UCLA is about to begin at Washington, and we'll keep an eye on the scores from Utah, Stanford, and Oregon State as the Pac-12 finishes us off on this busy Friday.
For Utah on beam, Lopez leads off well with 9.850. McAllister follows with 9.725, and Lothrop goes 9.875. They are going to have to go huge to keep up with Florida, but UCLA's 197.575 looks within reach for them right now.
Looks like Peszek will be in the lineup on bars, perhaps she is just being rested on the leg events. Frattone and EHH on bars for UCLA instead of MDLT and Larson. Wong and Craddock will be on in exhibition. No Whitcomb this week. She didn't look ready yet during her last exhibition, but she's making progress.
Another big rotation score for Utah, 49.350 on beam. They may be just short of some of the highest scores, but they can break their season high with a 49.325 on floor.
Pretty clean from Courtney on bars, a wonky handstand and an uncharacteristic step back on the dismount - she should be sticking that. (9.775)
Some pretty low Yfulls from Washington to start, both with hops back.
One of the better bar routines from Peszek, clean in handstand and good dismount. The shoot to high bar is still not my favorite. (9.850)
Frattone now, her first competitive bar routine of the season, and came off on her jaeger. This is what I was talking about with the danger of putting up a B-team. Pressure for the team on bars for the first time this season. Several form breaks after the fall and a terrible dismount with many steps back. I hope she enjoyed the only time she'll be in the lineup this year. (8.725 - sweet heavens)
A couple of solid Yhalfs from Washington, both with significant enough lunges forward.
Aisha Gerber has an error on her pak and has to improvise (with a big leg separation as well) and a major step on the dismount. Bad news. (9.475 - counts)
Zam takes an extra swing as well, pikes her body on the pak, and steps forward on the DLO dismount. This is a bad rotation for UCLA. (9.750)
Cline from Washington has to tuck her vault, so they will not want to count that.
Looks like Lichelle is in the lineup now for UCLA instead of EHH. She has a huge error and has to take an extra swing. Looks like we'll have another inexcusable meet. And it really is. These are not acceptable mistakes being made here. I'm seeing 9.325. Disasterville.
EHH does a pretty solid exhibition with one iffy handstand and a little wonkiness on her double tuck dismount.
Utah, meanwhile is keeping up their high scoring pace so far on floor. Where will they finish?
I'm having a lot of stream issues with UCLA/Washington. We may just have to call it an evening. I'll probably check in later with final scores. Enjoy the meets, and enjoy talking about Florida's 197.775.
One last update with the final score: Washington 195.350, UCLA 194.600.
Val. Will. Be. Furious. Get ready. It'll be great.
Val needs to look in the mirror. What's inexcusable the staff of UCLA's inability to have a team full of studs not prepared. Regardless of the lineup, they should never lose to Washington. Begs the question, what could the UCLA staff do with a roster of less talent? I'm guessing not much.
ReplyDeleteHAHA I love your commentary! Yeah, Val is going to be pissed for sure. "Inexcusable" is the watchword for the season. In college gymnastics it's not about who can hit the biggest numbers, it's about who can hit big numbers consistently and UCLA is all over the place. They'll probably have all the kinks worked out by nationals but this does not look like a team that went 1 and 2 the last 2 years. Yikes.
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