The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 73, No. 132, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 21, 1989 Page: 4 of 10
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At first, Carroll was surprised
that she was Figueiredo’s replace-
ment on the bars.
“I didn’t have my leotard on
and had to go to the dressing to
put it on,” Carroll said.
“I had to let my body do what
I’ve done in the gymnasium,” she
said. “I was real pleased with my
performance.”
sures of a championship meet.
She was the first to perform on -—-—.A .
* the event that had been the big- situation that she was put under
She'would not finish the meet, gest question for the Sooners go-
_ . jng jnt0 t|je Bjg Eight
Carroll's career-best on the un-
even bars had been a 9.55 that
she set in February, but said the
did not cause any undue
restlessness.
UmrBigUEightChamp"ion Tatiana major decisions to make. Who Championships. “At first I didn’t know how bad
ume pig cigm vuoiujnuu — ouBua ***«r'ij _______ ♦!«. hittino it was (Figueiredo s injury), Car-
part of her routine mat duwick roll said. “I was less nervous
had originally taken out to be when I found out I had to go in.
more conservative. There was some nervousness
She also tied her career-best on while she was performing, but you
...e vault, a 9.2. Figueiredo’s ca- couldn’t tell it in her
reer best on the same event was a performance.
“Monica was stuck on bars and
never gave up,” Buwick said.
“They were fabulous, I can’t say
r muse m?w V1 ~ „ anything negative about the
lence no one knew how bad the event of the night, but Christie might have been less than a point, girls.
“It might have pinched them
up eight-tenths of a point,” Wal-
ton said, after his team set a new
conference team scoring record
of 194.2 in the highest scoring
said. championship in Big Eight
He acknowledged there had history.
----I- ■' Tn Oklahoma was second with a
wrestling1 coach Bobby Douglas Tempe, Arizona State Athletic 190.2, while Missouri took third
said he was contacted by Director Charles Harris said no with a 186.5 and Iowa State fin-
Oklahoma State supporters about Oklahoma State official had con- ished in fourth with a 185.65.
replacing Cowboys Coach Joe tacted him for permission to talk
Seay, but the man who would do to Douglas.
the hiring dismissed the possibili- The Arizona Republic said
ty out of hand. Douglas might be named to suc-
It’s merely “somebody trying to ceed Seay as early as Monday de-
stir up the water,” Oklahoma spite Seay’s having won the na-
State Athletic Director Myron tional championship.
Roderick said. “Joe is our wres- Roderick, told of that report,
tling coach and is going to be our flatly denied Seay was on his way
wrestling coach. I haven’t talked out or Douglas on his way in.
to anybody, and there will be no The Republic said Douglas ex-
change ” pected to contact Roderick and
Douglas, who finished his 15th that Douglas said he was meeting
year at Arizona State on Saturday with Harris to discuss the Sunday
, said “a number of alumni” had wresting conference Douglas had
talked to him about taking over attended.
the Cowboys program. Seay had acknowleged a tough
Those discussions came five years at OSU during which
throughout the past week’s wres- some Cowboy supporters wanted
tling in Oklahoma City, and there him out. But with the champion-
were more of them during breaks ship, Seay said he felt he d won
in Sunday’s USA wrestling meet- the respect of his critics and had
ing in the Oklahoma capital, he found a home with the Cowboys.
rotation — floor exercise. Monica Carroll on the uneven
Figueiredo had just stepped off bars and Tanya Christie on the
the balance beam with a 9.7, tying vault,
former Sooner great, Kelly Garri- f.. .
son-Steves’ Big Eight record. Fi- pressure situation, it can be a very
gueiredo was considered to be nervous experience. But both
one of the gymnasts with a shot at freshmen did not disappoint their
the all-around title. teammates. 5?,lw. u,\
For those few minutes of si- For Carroll, it was her first Head Coach Rick Walton saidjt
1984 Olympian’s injury was. It had already pulled in a 9.6 on the
ASU coach staying home
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHOENIX - Arizona State been no contact with Roderick. In
contacted by Director Charles Hanis said no with
By Jacaue Damrlll wasn’t until OU Head Coach balance beam and knew the pres-
ASST. SPORTS EDITOR Becky Buwick came back and
————rounded her gymnasts up in a
For a few minutes Saturday huddle that they found out.
night everything was silent in l_-----
Lloyd Noble Center whenjhree- That left Buwick with some
Rmeke<folKnedlher achifles woudd’replace Figueiredo? Christie passed the test, hitting
tendon on the Sooners’ second Buwick decided on two freshman, part of her routine that Buwick
more conservative.
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For a freshman to be put into a the vault, a 9.2. Figueiredo’s ca-
9.7. The drop in points might
have had some effect on the out-
come of the meet, but Nebraska’s
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After reviewing the mid-term
grades of every OU student-ath-
lete, a university official said they
were “about average,” but better
than he had expected.
dredth of a grade point.
