Air Force Downs Army in Service Academy Showdown

Feb. 1, 2015

USAF ACADEMY, Colo. - Backed by a sweep of the event titles and the seventh-highest overall score in team history, the 11th-ranked Air Force men's gymnastics team defeated service academy rival and 13th-ranked Army this afternoon (Feb. 1) at the Academy's Cadet West Gym. The Falcons scored 426.700 to beat the Black Knights (412.800) to improve to 1-1 in dual meets this season.

Senior Nick Gaudlip picked up a pair of event titles, as Air Force earned the top score on all six events. Gaudlip captured first-place finishes on the floor exercise (14.900) and high bar (14.800), while classmate Josh Ramos scored the second-highest parallel bars score in Academy history (15.100) to take first on that event. Sophomores Tim Wang and Aaron Nubine finished first on the pommel horse (14.900) and vault (14.450), respectively, while freshman Fletcher Braunton rounded out the Falcons' event sweep with a first-place finish on the still rings (14.400).

Air Force claimed the top-four finishes on the floor exercise, still rings and parallel bars, as well as four of the top-five marks on the pommel horse.

Wang (second, 14.600), senior Corbin Palmer (third, 14.350) and Ramos (fourth, 14.300) joined Gaudlip among the top four of the floor exercise, while freshman Arinn Wade (second, 14.250), junior Denis Aurelius (third, 14.200) and freshman Dimitri Floryance (fourth, 14.000) finished second through fourth behind Braunton on the still rings. Ramos, classmate Greg Chaput (second, 14.800), freshman Jonathon Fornoff (third, 14.700) and Gaudlip (fourth, 14.400) completed the Air Force sweep of the top four on the parallel bars.

In addition to his win on the rings, Braunton added a runner-up finish on the pommel horse (14.700), while sophomore Chase Cannon (fourth, 14.400) and Ramos (fifth, 14.350) helped the Falcons to four of the top-five finishes on that event. Palmer (second, 14.300), junior Josh Pyne (fourth tie, 14.250) and Wang (fourth tie, 14.250) joined Nubine in the top-half of the field on the vault. Ramos and Nubine also finished within the top-six on the high bar, placing third (13.900) and sixth (13.200), respectively.

The two programs will meet again next Saturday (Feb. 7), when they join Navy at the All-Academy Championships in Houston, Texas. The meet, part of the HNI Invitational, is slated to begin at 1:00 p.m.

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