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Men's Big Ten/ECAC Weekly Report COLLEGE GYMNASTICS ASSOCIATION BIG TEN & ECAC CONFERENCE Men’s Weekly Reports GYMNASTICS February 9, 2014 Compiled by Jerry Wright Please go to the following address for a report UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA a 14.650. from the MPSF Conference (copy and paste). The No. 6 Golden Gopher men’s gymnastics In the third rotation, C.J. Maestas took www.mpsports.org (new address) team won its second-straight meet Saturday home the title and made history by setting not Usually available Wed. mornings. night, defeating No. 9 Air Force on the road only a school record on rings, but the NCAA ***************************************** by a score of 434.200 to 431.550. record as well with a score of 16.450. (The While the Gophers did not record any sea- previous record was set by David Sender of BIG TEN CONFERENCE: son highs as a team in any of the events, they Stanford at 16.35, in 2-23-2008.) Mike Wil- were consistent throughout the night. To- night's meet marked the first time this season MAESTAS UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN the team has scored above 70.000 in all six No. 2-ranked University of Michigan, events. paced by a pair of event titles from graduate The best routine of the night belonged to student Syque Caesar and a pair of career Gopher senior Matt Frey, who scored a highs from junior Nick Hunter, earned a 15.400 to place first on the parallel bars, his only event of the night. The score marked a career high on the event for Frey, beating his previous best by over half a point. Along with Frey's parallel FREY bars title, the Go- phers had the champion or co- champion in six ner followed in second with his season best of of seven events, 15.500. Joey Peters came in fourth with his CAESAR including the all- season best of 14.750. around, only On vault Fred Hartville achieved his sea- missing out on the son best of 15.150 and took the title. Eg- still rings. gleston came in second with a score of Seniors Adam 14.950. Kern (floor exer- Maestas continued his success on the paral- 443.650-416.060 win over the No. 10-ranked cise, 15.000) and lel bars, taking the title with his season high Nebraska Cornhuskers on Saturday (Feb. 8) Zack Chase of 14.850. Valdez took second for the Illini in front of a season-high 912 fans at Cliff (vault, 14.850) with a 14.800. Keen Arena. each picked up Valdez dominated the high bar, taking first On floor Stacey Ervin took home the event event titles, while with a score of 15.550, his career high. Chan- title with a 15.60, while classmate Adrian de sophomore Paul Montague, Jr. tied with Air dler Eggleston followed in third with a los Angeles scored a 15.50 to take second. Force's Timmy Wang for first on pommel 14.400. On pommels U-M took home an event horse. Fellow sophomore Daniel DiBenedetto Maestas' consistent performance earned him sweep, as Hunter earned his first career high won his first event title of the season, posting the all-around title, scoring 89.200. and an event title with a 15.20. Matt Freeman a 14.750 on high bar, and junior Ellis Mannon took second on the event with a 15.10, while won his second all-around crown of the sea- PENN STATE UNIVERSITY Nolan Novak took third with a 14.85. son with a score of 86.700. Penn State swept past Temple, 431.550- Jordan Gaarenstroom and Alex Bubnov 401.60 Saturday afternoon at Rec Hall. The shared the rings event title with matching UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Nittany Lions bested the Owls in all six 15.35s. events to claim their fourth consecutive team Vault saw yet another event sweep for U-M, Illinois defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes Fri- day evening 433.35-420.300. It was a record- title. as Paul Rizkalla Jr. took home his first event Trevor Howard claimed individual event title as well as the Newt Loken Award for his setting night for the Illini, with C.J. Maestas breaking the NCAA and school records on titles on the rings (15.650), high bar (14.55), 15.35 on the table. Caesar followed with a and parallel bars, where he swung to a season 14.95, while freshman Anthony Stefanelli still rings. C.J. Maestas took second on floor with a -high score of 15.150. Howard finished tied scored a 14.85 to take third. for third (13.650) in the floor exercise Caesar notched the first of two event titles score of 14.850, followed