WVU Earns Season-High Road Score at OU

NORMAN, Okla. – The West Virginia University gymnastics staff earned its highest highway rating of the season to complete second at No. 1 Oklahoma on Friday evening contained in the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
 
The Mountaineers (8-7, 1-2 Big 12) posted a 195.675 staff complete, ending behind the host Sooners who earned a program-best 198.575. OU topped WVU on all 4 occasions, together with 49.625-48.875 on vault, 49.65-48.875 on uneven bars, 49.625-48.775 on steadiness beam and 49.675-49.15 on ground train.
 
Opening the meet on bars, West Virginia recorded a stable 48.875, led by sophomore Brooke Alban with a 9.85. Classmate Anna Leigh and senior Emily Holmes-Hackerd had been simply shy of Alban with matching 9.8s. Senior Kianna Yancey tallied a 9.75, earlier than fifth-year senior Kendra Combs recorded a 9.675 to finish the primary rotation.
 
Continuing to vault, a pair of sticks from senior Abbie Pierson and junior Kiana Lewis helped WVU earn one other 48.875 occasion rating. Pierson led the best way with a 9.825, adopted by Lewis’ 9.8. Freshman Emma Wehry earned a 9.775, whereas Yancey and freshman Brooke Irwin accomplished the scoring with a 9.75 and 9.725, respectively.
 
The Mountaineers then went to ground, incomes a 49.15 for his or her eighth consecutive rating of 49.0+ on the occasion. Junior Ellen Collins led the best way with a career-high matching 9.9 for the second week in a row, whereas Leigh additionally added a season-best 9.875. A pair of 9.8s from Pierson and Holmes-Hackerd adopted, and Yancey’s 9.775 rounded out West Virginia’s greatest occasion.
 
WVU closed the meet on beam, the place it overcame adversity following a fall to safe a 48.775. Leigh led the best way with one other season-best 9.85. Pierson secured a 9.775 and Combs added a 9.75, earlier than Holmes-Hackerd and Wehry posted a pair of 9.7s to shut the rotation.
 
Yancey was West Virginia’s lone all-around competitor, incomes a 38.375 complete on all 4 occasions.
 
West Virginia now has a fast turnaround, because it completes its first two-meet weekend of the season and travels to Denton, Texas, on Sunday, Feb. 26, to compete towards Texas Woman’s. Action inside TWU’s Kitty Magee Arena is scheduled for two p.m. ET.
 
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