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Women's Gymnastics to Host Pac-10 Championships

Gymnastics

NEXT WEEK - Defending NCAA and Pac-10 Champions UCLA (13-3, ranked No. 6) will seek its second consecutive and eighth overall Pac-10 Championship when it hosts the 1998 Pac-10 Championships March 21 a

March 10, 1998

NEXT WEEK - Defending NCAA and Pac-10 Champions UCLA (13-3, ranked No. 6) will seek its second consecutive and eighth overall Pac-10 Championship when it hosts the 1998 Pac-10 Championships March 21 at 6 pm in Pauley Pavilion. Fox Sports Net will broadcast the meet delayed on Sunday, March 29 at 2 pm.

TICKETS - Tickets for the Pac-10 Championships are on sale now at the UCLA Central Ticket Office (310/UCLA-WIN or www.cto.ucla.edu/). Ticket prices are $10 for reserved seats and $5 for general admission. BRUINS,

BEAVERS LOOK TO MAINTAIN STRANGLEHOLD ON PAC-10 SUPREMACY - In the 11 years of the Pac-10 Gymnastics Championships, only two schools have ever won the team title - UCLA (seven times) and Oregon State (four times). In addition, UCLA (28) and Oregon State (18) hold the most number of conference individual event champions.

THE PAC-10 IN THE RANKINGS - Proof that the Pac-10 is one of the toughest conferences in the nation, six of the seven Pac-10 schools are ranked in the Top 25, the most of any conference. UCLA currently holds the highest ranking (sixth) amongst the seven Pac-10 schools. Arizona State is close behind at ninth. Washington ranks 12th, follwed by Oregon State at 14th, Stanford at 18th and Arizona at 25th.

LAST YEAR AT THE PAC-10s - UCLA senior Leah Homma dominated the 1997 Pac-10 Championships, held at Arizona, setting meet records with wins in the all-around (39.725) and on bars (10.0). Homma led the Bruins to their seventh Pac-10 crown in 11 years with a team total of 196.55 and was also named the Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year. Fellow senior Amy Smith won a share of the floor title. UCLA was able to hold off Stanford, which finished with a 196.325, by scoring a meet-high 49.275 on its last event, beam.

PAC-10 NOTES - UCLA holds the record for most individual event champions (28), most uneven bars champions (9) and most all-around champions (7) and is tied with Oregon State for most floor champions (5) . Current UCLA undergraduate assistant coach Leah Homma holds the Pac-10 Championship records in the all- around (39.725) and bars (10.0) . A UCLA gymnast has won the uneven bars title three consecutive years and five times in the last six years.

BRUINS PLACE SECOND AT SHANICO INN-VITE - UCLA ran into a hot Oregon State team and placed second to the Beavers at the Shanico Inn-vitational last Friday. The Bruins scored a 194.5 to Oregon State's season-high 195.45. George Washington was third with a 187.925, followed by Seattle-Pacific (185.625). Senior Stella Umeh won UCLA's only event title with a 9.85 on vault. Fellow senior Andrea Fong set a new career-high in the all-around with a 38.675, as did Heidi Moneymaker on the beam (9.875).