SR Scott Whit aker, Doug Swartz, Ma rk Peacock, Tom Moore, Steve Kaplan, Dave Gin LH Boger, DeBa ke PB Corrales, Steve Kite HB Peacock
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Region 8 - Alaska, C4lifornia. HlUllajj, Nevad4, Idaho, Or~gon. Washington,
REGIONAL REPORT - REGION 8 By JERRY WRIGHT PAC IFIC 8 C ONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON With a healthy Hayas kai back in the gym it look s as though the Huskies have a slight edge in this strong league. This in spite of the fact th at Mauno Nis se nen decided not to come back to school. Losses , in addition to Nissenen, include Ma rk Peterson, las t year's cap. tai n, and Charlie Peters. New personnel include three outstanding fre s hmen from las t year, Ron Hunter, AA: Tomi Ozora, AA , and Chuck Sanders, a SH specialist. The Washington roster also includes Bo Bennett , AA; Sho Fukushima , AA; Bruce Brinton, AA : Bruce Denton, SH ; Kerry Leima n, SR; Jim Szender, PB ; Hide Umeshita, AA- Kirk Edwards, AA ; Gary Fox, AA ; Lars Kol ~ rud (from Norway), AA; Ra lph Reitan, FX-LH ; Terry Barber, SR , and freshmen Kirk Bare, Jim Blackstock , Chuck Draper, Norm Ewald Frank Foreman , Lynn Hall , Gordon Jones ,' Rick Peikoff, Paul Scott , Will Schneider a nd Mickey Wissler. UNIVERSITY OF CA LIFORNIA BERKELEY Actually the Pacific 8 conference title should again prove to be a tossup because anyone of four teams could win. ThiS wnter IS picking California for second place at this time because of the uncertainties surrounding sophomore Minoru Morisak i, a fine young J a pa nese all-around gymnast who , even if el igible, is a ve ry inconsistent performer except on the honzontal bar. Ed. note : Morisaki is eligible! Losses include Gary Diamond , AA, and Jud Hammon, SR . Cal also has some eligibility problems in addition to Morisa ki but should 26
prove strong enough with a fine group of sophomore s that even helped out las t year as freshman.
AA: George Greenfield , Mori sa ki , Brad Moses , Tom Gardener FX: AA plus Mark Hassan, Tom Johnsey or Bob Ra ynor SH: AA plus John Nelson , Doug McGirr. Eric Co urche sne SR: AA plus Eric Courchesne , Hasse n or Bob Smylie LH: AA plus Da n Bowles PB: AA plus Phil Rockwell , John sey HB : AA plus Da n Bowles , John sey a nd Steve Cassidy Floor ex ercise should be very strong, with Greenfield , Moses a nd John sey all ab le to do double twi sts. Side horse will be strong as McGirr and Courchesne do most of the behind-theback work , and Greenfield is ve ry capable. Rings will be so mewhat weak , so met hing unus ua l for a Cal tea m, even with Cou rchesne who made the NCAA finals las t year. Long horse will be st rong, led by N CAA co-champion Dan Bowles. Morsaki could be one of the best in the country on the H B, and Greenfield is now using a full twistin g hecht dismount. Assistant coach a t Cal this year is a fine gy mnast a nd coach by the name of Masayaki Watanabe , who is helping out interim coach Don Nel so n; Coach H al Frey is away working on a Ph.D. UCLA Coac h Art Shurlock reports th at he feel s UCLA should be improved over last year which saw them fi nish 5-6. " We a re pretty we ll balanced on a ll events except for our fourth man on SH and SR ," report s Art. Losses include Wayne Marcus , SH, a nd Jon Lindike , H B. New personnel for UCLA seem to be a bright spot a nd include: Bill Beach : CI F high bar champ a nd ve ry good pros pect. Gary Garritt - AA prospect Rich Swartz and Gary Albitz: both outstanding ring men from Long Beac h City Co ll ege. Steve Rubrecht: fourth in CI F on high bar. Ken Ba iley , Leo Germain and Dave Pi vnick UCLA sophomores. AA: Dusty Ritter, Larry Bassist FX: AA plus Brian Casserly , Gary Garrett , Dave Pi vnick SH: AA plus Rich Muff, Dann y Uyseda , Ken Bailey SR: AA plus Gary Albitz and Rich Swartz LH: AA plus Je rry Gans , Garrett PB: AA plus Germain , Albitz H B: AA plu s Mark Haugen , Steve Rubrecht , Bill Beach UNIVERSITY OF SO. CA LIF. There is no official report from USC , but a ll indications are th at the y could be real tough . Makoto Saka moto is