Oklahoma Men’s Gymnastics Wins Ugly in MSPF Championships
Posted on 03 April 2010 by admin
In a very ugly meet, Oklahoma (354.55) barely edged out Cal (354.45) in the 2010 MPSF Championships. Top-ranked Stanford really tanked on pommel horse (50.35), which immediately took them out of the running for the team title, as that event greatly contributed to the dozen or so points they left on the floor. The Sooners, ironically, needed a strong showing on pommel horse in the last rotation to pull out their victory. Cal is arguably on their way to salvaging their injury-riddled season, while Oklahoma and Stanford have to be humbled about Illinois and Michigan’s late-season high scoring consistency.
The star of the meet was Cal’s Glen Ishino, who once again posted a 90-plus score in the all-around (90.10). An injury-free Ishino is easily the NCAA’s top all-arounder. Ishino was the picture of consistency as he posted the evening’s top score on pommel horse (15.10) and also tallied scores well over 14 on the rest of his events. Oklahoma’s top scoring all-around trio, Jake Dalton (86.40), Steven Legendre (87.30) and Alex Naddour (87.20) kept the Sooners in the game. Legendre’s 16.00 on floor and Ian Jackson’s 16.20 on vault produced individual event titles for Oklahoma.
The fight for the 2010 NCAA title is on. The Big 10 made a big stride this weekend and the MPSF teams will have to take notice. Oklahoma and Stanford, the NCAA’s top teams during the regular season, can’t afford another ugly meet two weeks from now in West Point. It might be a five-team battle for the NCAA title that was predicted at the start of the season. Let us hope that all the teams will be healthy.
April 4th, 2010 at 8:20 am
Did you see the meet? It was ugly but the scores were low, period. I saw Big 10 too and Stanford, Cal and Oklahoma are the best teams. The scores for rings and p-bars at Ohio State were a joke. The Big 10 teams’ big scores don’t mean they’re better. And Stanford normally scores about a 56 on pommel horse so how does that leave “a dozen” points on the floor? Cal also tanked horse. Stanford had misses on every single event. The best guys fell on high bar, vault. You won’t see the same Cardinal team in West Point. They’ll want it even more now.
April 4th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Well, I actually said that Stanford’s poor showing on pommel greatly contributed to the dozen or so points left on the floor. I agree that the meet was a wakeup call for Stanford, and they will still be considered one of the favorites to win at West Point.