the all-around championship.
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