apparently back a nd raring to go. Makoto, along with Randy Martin and Jim Betters should prove to be a strong foundation o n which to build. Ed. Not e: Last-minute conr. ruling - Makoto not eligible! STANFORD Coach Dan Millma n relates that "again it isn ' t possible to predict more than we will have a stronger team than Stanford has ever had before. " Howe ver, when compared to the competition , this still leaves Stanford in a struggle for fifth place. . John Marks , last year's captain, has graduated , but newcomers C hri s Ha rrold , Rich Jerome , Ted Mi ya moto and Murray Keph art are going to be of considerable help. AA: C raig Dickson, Jerome , Harrold , Miyomoto a nd Kephart. FX: AA plus Brian Morgan SH: AA plus Bob Tomlinson, Den ni s Mesick SR: AA plus Steve Rochelle LH : AA plus Bria n Morgan PB: AA plus Bria n Morgan a nd Steve Rochelle HB:AA UN I VERSITY OF OREGON
With a 22- man roster Dick Smith 's Duck s find them se lves with what s hould pro ve to be Oregon's fine st team. With Mickey C ha pla n and Tom Kidd he lping with the coaching, it could be a rea l battle for fifth pl ace in th e confe(ence between Oregon and Stanford, a nd one of the se teams co uld even move into third. Losses include Way ne Noecke r, AA ; Jim Ha mbert , SR , and Dick Fernandez, PB . Several new perso nnel , howe ver, bright en up the gy m: D an Moninger will possibl y ~o 9.0 or better on st ill rings ; Bruce Hunter, fifth In the co nfe re nce two years ago , is back, a nd Kent Fredrickson mi ght be in on the a ll-around. AA : Bruce Hoyt, Dean Hale , Fredrickson FX: AA plus George Shoemaker, Gary Penberth y SH: AA plus Ste ve Cooper, Doug Noecker SR: AA plus Doug C hurc h, Moninger LH: AA plus Dave Olson , Fredrickson PB: AA plus Brad Hunter , Dave Olson H B: AA plus Bob Leach , Larry Brown 26.8 25.3 26.5 26.8 260 26.6 15 8.0 potential PACIFIC COAST ATHLETIC ASSN. This new confere nce consists of Ca l. StateLong Beach , Cal. State-Los Angeles, San Jose State UC-Santa Barba ra and San Diego State. CAL'STATE COLLEGE AT L.A. Ma ny of us still think of thi s as L.A. State , but , howeve r, you think of the na me coac h Gordy Maddus always comes up with a pretty fair team. Marty Caling is the team standout, a lthough Baily is tough on SH: Moreno is strong in FX. AA: Marty Caling FX: Caling, Robin , Hu gg, Moreno SH: Caling, Ba il y, Hugg, Fugimoto, Perez SR: Caling, Sevold, Hu ss LH: Caling, Estrella, Sevold , Moreno PB : Caling, Hugg, Sevold, Anderson H B: Caling, McBride , Sevold CAL STATE CO LLEGE AT L.B . Coac h Ken Bartlett reports that he is optimistic that it will be a good year. " We are strong on mos t eve nts except SH where we have only one seaso ned pe rfo rmer. " The key to success for Long Beach appears to rest on the AA si nce the team has no ge nuine six-event man. Side horse man Tim Mercer has graduated, but newcomer Richard Neuner, C IF side horse champion , should be a bl e to fill that gap. Team roster includes Brian Anderson , Les Armstrong, Gary Erickson , Elden Goldsmith, Dave McCain, Gordon McCollom, Lee Nickerson, Mark Nola n, Fred Robles , Tracy Savage , Nick Scracopoulos and Richard N e une r. SAN JOSESTATE CO LLEGE Coac h Jennett is back after a year's leave a nd picks the Spartans to finish third : thi s writer sees them as high as first in the PCAA conference. The only drawbacks will be o n SR a nd SH. The tea m has lost Ton y Spence r, H B, but picked up four AA men in Jake Steinlauf, Ed Sparacino, Bill Barnwell and Gene Bro~n , plus Mike Cooper, a tra nsfer from the U mverslty of Oklahoma and a great all-around potential. AA: Barnwell , Brow n, Coo per, Sinsel, Sparacino, Steinlauf a nd Sweeney. With Mike Coo per a nd Joe Sweeney at a ll -around , San Jose could be tough. FX: AA plus Doug Hills, Jim Turpin SH: AA plus Hills a nd Rich Havs tad SR: AA plus Jim Turpin , Win ston Ashizawa LH: AA plus Turpin PB: AA plus Paul Ha us laden , Dave Selleck , Turpin HB: AA plus Hills UC AT SANTA BA RBARA Coac h Art Aldritt a ppea rs ve ry optimistic thi s yea r with a large sq uad , including so me good ,