No. 20 Gymnastics Posts Season-Best 196.650 in Narrow Loss to No. 14 Auburn

Friday, January 24

Auburn, Ala.

7 p.m. CT

University of Missouri

196.650

196.700

Auburn

No. 20 Gymnastics Posts Season-Best 196.650 in Narrow Loss to No. 14 Auburn

1/24/2020 10:07:00 PM | Gymnastics

AUBURN, Ala. – Redshirt senior Morgan Porter (Overland, Mo.) and freshman Helen Hu (Chicago, Ill.) each won two titles as No. 14 Auburn squeaked by No. 20 Mizzou, 196.700-196.650, Friday night in Auburn, Ala. The score was a full point better than Mizzou's previous season-high of 195.600.

Hu tallied scores of 9.95 on beam and 9.925 on bars to take home her fourth and fifth event titles of the season, and Porter tallied a 9.9 on to win floor and a season-best 49.425 for the all-around win. Freshman Sienna Schreiber (Cumming, Ga.) took second in the all-around with a career-best 39.375.

BARS

Mizzou opened the meet with a 49.225 on bars, which was a season-best and the highest score for the team since a 49.275 on the event against Florida on March 3, 2018. Hu won her second-straight bars title after a 9.925 in the anchor position. Senior Aspen Tucker (Lehigh Acres, Fla.) led off the rotation with a 9.85, while redshirt senior Morgan Porter (Overland, Mo.) notched the same score. Junior Chelsey Christensen (Rapid City, S.D.) tied her career-mark with a 9.8, and sophomore Alisa Sheremeta (Circleville, N.Y.) went 9.8 as well.

VAULT

A 49.300 in the second rotation kept the visiting Tigers right in the meet. The team tally tied the sixth-best score in program history and was the best on the event since Mizzou set the program record with a 49.425 on Jan. 15, 2017. The Tigers notched three career-bests in the rotation, with 9.9s from sophomore Hannah McCrary (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and freshman Sienna Schreiber (Cumming, Ga.) and a 9.85 from freshman Kambrie Brandt (Adkins, Texas). Both Tucker and Porter added 9.825s and junior Gabrielle Gottula (Spring, Texas) went 9.8.

FLOOR

Porter paced the visiting Tigers with a 9.9 to claim the floor crown as the team went 48.700 overall on the event. The redshirt senior's score tied her season-best was her fourth of 9.85 or better in four meets this season. Schreiber and Gottula both tallied 9.85s, which was a personal-best for Schreiber, and McCrary added a 9.8.

BEAM

The second-highest beam score in program history closed out the night with a 49.425 on the apparatus. Hu tied her career-high with a 9.95 for her fourth score of 9.9 or higher on the event this season. Gottula also tied her career-mark with a 9.925. Porter, Schreiber and McCrary all tallied 9.85s, which tied Schreiber's best and set a new career-high for McCrary.

QUOTABLES

Mizzou Head Coach Shannon Welker
"We did a nice job from rebounding from last week. We had a nice solid start on bars, still need to stick a few more dismounts, but we went 49.2-plus and only stuck one dismount, so that gives me a lot of optimism. On vault, I think that was our best round since I've been here at Mizzou. We put up three 10.0 vaults and they all did a nice job. I knew we had it in us and we finally put it all together. We had a couple mistakes on the front and back ends on floor, uncharacteristic from people who have been super solid for us. But the middle of our lineup did pretty well and they managed the mistakes well. After floor we gathered and said let's make this last event our best event of the night. They responded so well with our highest beam score of the year. Overall we had lots of good stuff and I hope the fans come out and see us next weekend.