Florida Gymnastics wins at Auburn in SEC Opener

#7 Florida gymnastics goes on the road for the first time this season with an SEC matchup against the #12 Auburn Tigers. Both teams started the season last week with quad meets. UF at home against Fisk, George Washington and Talladega. Auburn, in Las Vegas, against Oklahoma, Michigan and UCLA.

Definitely a tough schedule for the Tigers as they finished third out of that group at 196.813. Florida won their quad meet with a 197.100 score. Florida with their young lineup would face a loud, raucous sold out crowd of 9,121 in Neville arena. Your road rotation is uneven bars, vault, floor exercise and balance beam. 6 gymnasts competing for the five highest scores.

Uneven Bars- Last week 48.950. Nationally ranked 30th on the bars.

Freshman Gabby Disidore- stuck landing. Feet together. 9.875

Sloan Blakely-great handstands. Small hop on landing. 9.825

Victoria Nguyen-over rotated on high bar. Stuck landing. 9.850

Freshman Anya Pilgrim- twist dismount. Sticks it. 9.90 An even higher score than her debut last week.

Freshman Skylar Draser- bobble on low bar. Hop. 9.775 the dropped score. Skylar substituted Ellie Lazzari from the original lineup at the last minute.

Leanne Wong- crushes it! Stuck landing. Maybe a 10 at home. 9.950

Florida scores a 49.400 and leads Auburn .300 after one rotation

Vault- last week 49.275. National rank 7th on the vault.

Bri Edwards-last minute sub. Ties for the highest score tonight for UF 9.875

Skylar Draser- Yurchenko 1 1/2. Landed on the line, deduction. 9.800

Freshman Danny Ferris- big hop. 9.725, the dropped score

Victoria Nguyen-big vault. Small side hop. 9.825

Leanne Wong- nice clean vault 9.850

Anya Pilgrim- great height and landing. 9.875

Florida scores 49.225 and leads Auburn .350 after two rotations.

Floor Excersise - last week 49.450. Nationally ranked third on the floor exercise.

Lori Brubach- first pass, the long run from corner to corner, front layout very smooth. Second pass back double twists. 9.90

Victoria Nguyen- first pass front double twist. Second pass 1 1/2 front layout. 9.90

Ellie Lazzari- first pass front double flip. Second pass 1 ½ front layout. 9.850

Sloan Blakely- first pass front flip, little hop. Second pass 1 1/2 front flip. 9.825 The dropped score.

Morgan Hurd- first pass front layout. Second pass stuck double back flip. 9.875

Leanne Wong- first pass double Pike. And 2nd

Pass back flip twist. 9.950

Florida scores a 49.475 and leads Auburn by .525 going into the final rotation.

Balance Beam- last week 49.425. Ranked second in the nation on beam.

Skylar Draser- nice triple combination. A little hop on the landing. 9.850

Ellie Lazzari- triple flip, wobble. Nice landing 9.750. The dropped score.

Morgan Hurd- wolf turn, wobble. Back flips, wobble. Great twist dismount, sticks the landing. 9.825

Sloan Blakely- slight balance check on flip. Great splits. Nails landing. 9.875

Victoria Nguyen- fabulous front to back flip combination. Can seal the win with a 9.925 score however she scores a 9.800.

Leanne Wong- the meet comes to the last competitor for Florida. Leanne needs a 9.8 to clinch the win or if she happens to unlikely fall would cost Florida the meet. Back flip series. Double back flip landing, sticks it. 9.875!

The Gators fend off a huge push by Auburn on their last rotation on the floor to win 197.325 to 197.025

    Another nail biter in the Auburn series. In 2022 Auburn would tie Florida at 198.575. Their only non win that year until the one loss against Oklahoma in the finals. Leanne Wong takes home the all around title at 39.625 with Victoria Wynn 4th in the all around at 39.375

    We saw seven freshmen scores this week down from 10 as Coach Rowland tinker’s with the lineup. Expect to see a lot of variety this year with the freshman class mixed in. Overall a solid win on the road. UF improves on their score from last week as they work to get better and better as the season moves through SEC competition. Next up #3 Alabama at home