NORMAL, Ill. – An excited crowd ventured out to Horton Field House Friday night to honor five Illinois State gymnastics seniors, who competed in their final regular-season home meet against No. 19 BYU. The nationally-ranked Cougars came out on top in the meet by a score of 196-850-193.275.
Scoring Breakdown:
- Vault: BYU 49.225, ISU 46.750
- Bars: BYU 49.125, ISU 48.825
- Beam: BYU 49.200, ISU 48.600
- Floor: BYU 49.300, ISU 49.100
Thoughts from Coach Bob Conkling:
"Starting off we performed our worst vault of the season. We gathered ourselves back up and came out strong on bars. We had our best beam and floor performances of the season. We still have not put four events together, but it's all there for us and we just need to do it. Overall though, it was a great meet against a very good team in BYU."
Team Notes:
- The Redbirds fell behind during the first rotation, scoring a 46.750 on vault.
- During the second rotation, the Redbirds competed strong on bars scoring a 48.825 as a team with five gymnasts scoring over 9.700 and narrowed the gap.
- ISU had three gymnasts score over 9.700 during the third rotation and scored a season-best 48.600 on beam.
- ISU finished strong on floor with all six gymnasts scoring over 9.700 and scoring a season-high 49.100 on floor.
Gymnast Notes:
- Gabrielle Cooke scored a season-high 9.900 on floor to tie the event win and help her finish with a 39.125 in all-around and win the event … she posted the highest team score 9.675 on vault and scored a 9.750 on beam to finish seventh in both events… she tied for fourth on bars scoring a 9.800.
- Angelica Labat had a strong routine on beam scoring a 9.900 to tie for the event win … Labat tied for fourth on floor with a 9.850 and received a 38.775 in all-around to finish second.
- Sofia Iribarren tied for fourth on bars scoring a 9.800 … she finished in third on all-around with a 38.475.
- Savannah Remkus tied her season-best 9.725 on beam to finish eighth.
Up Next:
- The Redbirds compete next against Northern Illinois on March 6 at 6:30 p.m. in DeKalb, Ill.
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