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 January 16, 2013 • Week 2 2013 SEC GYMNASTICS SEC GYMNAST OF THE WEEK TEAM STANDINGS Lloimincia Hall - LSU Team SEC Pct. Overall Pct. High Score Alabama 1-0 1.000 1-0 1.000 196.450 Sophomore • 4-11 • Dallas, Texas Georgia 1-0 1.000 1-1 .500 196.200 Kentucky 1-0 1.000 3-1 .750 195.525 • Lloimincia Hall clinched LSU’s upset win over No. 3 Florida, 196.875- LSU 1-0 1.000 2-0 1.000 196.875 196.575, in the Maravich Center. As the final performer of the meet, Arkansas 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 195.775 Hall needed a 9.675 or better to seal the win, and she did much bet- Auburn 0-1 .000 0-4 .000 194.625 ter than that – nailing her floor routine to win the event with a 9.95 Florida 0-1 .000 1-1 .500 196.575 and sending the Tigers to victory. Not only did she win the floor title, Missouri 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 192.025 but she led LSU by tying her career high in the all-around to place sec- RESULTS ond in the meet. Hall also tied her career high on beam with a 9.875, Friday, January 11 sticking the landing on her dismount to help lead LSU to a season-best •No. 6 Alabama def. Missouri, 196.450-192.025 (Columbia) 49.075 in the event. Hall’s floor title is her first event title of the sea- •No. 8 Georgia def. No. 9 Arkansas, 196.200-195.775 son and the eighth floor title of her career. (Fayetteville) •No. 14 Kentucky def. No. 24 Auburn, 195.525-194.250 SEC SPECIALIST OF THE WEEK (Auburn) •No. 5 LSU def. No. 3 Florida, 196.875-196.575 (Baton Rouge) Sarah DeMeo - Alabama Junior • 5-0 • Overland Park, Kan. • Alabama junior Sarah DeMeo tied her career best with a 9.9 on the uneven bars to win the event at Missouri in the Crimson Tide’s season opener. She is currently ranked No. 1 in the nation on the uneven bars. THIS WEEK IN THE SEC She also scored a 9.9 on the balance beam, tying teammate Kim Jacob Friday, January 18 for first place, and was second on the floor exercise with a 9.85. •No. 9 Arkansas at No. 14 Kentucky* •No. 5 LSU at No. 6 Alabama* •No. 24 Auburn at No. 8 Georgia* •Missouri at No. 3 Florida* SEC FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK [*] Denotes SEC Meet Sydnie Dillard - Arkansas 5-4 • Fairview, Texas • In Arkansas’ season opener versus Georgia, Sydnie Dillard tied for second on beam with a 9.875. She shared that mark with All-American Katherine Grable for the team high score. Dillard also had a 9.85 on floor which was good enough for third place in the meet and second place on the team. The freshman had two 9.8+ marks in her first col- legiate meet ever. SEC Gymnastics • Week 2 TEAM BY TEAM NOTES ALABAMA Crimson Tide or tied for first in all six of those events…Georgia moved up three spots to No. 8 in this The back-to-back NCAA Champion Alabama gymnastics team opens up its week’s top 25 national rankings. In the event rankings, Georgia is No. 2 nationally on vault home schedule tonight with Southeastern Conference rival LSU. The with a 49.313 average. The Gym Dogs scored a 49.3 on vault in the season-opener, and Crimson Tide is ranked No. 6 nationally after scoring a 196.450 to open topped that mark with a 49.325 against Arkansas. Georgia is ranked fifth on bars (49.088) the year at Missouri last week. LSU is ranked No. 5 nationally after opening the season and seventh on beam (49.0). with back-to-back home wins against North Carolina and Florida. This will be the Tiger’s first road trip of the season and its first time in Tuscaloosa since March 11, 2011 when KENTUCKY Wildcats Alabama closed out the regular season with a 196.950-194.750 win over the Tigers. The Kentucky gymnastics team performed solidly on all four events to Alabama opened the season with a 196.450-192.025 win at Missouri. It was the Tiger’s gather an overall team score of 195.525, in a win at Auburn on Friday first meet as a member of the Southeastern Conference, after the school joined the night. The win was Kentucky’s first SEC road victory in a dual meet since 1999, and the league prior to the 2012-13 academic year. Alabama posted scores of 49-plus on all four first SEC season-opening win since 2008. The Wildcats are off to the best start in school apparatus and swept the individual titles. A total of 11 Tide