Aditi Kulkarni delivered a career-best performance on the floor exercise Saturday night, and the Seattle Pacific gymnastics team posted a fourth-place finish in a meet at the University of Washington.
The Falcons, performing for the second straight night to start the 2011 season, scored 185.825 points in the competition at Hec Edmundson Pavilion. The host Washington Huskies won with 195.625, followed by Boise State with 194.575 and Illinois State with 188.025.
Kulkarni (Lakewood, Colo.), a junior, was the penultimate performer on the floor for SPU, which began the meet on that event. Her 9.8 eclipsed her previous best score of 9.775, and earned her a tie for fifth place.
As a team, the Falcons finished 47.70 points on the floor, which included a 9.625 from senior Bri Steigauf (Richfield, Minn.), a 9.6 from senior Jennifer Lehman (Edgewood, Wash./Cascade Christian HS) and a 9.5 from junior Texie Gregory (Auburn, Calif.) beating their mark of 47.075 that they posted in Friday’s night’s season opener in Brougham Pavilion against Illinois State.
Five in Double Digits Fuel Falcon Victory
Year after year, games have gone down to the wire when the Seattle Pacific women’s basketball teams visits Northwest Nazarene in Nampa, Idaho.
On Saturday, they got to enjoy a rare double-digit decision.
Nyesha Sims scored 14 points, one of five Falcons in double figures, and 22nd-ranked SPU went on a 10-0 second half run to move in front for good, then later put together another 10-point surge on the way to downing the Crusaders, 70-57.
Seattle Pacific (11-3, 5-1 Great Northwest Athletic Conference) thus completed a sweep of its two-game road trip that started with Thursday’s 77-52 rout at Central Washington.
This was the six time SPU head coach Julie Heisey has taken her team to the Johnson Sports Center since she took the helm in 2005. The Falcons won four of the first five where Heisey played her college ball, but all by narrow margins – five, one, four and two points. Last year, it took a Daesha Henderson buzzer-beater to cap a 7-0 run that ended in SPU’s favor, 63-61.
Stories courtesy of Seattle Pacific University
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