NEW ULM TURNER GIRLS won intermediate class team trophy Sunday in invitational gymnastics meet at Turner Hall. Left to right are Alice Byer, Stacy Roeder and Betty Anderl. Team is coached by Dave Chapman.

Turner Hall girls team won the intermediate division team trophy in the Turner invitational girls gymnastics meet Sunday. The host team beat our six other teams.

Intermediate class team scores: New Ulm 81.20, Ole’s of Mounds View 76.82, Watson’s of Minneapolis 74.05, Red Wing 66.25, Minnetonka 64.60,McGowan’s of Fairmont 63.65,St. Peter 51.30.

Ole’s was the only one of the seven communities with a full team (three girls or more) in the advanced class and received that trophy. Team score was 86.77.

New Ulm has only one Turner girl in advanced girls class, Jean Meyer,and she took fourth place all-around with 62.10 points.

Top three all-around scores after adding optional and compulsory routines determined the three trophy winners. Angie Barnes of Watson’s only 14,scored 71.60 points, including several individual scores 9.0 and better. Her composite score is an average of 8.95 per event.

JEAN MEYER of New Ulm took fourth place in all-around scoring Sunday in the girls invitational gymnastics meet at Turner Hall. She performed on floor exercise. A Cathedral senior, she plans to attend University of Minnesota next fall. Jean is the only Turner girls in advanced class this year.

Tammy Doheny of Watson’s took second place in all-around with 68.30 total while Roxanne Erickson of Ole’s took third place trophy with 64.77 score.

For New Ulm Jean Meyer was fifth in all-around at 62.10, Alice Beyer fifth at 60.30 and Stacy Roeder seventh at 56.75.

ROEDER,13, Beyer, 16 and Betty Anderl, 15, combined for New Ulm’s first place team score in intermediate class.

In the optional routines, Roeder took first place in junior division with 27.20 score for the four events. In senior division, Byer was first with 30.55 score while Anderl was tied with Jill Johnson of Watson’s for second at 23.45.

On floor exercise,Roeder was first in junior division with 7.50 score.

On uneven bars, Byer was first in senior division at 6.85 and Anderl third at 4.45 while Roeder was tied for first in junior division at 5.60. In advanced class, Meyer took third at 6.95.

In vaulting, Roeder was first at 7.75 while Meyer took fifth in her class.

On the balance beam, Byer was first at 7.45, Roeder fourth at 6.35, Anderl third at 6.10 and Meyer fourth at 7.75. All of these placings received ribbons.

In the child class, the top three performers in all-around were Valerie Erickson of Ole’s at 23.30, Lisa Soice of Ole’s at 21.85 and Susie Bartels of Red Wing at 20.55.

Turner coach Dave Chapman, who also set up and ran the meet, was enthusiastic about the showing of his intermediate girls. He noted great consistency among the three girls. It takes three scores for a team total on each apparatus, so a major fault by any one girl on one event could have meant team defeat, he noted.

Meyer came in fourth in the advanced division despite a knee ailment (tendonitis) that has bothered her all season, Chapman noted.

NEW ULM people turned out in slim numbers for the gymnastics meet Sunday, but they have another chance to see the Turner girls April 6 in New Ulm High School gym. The Turner girls, St. Paul Turner girls and University of Minnesota men’s gymnastics team will put on a gymnastics exhibition meet that night.

The U of M team won the Big Ten championship Saturday, so their appearance here takes on added attraction in addition to the two local boys on the team, Jay Lowinske and Dave Rosenblom.

New Ulm Daily Journal

March 29, 1976