The Mail-Journal, Volume 19, Number 27, Milford, Kosciusko County, 21 July 1982 — Page 8

THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., July 21,1982

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Sports

Tracy Rinker is standout on Ohio State gymnastics team

Ohio State's Tracy Rinker only took two or three gymnastic classes at her local YMCA before she joined a team. “I hated them, it was just too structured," she said. Ten years later, she’s teaching those same classes as part of her summer job with the Warsaw YMCA. Between that time, Tracy has completed a brilliant high school career at WHS and at OSU she has established herself as a standout performer on a perennial nationally-ranked team. — When Tracy arrived at the Columbus campus, the Buckeyes gymnastics team had very few accomplishments to brag about. But in the short span of two years, the program made a complete turn around. A program that had never had much success at all suddenly could boast of two consecutive state gymnastic championships, two regional championships and two appearances in the national tournament. With the arrival of new coach Larry Cox, 1980-1982 was the beginning of *an established gymnastic program. The state and regional win during the 1980-81 season were the university’s first. 'Die regional tournament consisted of all the Big 10 schools including usually strong gymnastic teams from Indiana State and Southern Illinois As a freshman, Tracy finished first in the all-around event in the

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Betty Hite captures women's division of Three Rivers Festival Marathon

Betty Hite, North Webster, won the women's division of the eighth annual TV 33 Hooks Three Rivers Festival Marathon Sunday morning in Fort Wayne. The race began at 6 a.m. in front of the Alien County Memorial Coliseum with 817 entrants toeing the start line. A r Elkhart Fair offers k four days of racing Four days of harness racing will be offered at the Elkhart County Fair on July 26,27.28 and 31. Racing will be highlighted by the Indiana Sires Stakes on Saturday, July 31, at noon with the largest purse, besides the state fair, at $14,000 with 33 pacers and 17 trotters competing. July 26 through 28 has pacing and trotting with veteran drivers in the sulky. The Cricket Reel Memorial pace will be on July 28 with free admission on the first three days of events.

state and second in the regional meet. This year, the Buckeyes made a trip to the nationals and finished fifth. Tracy again won the all-around event at the state meet and qualified for the regional tourney. She will be a junior next year and she said the team should be better than ever with a crop of talented recruits coming to bolster the team. The all-around event involves Tracy with every phase of gymnastics. She competes in the uneven parrallel bars, vaulting, floor exercises and the balance beam. Her performance is based on the combined scores of all the events. Unlike a lot of her teammates who compete in only one event, she has to concentrate on all four. Tracy said she likes working on all phases of her sport and not just one. "Most people do work at them all but they don’t compete at everything," she said. This means most of her teammates finish before she does at practice. If she switched to one event “I’m afraid I'd get bored," she said. “When you're working three hours a day on only one thing, I think I’d get pretty bored with it," she said. Her high school career involved three seasons competing for the high school team and one for the Elkhart YMCA. She did most of her training there and learned the basics of gymnastics when she was 10 years old. Giving up her junior year

total of 646 runners finished the course, braving high humidity and temperatures that climbed into the 80 s by mid-morning Mrs. Hite, a Syracuse fifth grade school teacher, was hoping to break two hours and 50 minutes, but finished in 2:58:55. “After I saw what the weather was going to be like, I was satisfied with that", she said. Mrs. Hite led from the start and finished ahead of the second place woman by nearly five minutes. Eight other area distance runners completed Sunday's 26 mile. 385-yard race. Competing from Syracuse were Jim Garner, Tony Clouse, Ralph Bushong and Hal Pearson. Garner finished in three hours and four minutes, Clouse in 3:11, Bushong in 3:32 and Pearson in 3:37. Participating from Milfu a were Homer Miller, Ron

eligibility on the high school team, she finished first in the state YMCA meet in the uneven parallel bars while the team earned a third-place finish in the nation. In her senior year, the team just missed competing in the state meet while she was state champion in the all-around. Tracy says there’s a big, big difference between high school and college gymnastics. And the difference is more than just tougher competition, she said. “High school gymnasts aren’t as good because they don’t work out as much," said Tracy. “You just don’t work as hard in high school. The program itself is so much bigger in college,’’ she said. Ohio State was not her first choice. She was all set to attend Colorado University in Boulder, Colo., when she found out the gymnastics program was eliminated. “CU dropped gymnastics two weeks before I was to leave," she said. “I heard about it through the grapevine. I called the coach and he told me he had just found out. "said Tracy. She would have still received her scholarship grant to attend CU but her remaining years would have been in jeopardy. In need of a college to attend, she chose Ohio State because “they were one of the only schools with money left.” Ohio State offered her a fullride, tuition-free athletic scholarship. Tracy said she is

Baumgartner and Richard Rhodes. Miller finished in 3:08 and Baumgartner in 3:48. Rex Reed of Warsaw posted the fastest time amoung the area

