9.3 for Tammy Sutton.
I'm sure they're rewarding her for the first half of that set, which was extremely difficult.
That's her mother right in the middle of the screen yelling, whoa, that's her mother.
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A little bit of help in the stands always helps.
Deanna Gordillas here, our next contestant now on the vault.
She scored a 9.0 in the preliminary round.
She will be doing a Sukahara in the pike position.
Good ball.
The difference between the Sukahara in the pike position and the tuck position is simply the way the legs look in the air.
In the tuck, they're going to be bent. In the pike, they're straight.
The only bend in the body is at the waist.
With the straight legs in the pike position, the vault value goes up one-tenth to a 9.5.
Began her training in Port Angeles. That's where she's from.
Deanna Gordillas, a junior, 16 years old.
Now we had good height on that vault. We could have had better distance.
9.0 is the score for Deanna.
Good score.
Debbie Dorkin of Mercer Island High School.
Best score in this event this year was a 9.1.
She's anxious to duplicate that score here at the state meet.
Good free straddle over mount. She's swinging well. Good form.
Cast a handstand.
Half turn to an eagle. Drop.
Kip to the high bar.
Another handstand. Threw a wet.
She's setting up for toe front dismount and a fall.
Now that's a superior level dismount. It's hard to stick that dismount.
But if you do, the judges really appreciate it.
Now if you try something that's extremely difficult like that, how much can you be penalized if you don't succeed?
If you're trying a more difficult routine.
What happens is something called mitigation.
In the judges' eyes, if you try something of superior difficulty and you fall, they may not take as much off.
In other words, they have to take the five-tenths of a point for the fall, but they may not take as much off in form.
And then if a move has bonus value, then of course you're getting extra tenths just for trying it.
There are five-tenths of bonus value that a gymnast can get in competition.
Routine started at 9.5 and you get that extra five-tenths in order to go for the 10.0.
8.788 for 8.75 for Debbie Dorkin on the uneven parallel bars.
And she just saw the score turn in her direction.
Now to Pam Haas of Lindbergh High School on the vault.
She's going to be doing a handspring full twist. Maximum difficulty 9.4.
Good strong run.
Oh, a stuck landing. That's really good.
When you get out that far and you stick the landing, that's what the judges are looking for.
And we have a very interesting technique. She keeps both arms above her head.
All the other girls that we've seen today drop one arm. That's the conventional way.
And she's second in the regionals in the vault with a 9.15.
She's one of the taller gymnasts here too and takes advantage of that height by stretching out in a straight line here in this vault.
Leaves a good impression in the judges' eyes.
And a very good impression at that. A 9.1, 9.2, 9.15 is her score. You bet she's happy.
Pam Haas, a junior from Lindbergh High School.
There's her teammate, Tammy Sutton, that she's getting hugs from and some of her other members of her team that competed in the earlier phase of competition but did not make this the individual competition.
Haas and Sutton from Lindbergh High School both competing this afternoon.
Amy Starr of Lake Washington will mount from near the high bar, which we haven't seen before.
Oh, good cast to handstand pirouette.
An overshoot. That's a bonus movement. That's worth an extra tenth.
Clear hit to handstand. Oh, now a break in the routine.
Too bad. That's going to cost her half a point. At least she kept her form while she fell so she won't lose any more points than necessary.
Now she's trying to pick it right back up where she was before.
Exactly. That same maneuver again. Just the dismount.
She gets credit for the handstand and she just wants to get off the bar now without any more breaks.
Amy Starr of Lake Washington High School scored a 9.35.
That's a good number. She's got a lot of tops in that event in the preliminary phase.
So keep in mind, adding that score with the one that she just got, certainly not the best routine that she's ever done, but that 9.35 she got in the first phase may still keep her up there in the standings.
I think we're going to see her just before her dismount.
Now what happens here is that she hits a big arch in her back and it pulls her off the wrong side of the bars.
I'm sure she wishes she had that one back.
She's got a lot of room here.
And coming in now, 8.3, 8.6.
8.45 the total for Amy and add that to her earlier score of 9.35. We'll see how close that keeps her to the top.
Obviously not pleased with that. She'll have to ride the strike for that first routine in the preliminary round.
Now over to the vault.
This is Linda O'Keefe and she's going to be doing a full on, full off if I'm not mistaken.
And that should be a 10.0 level vault.
