Sooners Conclude Regular Season at Cal

Saturday, March 18

Berkeley, Calif.

4 p.m. CT

University of Oklahoma

California

Photo by: Ty Russell

Sooners Conclude Regular Season at Cal

March 17, 2023 | Men's Gymnastics

Watch Notes

THE MEET

No. 1 Oklahoma concludes the regular season this weekend with a road dual meet at No. 10 California in Berkeley, Calif. The meet is set to begin at 4 p.m. CT.

The Sooners, which are 14-1 this season and have won or finished first in six straight meets, are looking to finish the regular season on a high note heading into the MPSF Championship, which takes place April 1 in Colorado Springs, Colo.

FOLLOW ALONG

The meet will be streamed via Pac-12.com. No live scoring will be available for this meet. Follow @OU_MGymnastics on Twitter for in-meet updates.

STICKS

•   Oklahoma has scored better than 410.000 in each of its last four meets (and better than 414.500 in three of its last four), including a pair of back-to-back 418s against Stanford/William & Mary at home on Feb. 11 (season-best 418.900) and at Nebraska/vs. Simpson on Feb. 17 (418.250). The Sooners topped Michigan on March 4 in their home finale with a score of 414.550 and won a tri-meet over Penn State and Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, with a score of 410.000.
•   OU has registered the top team score nationally three times this season (Week 6/Feb. 11, Week 7/Feb. 17 and Week 9/March 4).
•   Oklahoma rose to the nation's top spot in the Feb. 20 rankings, and currently holds the position by 0.083 points in four-score average.
•   Fifth-year senior Spencer Goodell was announced March 9 as a finalist for the Nissen-Emery Award. Goodell is a senior captain, an All-American, a two-time Winter Cup participant, a former U.S. Junior National Team member who competed with the Senior National Team at the 2018 Pan American Championships and a college graduate who is working toward his master's degree.
•   Oklahoma leads the nation in three events: floor exercise (70.050 average; 1.333 points higher than the second-best team), pommel horse (69.417; 1.317 points higher than second place) and high bar (67.800; 0.167 points higher than second place). OU also ranks second nationally in parallel bars (69.017), fourth in vault (71.700) and fifth in still rings (67.333).
•   Fifth-year senior Vitaliy Guimaraes was named MPSF Gymnast of the Week after posting an all-around score of 83.050 in Oklahoma's wins over Penn State and Ohio State last weekend. It was his first all-around performance of the season. He won the vault title with a 14.500.
•   True freshman Ignacio Yockers leads the nation in pommel horse average (15.083). In his last five collegiate meets, he has registered scores of 14.800, 14.600, 15.100, 15.550, 15.200 and 14.150, and at Winter Cup, posted scores of 14.942 and 15.472. His 15.550 pommel horse routine at Nebraska was the highest pommel score in the country in NCAA competition this season, and was Oklahoma's highest pommel horse since 2017. Yockers has been recognized with CGA national weekly awards five times this season (four times as specialist and once as rookie) and by the MPSF four times (twice as specialist and twice as rookie). See page 4 for full list of awards.
•   Junior Zach Nunez has completed the all-around three times this season, recording an 83.350 average. He was ranked No. 1 nationally in the all-around two weeks ago, and would still lead the nation if he met the four-score minimum for the national rankings. He has posted all-around scores of 83.400, 83.550 and 83.100.
•   Senior Jack Freeman ranks third nationally in high bar, with an average score of 14.083. His high score of 14.400, set on Feb. 4, is the fourth-highest high bar score in the country this season.
•   Guimaraes ranks third nationally in floor average (14.333), but leads the nation in overall average (14.317). The Sooners have four of the top eight individual floor averages in the country this season; Freeman ranks fifth (14.317), sophomore Emre Dodanli ranks sixth (14.283) and Goodell ranks eighth (14.167). Goodell's 14.900 hit on Feb. 11 remains the highest floor score in the nation this season, while Guimaraes' 14.750 set Jan. 28 ranks second nationally.
•   On pommel horse, junior Zach Nunez ranks third with a 14.350 average. Dodanli ranks ninth in vault average (14.617), Goodell ranks 10th in parallel bars (13.967) and freshman Kelton Christiansen (13.867) ranks sixth on high bar.

LAST TIME OUT

Fifth-year senior Vitaliy Guimaraes won the vault title and sophomore Emre Dodanli won the floor title to lead Oklahoma to a 410.000 score and a tri-meet win over No. 4 Penn State (404.450) and No. 6 Ohio State (397.600) last week in Columbus, Ohio. The Sooners won event titles on floor and parallel bars.

Fifth-year senior and Nissen-Emery Award finalist Spencer Goodell sealed the deal with a career-high 14.450 on parallel bars in OU's final routine of the meet. His effort followed a career-high 14.150 by sophomore Emre Dodanli, as the Sooners registered a season-best 69.850 on parallel bars.

Oklahoma led the meet by less than a point after four rotations, but extended its advantage and secured the victory by finishing with a 71.150 on vault and 69.850 on parallel bars.

Guimaraes' 14.500 led the Sooners, which notched four scores of 14 or better, on parallel bars. Fifth-year senior Morgan Seyler started with a 14.050, Dodanli hit a 14.450 and junior Dan Simmons anchored with a 14.250.

OU's big 70.900 on floor also included four 14-plus scores. Dodanli won the event with a career-high 14.650 and was followed by Goodell hitting a 14.450 in the anchor spot. Senior Jack Freeman hit a 14.300 and Guimaraes notched a 14.050.

Guimaraes completed the all-around for the first time this season, registering an 83.050.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Following this weekend's meet at California, the Sooners have a week off before the MPSF Championship, which will be held April 1 in Colorado Springs, Colo. The NCAA qualifier and Championships will be held April 14-15 in University Park, Pa.