Cal Hits Team Record Score
March 11, 2014
MPSF Men's Gym Release 9
# 9 CALIFORNIA sophomore Kyle Zemeir led the Bears to a school-record setting performance on Saturday against No. 2 Stanford and No. 4 Ohio State in Palo Alto. The Bears finished with an all-time high team score of 432.450, while Zemeir competed in four events, posting a score no lower than a 14.200. He posted a career-best and team-high15.100 on still rings, and added a 14.950 on parallel bars and a 14.550 on the floor exercise. Sophomore Takahiro Kawada set a new persona-best on rings, recording a 15.350.
# 2 STANFORD Akash Modi recorded four top-two finishes to lead the Cardinal post a season-best team score of 446.450 against Ohio State and California on last Saturday's Senior Day in Palo Alto. The team total score ranks second in the country this year. Modi finished first on parallel bars (15.650) and tied for second on pommel horse (15.350), vault (15.350) and high bar (15.100). His scores on pommel horse, vault and high bar are collegiate personal-bests. Dennis Zaremski recorded a pair of top finishes, scoring 15.75 on rings and 15.45 on p-bars, while Sean Senters won vault (15.550) in his final home meet. Stanford next competes in the MPSF Championship Meet, March 29 in Norman, OK.
# 1 OKLAHOMA completed a perfect 4-0 home season with a 439.700-422.050 win over No. 12 Nebraska last Sunday. Allan Bower took first in his second-straight all-around competition, posting an 87.300. Bower also won the pommel horse title (14.250). His high bar score of 14.950 was third overall and a career high. In addition to Bower, the Sooners swept through the team and individual event titles, with Michael Squires on rings (16.000), Stanton Rehkemper on high bar (15.200), Sergey Resnick on p-bars (career-high tying 15.600), Presten Ellsworth on vault (15.450), and Alec Robin on floor (career-high 15.650)
# 10 AIR FORCE was off last week, and returns to the gym in a five-team meet at Nebraska Saturday (Mar. 15). Tim Wang picked up nine first-place finishes as the Falcons defeated Illinois-Chicago twice, including an Academy-record score of 439.700 during their second victory on Mar. 2. That team overall score was over eight points ahead of the previous-high, as well as the sixth-best in the NCAA this year. Wang tallied four career-high marks, including Academy records on the pommel horse (15.100 on Feb. 28) and all-around (Career-high 88.400 on Mar. 1). He won the floor (14.750), pommel (15.100), parallel bars (14.600), high bar (14.300) and all-around (87.200) during the first win, before adding titles on floor (career-high, 14.950), horse (15.000), vault (14.850) and all-around (88.400) on Sunday. On Feb. 28, Air Force totaled 423.800, earning at least a share of every event title.