Finished third in the all around.
Yes, good vault.
Now the reason that's worth a 10.0 rather than the 9.495 that we've been hearing about is you're doing a full twist in the pre-flight before the horse and a full twist in the after flight.
That was an excellent vault.
She's on the vault or at least had the best score in the preliminary phase of a 9.4.
And she certainly did well on this one.
Good contact. Notice her legs are together. Completing the full twist on and the full twist off.
Just a little hop in the landing cost her maybe one, two tenths at the most. That's a good vault.
Waiting to see her score coming in now. 9.391 for a score of 9.2.
Not showing much emotion despite that score.
I'm sure she thinks she can do it better.
So the first two phases have been completed. We'll update the scores and do that when we come back.
We'll update the scores and do that when we come back.
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So now we've got the scores now for the individual vault finals.
Linda O'Keefe the winner of Interlake High School 18.6 final score.
Outstanding routine by her to give her the state championship in that event.
Exactly, she started with that 10-0 vault and that gave her a half a point advantage over all the other competitors and I really think that sealed it for her.
Deanna Gradias of Port Angeles finished second with nines across the board for a score of 18.0 and second place.
And in third place Amy Smith of Interlake High School finished with a 17.9 score and 8.9 average.
But Linda O'Keefe is our winner.
Enrique Cerner is with the winners of both those events.
Linda O'Keefe and Tammy Sutton. Enrique?
Okay with me are the winners of the vault and also the parallel bars.
Linda O'Keefe from Interlake High School and Tammy Sutton from Lindberg.
Linda this is probably your best effort in the vault this year you felt?
Yeah, it's the first time I hit and it was the only 10-0 vault thrown in this meet and I haven't thrown it until regionals and states so I feel like I hit it here.
On the first one too?
Yeah.
Tammy a lot of pressure that you had on you from last year where you performed well and you did very well last night in the all around competition winning that, how did that bars feel today?
It felt pretty good I felt that I could have been a little bit more tight which I always can be.
I seem to hit them more in practice than I do in the meets but you get more time to warm up there but I'm pleased with what I did.
Pressure's off at least for this year but I imagine you'll be back again for more competition next year.
Definitely.
Congratulations to both of you and let's go back to Lou Gellos now and Bob Vito.
Bellevue has hosted the girls state gymnastics meet for eight years.
Sammamish High School is the site of the championship.
A team title won 11 straight years by Sehome High School.
But if there was a chance to break that string many thought this was the year.
Unlike previous seasons, Sehome came into this state meet with only the third best point total.
Interlake was given a shot at dethroning Sehome and Mercer Island sent a strong team to state as well.
The beam is considered the most difficult of the four events.
Yet after trailing in the earlier rounds, Sehome made this the most demanding and dangerous discipline of all, its best of the competition.
A team score of 35.05 vaulted Sehome into first place.
But Interlake, only fractions behind, had yet to compete on the beam.
By that time Sehome had moved to the floor exercise so both schools would compete next to the other constantly aware of the other team's performance.
Interlake's Amy Smith turned in a solid performance on the beam to cap her team's effort.
But Sehome's momentum from the beam shifted to the floor.
Sue Snell added to the Mariners effort on the floor.
And Sehome, for the 12th straight year, the longest streak in the nation, won the state title by nine tenths of a point over Interlake.
In the all-around competition, Lindbergh's Tammy Sutton averaged 9.09 in the four events and a 9.35 on the final event of the meet, the beam.
She nabbed first place. We'll see more of her today.
We'll also see Amy Smith of Interlake. She finished second in the all-around.
And Linda O'Keefe, also of Interlake, who took third.
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Amy Smith now has the green light and is ready for a sensational beginning to her routine on the balance beam.
She's going to try to somersault and land on it.
If she can put this mount on the beam without a fall, we're going to see a big score.
This is an international level mount. Front tuck on. Good job.
Now Amy wants to move smoothly up and down that balance beam, just as though she's working on the floor and not on a four inch wide beam.
Try walking on a street curb and know how difficult that is.
Imagine doing these kind of moves. In effect, they're doing it on a curb.
Exactly. That was a nice split leap.
She's really beginning to fulfill her dance requirements here. You have to have a large leap. That's what she did a moment ago.
Here's a side aerial. Oh, and we have a fall. That's going to cost her half a point.
