Men's Gymnastics Defeats No. 10 Stanford

NORMAN, Okla. The University of Oklahoma men's gymnastics team won at Stanford on Saturday by scoring a 219.950 to top Stanford's 214.575. OU outscored Stanford in every team event and had its third highest team score of the season.

The No. 2 Sooners recorded the victory over the Cardinal with a season-high 37.400 on the pommel horse, while Stanford scored a 36.800. OU continued to outscore the competition with a 36.050 on floor (Stanford-35.550), 36.850 on still rings (Stanford-35.550), 36.350 on vault (Stanford-35.800), 35.900 on parallel bars (Stanford-35.000) and a 37.400 on high bar (Stanford-35.875).

Another key to OU's triumph was junior David Henderson's performance in the all-around. Henderson scored a career high 54.300 en route to the all-around title in the meet. His top event performances included a 9.450 on still rings, good for second place and a 9.400 on vault (tied career-high), also good for second.

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“I was fairly pleased with our team score and with David's (Henderson) performance in the all-around,” said Oklahoma head coach Mark Williams. “There were certain points during the meet that we had some top-level performances, but we were not as consistent as I wanted.”

Last weekend at home, the Sooners recorded the most consecutive wins by an athletic program at the University of Oklahoma with 48 straight, a streak that started after OU lost to Stanford in March, 2002. Saturday night, the Sooners went with a different lineup to earn No. 49 against Stanford in order to prepare for next weekend's meet with Illinois.

“We went with a different order tonight in order to rest some guys and give some others some experience,” said Williams. “Our two captains were limited tonight, Heath (Mueller) saw action on just two events and Quinn (Rowell) did not compete and we had James Myers on three events. So we did not get the type of score like I was hoping and we did not have a great hit percentage but you have to be happy with another win and a 219 score.”

Individually, the Sooners took first place in all but two events, the vault and pommel horse. Sophomore Jamie Henderson recorded a career-high 9.700 on the high bar to take first place on the podium and did the same with a 9.700 on still rings (season-high). Joining him was junior Josh Gore taking first on the parallel bars (9.350) and senior Jock Stevens scoring a 9.450 on the floor exercise.

Added Williams, “Next week will be an interesting competition against Illinois and it has posted the top two scores in the nation this season." We will have to compete better than we did tonight and bring our A' game in order to be successful against the Illini.”

The Sooners (11-0) will host No. 3 Illinois on Saturday, March 6 at 7 p.m. in the McCasland Field House.

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Men's Gymnastics Defeats No. 10 Stanford

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