No. 2 Stanford Wins MPSF Championship

4/5/2011 12:00:00 AM

April 5, 2011

#2 STANFORD claimed the 2011 MPSF Championship, held at Air Force last Saturday, accumulating a score of 362.250. The conference title is the second in the last three years for the Cardinal. Ryan Lieberman was third all-around (88.400). Tim Gentry was the still rings champion (16.050), while Alex Buscaglia won the high bar title (15.600). Cameron Forman took the silver on high bar (15.100) and Buscaglia was third on vault (16.300). Josh Dixon took the bronze on floor (15.700), and James Fosco (15.600) and Jordan Nolff (15.350) placed behind Gentry on rings. Next up is the NCAA Championship Meet in Columbus, OH, Apr. 14-16. The Cardinal won the 2009 national championship, seeking their fifth overall.

#1 OKLAHOMA finished second at the conference meet (360.700). Jake Dalton was the top all-arounder (90.900), as well as on vault (16.650), floor (15.900), and a career-high parallel bars (15.600). Steve Legendre shared the floor title with Dalton, and took second on vault (16.550). Alex Naddour is this year's pommel horse champion (15.000) and all-around runner-up (90.000). OU won two team events, on floor (62.050) and a school record vault total (65.350). The Sooners look for their ninth national championship in two weeks.

#3 CALIFORNIA finished third at the MPSF Championships with a team score of 356.050. Glen Ishino brought home the silver on both horse (14.650) and parallel bars (15.300). Bryan Del Castillo was a bronze medalist on both parallel bars (15.250) and high bar (15.050). Daniel Geri (14.500) and Steven Lacombe (15.350) also turned in third place finishes on horse and rings, respectively. Donothan Bailey took sixth on floor (15.100) and all-around (87.500).

#11 NEBRASKA scored a 346.500, its highest on the road this year. Anthony Ingrelli had the highest placement of any Husker, taking fourth on rings (15.30). Freshman Wyatt Aycock was sixth on p-bars (14.95) and ninth on horse (19.000). Bear Danley was seventh with a career high bar (14.65). Aycock was seventh all-around (86.80) followed by Andreas Hofer in eighth (85.65).

#8 AIR FORCE served as the host of this year's MPSF Championship Meet, scoring the fifth highest score in program history (344.800). Sophomore Tory Brown tied the Academy vault record with a career-high (15.950), tying for seventh. Nash Mills recorded a pair of top-10 finishes with identical 14.900 marks, seventh on parallel bars and 10th on rings. Freshman Colton Wulf took ninth all-around (84.150), behind career efforts on vault (15.550) and p-bars (14.300).