COLLEGE GYMNASTICS ASSOCIATION ECAC, BIG TEN & MPSF CONFERENCE GYMNASTICS Men’S Weekly Reports February 28, 2016 Compiled by Jerry Wright
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COLLEGE GYMNASTICS ASSOCIATION ECAC, BIG TEN & MPSF CONFERENCE GYMNASTICS Men’s Weekly Reports February 28, 2016 Compiled by Jerry Wright TOP TEAM SCORES 15.400 to tie his own career high. 74.800 score. THIS PAST WEEK Army 413.85 Yee turned in the best vault for Oklahoma Japan made a meet of it by winning high Oklahoma 447.55 Springfield 399.85 with a 15.100. Bower was also strong, scoring bar, though Brian Knott shone through for Stanford 444.60 William/Mary 395.10 a 15.050. Oklahoma would rebound in the Stanford with a 15.050 score to post a season- Iowa 431.15 Ill-Chicago 375.20 fifth frame, scoring a 74.500 on parallel bars. best in the event. Minnesota 431.10 The first four Sooners all posted solid totals in It came down to the final event of the night Air Force 427.50 NOTE: See page 5 for the high 14s before Moldauer capped the rota- with Japan leading by 1.050 as Stanford head- Penn State 424.00 Stanford’s International tion, as he has all season, with a huge routine ed to floor and Japan to the vault. Akash Challenge results. Nebraska 423.30 of 15.750. Modi helped cement the win with his 15.600 Navy 420.15 The Sooners regained the energy they had score to tie for second overall. It was Gabe California 419.50 early in the meet with a spirited rotation on Flores with a 15.200 and Robert Neff with a high bar. OU got a career-best performance 15.100 to ice the win. MPSF CONFERENCE from Van Wicklen (15.500) and strong rou- In the all-around Akash Modi kept on his UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA tines from Anderson (15.200) and Yee dominant season, taking his fourth all-around The University of Oklahoma (No.1) bested (14.850). victory on the year (90.85) against some of No. 4 Minnesota 447.550-431.100 inside the the world's best. McCasland Field House on Saturday night. STANFORD UNIVERSITY The Sooners’ team score was their second- In front of a packed Burnham Pavilion, the AIR FORCE ACADEMY highest total of the year. No. 2 Stanford (444.60) stepped up to best 11th-ranked Air Force tallied a season-high Oklahoma also took home five event titles Canada (434.70), Finland (411.00), No. 9 team score of 427.500 – the eighth-highest and won the all-around on the night. Fresh- California and Japan (444.25) – the reigning total in program history – to defeat No. 19 man Yul Moldauer won floor (15.900) and World Gymnastics Champion - in a nail- Illinois-Chicago (374.150) on Friday, Feb. 26, parallel bars (15.750), Sergey Resnick took biting finish Saturday night. at the Academy’s Cadet West Gym. pommel horse (15.400), Thao Hoang won The Cardinal started the night off on pom- In the first meet of the year to feature the rings (15.550), and Colin Van Wicklen mel horse as Akash Modi threw down a “five-up, five-count” scoring system, Air claimed the high bar (15.500) and all-around 15.250 to take second in the event with Drew Force swept the event titles. Tim Wang (86.500) titles. Willoughby adding in a 15.000 score for a picked up a pair of first-place finishes, scor- third place finish. ing a 15.200 to win the vault and a career-best Next up on the rings, Dennis Zaremski matching tally of 14.750 to win the parallel crushed a 15.250 to tie for the event title bars. Chase Cannon and Aaron Nubine took ZAREMSKI WANG VAN WICKLEN OU kicked off the meet on floor where it turned in a team total of 77.800, just one tenth off its season high. Freshman Levi Anderson first on the high bar (14.850) and floor exer- (15.450), Hunter Justus (15.750) and Mol- while Jordan DeClerk took third with a cise (14.650), while Denis Aurelius won the dauer all notched career-best performances in 15.050 before Josiah Eng tied for fourth with still rings (14.650) and Arinn Wade claimed the event. Van Wicklen anchored the Sooners a 14.700 score. top honors on the pommel horse following a with a 15.850 to cap off Oklahoma’s sensa- On the vault the Cardinal was phenomenal season-high performance of 15.450. tional floor performance. as it took first and second overall in the event In addition to their event titles, Wang On pommel horse the Sooners were paced with Taylor Seaton nailing a 15.400 to tie his placed second on the pommel horse (15.100) by a career-best 