UCLA lands triumphantly against OSU
By Daily Bruin Staff
Feb. 19, 2001 9:00 p.m.
UCLA 198.25 OSU 196.375
By Adam Karon
Daily Bruin Staff
The UCLA gymnastics team visited Oregon last weekend and came
back with much more than fond memories of Corvallis.
The top-ranked Bruins set school records, achieved career high
scores and finally surpassed the coveted high score of 198.00.
“We are really excited to meet another one of our
goals,” Head Coach Valorie Kondos Field said after her team
became the only one in the nation to surpass 198.00.
The Bruins beat OSU 198.25-196.375. Both scores were records for
the respective schools, but the evening was draped in Bruin Blue
and Gold from the start.
In the first rotation, the Bruins compiled a 49.325 on bars, led
by Mohini Bhardwaj’s 9.95. It was enough to give UCLA the
lead, and was only the beginning.
The Bruins got better as the evening wore on. They scored 49.575
on the vault, a season high, behind a perfect 10 from Onnie Willis.
Four other Bruins ““ Kristen Maloney, Jamie Dantzscher, Yvonne
Tousek and Kristin Parker ““ scored career highs on the
apparatus.
But the Bruins didn’t stop there. They turned in a 49.65
on the floor exercise. Dantzscher nailed a perfect 10, and Willis
scored her career high with a 9.975.
The last rotation was the most important for the Bruins.
“We got to the beam and I told them this is where we won
the national championship last year,” Kondos Field said.
“They really earned every score on the beam.”
Maloney became the first Bruin to score a perfect 10 on the
beam.
“I was really excited,” she said. “I
didn’t really expect it. It was a goal of mine, so I just
kept working really hard and it was nice to reach my
goal.”
UCLA set a new school record on the balance beam, scoring a
cumulative 49.7 on the final rotation of the day.
“The score really doesn’t show the energy,”
Kondos Field said. “The energy was pretty flat all night. But
they rose to the occasion.”
For the Beavers, Katrina Severin scored a perfect 10 on the
vault to tie with Willis. Stephanie Bychowski scored a 9.95 on the
beam to tie for second and Lara Adegenhardt scored a 9.975 on the
floor to secure second place.
Willis won her second consecutive all-around title with a career
high 39.675. Kristin Parker was close behind with a 39.625.
With contributions by Eli Karon, Daily Bruin Contributor.
