Gymnastics: Senior Meet Tuesday vs. Pitt
March 07, 2005 05:07 PM | General
March 7, 2005
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University gymnastics team will compete in its final home meet of the season Tuesday night vs. the Pitt Panthers in East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) action at the WVU Coliseum beginning at 7 p.m.
The Senior Meet will mark the final home meets for Mountaineers Jessica Bartgis, Carri Nagle, Kari Williams and Lequita Williams.
West Virginia (8-5), entering the meet with a 193.97 regional qualifying score (RQS), is ranked third in the EAGL behind No. 23 North Carolina State (194.34) and North Carolina (194.195). The Panthers (7-7) own an eighth-place RQS of 190.705.
The Mountaineers won the first meeting between the two teams earlier this season with a 192.925-185.5 win in Pittsburgh on Jan. 22.
West Virginia is coming off a second-place finish at a four-team home meet on Sunday in which the Mountaineers’ 194.6 team score included a season-high 49.35 team score on the floor exercise. No. 20 Auburn won the meet with a 194.9 team score.
Pitt is coming off a season-high 192.675 team score as the Panthers place first in a three-team home meet vs. George Washington and Wilson College on Saturday, March 5.
The Panthers have not won at the WVU Coliseum since 1984, while the Mountaineers’ 10-0-1 overall record vs. Pitt since 2001 includes a 195.3-195.3 tie last year in Morgantown.
Bartgis and sophomore Tynisha Dennis are coming off solid meets on Sunday. Bartgis won the uneven bars for the seventh time in her last eight meets with her season-high 9.875. She also set a new 2005 best with a 9.9 on the floor exercise. Dennis scored the team’s highest floor score of the season during the meet with a career-high 9.975 while also establishing a new career high on the balance beam with a 9.825.
Bartgis, an athletic coaching education major from Frederick, Md., will be recognized prior to the meet along with Nagle, an exercise physiology major from Whitehall, Pa., Kari Williams, a business marketing major from Newark, Del., and Lequita Williams, an exercise physiology major from Philadelphia.
