Completed Event: Gymnastics versus NCAA Championship Final on April 19, 2025 , , 4th of 4 (197.2375)
Final Score
Gymnastics
4th of 4 (197.2375)
vs NCAA Championship Final
Saturday, January 23
Salt Lake City
3:00 PM
University of Utah
196.125
vs
195.125
Oregon State
Capacity Crowd of 15,550 Sees Ute Gymnasts Beat OSU
1/23/2016 12:00 AM | Gymnastics
Jan. 23, 2016
SALT LAKE CITY -
The first afternoon home gymnastics meet in Utah history was a rousing success, as a standing-room crowd of 15,550 packed the Huntsman Center to see No. 6 Utah beat No. 11 Oregon State 196.125-195.125 before a live audience on the Pac-12 Network.
With the fire marshall designating a maximum of 15,550 fans permitted in the building after last year's record crowd of 16,019 vs. Michigan, the result was that fans were turned back at the doors today. They were compensated with tickets to the next home meet on Feb. 1 vs. Arizona.
Those who got inside saw a great meet for three rotations before both Utah and OSU stumbled to the finish. After three rotations, Utah, which was coming off a season-high 49.275 on the beam, led the Beavers 147.700-147.125.
And for the first three floor routines, it looked like Utah would crack 197.0 for the first time this season when Breanna Hughes, Sabrina Schwab and Samantha Partyka put up respective career highs of 9.90, 9.925 and 9.875. But Maddy Stover, who just minutes before had anchored Utah's beam set with a winning (and career-high) 9.925, fell on her first collegiate floor routine. All-American Kari Lee stepped out of bounds on the next routine and Tiffani Lewis fared even worse with an out of bounds and a fall.
"We started off strong on three events, but continue to struggle on floor," said co-head coach Tom Farden. "Remember, we lost four incredible floor routines from a year ago (Georgia Dabritz, Tory Wilson, Becky Tutka and Corrie Lothrop) and we coaches are still trying to tweak this young lineup to find a combination that works. We have extra training days next week (due to the meet schedule) and we'll need them to get things figured out on floor."
Certainly, there were plenty of highlights through 21 of the 24 routines performed by Utah, especially from Hughes (9.90 on vault and floor), Baely Rowe (9.95 on bars and 9.90 on beam), Schwab (9.925 on floor and 9.80 on bars) and Partyka (9.85 on vault, 9.80 on beam and 9.875 on floor).
Utah swept the event titles in impressive team fashion with Hughes winning vault, Rowe bars, Stover beam and Schwab floor.
Rowe, in particular, knew she'd landed a big one on bars, when she made a curtain call for her bar routine, flashing a U to the crowd even before her career-high 9.95 score was raised. "I thought during the routine that I was hitting every handstand and when I stuck the dismount I was like, `Wow, that's the best routine I've ever done.'"
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