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Chevonne Mansfield (Gymnastics Contact) [email protected] • www.secsports.com SOUTHEASTERN 2201 Richard Arrington Blvd. North Birmingham, AL 35203-1103 CONFERENCE Phone: (205) 458-3000 • Fax: (205) 458-3030 February 28, 2012 • Week 8 2012 SEC GYMNASTICS TEAM STANDINGS LAST WEEK’S RESULTS Team SEC Pct. Overall Pct. High Score Alabama 6-0 1.000 9-0 1.000 197.725 Friday, February 24 Florida 5-1 .833 9-1 .900 197.850 Alabama at LSU - Baton Rouge, La. Georgia 4-2 .667 5-3 .625 197.250 1) Alabama 197.025 Arkansas 3-3 .500 9-5 .643 197.225 2) LSU 196.575 LSU 2-4 .333 4-8 .333 196.850 Kentucky 1-5 .167 5-6 .455 195.525 Nebraska at Arkansas - Fayetteville, Ark. Auburn 0-6 .000 4-10 .400 196.875 1) Nebraska 197.000 SEC GYMNAST OF THE WEEK 2) Arkansas 196.300 Kytra Hunter - Florida Auburn/Pittsburgh at Kentucky - Lexington, Ky. Freshman • 5-0 • Frederick, Md. 1) Kentucky 195.525 2) Auburn 195.150 • Hunter won the all-around, vault and floor titles in a win over No. 3) Pittsburgh 193.325 3 Georgia last week. She led the nation's all-around competitors when she posted the Gators' season-best all-around total of 39.675 Georgia at Florida - Gainesville, Fla. to take her fourth all-around win of the season. Her AA total shares 1) Florida 197.525 2) Georgia 196.825 the nation's third highest total of 2012. Hunter also equaled her col- legiate vault best of 9.95 to take her third vault title of the season. She also turned in a 9.95 to take her fifth title in her seventh floor THIS WEEK IN THE SEC appearance. Friday, March 2 Arkansas vs. Minnesota SEC FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK Auburn vs. Southern Utah Rheagan Courville - LSU Georgia vs. UCLA Kentucky at Illinois 5-2 • Baton Rouge, La. LSU vs. NC State • Courville won her third all-around title of the season as she scored Sunday, March 4 a 39.450 against third-ranked Alabama, beating Geralen Stack- Florida at Nebraska Eaton’s 39.400. Courville posted second-place finishes on vault and floor with 9.90’s, giving her 12 scores of 9.90 or higher this season. Monday, March 5 Her 9.825 scores on bars and beam were the second-highest in each Alabama at Oklahoma event for LSU against the Crimson Tide. 2012 SEC Gymnastics Week 8 TEAM BY TEAM NOTES ALABAMA Crimson Tide team score of 195.525 en route to defeating No. 15 Auburn and Pittsburgh. It was With its win at LSU, Alabama goes to 9-0-0 overall and 6-0-0 in Southeastern Kentucky’s first league win this year.The Wildcats earned season-best team scores on two Conference competition. The Tide is the only team in the nation that events, scoring a 49.125 on uneven bars and a 49.2 on floor exercise. The high score on remains unbeaten and untied this season. Alabama closed out its perfect bars is tied for the 12th-highest score on the event in school history, while UK's 49.2 on regular season SEC schedule with the win at LSU. It marks the first time floor is tied for the 16th-best in school history and the highest since UK posted a 49.2 in since 1991 that the Tide has gone undefeated against conference competition. Alabama’s the 2010 NCAA Regional in Lexington.Sophomore Audrey Harrison won her second all- score against the Tigers is its highest road mark of the season and was the highest road around title on the season for UK, scoring a career-best 39.175. Several other gymnasts score in the nation last week. The Tide also posted its highest road mark on the uneven earned event titles at the meet. Senior Storey Morris finished first overall on uneven bars bars (49.150), balance beam (49.350) and floor exercise (49.225). Alabama’s balance with a career-high tying 9.9, while Harrison finished tied for first on beam with a 9.75 and beam total at LSU, which came after the Tide’s first gymnast up fell and the next five in a won the floor title outright with a 9.9. Harrison’s floor score helped her become the 19th row hit, is its second highest of the season. Alabama posted 18 scores of 9.8 or better at gymnast in school history to record a 9.9 or higher on the event. LSU and 11 scores of 9.875 or better. Alabama remains on the road this week, traveling to Norman, Okla. to face the No. 2 ranked Oklahoma Sooners this