by teammates Chandler Eggleston and Alex Varga who tied (13.650) and placed second on the vault on the night on p-bars with a 15.60. Caesar (14.800) to round out his performance. then collected title No. 2 in the final rotation for third with a score of 14.800. On pommel horse, Chad Mason took the Alexis Torres finished first in the floor exer- on high bar, where he scored a 14.75. cise, earning a career-high score of 15.300. title with his personal best of 15.350. Matt Foster followed closely behind in second with Freshman Jeremy Munn earned a second- place finish in floor exercise with a score of keyes again on the vault, scoring a 14.650 and ECAC CONFERENCE: 14.500, followed by Howard's third-place placed third in the event. Junior William Al- 13.650 tally. bert came in slightly behind, with a score of 14.600, followed by Loochtan with a 14.550. U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY HOWARD Cyrus Dobre-Mofid led the Hawkeyes with Navy put together its best performance of a score of 14.350 and took third place in the the young season on Saturday at Macdonough parallel bars, while both Alberhasky and Lan- Hall versus Army. With the annual star on the dau followed with scores of 14.250. line, the Mids avenged their 2013 defeat with On the horizontal bar Landau displayed a an impressive 422.3 - 420.1 victory over the strong routine by scoring a 15.200 and took Black Knights. the runner-up spot in the event. Boyle and Connor Westrick led the way on pommel Cory Paterson followed behind with scores of horse with a 15.0 score and the event win, 14.200 and 14.000. though he was closely followed by a trio of Torres also notched a career-high mark on In the all-around, Boyle took second place teammates to give Navy a sweep of the top the still rings, swinging to a score of 15.400, with a score of 82.050. four positions. Eric as well as a 13.650 on the pommel horse and Morrision, Andrew JUNGHANS a 14.350 on the high bar, placing second over- UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Potts and Chris all. Nebraska traveled to Ann Arbor, Mich., for Junghans finished Tristan Duverglas earned the individual their first-ever regular season match up with scores of 14.5, title on the vault with a season-high 15.500. against the Wolverines in school history. The 14.3 and 14.3, re- Duverglas also posted a 14.950 on the still Huskers scored 416.050, finishing behind spectively. rings, a 14.200 on parallel bars, and a 13.000 Michigan, who earned a 443.650. Eric Viscardi led in the floor exercise. Penn State dominated Eric Schryver broke into the top five overall the Mids in the the parallel bars, claiming the first four spots on the pommel horse event, earning a 14.15 floor exercise por- behind Howard's season-high tally. for his rou- tion of the meet Junior Craig Hernandez secured a first place tine. with a 14.2 score finish with a season-high score of 15.150 on Freshma n SCHRYVER and third place fin- the pommel horse to contribute to Penn Travis Gollott ish. State's victory. Hernandez led the Lions as earned a new Coach Fuku- they secured the first four positions on the personal best shima's plan of win- pommel horse. on the floor ning the rings came to fruition when the Mids exercise event finished second, third and fourth. Joshua Ste- UNIVERSITY OF IOWA with a 14.60 ves highlighted Navy's effort on the rings The University of Iowa dropped a 433.350- for his rou- with a 14.45-point routine. Thomas Goodell 420.300 decision to fifth-ranked Illinois on tine. This and Viscardi followed Steves with scores of Friday night in its home opener at Carver- placed him at 14.4 and 14.2, respectively. Hawkeye Arena. sixth overall on the event. Grant Perdue First place scores by Mitchell Larios and Iowa started the meet off strong by winning grabbed the No. 3 spot on the event, earning a Junghans led Navy in the parallel bar portion on the floor. Redshirt senior Matt McGrath 15.05. of the meet. The duo tied with Army's Chris led the Hawkeyes by tallying a 15.000 and Schaaf and teammate Wyatt Aycock tied Short with identical scores of 14.5. claimed the event title. Following close be- as the highest scoring vaulters for the Husk- hind was redshirt junior Lance Alberhasky ers, earning 14.45s. Junior Josh Ungar fol- with a score of 14.650 lowed the two seniors, grabbing a 14.25 for Continued next page…. and sophomore Matt his vault.
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