Southern Connecticut, Rhode Island visit Brown Friday March 14th, 2008, 7pm, Pizzitola Center, Providence, RI By David F.P.(Scores from Troester.) Teams: (Last meet scores, high score, average score.) SCSU (182.575, 188.600, 185.106) URI (189.0, 190.625, 188.411) BROWN (184.325, 186.725, 183.666) Highest Team Event Score: SCSU Floor 48.225 URI Bars 48.2 BROWN Floor 47.8 Notes: One week after Southern Connecticut made a trip to southern Rhode Island, they will be back in the state, only this time at the capital of Providence as they face Brown. URI will also take on their fellow instate team and Brown has been supportive of Rhody’s efforts to maintain their program throughout the crisis. SCSU will be taking on URI for the second time in as many weeks as well. From the scoring highs and averages it could be a close one certainly. The home Bears have had to deal with a fluctuating lineup which includes not often being able to put more than 5 gymnasts into the vault lineup, but amidst that tribulation has been the contributions of the new freshman class, mixed with the veterans. Southern Connecticut has been having a very good year in the score column with a lot of their gymnasts racking up solid outings and higher and higher team scores. URI has been putting up good scoring as well throughout the season with lineups mixing mostly seniors and freshmen. . Just throwing some random thoughts out there, URI is going to bring out a nice mix of floor routines, as well as an exciting lineup on the Bars. Brown has a fun variety on floor, and also keeps things interesting on the Beam. SCSU’s floor lineup flows really well together, and they seem to build momentum through the vault. This isn’t to downgrade any of the other events, just expanding upon my initial memories of some of the rotations. All three teams come in with their own styles, and it should be a fun meet to watch for those in attendance Top Scorers (High scores listed.) While all team members contribute in tangible and intangible ways, this is meant to serve as a snapshot of the top scorers for each team on each event. All Around SCSU Basley 38.25, Pysh 38.5 URI Riportella 38.65 BROWN Sobuta 38.15, Albert 37.6 Vault SCSU DiPinto 9.575, Basley 9.55 URI Fraser 9.775, Riportella, Heaney, Wasilewski 9.65 BROWN Durning 9.6, Sobuta 9.575 Bars SCSU Darst 9.7, Basley 9.65 URI Heaney, Riportella 9.825, Rinaldo 9.775 BROWN Sobuta 9.775, Rivera 9.65 Beam SCSU Murray 9.7, Basley 9.65 URI Ginsburg, Lee 9.725, Riportella 9.7 BROWN Sobuta 9.825, Albert 9.575 Floor SCSU Pysh 9.825, DiPinto 9.8 URI Fraser 9.825, Riportella 9.775 BROWN Binkley 9.65, Diederich, Sobuta 9.6 Past year’s scorers: This is just a snapshot of some of the high scores from the year before among returnees. URI Vault Fraser’s team high of 9.825 on vault last year makes her the top highest scorer on that event, but Heaney (9.75) and Wasilewski (9.625) aren’t far behind. Only Gurney is gone from their top scorers of last year. Bars Heaney had the high score of 9.825 last year, though Rinaldo outscored that the year before with a 9.925 in 2006. Reyell’s 9.7 lead the rest of a Bars performers. Gurney and Tanner left two gaps in the lineup, but there’s plenty of candidates to fill the spots. Beam Gurney’s 9.725 was the team high score, but Pereira is returning and had a 9.7, Lee picked up a 9.675 high, and Ginsburg a 9.65. Bundra had a 9.6 high, but her and Gurney’s departure leaves Heaney, Hild, and Murphy who also had solid scores. Floor Gurney lead the way with a 9.825 last season, but Fraser had a high of 9.8, and Reyell, Pereira, and Machado all had 9.6 or above. Bundra had a 9.525, but Hild and Murphy matched that high as well. SCSU: Vault: Underwood, Pysh, and Murray all broke 9.5 last season. The top score from the Springfield meet, was also beaten or tied by DiPinto, and Jeffords Bars: Darst lead the team last year, but already topped her season high from 07 in one meet. Newcomer Basley also topped Darst’s high. Murray, Jeffords, and Holensworth were among the team leaders in scoring last season. Beam: Pysh had the top score of a 9.75 on this event last season. Some other of the top scorers graduated leaving Tomlinson, Jeffords, and Briere as the next highest scorers. Floor: Pysh lead the team last year, but annihilated her top score from then, as did DiPinto, and Basley also topped the previous season high. Briere had been the second highest floor scorer on the team last season, followed by Jeffords. All Around: Pysh lead the team with a 37.675, a top score she already topped this year. Jeffords also did all around with a 36.85. Brown On vault, Sobuta had the highest score of the returnees (9.625) and Foodman was second behind that (9.525). Goldstein had the highest score last year of 9.625 on Bars among those coming back, and Kirkham-Lewitt was second (9.475). On Beam, Sobuta leads the returnees with a 9.8 high, Albert had a 9.725, and Kirkham-Lewitt a 9.65. On the Floor, Kirkham-Lewitt’s 9.65 was topped only by the departed Sacramone, and Sobuta and Foodman followed her with 9.6s. Sobuta had a 37.85 in the All Around for a high last season and Kirkham-Lewitt a 37.675. Moves: URI + URI Meet by Meet + URI Quick Reference   SCSU + SCSU Meet by Meet + SCSU Quick Reference   BROWN + Brown Meet by Meet + Brown Quick Reference