Friday at 7 p.m. CT. LSU Tigers LSU wrapped up the SEC regular season dual meets by posting the team’s sec- ARKANSAS Lady Razorbacks ond-highest score of the year with a 196.575 against No. 3 Alabama. The Arkansas suffered a pair of injuries to two of the top all-arounders in the Tigers earned a season-best 49.350 on floor, highlighted by freshman country in Friday's loss to No. 9 Nebraska, but still scored a 196.300. Lloimincia Hall’s electrifying 9.95 that won the event title. Rheagan Courville tallied her third Sophomore All-American Katherine Grable, ranked No. 6 in the all-around, injured an ankle all-around title of the season and second in as many weeks with a 39.450, beating on vault and was scratched from the floor lineup. Junior Jordan Salsberg, ranked No. 34 Alabama’s Geralen Stack-Eaton who scored a 39.400. Randi Lau had the best meet of her in the AA, injured an ankle on her beam dismount and also missed the floor competition. young career as she scored a season-high 9.85 on beam and added a 9.85 on vault and Arkansas scored a 49.375 on vault, matching the fifth-best in school history. Senior All- 9.80 on bars. Because LSU has produced solid road scores this season, the Tigers appeared American Jaime Pisani won the all-around with a 39.525, floor with a 9.95 and tied for the at No. 10 in the initial regional qualifying score (RQS) rankings, and Courville, Hall and bars title with a 9.875. The Razorbacks are home again this week for Friday's 7 p.m. meet Jessie Jordan ranked in the top 20 nationally in the all-around. It is the first time three LSU against Minnesota. It's also Senior Night for Pisani, Mariah Howdeshell and Genny gymnasts have been ranked in the top 20 since Feb. 19, 2007 when Kelly Phelan, Ashleigh Salvatore. Clare-Kearney and Nicki Butler appeared in the standings. Courville is No. 8 with a 39.370 RQS, Hall is 14th at 39.250 and Jordan is 17th at 39.215. Hall ranks eighth nationally on AUBURN Tigers floor, while Jordan is 13th on beam and Courville is third on vault and 23rd on bars. No. Auburn posted its second-highest road score of the season with a 195.525 on 10 LSU hosts No. 20 NC State in the Fifth Annual Etta James Memorial Meet at 7 p.m. Friday against Kentucky and Pittsburgh…Auburn remained at 15th in this Friday in the Maravich Center. LSU will partner with Foundation 56 to raise money to fight week’s rankings with an RQS of 195.515…Competing against her former breast cancer in the Baton Rouge community. squad for the first time, sophomore Nikki Galluzo scored a career-best 9.775 on bars… Galluzo spent the 2011 season at Pittsburgh…Auburn ranks 22nd nationally in vault, 10th Team Rankings (per GymInfo) in uneven bars, 19th in balance beam and 19th in floor exercise…Auburn’s Kylie Shields 2012 Team Rankings (Feb. 27) and Ally Sandusky are tied for 15th nationally in bars RQS (9.865)…Auburn is in action non Friday, March 2, when it hosts Southern Utah for its annual Pink Meet…The meet is sched- Rank Team Team RQS High uled to begin at 7 p.m. CT. 1 Florida 197.195 197.850 FLORIDA Gators 2 Oklahoma 197.145 197.450 Florida finished its regular-season SEC slate with a 197.525-196.825 win 3 UCLA 197.025 198.050 over No. T-3 Georgia on Feb. 24 in front of a Stephen C. O’Connell Center crowd of 6,134. Florida’s final total stands as the nation’s ninth-highest of the season and 4 Georgia 196.830 197.250 gave Florida just its second dual meet win in the O’Connell Center over the Gym Dogs 5 Alabama 196.730 197.725 since 1990. Two Gators picked up each of the event titles, with collegiate-best marks to take four of the wins. Freshman Kytra Hunter used a collegiate-best 39.675 to claim her 6 Nebraska 196.585 196.375 fourth all-around title of the season. That total also equals the nation’s third-best all- 7 Utah 196.555 197.550 around total of 2012. She also used a 9.95 to take the evening’s vault and floor exercise titles. The 9.95 was just off her floor best of 9.975 set on Feb. 10. Hunter has now won 8 Arkansas 196.545 197.225 three vault titles and five floor wins. Junior All-American Marissa King equaled her colle- 9 Oregon State 196.250 197.400 giate-bests for uneven bars (9.925) and balance beam (9.95) to take both event titles.