Gymnastics rolls on with win in Idaho

By: The Daily Barometer

Posted: 3/5/07

BOISE, Idaho - Oregon State scored 196.475 to reach the 196-point mark for the third straight week to win Friday's quadrangular meet at Boise State. Sophomore Jami Lanz led the Beavers setting another career-best all-around score of 39.575.

Lanz, the Pac-10 Gymnast of the Week two weeks ago, made another bid for the award with career-highs on vault and bars with matching 9.925s. She earned three more individual titles to give her 11 titles on the season, three in the all-around, three on bars, two apiece on beam and vault, and one on floor. Lanz's 39.575 marks the ninth highest all-around score in OSU history.

UC Davis finished second (192.775), Boise State was third (192.350) and Seattle Pacific finished fourth (192.050).

Keegan Fitzgerald, followed by D'Anna Piro, started off the bars and set the tone for the Beavers in the opening rotation by scoring a season-high 49.275. Fitzgerald tallied a career-high (9.825) to open the evening and Piro added a career-high (9.900) of her own to finish second in the event to Lanz.

On beam the Beavers scored 49.050 behind a career-best score of 9.900 by Tasha Smith and Lanz added a score of 9.875 and Brooke Barclay, who enjoyed a "hometown" crowd, scored 9.850.

OSU's vault team finished off the evening with an impressive 49.200 performance. Megan Devencenzi hit a solid vault at 9.825 to get OSU rolling, followed by a 9.900 by Yuki Lamb and Lanz's 9.925. Smith added a 9.875 to finish the Beavers' scoring.

The Beavers' string of away meets ends next week in Provo, Utah, when OSU faces BYU and Utah State. OSU's next home meet is the March 16 Salbasgeon Suites Invitational when the Beavers host Utah, Washington and Seattle Pacific.