Women's Gymnastics Take First At USAG Collegiate Prelims
4/13/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Gymnastics
DAVIS, Calif.The Air Force womens gymnastics team placed first in the USA Gymnastics Collegiate Nationals team preliminaries Thursday evening. With a final team score of 192.200, the Falcons soared past the competition with UC Davis taking second (190.625), followed by Texas Womans Univ. (190.175), Seattle Pacific (189.700), Cornell (188.525), Centenary (187.725), UC Santa Barbara (186.625), and Southern Connecticut State (186.525).
The top eight individuals at each event, including ties, are declared
All-Americans and advance to Saturday afternoons event finals.
Individually, the Falcons did extremely well, claiming six
All-Americans. C3C (So.) Kim Broughton tied for first with TWUs Michelle
Hepner on uneven bars (9.750). On balance beam, C2C (Jr.) Bethany Stott took
third (9.775), and C1C (Sr.) Kristi
Delcour C3C Courtney Hamrick tied for seventh (9.650). C2C Jennifer Dougherty
and Delocur tied for sixth on the floor exercise (9.775). Air Force placed three
in the all-around competition with Dougherty taking second (38.375), Delcour
placing sixth (38.100), and Broughton finishing eighth (37.875).
The USAG Collegiate
Nationals continues on Friday with the men's
team
finals and all-around finals at 1 p.m., followed by the women's team
finals
at 7 p.m.
TEAM
SCORES (Top 4 advance to final) -
1. Air Force Academy
192.200;
2. UC Davis, 190.625; 3. Texas Woman's, 190.175; 4. Seattle
Pacific,
189.700; 5. Cornell 188.525; 6. Centenary (La.) 187.725; 7. UC
Santa
Barbara 186.625; 8. Southern Connecticut State, 186.525.
ALL-AROUND
(Top eight are All-Americans) -
1. Flora Bare, UC Davis,
38.675;
2. Jenn Dougherty, Air Force, 38.375; 3. Luci Romberg, TWU, 38.175;
4
(tie). Erin Trapp, SCSU; Alison Siegel, SPU, 38.125; 6. Kristi Delcour,
Air
Force, 38.100; 7. Ericka Ruelas, UC Davis, 38.000; 8. Kim Broughton,
Air
Force, 37.875.
VAULT
- 1. Alison Siegel, SPU, 9.675; 2. Sarah Lumpkin, TWU, 9.650;
3.
Patty Walpert, TWU, 9.625; 4 (tie). Luci Romberg, TWU; Erin Trapp, SCSU;
Missy
McLaughlin, SPU; Rachel Goldberg, Cornell; Stephanie Pink, Bridgeport
(Conn.);
Elizabeth Weber, Air Force 9.600.
UNEVEN BARS - 1 (tie). Kim Broughton, Air Force; Michelle Hepner,
TWU,
9.750; 3. Ericka Ruelas, UC Davis, 9.725; 4. Kim Carey, SPU, 9.650; 5
(tie).
Luci Romberg, TWU; Amanda Smith, SCSU; Sarah Lumpkin, TWU, 9.625; 8
(tie).
Janelle Thibault, Centenary; Allison Todd, Air Force, 9.600.
BALANCE
BEAM - 1 (tie). Shannon
Weiman, Cornell, 9.825; 2. Flora
Bare,
UC Davis, 9.800; 3. Bethany Stott, Air Force, 9.775; 4 (tie). Cara
Simkins,
UCSB; Michelle Naito, UC Davis, 9.750; 6. Abby Vedder, Cornell,
9.700;
7 (tie). Erin Trapp, SCSU; Kristi Delcour, Air Force; Courtney
Hamrick,
Air Force, 9.650.
FLOOR
EXERCISE - 1. Ericka Ruelas,
UC Davis, 9.925; 2. Poppy Major,
UC
Davis, 9.875; 3 (tie). Flora Bare, UC Davis; Elizabeth Gray, UC Davis,
9.850;
5. Lina Hakola, Centenary, 9.825; 6 (tie). Jenn Dougherty, Air
Force;
Kristi Delcour, Air Force; Patty Walpert, TWU, 9.775.