gymnasts competed in the history as they’ve compiled two straight scores more than 195 to begin a season for the season opener, led by junior Kim Jacob who won the all-around (39.275), balance beam first time ever. Junior Audrey Harrison posted a 39.2 to win her first career SEC dual all- (9.9) and floor exercise (9.875). Junior Sarah DeMeo won the uneven bars (9.9) and around competition, and her fifth career all-around title. Overall, Kentucky earned 13 sea- shared top honors on the beam with Jacob. Junior Diandra Milliner started off the Tide’s son or career-high scores in the meet. The Wildcats will begin their home portion of the winning ways by taking first on the vault with a 9.925, the highest score on any event 2013 schedule on Friday, Jan. 18 with Excite Night at the Kentucky Classic, a SEC dual- during the meet. It was Jacob’s first time to in the all-around since her freshman year. meet against Arkansas. ARKANSAS Lady Razorbacks LSU Tigers The 12th-ranked Arkansas gymnastics team fell in their season opener LSU improved to 2-0 overall and 1-0 against SEC competition after the at home Friday night to 11th-ranked Georgia 196.200-195.775. Junior Tigers upset Florida, 196.875-196.575, in the Maravich Center. The score represented the all-American Katherine Grable won the all-around with a score of 39.450, led by her highest output in the second meet of the season in LSU history, and this came after LSU meet-high 9.925 on the floor exercise. Freshman Sydnie Dillard also had a strong night posted the highest season-opening score ever against North Carolina State. LSU’s for the Razorbacks, she scored a 9.875 on the balance beam which tied her for a 2nd 196.875 is the highest team score since March 121, 2010 when the Tigers tallied a place finish in the meet on beam, as well as a 9.85 on floor in the first meet of he colle- 197.150 against Iowa, and the victory against the Gators is LSU’s highest-ranked win giate career. Gymnastics returns to the floor Friday night in Lexington, Ky., with the meet since the Tigers beat No. 1 Alabama on Feb. 5, 2010, 196.475-196.050. LSU jumped scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. (CT). three spots to No. 5 in the latest national rankings with a 196.475 average, and sopho- mores Rheagan Courville (third) and Lloimincia Hall (10th) both cracked the top 10 of the AUBURN Tigers all-around standings. LSU travels to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to take on the sixth-ranked Alabama No. 24 Auburn opened its home schedule on Friday with a 195.525-194.250 Crimson Tide on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Coleman Coliseum. loss to No. 14 Kentucky…After a pair of disappointing meets, the Tigers dropped to 24th in this week’s rankings…Auburn’s 2013 four person fresh- MISSOURI Tigers man class has been ranked as the 10th nationally by respected gymnastics site Missouri opened the season against two-time defending National CollegeGymFans.com…The class includes freshmen Caitlin Atkinson, Kait Kluz, Kara Champion Alabama on Friday at its annual Pink Out meet, which works Koster and Kelsey Kopec…This year’s rank marks two-straight years the Tigers have been in conjunction with the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center in Columbia, Mo., to raise money for ranked 10th nationally. Last season, Auburn’s class of Lexus Demers, Bri Guy, Caryn breast cancer awareness. Despite the Tigers’ loss, a crowd of 5,760 came out to support Kadous, Kelsey Thomasson, Megan Walker and Brittany Webster was also ranked No. 10 the Mizzou in its home opener, marking the largest Pink Out crowd in Mizzou History. The …Auburn posted season high scores on both uneven bars and balance beam, including number ranks 15th on Missouri's all-time attendance list, and is the third largest non-Cat a season-best 9.950 by Petrina Yokay on bars…The Tigers rank 24th nationally in vault Classic crowd in history. The Crimson Tide took the meet with a score of 196.540 to the average, 20th in bars average and hold the 18th-best beam average score…Auburn trav- Tigers' 192.025. With the first meet under its belt, Missouri will work to get into the flow els to Georgia on Friday…Auburn has never beaten the Gym Dogs on the road, but does of the season on Jan.