No. 15 @MizzouGym Notches Second-Best Score of the Season at Mardi Gras Invitational

Friday, February 15

St. Charles, Mo. (Family Arena)

6:30 p.m.

University of Missouri

196.475

197.250

#5 LSU

No. 15 @MizzouGym Notches Second-Best Score of the Season at Mardi Gras Invitational

2/15/2019 10:26:00 PM | Gymnastics

ST CHARLES, Mo. – The No. 15 Mizzou gymnastics team recorded it's second-highest score of the season with a 196.475 to place third at the Mardi Gras Invitational Friday night at The Family Arena in St. Charles, Mo. No. 5 LSU claimed the team win with a 197.250, followed by No. 4 Utah in second with a 197.075 and Stanford in fourth after a 195.850.

Senior Madeleine Huber (St. Louis, Mo.) tied for the bars win with a career-high-tying 9.925. The Tigers also posted a 49 or better on all four events, including a season-high 49.175 on bars in the final rotation.

KEY PERFORMANCES

A 49.000 on beam in the opening rotation got the Tigers off to a solid start. Sophomore Lauren Clevenger (Catoosa, Okla.) anchored the lineup with a career-best 9.875, which was good enough to tie her for second overall on the event. Sophomore Gabrielle Gottula (Spring, Texas) earned a 9.85 and senior Brooke Kelly (Birmingham, Ala.) added a 9.8.

Mizzou notched its highest event score of the evening on floor, as the squad went 49.200 in the second rotation. Junior Mary Nicholson (North Richland Hills, Texas) tied her season-best with a 9.875 to lead all six Tigers with scores of 9.8 or better. Senior Michaelee Turner (Parkville, Mo.) recorded a season-high 9.85 in the second spot in the lineup, and Huber and junior Aspen Tucker (Lehigh Acres, Fla.) both notched 9.825s. Gottula added a 9.8 as well.

Redshirt junior Morgan Porter (Overland, Mo.) scored a season-best 9.875 in the leadoff position to help Mizzou go 49.100 as a team on vault. Huber also earned a season-high score as she went 9.85, while Tucker and sophomore Chelsey Christensen (Rapid City, S.D.) added 9.8s, which was a personal-best for Christensen.

The Tigers closed the night with the season-high 49.175 on bars. Huber scored a career-best 9.925 for the fourth time in her Mizzou career to tie for the event win. Porter went a 9.875 for the second event in a row to post a season-best on the apparatus, while senior Becca Schugel (Eagan, Minn.) scored a 9.825.

QUOTABLES

Mizzou Head Coach Shannon Welker
"I thought we did a nice job. We had some new people step up again in places, so I was really pleased about that. Our landings were better overall, except for bars, we need to clean those up a little bit. Overall I was really pleased with what we did today. It was a good way to start our double weekend."