OU Wins 17th-Straight Rocky Mountain Open
Jan. 19, 2016 MPSF Men's Gym Release 1
OKLAHOMA kicked-off its season in familiar fashion, winning the Rocky Mountain Open at Air Force (Jan. 17) for the 17th consecutive year. Yul Moldauer, in his collegiate debut, anchored a Sooner team which totaled 448.550 to finish ahead of five other teams. Moldauer posted a 90.150 to claim the all-around title, including an event-winning15.600 on parallel bars which tied the Rocky Mountain Open record on the event. Moldauer also posted 15.600 on floor to help propel the Sooners to a team total of 77.900. OU also posted a big score on vault, notching a 76.300 with help from a 15.200 from Moldauer. The Sooners' vault score was .500 higher than its best mark on the event during their 2015 national championship run.
AIR FORCE hosted the annual Rocky Mountain Open to begin the Jeff Robinson era (Jan. 17), placing second with its second-best all-time opening meet score of 424.700. Tim Wang claimed three top-three finishes. He had not competed in the all-around since his freshman year, and tallied a score of 87.000 to finish third. He took second on the pommel horse (14.850) and third on the vault (15.200). Wang's vault tied the third-highest vault score in Rocky Mountain Open history. He added career-best marks on the floor exercise (15.100) and still rings (14.600), with the floor score seventh-highest in Academy history. Air Force tallied 73.400 on the floor ââ'¬" the program's fourth-highest all-time.
STANFORD Dennis Zaremski claimed three individual titles during two meets on opening week, two on rings and one on parallel bars. Zaremski put up a season-best on rings (15.850) and parallel bars (15.050) in the second meet on January 16 against No. 7 Cal and No. 20 SC United to lead Stanford to its third win of the season.
CALIFORNIA Freshman Aaron Mah, at No. 3 Stanford on Jan.11, made his debut on floor exercise (14.250), vault (14.550) and high bar (14.200). Cal totaled 423.900 in that season opener. On Jan. 16 in the Cal Benefit Cup, again against the Cardinal, Mah opened with a floor routine which garnered a score of 14.850, helping the Bears to a team total of 75.000 in the event. The Bears bettered their overall team score from the season-opener, totaling 426.950 in the second meet, more than three full points improvement.