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very happy to receive the scholarship. But she is quick to pant out the difference between a full-ride scholarship and a "freeride.” She said she does not have a “free-ride” at Ohio State. “It (the scholarship) is helping me get through school. Sometimes when I get down, I like to think of it (gymnastics) as my job. It keeps me going to school," she said. Her season usually begins in late August or early September about four months before the season gets underway. The team arrives on campus before classes begin. Once classes begin, workouts are held every day through the week from 3 to 6:30 p.m. “The workouts are designed to kill you," said Tracy. At the college level, all gymnastic meets are team orientated. “Everything is on the team in College,” Tracy said. “This puts more pressure on you because you know if you make a mistake it hurts the team," she said. Even though she never enjoyed gymnastic classes as a youngstar, she is enjoying her role as teacher this summer. “I really like it. It is so related to what I like to do,” she said. She is a physical education and health major and plans to find a job in her field “whatever, wherever” it is. “If I can’t find a job around here, I’ll go anywhere,” she said. Fa* right now, she is enjoying her summer teaching classes and gains a lot of satisfaction from doing it. “I can see the results of my work,” she said. If she can get the same results from teaching as she does in competing, then Kosciusko County just might have a lot of Tracy Rinker’s around. Tracy will participate in a gymnastics fundraiser for the Lakeland Youth Center on July 28 at Wawasee High School. \\ 'Summer // The Orioles and Astros are tied for the lead in the Milford Boys’ Youth League with 4-2-1 records. The Cubs, A’s and Cards are tied for third place with 4-4 marks, while the Pirates stand at 2-6. The Sox lead the Girls’ Softball Major League standings with a 5-1-1 mark. The Expos are not far behind with a 5-2 record. The Giants are currently 2-4-1, and the Tigers are 1-6. The Girls’ Softball Minor League standings have the Angels on top with a 5-1 record. The Phillies are one game behind with a 4-2 mark, while the Dodgers stand at 0-6. The undefeated Bears lead the T-Ball League with a 5-0 record. The Cubs are in second with a 4-1 mark, followed by the Astros at 32, the Reds at 2-2-1, the Royals and the Vikings each- at 2-3, the Yankees at 1-3-1, and the A’s at 14.

runners in 2:49. He finished in 27th place overall. Paul Emery of Boulder, Odo., was overall race winner in two hours, 28 minutes and 51 seconds.

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I ladies |m Golf zM/Results BOULDER BELLES Lentrice Rapp had first low gross when the Boulder Belles of the Big Boulder Golf Club met for play last week. Evelyn Orn and Donna Beer tied for second. Mrs. Rapp had first low net and Mrs. Beer had second low net and low putts. SOUTH SHORE A best ball 36-hole two-week tournament was held by the women at the South Shore Golf Course with the following winners: First place — Karen Caudill, Maxine Fuller, Lillian Toppin and Ginny Dewitt Second place — Joan Gray, Theresa Gunden, Judy Deck and Rosary Burbank Third place — Sandy Walgamuth, Gloria Stoffel, Polly Knapp and Marion Tarr MAXWELTON Score on holes starting with T's and F*s was the play of the day for the Maxwelton Ladies on July 14. Winner of first place, for nine holes, was Inez Beiswanger. Marge Yoder won second place and Rosemary Lantz and Ann Brooks tied for third. Rose Mathews was first place winner in 18 holes was Doris Sedgwick. There was a five place tie for third place with Dora Nelson, Marge Heckaman, Jackie Wortinger, Gayla Eash and Alice Herbison all winning third. w»MM»auuuuuuu« i Answers to sports quiz | oiuX«H upu«S *S qiffr ««1 uo * *I»««»J »H > jdoispM u*oi f -*AO|puAVN Z aojuaw uqof JOAO SJOUUOJ AlUlUtf I

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Flotilla Super Swim awards presented Saturday

Awards were given Saturday morning for the Flotilla Super Swim, held July 3 to raise money for an electronic timing system for the Wawasee High School swimming pool. The event was co-sponsored by the Wawasee Swim Club and the Wawasee Lake Patrol. The grand prize of a Kidder Honeycomb XKI slalom ski was awarded to 10-year-old Scott Berkey, who collected $443 in pledges for the 140 laps he swam in the pool. The $75 first prize in the lake division of the Super Swim went to Andy Wysong, and in the pool division to Ted King. A total of $4,919.84 has been collected thus far, with a few pledges still outstanding. Those swimmers who collected more than SIOO were Scott Berkey, Andy Wysong, Ted King, Jennifer Darr, Rob Green, Tony Boyer, Chris Eldridge, Sherry Payne, Cristi Weaver, Stephanie Berkey, Michelle Berkey, Tyler Crum and Ben j Reed. Those collecting between SSO and SIOO were Vicki Caskey, Bob Greene, John Haffner, Steve McDaniel, Jennifer Melendez, Kris Neff, Tiffany Titus, Julie McDaniel, Shelly Schwartz, Jennifer Titus, John Morgan, Brian Neff, Brenda Messenger, Christy Cobbum, Brett Hite, Vince Koser, Casey Kline, Jennifer Tuttle, Steve Ensinger, Bob Galloway, Teresa Boyer,

Tim Crum, Tonya Perzanowski, Carl Rouch, Lesla Gadsin, Brad Overmyer, Melissa Naugler and Dan Enright. All swimmers turning in SSO or more were awarded a dated Flotilla Super Swim T-Shirt. Cash donations were made by The Sleepy Owl, The Frog Tavern, Lake City Bank, State Bank of Syracuse, Bill Cable, Clark Smith, Mi-Dar Inc., and the Wawasee Sheriff’s Patrol. Dick Wysong served as chairman of the Super Swim Committee with Sandy and Dick Green, Carol Darr, Jim Caskey, Tim Caldwell, Tom Kitch, Paul Pritchard, Steve and Arlene Berkey, Jennifer Darr, Michelle Berkey, Todd Smith and Andy Wysong serving as committee members. \ One minute \ \ sports quiz \ 1. Who won the men’s singles at Wimbledon? 2. Who won the women’s singles at Wimbledon? 3. Who won the Western Open golf tournament? 4. How many shutouts has Nolan Ryan pitched? 5. Who won the LPGA Jackson Classic?