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Top-ranked Oklahoma won its fifth consecu-tive conference title Saturday night, placing first at the 2016 MPSF Conference Champi-onship in Palo Alto, Calif., with a team score of 448.050. Stanford was 2nd with 444.65, California 3rd at 435.55 and Air Force 4th with 429.20 In addition to the team title, three Sooners claimed individual conference champion-ships, with junior Allan Bower winning the all-around (90.100), senior Kanji Oyama

claiming his third straight vault title (15.400) and freshman Yul Moldauer taking parallel bars (16.100). The Sooners started the night on floor led by a 15.500 from junior Colin Van Wicklen. Sophomore Hunter Justus also topped the 15-point mark, scoring 15.200 in the leadoff po-sition, while Oyama and Moldauer both con-tributed 14.750s. OU moved to pommel horse and Bower paced the Sooners with a 15.050. Oklahoma also got a 14.550 from senior Sergey Resnick

and a 14.400 from Moldauer. At the end of the second rotation, OU faced something it hadn’t seen all year; the Sooners sat in third place and trailed first by 2.500 points. Competing on rings, OU turned in a team score of 75.900 to eat into the Cardinal lead. Justus paced the Sooners, turning in a career-best 15.500. Thao Hoang (15.450), Oyama (15.100) and junior Reese Rickett (15.000). On to vault Oyama set the tone for the rota-tion with a stuck landing and a 15.400. Bower turned in a 15.300 and Van Wicklen added a 15.050 of his own. Senior Josh Yee led off the set with a 14.950. If the Sooners were heating up in rotations three and four, they were fully on fire in the fifth. On parallel bars all five OU competitors scored at least 14.900 en route to an NCAA-record 77.000. Moldauer led the way with a career-best 16.100 that marked the nation’s highest score of the year on the event. OU also saw a 15.600 from Bower, a career-best 15.350 from Oyama and a 15.050 from Justus. After their p-bars explosion, the Sooners had vaulted into the lead by more than two full points. OU finished on high bar as Freshman Levi Anderson paced OU with a 15.050. Moldauer and Van Wicklen also turned in solid routines with a 14.950 and 14.850, respectively. STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Despite holding onto the lead through the first four events, No. 2 Stanford was unable to hold on as No. 1 Oklahoma claimed their fifth straight MPSF title Saturday afternoon at Burnham Pavilion. On vault Robert Neff and Grant Brecken-

ridge both posted scores just shy of their ca-reer bests. Taylor Seaton led the Cardinal with a 15.200. The Cardinal stepped up to the parallel bars led by Akash Modi with a 15.450 followed up with Dennis Zaremski’s 15.400 and Brian Knott’s 15.000. As a team, Stanford posted a 75.450 for its second-best score of the season to lead the meet by 2.700 after two events. Heading to the high bar Grant Breckenridge led off the event for the Cardinal, only to post the best score of the day in the event as well as career-best score of 15.250. Taylor Seaton also stepped up to post a career-best 15.150 while taking second in the event on the day. Headed to floor next, Akash Modi led the day with a 15.650 score that helped propel the

Cardinal, though Oklahoma claimed the team event with the second and third best scores on the day. Jacob Barrus’ career-best 15.050 helped send the Cardinal to a 1.000 lead after four results. The turning point on the day came when Oklahoma set an NCAA team record of 77.000 on parallel bars in the next event, top-ping the former record of 76.900 held by Stanford on February 6, 2016. The Cardinal posted a 71.700 on pommel horse in the rota-tion, but the damage was done as the Sooners took a 4.300 lead headed into the final event. The Cardinal moved to the rings in the final event of the meet where Dennis Zaremski posted a 15.550 to win the event on the day while Akash Modi put up a season-best 14.800. The effort wasn’t enough though as the Sooners finished the meet with a 448.050 team score to Stanford’s 444.650 and clinch their fifth straight MPSF title. In the all-around Akash Modi took second place in the meet with a 89.800 overall score. The meet is the first NCAA meet of the year that Modi has not taken home the all-around title in.

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The California Golden Bears placed third in the MPSF (Mountain Pacific Sports Feder-ation) Championships on Saturday night from Burnham Pavilion on the campus of Stanford University, posting a team score of 435.550. Senior co-captain Kevin Wolting posted an all-around score of 88.850, including three event scores over 15.050 and sophomore Yordan Ale-ksandrov scored a pair of career bests. On floor exercise Wolt-ing led the way with a 15.100, while fresh-man Aaron Mah earned a score of 14.800 from the judges, junior Nicho-las Del Junco scored a 14.750 and senior co-captain Kyle Zemeir posted a score of 14.700. The Bears saw junior Adam Young tie his career collegiate best on pommel horse with a score of 14.050. Senior Takahiro Kawada posted a score of 15.200 to lead the way for the team, while Wolting also set a career best, scoring a 15.050. Sophomore Yordan Aleksandrov posted one of two career highs on the day on still rings, as he garnered a score of 14.600. In addition to Aleksandrov’s strong showing on the appa-ratus, Zemeir paced the team with his 15.000 routine and Wolting added a score of 14.800. The best event of the day as a team for the Bears was vault, as they tallied a team score of 74.000. Zemier set a new career mark with a 15.250 vault, while fellow senior Kevin Ko nearly did the same, scoring a 14.800. Wolt-ing chipped in with another spectacular per-formance, earning a 15.100 to help pace the Bears. Aleksandrov was unbelievable on parallel bars, finishing second in the conference with a score of 15.750, which was a new career best. His score, along with three other hit rou-tines, helped the Bears to a team score of 73.350. Zemeir posted a score of 14.800, while junior Michael Diliberto scored a 14.600. Cal totaled a score of 73.050 on high bar, behind a team-high score of 14.900 by Wolt-ing, a strong routine by Aleksandrov (14.800) and fellow sophomore Gagik Gharibyan (14.750). Zemeir and Mah also were solid, tallying totals of 14.300 each.

