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W. Gymnastics. No. 16 Auburn Gymnastics Entertains No. 4 Florida (Auburn Tigers) Posted: 25 Feb 2010 11:47 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Feb. 25, 2010 Auburn Meet Notes Florida Meet Notes AUBURN- The No. 16 Auburn gymnastics team (2-4, 2-3 SEC) returns to action after a week off to host the No. 4 Florida Gators Friday, Feb. 26, at Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum. The meet will be tape-delayed by Fox Sports South (FSS), with Brian Drebber and Lori Strong Ballard on the call, and will air on March 6 at 4 p.m. Magnetic sculptures will be given away to the first 300 fans courtesy of Anders Bookstore, while the meet will be followed by a team autograph session. "We're excited for another great meet. We've hosted some of the top teams in the country at our place this year, and this meet against Florida on Friday just adds to it," said head coach Jeff Thompson. "We're going to go out there and put on a show. They're an awesome team, one of the best in the country, so we're going to go out there and do our best." Friday's meet marks the 58th all-time meeting between the Gators and Tigers, with Florida holding a 45-12 advantage in the series. Florida has defeated Auburn in 11 consecutive meets, as Auburn last defeated Florida on Feb. 13, 2004, 197.00-196.900 in Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum. Last season, the No. 4 Auburn Tigers were defeated by No. 1 Florida by a narrow 196.500-196.250 margin in Gainesville. Auburn then fell to the Gators at the SEC Championships, 196.750-196.350. Florida enters the meet after edging Georgia, 197.25-197.15 on Feb. 19 in what was a season-high mark for the Gators and the first time Florida has cracked the 197 point barrier since 2008. A pair of Gator freshman earned SEC honors for their performances in the Georgia meet, as Ashanee Dickerson was named SEC Gymnast of the Week and Marissa King was named SEC Freshman Gymnast of the Week. Dickerson earned the honor as she tied her collegiate-best of 9.925 of floor, and a pair of 9.95's on vault and beam to earn her fourth all-around title with a 39.625. King earned the freshman of the week after scoring season-bests on bars (9.875), floor (9.85) and beam (9.825). She totaled a collegiate best in the all-around with a 39.425 to place second in the meet behind Dickerson. Dickerson will enter the meet at the No. 3 all-around competitor in the country, while King is ranked No. 16. Dickerson ranks fifth on vault, No. 19 on beam, and fourth on floor. Miranda Smith ranks in the top 20 on vault as she is No. 17, as well as bars where she is No. 18. A pair of other gymnasts, Nicole Ellis and Liz Green also find themselves in the top 20, as Ellis is No. 17 on bars while Green is No. 19 on beam. The Gators rank in the top 6 in the country in all team events, as they are No. 3 on vault (49.27), No. 4 on floor (49.135), No. 5 on bars (49.075), and No. 6 on beam (48.96). Live stats and video for Friday's meet can be accessed via AuburnTigers.com, while live updates can be found by following AU_Gymnastics on Twitter. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

State gymnastics: Tech among contenders for 1st place (St. Cloud Times) Posted: 25 Feb 2010 10:40 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. MINNEAPOLIS — You're not going to pin down Joel Stark-Haws on how the St. Cloud Tech/Cathedral gymnastics team is going to do today. It's anywhere from first to seventh. "My hope for the next two days is, like always, I'd like for us to go 20-for-20 in our routines," said Stark-Haws, in his first season as Tech/Cathedral's head coach. "If we do what we can do, it's hard to say: Anywhere from seventh to — I hate to say it — first. "But you never know." The Class 2A team competition, which begins at 6 p.m. today at the University of Minnesota Sports Pavillion, is wide open. Defending champion Roseville is ranked seventh and No. 1-ranked Elk River/Zimmerman/Rogers was split up before section competition. Only Rogers made the state team tournament and it advanced with a 144 score. "It is kind of open," Stark-Haws said. Competing at 11 a.m. today is the Class A team championships, which includes fourth-ranked Becker and fifth-ranked Melrose. Defending state champion Perham is No. 1-ranked and the overwhelming favorite. The tournament concludes Saturday with the individual competition. There are 19 area athletes competing, including Annandale's Anna Woelfel, who is the defending state Class A champion in the vault. Tech/Cathedral enters today's competition with only two members of its 12-person contingent with state-meet experience: seniors Anna Heine and Steph Strandberg. Heine competed last year when Tech/Cathedral finished second for the fourth straight season. Strandberg competed with Tech/Cathedral as a sophomore, but didn't compete last year because of a knee injury. The lack of experience at the state level is why Stark-Haws isn't sure how the Tigers will do. "This group really wasn't in the limelight until this season," he said. The Class 2A meet is indeed close. Four teams have hit a 147 in competition, including second-ranked Cambridge-Isanti, third-ranked Northfield/Cannon Falls, fifth-ranked Lakeville North and seventh-ranked Roseville. Fourth-ranked Tech/Cathedral is one of three teams to have scored a 146 or better. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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