15.300 from Resnick in the career best and take the individual title. Akash and Aurelius finished third on the vault No. 2 position. Moldauer followed Resnick Modi pulled in next with a 15.350 for second (14.500). Fletcher Braunton added runner-up with a career high of his own, posting 14.850, in the event. The Cardinal ran away with the honors on the still rings (14.700), while the before Allan Bower anchored the rotation team title with a 75.050 score, a team best for Falcons’ freshmen contingent combined for with a 15.250. the season. eight placements within the meet’s top three. All five Sooner gymnasts stuck their dis- Stanford continued in parallel bars with Jonah Urlaub finished second on both the mounts and each earned at least a 15.000 to Dennis Zaremski taking second with a 15.650 floor exercise (14.350) and parallel bars push OU to a team total of 76.150 on the score that Akash Modi was right behind, (career-best 14.200), while collecting career- rings, its best of the year. Hoang led the way notching a 15.550 score for third. Japan took best scores to finish third on the pommel for OU with a career-best 15.550. Moldauer three of the top five scores, but as a team the horse (14.450) and still rings (14.500). Eric also turned in an exceptional routine, scoring Cardinal was able to take the team win with a Klein scored a career-high 14.400 to finish second on the high bar, while Christian pressive as well with a 14.550. of 431.150, followed by Penn State (424.000) Kalustian finished third with a score of Aleksandrov put an exclamation mark on and Nebraska (423.300). For the first time 14.150. Ryan Girouard finished third on the his career-best evening with a 14.950, which this season, the teams competed in a five-up, floor exercise (14.250), while Jake Stanley was just a tenth and a half shy of his best on five-count format. scored a 13.850 to finish third in his parallel parallel bars. Gharibyan hit again with a Iowa began the meet on floor exercise and bars debut. 14.250, which is also a career-high. Mah fin- set a new season-high team score of 73.950. In addition to the season-high team score of ished his night with a 14.000, fourth place Matt Loochtan tied for the lead on the event 427.500, the Falcons also posted their highest overall. matching a season-high with a score of tally of the year on the pommel horse 15.350. Jack Boyle notched a 14.900 to tie (72.650) to move into third on the Academy’s AIR FORCE ACADEMY-2-28-16 all-time list. Air Force also accounted for its Chase Cannon and Aaron Nubine each LOOCHTAN second-highest vault score of the year claimed three event titles this afternoon (Feb. (73.050) – a tally that is ranked sixth on the 28), as the 11th-ranked Air Force completed a program’s top-10 list. season sweep of 19th-ranked Illinois- Chicago. The Falcons, who earned a 403.400- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 375.200 victory over the visiting Flames, ex- The California Golden Bears finished with a perimented with their lineup and saw many team total of 419.500 on Saturday at the Inter- freshmen in the five-man rotation of each national Collegiate Challenge at Stanford event. for fifth, while Dylan Ellsworth set a season- University, placing fourth overall. Stanford In addition to a winning high bar routine high with a score of 14.750 to finish eighth. won the meet with a total of 444.600, edging (15.400) that was just 0.050 shy of his own On the second rotation, Iowa headed to the national team of Japan, who finished with Academy record, Cannon won the pommel pommel horse. In his first competition of the a score of 444.250. National teams from Ja- horse (14.300) and parallel bars (13.800). season, Austin Hodges led the Hawkeyes, pan, Canada, and a combination of Finland, tying for second on the event with a 14.500 South Africa and the United States. CANNON effort. Del Vecchio Orozco posted a 14.250, Yordan Aleksandrov competed in the all- placing sixth, followed by senior Doug Sulli- around competition, posting a career-best van in seventh place (14.100). total of 85.400, hitting six-for-six routines, as Iowa continued to dominate on rings, tak- did Ryan Patterson, who ing the top two spots. Loochtan and Boyle competed with South ALEKSANDROV tied atop the leaderboard on the event with a Africa, and an all-around 15.150. Andrew Botto tied for fifth, posting a total of 84.650.