Minot outduels Midgets for 3rd consecutive gymnastics title
JAMESTOWN — Minot and Dickinson keep raising the bar in gymnastics in North Dakota.By: Dave Selvig, Forum Communications Co.
- Brogan Burwick
- Jenna Mueller
JAMESTOWN — Minot and Dickinson keep raising the bar in gymnastics in North Dakota.
The state’s two premier teams went head-to-head again Friday and it was the Majettes who captured their third consecutive state championship with a season-best score of 149.150.
“We’ve been going back and forth with Dickinson all year,” Minot coach Pam Tweten said. “They have a very good team, but our girls were able to come through.”
The key to the win?
“We stayed on beam,” Tweten said. “Whoever stays on beam usually wins.”
Minot had three of the top four all-around finishers in Misha Taylor (37.950), who finished first overall, and Samantha Huether (37.300) and Brooklyn Bender, whose 37.133 was good for fourth.
Seventh-grader Acacia Fossum’s runner-up finish of 37.566 led the Midgets’ impressive 147.417. Their score was down slightly from last week’s West Region meet, but was nothing to hang their heads over.
“We can’t be down. We weren’t perfect, but we still performed pretty well,” Dickinson coach Kent Van Ells said. “We just got beat by a better team today.”
Van Ells added with a laugh: “That’s our highest team total since 1986. Little good it did us, huh?”
Jessica Gabriel of Bismarck Century, broke up a Minot and Dickinson sweep of the individual events, taking the bars with a 9.550.
Huether had the top score of the meet with sparkling 9.800 on vault.
The beam and floor each had two scores of 9.700 or better.
Dickinson freshman Mikaela Kessel nipped Taylor on the floor, 9.783 to 9.733.
Taylor was right in the hunt on beam too. Her 9.700 was second to Fossum’s 9.783.
“We did a lot of good things,” Van Ells said. “We’re a young team and hopefully we can have another good day (Saturday).”
The individual state meet begins at 2 p.m. CST today.
Selvig is the Sports Editor of The Jamestown Sun, which is owned by Forum Communications Co. The Dickinson Press staff contributed to this story.
North Dakota state meet
At Jamestown
Team scores: 1, Minot 149.150. 2, Dickinson 147.417. 3, Jamestown 141.850. 4, Bismarck Century 139.717. 5, Bismarck 138.883. 6, Fargo South 135.033. 7, Wahpeton 129.700. 8, Valley City 127.250. 9, Grand Forks 124.733. 10, Fargo North 121.217.
Vault
1, Minot 37.600. 2, Dickinson 36.933. 3, Bismarck Century 36.383. 4, Jamestown 36.167. 5, Bismarck 35.767. 6, Fargo South 35.283. 7, Wahpeton 35.167. 8, Fargo North 34.367. 9, Grand Forks 34.067. 10, Valley City 33.817.
Uneven bars
1, Minot 36.467. 2, Dickinson 35.383. 3, Bismarck Century 35.183. 4, Jamestown 34.600. 5, Bismarck 34.550. 6, Fargo South 31.600. 7, Wahpeton 30.717. 8, Valley City 30.267. 9, Grand Forks 29.133. 10, Fargo North 26.100.
Balance beam
1, Minot 37.050; 2, Dickinson 36.867; 3, Bismarck, 34.450; 4, Jamestown 34.117; 5, Bismarck Century 33.617; 6, Fargo South 33.517; 7, Fargo North 31.000; 8, Grand Forks 29.917; 9, Wahpeton 29.650; 10, Valley City 29.567.
Floor exercise
1, Dickinson 38.233; 2, Minot 38.033; 3, Jamestown 36.967; 4, Fargo South 34.633; 5, Bismarck Century 36.533; 6, Wahpeton 34.167; 7, Bismarck 34.117; 8, Valley City 33.600; 9, Grand Forks 31.617; 10, Fargo North 29.750.