U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY With a season-high score of 15.450, Air Force sophomore Arinn Wade won the pom-mel horse at the Mountain Pacific Sports Fed-eration Men’s Gymnastics Championships this evening (April 2) at Stanford – becoming the Falcons’ first-ever conference champion in the MPSF. Air Force, which placed at least one gymnast

in the top-10 on five events, tallied a 429.200 to finish fourth in the overall team standings Wade, who became the first Academy gym-nast to capture a conference title since Jerry Michael Cline (floor exercise) and Joel Miller (still rings) won titles at the 1991 WAC Championships, registered the second-highest total of his career to better the field by 0.250 points. The sophomore paced the Falcons to a

pair of top-five finishes, as junior Tim Wang finished fifth with a 14.900. Fellow juniors Aaron Nubine and Chase Cannon also finished within the top-five of their respective events, as Nubine scored a season-high 15.100 to tie for fourth on the floor exercise and Cannon posted a 14.900 to tie for fifth on the high bar. Nubine paced a trio of Falcons to top-10 finishes on the floor exercise, as Wang and senior Denis Aurelius finished in ties for eighth (14.900) and 10th (14.800), respective-ly. Wang, who finished sixth in the all-around (87.400), also paced the Falcons on the paral-lel bars (career-best 14.900, 10th tie) and tied with Aurelius for the team lead on the still rings (15.000, eighth tie). Freshman Christian Kalustian rounded out the Falcons’ event leaders, as he finished 12th on the vault with a score of 14.600. CONTINUED NEXT PAGE

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ALL AROUND

1. Allan Bower, University Of Okla. 90.100 2. Akash Modi, Stanford University 89.800 3.Yul Moldauer, University Of Okla. 89.300 4. Kevin Wolting, UC Berkeley 88.850 5. Kyle Zemeir, UC Berkeley 87.500 6. Tim Wang, Air Force 87.400

FLOOR EXERCISE

1. Akash Modi, Stanford University 15.650 2. Colin VanWicklen, Univ. Of Okla. 15.500 3. Hunter Justus, University Of Okla. 15.200 4T. Aaron Nubine, Air Force 15.100 4T. Kevin Wolting, UC Berkeley 15.100 6. Jacob Barrus, Stanford University 15.050 7. Allan Bower, University Of Okla. 14.950 8T. Tim Wang, Air Force 14.900 8T. Robert Neff, Stanford University 14.900 POMMEL HORSE

1. Arinn Wade, Air Force 15.450 2. Takahiro Kawada, UC Berkeley 15.200 3T. Kevin Wolting, UC Berkeley 15.050 3T. Allan Bower, University Of Okla. 15.050 5. Tim Wang, Air Force 14.900 6. Brian Knott, Stanford University 14.750 7T. Drew Willoughby, Stanford Univ. 14.550 7T. Sergey Resnick, Univ. Of Okla. 14.550 9. Andrew Misiolek, Stanford Univ. 14.450

RINGS

1. Dennis Zaremski, Stanford Univ 15.550 2. Hunter Justus, University Of Okla. 15.500 3. Thao Hoang, University Of Okla. 15.450 4. Kanji Oyama, University Of Okla. 15.100 5T. Josiah Eng, Stanford University 15.000 5T. Reese Rickett, University Of Okla. 15.000 5T. Kyle Zemeir, UC Berkeley 15.000 5T. Tim Wang, Air Force 15.000 5T. Denis Aurelius, Air Force 15.000

VAULT

1. Kanji Oyama, University Of Okla. 15.400 2. Allan Bower, University Of Okla. 15.300 3. Kyle Zemeir, UC Berkeley 15.250 4. Taylor Seaton, Stanford University 15.200 5T. Kevin Wolting, UC Berkeley 15.100 5T. Akash Modi, Stanford University 15.100 7. Colin VanWicklen, Univ. Of Okla. 15.050 8. Josh Yee, University Of Oklahoma 14.950 9. Grant Breckenridge, Stanford Univ. 14.850

PARALLEL BARS

1. Yul Moldauer, University Of Okla. 16.100 2. Yordan Aleksandrov, UC Berkeley 15.750 3. Allan Bower, University Of Okla. 15.600 4. Akash Modi, Stanford University 15.450 5. Dennis Zaremski Stanford University 15.400 6. Kanji Oyama, University Of Okla. 15.350 7. Hunter Justus, University Of Okla. 15.050 8. Brian Knott, Stanford University 15.000 9T. Grant Breckenridge, Stanford Univ. 14.900 9T. Tim Wang, Air Force 14.900 9T. Sergey Resnick, Univ. Of Okla. 14.900 HORIZONTAL BAR

1. Grant Breckenridge, Stanford Univ. 15.250 2. Taylor Seaton, Stanford University 15.150 3. Levi Anderson, University Of Okla. 15.050 4. Yul Moldauer, University Of Okla. 14.950 5T. Kevin Wolting, UC Berkeley 14.900 5T. Chase Cannon, Air Force 14.900

HORIZONTAL BAR-continued 7. Colin VanWicklen, Univ. Of Okla. 14.850 8. Yordan Aleksandrov, UC Berkeley 14.800 9. Gagik Gharibyan, UC Berkeley 14.750 9. Brian Knott, Stanford University 14.750

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