Now she has to rally, put that behind her and finish strong.
She's setting up, I think, for another movement here.
Again, a lay-off. That's also worth one extra tenth in bonus.
Now unlike gymnastics competitions that sometimes you see on television, the Olympic caliber, here in high school, just staying on the beam is the key.
You can win just by staying on. Exactly.
The difficulty requirements are a little less in high school, so if you stay on the equipment, you have a good chance of winning.
Good dismount. Stuck the dismount. Amy Smith of Interlake High School.
An 8.9 on this event in the preliminary round.
Undoubtedly the most difficult opening of any competitor, and she managed to stick that, but had trouble in the middle of the event when she fell off the beam.
Here's that incredible mount. We see a good shot from the end of the beam.
You see how she has to keep her center of gravity over that beam and land one foot then the other. And look at it. She had to fight it.
She had to fight it, and she did. That's a lot of composure to land with half your foot off the edge of that beam and still stay on.
You can see the concentration in the girl's eyes.
Amy, like all the competitors, has a minute and 30 seconds to complete her routine on the beam.
After a minute 25, you'll hear a warning whistle in the background, and that means you have five seconds to complete your routine.
And in the second whistle, your event is over. 8.5, 8.7, and 8.6 for Amy Smith on the balance beam.
Quite a good score when you add in the fall. Half a point.
To the floor exercise now, Dee Dee Willoughby of Mercer Island High School scored an 8.9 in this event.
In the preliminary phase. Keep in mind that will be half of her score.
She starts from this position, a rather unusual opening to her floor exercise.
She has a really peppy routine. She puts a lot of personality into it. I saw her at the district championships and she put a lot of effort into it.
And you said if you can win the crowd, that certainly helps. She is one of the gymnasts that did win the crowd in the preliminary phase.
Now the key on these setups going into the first tumbling run is not to make any mistakes.
Not to take extra steps, not to stumble. Keep the routine as clean as possible.
Here she comes, round off back handspring. Full twist to a fall. Now that's going to cost her a half a point.
It's hard to come back now and get your emotions. Oh, a triple turn.
That like the front flip is worth four tenths bonus. That almost makes up for her fall if the judges give her credit for it.
And now a triple pirouette. This girl has a lot of courage. Okay, you just said something that has me curious.
If the judges give her credit. Yes, what does that mean? I mean she did it so doesn't she get credit?
If she comes off of toe, off of a toe position in the middle of that turn, they can take it away. It all depends on whether or not they caught it.
Now a double air turn. That's also a bonus moment.
That's a whip back to a step out flip flop.
Dee Dee Willoughby. That girl doesn't lack in courage. She threw everything with the kitchen sink in that routine.
Now we'll wait to see what her score is. Dee Dee Willoughby a little tuckered out after that one.
That's a minute and a half of straight exercise. If you think a rope is just tough, get out there and try this.
Okay, here's one of her tumbling moves and I believe this goes to the fall that she had. Exactly.
This is going to hurt her because she had so much bonus built into the routine with her choreography.
She didn't quite get her arms high enough on takeoff and touchdown and that's five tenths of a point.
But then we came back and talked about the triple turn being a bonus.
A routine starts at a 9.5 if it has all the requirements. The bonus is the extra half a point.
She's going to get it right. Oh, she's got to get credit for that. That was an excellent turn.
A triple turn. That's easier to do on ice skates I would think than on the gymnastics service.
Dee Dee Willoughby 8.8, 8.6 for an 8.7 for the freshman from Mercer Island.
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Park High School. Her floor exercise earned her a score of 8.8 in the preliminary rounds.
We'll add the score that she gets in this performance to that one to come up with her overall total.
Karen Smith. This is a new gymnast to me. I haven't yet seen this young lady perform.
And she picks a little Elton John music. It's lively.
This is the one event where, as we mentioned to begin this phase of the competition,
a number of the athletes get a chance to show a little bit of their personality with their music selection, dance moves, and so on.
Exactly. They get to have some fun.
And she does a back flip with a half twist as her mount sequence.
A full twist to a back tuck and a double turn.
You know the level of competition is so much higher this year from previous years that we've noticed.
Does the fact that we've just come off a Summer Olympics have anything to do with that?
Absolutely. What you have in the high school program this year is a lot of gymnasts who are trying to make the Olympic team in private clubs.
