MPSF Men's Gymnastics Weekly Release, 2/18/08
Feb. 18, 2008
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#1 STANFORD (9-1) defeated Nebraska 357.600-341.150. The Cardinal outscored the Huskers as a team in five of the six events, and 20 individual season bests were established. The Cardinal had their best performance of the season on pommel horse, recording a 58.150. Stanford also captured first, second, and third in floor exercise, pommel horse, vault and high bar. In vault alone, Stanford had four gymnasts score over a 15.000. Junior Bryant Hadden won first place in parallel bars (15.200), tied for first place in still rings (14.900) with Nebraska's Tony Maras and received second place in pommel horse (15.050) and high bar (14.700).
#3 OKLAHOMA (7-0) posted its best score of the season, and Sooner gymnasts swept all six event titles en route to a 357.750-338.050 victory over Iowa. The Sooners' team total was the fourth-highest score registered by any team in NCAA competition this season. Oklahoma gymnasts set or tied 17 individual season highs, including team season marks by junior Russell Czeschin on floor exercise (15.450) and senior Jonathan Horton on high bar (15.450). The highlight of the afternoon came on vault, as Oklahoma scored a team season-best 63.800, the highest vault score in the NCAA in 2008. Once again OU swept the top four spot in the event standings, as Steven Legendre captured his first vault title of the year with a 16.100. On the still rings, senior Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons earned his second event title on the apparatus this year, tying his season high with a 15.600.
#4 CALIFORNIA (3-1) defeated Ohio State 355.200-351.000 on the road. Freshman Kyle Bunthuwong won the all-around with 88.250, which was 3.800 points ahead of the second place finisher. The Bears (3-1) won pommel horse, rings, parallel bars and high bar to win the meet. Last year's national champion on pommel horse senior Tim McNeill won the event with a 15.750. Rings was a highlight for the Bears with senior Tyler Block winning the event with a 15.150. The best event of the night for California was horizontal bar, where five Golden Bears finished in the top six to give Cal the win, 59.700-56.100. Eric Haeussler won his first event of the 2008 campaign with a 15.550.
#10 NEBRASKA (2-7) fell to Stanford 357.60-341.1. Not only did Nebraska earn season-high team marks in every event except for high bar and vault, the Huskers saw a few new faces crack the top-three individual standings. Sophomore Tony Maras tied for first on still rings after notching a career-high score of 14.90 on the event. Sophomore John Robinson made his first-ever collegiate all-around debut, where he placed second with a score of 80.20 behind Stanford's Ryan Lieberman (87.05). Junior T.J. Schmidt also cracked the top-three on parallel bars, as he tied for second with a score of 14.90.
#15 AIR FORCE (3-6) finished second at the annual All-Academy Championships. Senior Greg Stine posted the highest finishes on the vault, parallel bars and high bar, while junior Jacob Schonig won the still rings. As a team, the Falcons won the still rings (56.750) and vault (58.850), en route to a second-place combined score of 322.800. Stine paced the Falcons with three event victories, winning the vault (15.250), parallel bars (13.800) and high bar (13.900).
BUNTHUWONG NAMED MPSF GYMNAST OF THE WEEK Woodland, Calif. -Kyle Bunthuwong of California has been named MPSF gymnast of the week for winning the all-around on Feb. 16 at No. 7 Ohio State. Bunthuwong set new personal bests on pommel horse (13.950), vault (15.800), parallel bars (14.650) and on high bar (14.800). The El Cerrito, Calif., native paced the Golden Bears on floor with a 15.050, which was good for third place. Bunthuwong took fifth on pommel horse (13.950) but it helped Cal edge Ohio State on the event. His performance on high bar was good for second place and it was key for the Bears so they could take the horizontal bar. Bunthuwong also took second place on vault with a 15.800, which was the best score on vault by California. This is the second time that the freshman has won the all-around, which he did Feb. 18 in his first collegiate meet against Stanford.