University of Missouri
Iowa State
No. 23 Missouri Falls to No. 19 Iowa State
3/8/2003 12:00:00 AM | Gymnastics
March 8, 2003
Ames, Iowa- Although the Mizzou gymnastics team added nearly four points to its previous score against the Iowa State Cyclones, the Tigers were unable to pull out their second victory over ISU in Ames, Iowa. Missouri scored a solid 195.375 to register their eighth-highest program score, but were defeated by the Cyclones' 196.450. The loss brings Missouri to a 1-3 Big 12 Conference season finish, with a 9-6 mark overall.
Missouri got off to a jittery start opening the meet scoring a 48.300 on the uneven bars. Mizzou established bars leader Andrea Nervig scored a 9.775 on the apparatus and was followed by fellow junior Lindsay Davis who topped the Tigers with a 9.725.
Mizzou got back into its standard rhythm on the vault scoring its second 49.200 team-high score of the year. Repeating a record breaking rotation, Mizzou's freshmen Jodie Heinicka and Lauren Schwartzman each posted a 9.825. Fellow newcomer Katie Roets put up a 9.800 score bringing in Rachel Bridges to tie her career-mark for the fourth time in 2003 with a 9.850. Sophomore Alisha Robinson rounded out the lineup for Mizzou scoring a 9.875 vault and tying Mizzou's seventh-highest individual vault score.
Keeping tempo on the floor exercise, Missouri scored a 48.950 to help boost their meet. Sophomore Ashley Asraf opened the rotation foreshadowing good things to come in the round, posting a 9.675. Missouri's scores only went up from there as Davis and Nervig each recorded a 9.775 and Bridges put up a 9.725. Finishing up the rotation, Schwartzman scored a 9.825 routine and Robinson again led the Tigers with a 9.850 performance.
Summing up its competition, Schwartzman and Robinson again led the team recording consecutive 9.825 marks. Also helping the Tigers, Dombart and Bridges each scored a 9.775 and Davis posted a 9.725. The scores brought Mizzou to a 48.925 beam total that usurps the program's seventh-highest team total. The mark is also the Tigers' fourth top-10 score Mizzou has posted on the apparatus this year.
The Tigers keep to their road schedule appearing next weekend in Fayetteville, Ark. Mizzou faces the Arkansas Razorbacks on Fri., March 14 at 7:00 p.m.
