Nationals day! Championship o’clock! Whatnot! A mere 2 hours until we get to start prognosticating about how these rosters will change next season.
Oklahoma starts on vault, Florida on beam, Utah on floor, and LSU on bars (in the live blog on Thursday, I was looking at the wrong session draw assignments).
In the warmup period, Trinity got up and did a little bit of beam in the 8th spot, after the Thursday lineup and Nguyen did their sets. She didn’t do a full hit routine, but she also didn’t do that on vault before competing in the semifinal, so who knows at this point. Also the Oklahoma mat movers completely ate it trying to put the mat in place for Dunn’s dismount. A real shame you can’t GIF real life.
So, the LSU intro video definitely destroys the earth at the end. Biggest talking point is another year with 2 of the four teams in white leos. Yeah, there’s not a lot to say so far.
Rotation 1
Blakely – BB – Florida – aerial to bhs is strong – swtitch to switch 1/2 to beat, feet in switch 1/2, solid landing – gainer full, stuck. Good start.
Sievers – VT – Oklahoma – nearly holds the stick, step forward in the end
Jeffrey had a little arch on her first hs on bars, deep on her FTDT, not as much as day 1, but a step back. Brenner a little bouncy on her first pass on floor, a bit crooked on popa but fine. Controlled step on final pass.
Stern, small hop forward on y1.5, following 9.8625 for Sievers. Seeing plenty of 9.900s for Stern. Cowan step back on DLO on bars.
9.8375 for Jeffrey. 9.900 for Blakely.
Levassuer – VT – OU – larger pace forward on her Y1.5, not sticking yet…
Lazzari falls on her bhs loso loso series. Big squat on dismount
Gilstrap – FX – Utah – front lay to rudi, pretty form, rebound back – switch to switch ring 1/2, nice. Clean one.
Bowers – VT – OU – Y1.5, smaller step forward.
Tatum holds the stick on her FTDT on bars with a stagger. Was shy on the first handstand.
Bowers goes 9.900 with the step. Torrez comes into the vault lineup and finds a stick on her y1.5, deep landing to absorb it. But if they were already happy to go 9.900 for all these steps…
DiCello – BB – Florida – hits candle mount – wolf double, hit – switch to split, comfortable – smooth bhs loso series hit – aerial, comfortable – gainer full stick, very good.
Finnegan large lunge forward on bars dismount.
Trautman with a near stick on her Y1.5, just a little rebound, following 9.925 from Torrez.
Paulson hits back 1.5 to front lay final pass on floor.
9.950 for Trautman takes Oklahoma to 49.5625 on vault. If they’re going over 49.5 for not their best vault rotation, it’s going to be a long day for everyone else.
Shchennikova – hits Ray to pak, feet on ray – late on 1/2 turn on low – DLO is deeper with a hop forward today.
Wong – BB – Florida – switch to split leap – bhs loso, nice – full turn, smooth – aerial to beat, lean correction – 2/1, hop back
9.800 for Shchennikova. Smith with a clean rudi to loso on floor.
Bryant – UB – LSU – hits first hs – blind to jaeger – some pike swining through to bail, gets to vertical – double front 1/2, small movement. Good.
McCusker – BB – Florida – following 9.9125 for Wong – wolf double, nice – aerial, solidly done – bhs loso, secure landing – switch to split leap, lovely obviously – gainer full, stuck. Look at you, Miss Riley.
Nguyen replaces Richards on beam. Big move. I like it. But will it pay off.
Rucker had a bit of a lean on her opening pass on floor, tried to hold the stick with ended up leaning and stepping some.
LSU went 49.3125 on bars. I’m seeing lots of 9.950s for McCusker. 9.9375 score.
Nguyen – BB – Florida – onodi to bhs, keeps moving through the combination – full turn, holds it – switch to split leap, nice – bhs 1.5, hop to the side. Florida avoids counting the fall and got super solid after it. Will be a huge rotation score.
O’Keefe a bit of a slide forward dance out on her final pass but a solid one. 9.900.
Nguyen goes 9.875 to get Florida to 49.525. O’Keefe’s 9.900 takes Utah to 49.500. So we’ve got a race, and Florida is keeping themselves in it early.
After 1:
Oklahoma 49.5625
Florida 49.525
Utah 49.500
LSU 49.3125
A test coming up for Utah as they’ll have to produce the vault landings, or at least close enough to get 9.9 with a big lunge, that can stay with OU’s bars and just floor scoring in general.
Rotation 2
Sievers – UB – OU – good first hs – maloney to pak, good legs together – hits 1/2 turn on low – FTDT, hit.
O’Keefe struggles on yfull, lands chest forward with a hop. Arenas holds the stick on her 1.5 beam dismount with a lean.
9.7375 for O’Keefe, 9.925 for Sievers.
Brenner – VT% – Utah – hits y1.5, knees, medium hop forward. And gets a 9.900
9.8875 for Nguyen on floor. Fletcher folds the stick on FTDT on bars.
Blakely – FX – Florida – back 1.5 to front lay, bounce out, a bit low on layout pass. switch ring to switch 1/2 is hit – switch ring 1/2 is good – double pike, hit, little rebound.
Hoffman lands short on Y1.5 on vault with a step back –
Trautman – UB – OU – maloney to pak, nice – 1/2 turn on low, a bit of angle – DLO, hit.
Smith lands a bit short on her Omelianchik, slide back. They’re already counting a 9.7 in this rotation.
Blakely goes 9.8625, a but high for me. Oklahoma continuing to get 50s on bars.
Rucker – VT – Utah – y 1.5, shuffle back, two little steps.
Smith with a hop back on her double pike out on bars, very nice on the bars.
I didn’t see what happened in Arenas’s beam to give her 9.475, but LSU is working against that now. Jeffrey hits her loso series.
Baumann with a step forward on final double pike on floor.
Gilstrap with a small rebound on her yfull to finish what will be a low-scoring vault rotation for Utah. Looked like a LOT of people trying VERY hard to stick and coming up short.