And after the Olympics was over, they dropped back into high school to get one more good year of competition before going off to college.
And it just raised the level of high school competition two or three notches.
Showing good balance on her hands.
A little bit of a pause there. That might cost her a tenth.
She seems to be having fun out there though.
Some of the gymnasts find it difficult to smile through their routines because they're concentrating so much.
I think Tammy Sutton is a case of point there.
But Karen's having a good time here. Yeah.
That was good. Karen Smith of Chattel Park High School.
Good dismount sequence.
A number of other competitors from east of the mountains here as well.
There's one of the competitors from Mead High School in the purple giving her a hug.
It's funny they compete on all different teams when the regular season is on.
But now they're representing their region and district and so suddenly people that have been opponents sort of become teammates.
Exactly.
Always feels good to see the people you're competing with on a day to day basis do well and stay.
Here's her final tumbling move. This is called a whip back.
It's like a flip flop with no hands to a back tuck.
And that gives her a B level dismount, medium level dismount.
It also fulfills the requirement of having two somersaults in one tumbling pass.
Her score is eight seven eight six for a total of eight point six five for Karen Smith of Chattel Park.
So we'll add that to her first score and the computer will spit out her final score and we'll see where she fits.
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Back here at the balance beam our next competitor is Kim Rushing of Kentwood.
Kim came into this competition really as one of the favorites in the all around.
A very unique opening to her routine.
That's harder than it looks to jump up on the beam into a split position and not fall off.
In very short order here she will have three flips down the beam backwards and I think we're going to see that now.
This is bonus.
One back handspring, two and three.
Very nicely done.
Full turn.
She's working the beam well.
Those three back handspring in a row are worth two tenths in bonus.
She won this event in the first phase and she has a very impressive handstand coming up in a moment too that is just adding to her total.
9.5 was her score in the preliminary phase.
Nice aerial.
Notice there weren't any wobbles after that aerial.
That's what the judges are looking for, control.
She certainly has it in this event like no athlete we've seen so far in this competition.
And she's setting up for her dismount.
Full twisting front.
I think she probably left that handstand out just to play it safe so she wouldn't have to absorb a fall.
Plus she had seen the other competitors before her and knew what she had to do.
That's good coaching.
Kim Brushing, a sophomore, a 3.57 grade point average at Kentwood High School.
In the earlier phases they get to wear their team uniforms but here they can show a little bit more personality with their own selections of uniforms.
They get to pick their own leotards.
Here we go on that triple back handspring.
One, notice the hips stay over the balance beam.
Two and three.
Very nicely done.
No major wobbles.
That's what you're looking for.
That's good balance beam work.
Kim Brushing.
We're awaiting her score to come from the judges as you watch her work along that four inch wide strip which makes the maneuvers even more amazing to me.
I just can't fathom the athlete's able to do this.
Here come the scores.
A 9.7, a 9.6 for a 9.65 for Kim Brushing.
That should easily put her into the lead adding that to her 9.5 from the earlier phase.
I would say you're probably looking at our winner even though it's still early to say.
Kim Brushing.
She certainly set a hard pace for them to follow.
And Enrique Cerna is with her.
Enrique?
Kim, you managed a 9.65 there.
I understand that's your highest score this year in mind to me.
Yeah, it is.
Congratulations there.
Thank you.
Now I understand too that you're a little nervous and you took something out of that.
Why did you do that?
I was really nervous and I didn't want to fall.
What did you take out exactly?
It's called a back plant.
And it's like a handstand in the archway over.
You decided you wanted to take that stunt out just so that you wouldn't have any trouble?
Yeah.
All right.
Well that seemed to go pretty well anyway.
Congratulations Kim.
Thank you.
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Down to the floor exercise Amy Starr of Lake Washington.
An 8.8 in the preliminary phase and we'll add her performance here to that total.
That smile and an attempt to win the crowd from the very earliest moments.
Amy is a very experienced gymnast.
She was trained in a club before she went to high school.
As many of these gymnasts are we're finding out.
Quite a few of the people in finals were in club training before they went into their high school competition.
One of the things that Amy is doing that separates her from some of the other gymnasts is that she plays her music while she tries to stay with the music.
Keep moving.
Don't have any dead spots in the routine where you're not moving and the music is playing.
Nice pirouette on hands.
Nice double turn.
Now setting up her first tumbling run.
Here we go.
Round off.
