versity of Oklahoma and is coached by Greg Buwick. His highest scoring events were rings and high bar with scores of 9.55 each. Jordan took a fall on pommel horse scoring only an 8.40, which held him back in the all-around standings. Brian Yee, 17, from Culhane's Gymnastics in Houston, Texas, finished sixth in the all-around with a 55.0, followed by Steve McCain with a 54.65. McCain, 17, trains with coach Tim Erwin at Houston Gymnastics. Rounding out the top 10 were the University of Illinois' Ricardo Cheriel, Drew Durbin from Columbus Gymnastics Academy and Tom Meadows from the University of Oklahoma.
ANALS The team from the North won the team championship title. lowest mark of the competition was a 9.30 on rings. Coached by Sadao Hamada, Lynch is a junior in the engineering program and plans to beef up his routines in order to make the 1992 Olympic Team. Dennis Harrison, from the University of Nebraska, was leading the competition after round four but was overtaken by Lynch when he made a mistake on high bar and scored only an 8.70. Harrison, 19, earned the silver medal in the allaround with a 56.25. "I'm fairly happy with m y performances," said Harrison. "I wasn't prepared for high bar. I've been having trouble with my dismount. I don't ha ve the confidence I need." The veteran of the grou p at age 24, David St. Pierre, earned the bronze medal with a score of 55.90. St. Pierre led the competition during the first two rounds but had problems on vault and parallel bars, scoring an 8.85 and an 8.60,
respectively. "I'm a little disap pointed," said St. Pierre. "On vault I went for the Kasamatsu full twist 'and I should have played it safe and done just a plain Kasamatsu." Currently, St. Pierre trains at Broadway Gymnastics School in California with Vanetsyan. St. Pierre graduated from UCLA and has a degree in anthropology and a minor in business. He's doing private gymnastics training with adults now, but would like to get into the movie business. Kyle Asano from Stanford Gymnastics Club took fourth all-around with a 55.80 .Twenty-year-old Asano, coached by Hamada, scored a 9.75 on high bar complete with a Gaylord and triple back dismount. Asano's downfall was floor, 8.70, and vault, 8.95. Fifth all-around went to Marcus Jordan with a 55.50. Jordan, 20, attends the Uni-
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Jair Lynch added three more gold medals to his all-
Dennis Harrison earned the all-around silver medal.
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