March 5, 2004

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UTAH VS. WASHINGTON, IOWA, ILLINOIS-CHICAGO

Mar. 5, 2004


TEAM TOTALS

1. Utah 197.950

2. Washington 197.550

3. Iowa 196.900

4. Illinois-Chicago 195.175


Note: Scores for Iowa and Illinois-Chicago are below the Washington/Utah scores.

WASHINGTON                    UTAH
VAULT                         VAULT
Tori Quandt            9.650  Stephanie Lim        9.850
Chelsea Bakken         9.625  Veronique Leclerc    9.825
Carly Dockendorf       9.775  Kristen Riffanacht   9.925
Tacia LaBatte          9.925  Melissa Vituj        9.925
Kelly McDonald         9.925  Rachel Tidd          9.950
Emily Pritchard        10.00  Annabeth Eberle      10.0!!!
VT: 49.275; Running: 49.275   VT: 49.650; Running: 197.950
Utah vault notes:
Stephanie Lim looked good in flight and had a little hop
on her landing.
Veronique Leclerc came a little close to the vault
for her deduction.
Kristen Riffanacht had a phenomenal vault. Big air,
big stick.
Ditto for Melissa Vituj. She was magnificent start to
finish.
Rachel Tidd got huge air and had just a little lean
on the landing.
Annabeth Eberle's vault was as good as it gets and deserved
every bit of the 10.0 it received. Even Greg got excited.

BARS                          BARS
Tacia LaBatte           9.875 Dominique D'Oliveira 9.825
Kim Lewis               9.050 Stephanie Lim        9.700
Molly Seaman            9.900 Annabeth Eberle      9.925
Carly Dockendorf        9.950 Veronique Leclerc    9.900
Kelly McDonald          9.925 Melissa Vituj        9.925
Emily Pritchard         9.975 Rachel Tidd          9.925
UB: 49.625; Running: 98.900   UB: 49.500; Running: 49.500
Utah bar notes
Dominique D'Oliveira overcame a pretty nasty fall in pre-meet
warmups and competed as scheduled. She had a small hop on her
dismount and didn't quite get straight on one handstand,
but otherwise looked good.
I'm not sure what Stephanie Lim did to score so low. All I saw
of significance was a step back on her landing.
Welcome back A.B.! What an awesome routine. She looked like she
hadn't missed a minute with that routine.
Veronique Leclerc also swung the bars very well and did
a really nice job with all those hand switches on the top bar.
Melissa Vituj had another great bar routine. She had a slight
leg split on her triple twisting flyaway, but that was really
minor.
From the large Utah contingent, I could tell that Rachel Tidd
really lit it up on the bars. Unfortunately, I didn't get to
watch it.

BEAM                          BEAM
Chelsea Bakken         9.500  Natalie Nicoloff     9.700
Amy Metcalf            9.875  Gabriella Onodi      9.850
Carly Dorkendorf       9.850  Kristen Riffanacht   9.900
Emily Pritchard        9.925  Veronique Leclerc    9.725
Kelly McDonald         9.300  Annabeth Eberle      9.850
Molly Seaman           9.900  Melissa Vituj        9.925
BB: 49.050; Running: 147.950  BB: 49.250; Running: 98.750
Utah beam notes
One judge gave Natalie Nicoloff a 9.45. I guess she didn't think
she had a 10.0 start value. There's been a long judges'
consultation. That judge bumped her up to a 9.60 and she ended
up with a 9.70 average.
Gabriella Onodi's series and leaps were beautiful. She came down low on
one of her tucked fronts, but made a nice clean save.
Kristen Riffanacht just had an awesome routine. She was very steady,
leaps and all tricks looked solid.
Veronique Leclerc had the best beam routine I've seen her do
this year. Her series was really nice.
Annabeth Eberle was solid as a rock in her return to the beam
action after a three-meet injury layoff. I saw one small balance
check after a leap. The rest was 10.0 material.
Melissa Vituj was right on from start to finish. Again, I'm not
sure where the deductions are coming from. I guess Megan will
have to find out after the meet.

FLOOR                       FLOOR
Molly Seaman           9.850  Kristen Riffanacht   9.875
Chelsea Bakken         9.825  Veronique Leclerc    9.300
Kelly McDonald         9.925  Stephanie Lim        9.875
Tacia LaBatte          9.950  Gritt Hofmann        9.925
Emily Pritchard        9.925  Annabeth Eberle      9.950
Carly Dockendorf       9.950  Melissa Vituj        9.925
FX: 49.600; Running: 197.550  FX: 49.550; Running: 148.300
Utah floor notes
Riffy really rocked on that routine. That's as good as I've
seen her perform it.
Veronique Leclerc had a great routine going and was headed
for another big score until she appeared to slip on her last
tumbling pass, which caused her to fall.
Stephanie Lim had a really nice routine and nailed all
of her big tumbling stuff.
Gritt Hofmann returned to the floor lineup with a bang.
I missed part of one pass so I wasn't sure until the
score came up if she hit it. Obviously, she did.
Wow was A.B.'s floor a beauty. One judge started to
raise a 10.0, then changed it to a 9.95. I liked the
routine as a 10.0 myself.
Melissa Vituj's score was originally announced as
a 9.925 and then it, too, was lowered.

IOWA                          ILLINOIS-CHICAGO
VAULT                         VAULT
Annie Rue              9.750  Megan Fey            9.800
Liz Grajewski          9.700  Stacey Magiera       9.575
Beth Dilick            9.825  Holly Bruhn          9.700
Kortny Williamson      9.900  Alyson Cacciatore    9.825
Alexis Maday           9.950  Jennifer O'Neil      9.825
Stephanie Gran         9.925  Veronique Meunier    9.900
VT: 49.350; Running: 147.625  VT: 49.050; Running: 97.925

BARS                          BARS
Romani Mazzoni         9.800  Regine Charron       9.700
Tiffany Kwan           9.250  Holly Bruhn          9.800
Nicole Wong            9.900  Stacey Magiera       9.825
Beth Dilick            9.825  Veronique Meunier    9.725
Stephanie Gran         9.825  Jennifer O'Neil      9.800
Alexis Maday           9.875  Alyson Cacciatore    9.875
UB: 49.275; Running: 196.900  UB: 49.075; Running: 147.000
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BEAM                          BEAM
Annie Rue              9.750  Jennifer O'Neil      8.525
Nicole Wong            9.700  Shannon O'Brien      9.550
Daniele Legeai         9.750  Rachel Zelinski      9.550
Liz Grajewski          9.825  Stacey Magiera       9.550
Stephanie Gran         9.800  Jessie Jaworowicz    9.825
Alexis Maday           9.625  Alyson Cacciatore    9.700
BB:48.825; Running: 48.825    BB: 48.175; Running: 195.175

FLOOR                         FLOOR
Bobbie Zimmerman       8.925  Regine Charron       9.775
Daniele Legeai         9.850  Holly Bruhn          9.475
Kortny Williamson      9.850  Rachael Zelinski     9.800
Liz Grajewski          9.875  Veronique Meunier    9.825
Stephanie Gran         9.925  Jennifer O'Neil      9.750
Alexis Maday           9.950  Alyson Cacciatore    9.725
FX:49.450; Running: 98.275    FX: 48.875; Running: 48.875