Individual results (Top 20)
Vault
1, Samantha Huether, Minot, 9.8; 2, Mackenzie Keidel, BHS, 9.583; 3, Misha Taylor, Minot, 9.450; 4, Shalesa Wariner, DHS, 9.317; 5, Mckenzie Kostelecky, DHS, 9.3; 6, Alex Lind, JHS, 9.283; 7, Jessica Gabriel, Century, 9.25; 8, Brooklyn Bender, Minot, 9.233; 9, Keana Kudrna, DHS, 9.217; 10, Suzie Cox, Century, 9.167; 11, Kiara Bock, South, 9.15; 12, Payton Ringoen, Minot, 9.117; 13, Acacia Fossum, DHS, 9.1; 14, Brooke Lukach, JHS, 9.083; 15T, Savannah Fix, Minot, 9.067; 15T, Mikaela Kessel, DHS, 9.067; 17T, Steph Huether, Minot, 9.050; 19, Brogan Burwick, DHS, 9.033; 20, Megan Kelley, BHS, 8.967.
Bars
1, Gabriel, Century, 9.55; 2, Jennifer Albers, Century, 9.533; 2, Keidel, BHS, 9.483; 4, Bender, Minot, 9.3; 5, Lind, JHS, 9.283; 6, Huether, Minot, 915; 7, Taylor, Minot, 9.067; 8, Fossum, DHS, 9.050; 9, Burwick, DHS, 9.033; 10, Hannah Werchau, Minot, 8.95; 11T, Ringoen, Minot, 8.817; 11T, Bock, South, 8.817; 13, Jenna Breuer, Minot, 8.767; 14, Kudrna, DHS, 8.7; 15, Westereng, JHS, 8.617; 16, Kessel, DHS, 8.6; 17, Ashley Meyer, BHS, 8.433; 18, Lukach, JHS, 8.4; 19, Kelley, BHS, 8.333.
Beam
1, Fossum, DHS, 9.767; 2, Taylor, Minot, 9.7; 3, Bender, Minot, 9.267; 4, Kessel, DHS, 9.25; 5, Burwick, DHS, 9.217; 6, Allyson Hall, South, 9.167; 7, Werchau, Minot, 9.083; 8, Katlin Kelley, BHS, 9.050; 9, Bock, South, 9.017; 10T, Faith Marty, North, 9.0; 10T, Huether, Minot, 9.0; 12, M.Kelley, BHS, 8.95; 13, Albers, Century, 8.767; 14, Westereng, JHS, 8.717; 15, Ringoen, Minot, 8.7; 16, Gabriel, Century, 8.683; 17, Whitney Perrin, Century, 8.667; 18, Wariner, DHS, 8.633; 19, Jill Mueller, DHS, 8.6; 20, Lukach, JHS, 8.517.
Floor exercise
1, Kessel, DHS, 9.783; 2, Taylor, Minot, 9.733; 3, Fossum, DHS, 9.65; 4, Ringoen, Minot, 9.617; 5, Wariner, DHS, 9.5; 6, Gabriel, Century, 9.433; 7T, Lind, JHS, 9.417; 7T, Bock, South, 9.417; 9, Huether, Minot, 9.35; 10, Bender, Minot, 9.333; 11, Nelson, JHS, 9.317; 12, Burwick, DHS, 9.3; 13, Hall, South, 9.2; 14, Westereng, JHS, 9.183; 15, K.Kelley, BHS, 9.1; 16, Lukach, 9.05; 17, Fix, Minot, 8.9; 18, Kronebusch, JHS, 8.783; 19, Mackenzie Keidel, 8.75; 20, Sierra Roshau, DHS, 8.733.
All around
1, Taylor, Minot, 37.950; 2, Fossum, DHS, 37.567; 3, Huether, Minot, 37.3; 4, Bender, Minot, 37.133; 5, Gabriel, Century, 36.917; 6, Kessel, DHS, 36.700; 7, Burwick, DHS, 36.583; 8, Lind, JHS, 36.450; 9, Bock, South, 36.400; 10, Keidel, BHS, 36.267; 11, Ringoen, Minot, 36.250; 12, Westereng, JHS, 35.450; 13, K.Kelley, BHS, 35.400; 14, Wariner, DHS, 35.317; 15, Hall, South, 35.183; 16, Lukach, JHS, 35.050; 17, M.Kelley, BHS, 34.450; 18, Whitney Perrin, Century, 34.050; 19, Mikki Braun, Wahpeton, 33.350; 20, Madison Uglem, North, 33.183.
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