Jan. 13, 2006

Recap

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Pre-Meet Notes: For some reason, they are not going to alternate performers on the first two events (vault and beam). Those are the two hardest events to keep up with anyway on live commentary and scoring, so it will probably seem very erratic the way I'll be posting them.

FINAL SCORE
1. Utah 195.625 

WASHINGTON                      UTAH

VAULT                           VAULT
Emily Epsten          9.625     Gabriella Onodi     9.725
Natalie Gillan        9.525     Gritt Hofmann       9.825
Katie Boyko           9.650     Jessica Duke        9.850
Chelsea Bakken        9.700     Nina Kim            9.850
Kristen Omori         9.825     Kristina Baskett    9.900
Ashley Houghting      9.875     Ashley Postell      9.900
VT: 48.675; Running: 48.675     VT: 49.325; Running: 98.250
Utah vault notes:
That's one of the better vaults I've ever seen Gabriella
Onodi do. Her execution looked very good.
Gritt Hofmann had great amplitude and exceptional form.
She had one hop on her landing.
Jessica Duke had just a huge vault with only a lean at
the end.
Nina Kim also got good amplitude.
Kristina Baskett absolutely nailed her vault.
Ashley Postell came up with a big stick on a vault
she tried for the first time since coming to colllege.
Rarely seen in college gymnastics, she did a yurchenko
one half on, front pike with a half twist off.


BARS                            BARS
Ashley Houghting      9.375     Natalie Nicoloff    9.675
Raimey Iselin         9.700     Ashley Postell      9.200
Darcee Schiller       9.550     Nina Kim            9.700
Natalie Gillan        9.525     Jessica Duke        9.800
Chelsea Bakken        9.600     Kristina Baskett    9.850
Kelly McDonald        9.850     Nicolle Ford        9.900
UB: 48.225; Running: 96.900    UB: 48.925; Running: 48.925
Utah bar notes:
Natalie Nicoloff did a nice job in her first competitive bar routine since 2003. The main thing I saw was her routine stalled a little when she stood on the low bar,preparing to go to the high bar for her dismount.
Ashley had a big break going to the low bar. She didn't have
enough of momentum to go over it. Lya thinks she might have pushed
off of the floor.
Nina Kim didn't have anything major wrong. She didn't look quite
as sharp as last week.
Jessica Duke's routine was just outstandng and I have no idea where
the two tenths deduction came from. Her skills were big,
her movement good, handstands straight and she stuck her
dismount.
Kristina Baskett swung through a beautiful routine. She dislocated
her finger prior to the meet and was questionable on bars
but showed no sign at all. Great stick on her dismount.
Nicolle Ford was all but flawless on the bars. She had a really
small step on her landing.  
BEAM                            BEAM
Chelsea Bakken         9.575    Gabriella Onodi     9.025
Natalie Gillan         9.650    Kristen Riffanacht  9.125
Kelly Gilbert          9.150    Nina Kim            9.725
Kristen Omori          7.975    Gritt Hofmann       9.850
Ashley Houghting       9.625    Nicolle Ford        9.850
Kelly McDonald         9.850    Ashley Postell      9.875
BB: 47.850.; Running: 144.750   BB: 48.425; Running: 195.625
Utah beam notes:
Gabriella Onodi appeared to be on her game until
she fell on her punch front.
Kristin Riffanacht opened her season with a fall
on her mount.
Nina Kim had a decent sized balance check in the middle of
her routine but really looked clean other than that.
It looked to me as though Gritt Hofmann really battled
with this routine to stay precise and clean and
she succeeded.
Nicolle Ford skipped her second layout, most likely because
of thetwo falls to start the set, but looked like she could
have done the second layout. Had a balance check on her
punch front.
Ashley Postell looked so smooth. All I saw in the entire
routine was she bent a little low on her landing, but she
didn't take any steps or windmill her arms. I liked this
way more than a 9.875.
FLOOR                           FLOOR
Tori Quandt            9.500    Gabriella Onodi     9.700
Ashley Houghting       9.650    Jessica Duke        9.850
Kelly Gilbert          9.700    Nina Kim            8.675
Natalie Gillan         9.550    Ashley Postell      9.825
Chelsea Bakken         9.750    Kristina Baskett    9.775
Kristen Omori          9.825    Gritt Hofmann       9.800 changed
FX: 48.575; Running: 193.325    FX: 48.95; Running: 147.20
Utah floor notes:
Gabriella Onodi cruised through her routine. It appears
to me that she has done some real work in the preseason
on her execution.
Jessica Duke's piked double back was exceptional! Great height,
form and stick. The rest of her routine followed suit.
Nina Kim stumbled on her first pass, then fell on her
piked double back on her second pass and at the end of
her routine.
Welcome back to the floor lineup says Ashley Postell!
After sitting out last week due to her elbow injury,
Postell looked well-prepared, confident and loose in her
first floor rotuine of the season. One judge initially
gave her a 9.6, but the higher ranked judge got it
upped on a conference.
Kristina Baskett was headed for a blowout score before
a stumble at the end. She opened with a full in and did
a big piked double back on the third pass. Her dance was
great. The finish killed a big score.
Gritt Hofmann's routine is nearly as popular with the
road fans as the home crowd. The main deduction I saw
was she finished one pass almost dangerously low in
my opinion, although she landed it OK.
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