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Final Score
Gymnastics
4th of 4 (197.2375)
vs NCAA Championship Final
Friday, February 17
Ann Arbor, Mich.
6:00 PM
University of Utah
196.050
at
194.850
Michigan
No. 1 Ute Gymnasts Beat Michigan 196.050-194.850
2/17/2012 12:00 AM | Gymnastics
Feb. 17, 2012
ANN ARBOR, Mich.
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The top-ranked Utah gymnasts beat No. 21 Michigan 196.050-194.850 for a rare win in the Crisler Center, improving to 5-1 while handing the 6-2 Wolverines their first home loss of the season. About the only thing the Utes didn't accomplish was convincing the famously low-scoring Michigan judges to reward their routines with high scores.
"The score does not reflect what a good meet we had. For instance, we had our best bar set of the season and received our lowest score," lamented coach Greg Marsden. (Actually, Utah scored lower on bars in the season opener at UCLA, but had a fall and some other mistakes in that meet). "I'm not saying these judges are doing it wrong and other judges in the country are doing it right. It could be the other way around. The problem is there needs to be consistency nationwide. I feel bad for Michigan because scores count toward seeding into the postseason and it's not fair to either team."
The score was really the only negative for the Utes, who earned a good road win even while making two last-minute changes to the floor lineup and having their first two beam competitors wobble. Utah trailed only once--49.100-48.850--after the first rotation with Utah on bars and Michigan on vault.
The Utes took the lead in round two after a 49.20 vault score edged them ahead of the Wolverines at the midpoint 98.050-97.825. Their lead would balloon to a point (147.150-146.075) after Michigan had to count a fall on the beam.
Utah's 49.10 floor score was particularly impressive considering some late changes during the three-minute touch. First, Marsden pulled Nansy Damianova in favor of Kailah Delaney after Damianova struggled on her first two exhibition routines. Then, when Kyndal Robarts asked Marsden to take her out of the floor lineup because she felt out of sync, Tory Wilson was inserted into the starting lineup for the first time.
Both Delaney and Wilson had stellar routines going until their last tumbling pass, when they both had a stumble--Wilson's nearly taking her to one knee. Becky Tutka, Lothrop and McAllister all scored 9.85s to push the Utes over 49.000 on the event.
Utah took a little while wrapping up a win, however, when Kassandra Lopez and Stephanie McAllister had big balance checks as the first two competitors. But, as has been the case all season for Utah--ranked No. 1 in the nation on the beam--the remainder of the lineup stepped it up. After McAllister's uncharacteristic 9.60, Mary Beth Lofgren (9.825), Corrie Lothrop (9.80), Cortni Beers (9.85) and Kyndal Robarts (9.85) finished strong. Even Utah's exhibition performers shined: Georgia Dabritz's 9.85 would have tied her for first with Cortni Beers had her score been to count and Delaney also turned in a big routine.
Utah winners included Dabritz and Delaney on vault with Utah's only 9.90 scores of the night, Lothrop and McAllister (9.80) on bars and Beers (9.85) on beam.
The Utes return home for a meet with Stanford next Friday for the first Pac-12 home meet in Utah gymnastics history.
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