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Wis. women dominate Log Roll
ESPN Outdoors Communications — July 11, 2004

Tina Bosworth of Lake Geneva, Wis., the undefeated champion in the Women's Log Rolling competition at the ESPN Great Outdoors Games presented by Dodge, extended her reign as the event's Michael Jordan on Sunday at the Alliant Energy Center.

Bosworth, the only Games athlete to win every single gold medal in one event, didn't take a single fall on her way to the gold medal match, where she dropped another Wisconsin favorite, Lizzy Hoeschler of LaCrosse, three falls to zero.

"To win and keep winning, you musty stay on top of the game and log," Bosworth said. "You need to watch and feel your competitor on the log and when the chance is right, make you move and go all out."

Bosworth, the assistant principal of Badger High School in Lake Geneva, is the only female and the only timber sports athlete nominated for a 2004 ESPY Award in the Best Outdoors Athlete category. The ESPY ceremonies are hard on the heels of the Great Outdoor Games, July 18 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT.

Bosworth thanked her fans, friends and students from the school that came out to cheer her on.

"Each medal means something special to me that I won. Something happened at each event that makes that medal special to me."

Hoeschler, who beat her older sister, Katie, in the semifinals to reach the medal match, said that she didn't feel Bosworth's record meant she is unbeatable.

"I was happy with the way I rolled today and felt that I could have won," Hoeschler said. "I have competed against Tina in the past and I know I could beat her. She is a little larger then I am, which gives her an advantage over me with the larger logs because of her strength, but as we move down to the smaller diameter logs I feel my speed is my advantage.

"Last year I was up two falls against her in the national championships but she came back to win."

Katie Hoeschler earned the bronze medal in a 3-0 match against Jenny Atkinson of Grand Marais, Wis. The Hoeschlers are the daughters of seven-time log rolling world champion Judy Scheer Hoeschler and the older sisters of Boom Run silver medalist Abby Hoeschler.


Final standings
1 Tina Bosworth
2 Lizzie Hoeschler
3 Katie Hoeschler
4 Jenny Atkinson
5 Abby Hoeschler
5 Crystal Salzman
5 Maggie Bulk
5 Mandy Erdmann


Results (by round):

Final round
Tina Bosworth (3) def Lizzie Hoeschler (0)

Consolation round
Katie Hoeschler (3) def Jenny Atkinson (0)

Semifinal round
Tina Bosworth (2) def Jenny Atkinson (0)
Lizzie Hoeschler (2) def Katie Hoeschler (1)

Quarterfinal Round
Tina Bosworth (2) def Crystal Salzman (0)
Jenny Atkinson (2) def Abby Hoeschler (0)
Lizzie Hoeschler (2) def Maggie Bulk (1)
Katie Hoeschler (2) def Mandy Erdmann (1)