Gymnastics win at Bowling Green, improves to 12-2 on the season
Following a difficult senior night loss to Mid-American Conference leader Kent State last Sunday, CMU gymnastics got back on track in the MAC standings with a 195.750-195.150 win at Bowling Green.
CMU jumped out to a 48.850-48.8 lead in the first rotation without the help of freshman all-around standout Kasey Janowicz. She did not compete in the meet due to injury.
"We certainly missed her in our lineup," said Head Coach Jerry Reighard. "Fortunately, it didn't cost us a loss. We need her for (the) MAC (Tournament), not a dual meet."
Senior Karlee Teet led the team with a 9.825.
Bowling Green stole the lead in rotation two with a low CMU vault score of 48.625. Only Teet and sophomore Jodie Plescow scored above a 9.8 with the rest at or below 9.7.
The Chippewas finished rotations three and four scoring a 48.9 on the floor exercise and a beam season high of 49.325. Junior Caroline Fitzpatrick scored a career best of 9.9 on the beam and senior Taylor Bolender finished with a 9.9 on floor.
"Unbelievable," Reighard said about the beam team. "Each of our athletes, all six of them, did a great job."
Central Michigan will finish conference play at Eastern Michigan next Thursday.
