WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS : Floor Performance Puts UCLA in NCAA Finals
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ATHENS, Ga. — Buoyed by its best performance of the season on floor exercise, the fourth-seeded UCLA women’s gymnastics team had the top score, 196.375, in Thursday’s night session at the NCAA championships, advancing to today’s team finals along with five other teams.
Second-seeded Alabama scored 195.6 and No. 8 Oregon State scored 195.5 to edge No. 6 Florida by .075 to advance from the night session along with UCLA. Top-seeded Georgia led the afternoon session with a score of 196.825, No. 5 Michigan had 195.7 and No. 3 Utah, the defending champion, had 195.325.
Five of UCLA’s six gymnasts scored season highs on the floor exercise for a total of 49.425. UCLA also scored a meet-high 49.15 on bars.
Kentucky’s Jenny Hansen won her second consecutive all-around title. Her 39.8 score broke the previous NCAA record, set by Utah’s Missy Marlowe, by .15. Hansen scored a perfect 10 in the vault, had 9.950s in the beam and floor exercise and a 9.9 in the parallel bars. Georgia’s Agina Simpkins was second, 39.475, and UCLA’s Stella Umeh, Utah’s Suzanne Metz and Florida’s Amy Myerson tied for third, 39.4.
UCLA’s Kareema Marrow, the two-time NCAA West Regional all-around champion, fell from the beam and finished 21st with a score of 38.975.
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