Seattle Pacific Hosts MPSF Championship Meet
March 19, 2013
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UC DAVIS Katie Yamamura tied her own school all-around record with a winning 39.325, along with her season-high vault (9.825) and floor (9.850), as the Aggies broke their two-week old school record (195.625) against Sacramento State and Air Force. The team total, fourth best in MPSF history, broke the benchmark of 194.475 set earlier this month. Each rotation went down in the all-time top-10 at UCD. Michelle Ho, the top floor gymnast in the MPSF, won that event (9.90). UC Davis seeks a fourth straight conference championship, and fifth overall, Saturday (Mar. 23).
SEATTLE PACIFIC accumulated a season-high in the tri-meet at Washington on Mar. 15, a 193.150. The total tied the sixth highest in Falcon history, and best since the '07 USA Championships. Stephanie Wagner tied for fifth on a career-best uneven bars routine (9.825), while Corrine Wise had an identical placement on beam (9.75). Seattle Pacific, this year's MPSF Championship host, won conference titles in '06 and '07.
AIR FORCE racked up its highest road score of 2013, collecting 193.400 in the tri meet at UC Davis (Mar. 15). Linnaea Hance tied for second on bars (9.825), on her way to a third-place all around (39.025). The Falcons had a pair of runner-up placements at Sacramento State on Mar. 17, with Jessica Wallander on vault (9.825) and Katie Hawthorne all-around (38.700).
ALASKA-ANCHORAGE managed a 191.775 on Mar. 7 in Mount Pleasant, MI, the 14th-best score in program history, with the beam total of 48.150 tying for 13th. UAA also cracked 48 on floor for the first time this season (48.050), led by a career-high tying 9.725 from M'rcy Matsunami. Alaska-Anchorage claimed the MPSF title in 2009, the last team other than UC Davis to win.
KATIE YAMAMURA MPSF GYMNAST OF THE WEEK
UC Davis senior Katie Yamamura (Palo Alto, CA) tied her own school all-around record with a winning 39.325, along with her season-high vault (9.825, T-1st) and floor (9.850, 2nd), as the Aggies broke their two-week old school record (195.625) against Sacramento State and Air Force. Her all-around total ties for the sixth best in MPSF history. Yamamura added a 9.825 bars routine for second-place.