No. 2 Oklahoma Wins Top-Five Battle
March 26, 2013
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#2 OKLAHOMA defeated No. 5 Ohio State comfortably on senior night in Norman this past Saturday, 441.250-426.750, the third highest OU score of the year. A total of eight season or career-high marks were set, while each event was won by a different Sooner. Michael Reid posted the fourth-highest pommel horse score in the nation with a first-place and career-high (15.400), to lead the OU horse squad to its season-high (71.350). Oklahoma is next in action on April 6 at the MPSF Championships in Colorado Springs, CO, where it vies for a 13th out of a possible 21 MPSF Championships.
#11 AIR FORCE became just the eighth team in the nation to break the 430-point mark, as the Academy compiled a program record 431.250 in the dual win over Washington on Mar. 16. Two individual records and four team marks fell, including the 4.2-point improvement in the overall team score. Nick Gaudlip set an Academy record on high bar (15.050), while Gared Chapman broke his own program standard on vault (15.350). The Falcons set team records on floor (75.100), vault (73.400) and high bar (71.000), en route to the overall record score (431.250). Gaudlip also led the Falcons with three titles, while Tory Brown added two and Gared Chapman had one in the 425.450-398.500 dual victory over Temple on Mar. 14. Gaudlip scored a career-best 14.000 to win pommel horse, and a personal-best 14.750 to win parallel bars. He also tied for first on high bar (14.150). Brown won floor (14.900), and vault (14.750), while Chapman won still rings (15.450) - No. 6 in Academy history.
#8 CALIFORNIA took down defending national champion and No. 6 Illinois to end the regular season on Mar. 16, 427.000-425.650. Takahiro Kawada posted the winning pommel horse (15.150). The Cal still rings team set a season-high of 72.150, led by Steven Lacombe's first-place 15.150. Lacombe and Kyle Zemeir shared the vault title (15.050), while John Liu claimed the parallel bars and Kevin Wolting the top all-around (84.200).
#4 STANFORD tallied a season-high 438.600 at Army on Mar. 9, backed by Eddie Penev's season-high and fourth winning all-around (89.100). He also won his fourth floor title (16.050), and had career-bests on horse (14.700) and high bar (14.800). John Martin recorded the highest Stanford horse score of 2013 (15.100), and Paul Hichwa claimed high bar on a career-high (15.300). Stanford outscored the host Army and Springfield in all six events.
MICHAEL REID MPSF GYMNAST OF THE WEEK
Oklahoma sophomore Michael Reid (Killeen, TX) posted a career-high 15.400 to anchor the OU pommel horse team's 71.350 score in its 441.250-426.750 win over No. 5 Ohio State. His score was a meet-high on the event and was 0.500 points higher than the next highest score. It is the highest pommel horse score for OU this season on the apparatus and tied for the fourth-highest score in the country this year.