Along with getting grades up to
the highest level they can be, Hill
is also working to improve the
graduation rate of athletes.
“My number one long-range
goal is a 100 percent graduation
rate across the board,,r Hill said.
Hill said he had not yet had a
chance to evaluate the average
grade point of student-athletes,
nor the average graduation rate.
Currently, the OU Office of Ad-
missions and Records lists the
overall graduation rate at only 40
Game rescheduled
OU Head baseball coach Enos
Semore said on Monday that the
first official night game in OU
history has been cancelled due to
expected freezing temperature.
The game with Northern Iowa
was scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.,
but instead will be played on
Wednesday at noon. That puts -
the first night of OU home base- percent for all students,
ball on hold until March 25
against Oral Roberts University
at 7 p.m.
“We’re not going to play (to-
day) because the expected high is
only suppose to be around 35 de-
grees,” Semore said.
than I would like.”
And once he reaches that first
goal he does not plan on stop-
ping. Hill said even if every stu-
dent-athlete had a 3.99 GPA he
would still push them to go fur-
iroblems. ther and earn the other one-hun-
nroblem
spots had been identified and
“now we are moving on.”
Hill said he was concentrating
Grades about average
on the little things that make the
road so rough for student-ath-
letes. His focus is on helping ath-
letes better use the study time
they have.
Although the grades are gener-
ally better than he expected, Hill
said there is still plenty of room
“Some kids are doing well, forJmprovement. ...
some extremely poorly, and the
lion’s share in the middle,” Assis-
tant Athletic Director Thomas -----D„ —
Hill said. “Overall they are better we have more below (a 2.0 GPA)
than I expected.” “““ T------M ”
Hill, who was hired last month
to oversee the progress of ath-
letes as students, said being on
the job such a short time had put
him at a disadvantage in effec-
tively guaging athletes’ pi
In spite of that, Hill said pi
ifie
we are moving on.
10-5
batter Greg Ward reached base
Champagi
bell reachi
The visitors picked up three in
“*2. j take a short lead.
Mike Hurley replaced Law-
.1. ‘. Hurley was the
eventual winner, picking up his
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Pitched 2V6 innings, allowing two
..its and no runs.
Marvin Cobb, who came on in
“They went to the cage to hit,
and I thought they wanted to
play,” Semore said. “We have
some good young players that we
wanted to evaluate.
“They got to play a lot, I was
on leaving them in the
I changed my
in the then scored on a wild pitch by
eignrn mnu.8 wTOU OU starter Todd Lawrence Han-
Kosenski doubled to center field na went to third on the wild pitch planning
to bring in Ward, who had tripled and scored^ on a •05
just before Koscnski’s bat. Matt Bomhoff. mind.
Sooner freshmen shine when star falls
At the start of the game the
temperature was 43 degrees mi-
nus the wind chill factor. At
dropped"?^ an eveiTio1 degrees Scott Campbell singled to score
with the wind gusting to 40 miles Oster and Cnns Ebnght doubled
per hour. to score Ward and Champagne.
With OU behind 5-3 the 1 „
Sooners used a six-run seventh in- the seventh-inning^
ning to take a 9-5 lead.
In the inning Pat Tozier lead
off with a walk While on first OU, now 10-5 on the
John Douglas on to pinch-run for scored their final run
him, and proceeded to steal sec- :
ond. Kevin Castleberry reached
first on a called third strike wild-
pitch that sent Douglas to third.
OU pounds Augustana,
By Jacqua Damrlll Castleberry then stole h{j|2 this^OU^Head the* fifth to take a short lead.
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than ideal day for baseball, two errors in the inning. Lead-off home runs, hemore saia.
css - • - • — Qree Ward reached base The Sooners opened up the wiaivm wuu, vmuv VI....
on a fielder's choice. Andre scoring in the bottom half of the reijef of Hurley in the eighth in-
ir W111U v„.„ Champagne then hit a sacrifice fly first inning, when Ward walked to ning, got his first save.
the temneratnre had to left field to score Castleberry, start things off, Champagne Semore was not expecting to
end, the temperature had to Jen neiajo score CarnpbeIl reached piay his first team, but decided to
fght doubled base on an error from Legel. after they warmed-up during the
to score n#iu <uiu Champagne. Augustana, now 0-5 on the sea- |ate innings.
Ebrieht scored OU’s final run in son, scored two runs of their own
° • • 2^2 when Brent in the fourth inning after Dante
Bohrofcn "reached'on another er- Dean was hit by a pitch. Hanna
ror from Legel. then reached first on an OU er-
OU, now 10-5 on the season, ror, which sent Dean to third. He
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eighth inning when pitcher John OU starter Todd Lawrence. Han-
to bring in Ward, who had tripled and scored
ground out by whole game, but
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