Back handspring and a double turn.
Oh yes.
That's the first one today.
That's an excellent mound sequence.
And appropriately to the music jump.
Let's see what she has for a middle pass.
Round off.
Full twist.
Most people mount with that.
Amy puts in the middle.
By mount you mean most begin with it.
Exactly.
And the beginning mound is usually where you try to put your hardest movement.
She puts in the middle.
Getting a little chuckle as she even plays to our cameras here.
A little bit of trouble in it this month's sequence but she pulled it out.
That's probably the hardest thing in her whole routine.
And she saves it for near the end when she's got to be a little bit tired.
Amy Starr of Lake Washington High School with a very, very nice routine.
You know that little jump back to a headstand position is not exceptionally difficult.
It's just hard to control and it shows her confidence level in being able to do that at the end.
Let's look at that one tumbling run that Amy executed so well.
Now this is a C level tumbling run and this is the kind of thing that Amy's going to need to do
if she wants to go into NCAA gymnastics in the future.
And the kind of thing that she needs to do if she wants to win the state title.
Here we go.
A double twisting backwards somersault.
And just one step on the landing.
That's very good.
And without.
And the score is now coming in on this.
The routine of Amy Starr, 9-1, 9.2 for a 9.15 for Amy Starr.
Good score. Good routine.
And here's Nicole Cooper.
Roosevelt High School's entry in the balance beam competition.
Nicole was last year's all around champion and ball champion in the state high school meet.
And Nicole does a flying cartwheel.
That's worth one tenth in bonus.
Side leap. She's moving well.
The judges like to see that.
A little bit of a pleasurable look on the gymnast's face.
Round off. That's also superior level movement.
A C level movement.
She saved it.
Full and a half turn she saved it. Good movement.
This is the phase of the competition which really won the team title for Sehome in the earlier phase.
We've already seen a number of girls fall off the beam.
Their final four all stayed on and just merely staying on was what gave them their highest team score.
That I'm certain put the lock on the competition right there.
When you stay on the balance beam your opponents just become deflated.
Here's Nicole series. A little bit of trouble.
Stay on. There you go.
Nice effort staying on the beam.
I noticed there's some tape on Nicole's foot and she keeps lifting that foot up.
She may have a foot injury.
That's too bad. Right near the end of her maneuver.
Nicole's going to have to get on that beam and get off immediately or she's going to lose credit for her dismount.
Two one and she goes.
Good dismount. That's called a Rudy dismount.
That's one and one half twist with one flip.
That's the most difficult dismount we've seen today.
These routines are held to a one minute 30 second time limit.
That's what Bob was referring to there that she had to get back up and get off very quickly.
She had only three seconds at that point and we'll see if she made it.
It was very close to her dismount and as I think if I'm correct the dismount occurs when your foot leaves the beam.
Exactly.
So it's not when you land.
Here's that series. We had a little bit of a form problem and I really suspect that she may have trouble with that left foot because she's reluctant to put it down.
That could be affecting her performances.
And we await the scores for Nicole Cooper.
Applause in the background at the introduction of our next floor contestant.
But we're still waiting for Nicole's scores. There she's waiting too.
Perhaps what they're discussing is whether she got off in time.
What kind of penalty can be incurred there?
Two tenths of a point for being overtime.
And you may also lose credit for the dismount.
Eight point five, eight point two for a total of eight point three five for Nicole Cooper of Roosevelt High School.
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Suzanne Schwartz, we talked about Sehome's ability on the balance beam a little earlier, Bob.
Here's one of the contestants for Sehome that really helped put her team in the team championship for the 12th straight year.
A little bit of trouble on that dance sequence, but she pulled it back on.
Sehome has a very interesting training technique.
In the week or two before the state meet, they will invite everybody in the school to come in.
And while the girls are working on the balance beam, they will play loud music, shake the beam, walk underneath the beam, make faces, try to crack jokes,
all in an effort to get these girls so they can concentrate in the middle of their sets.
They've done it for years, and I think that's why they're so good on balance beam in the state meet.
The WIAA has accredited, I guess is the word we could use, the gymnastics final for 12 straight years.
Nice front, nice front.
And there was one more before that, and if you count the one that was not accredited, 13 straight years for Sehome as team champions.
And here's one of the reasons why they won the 12th.
I'm sure that's a national record. I don't think anybody else can touch that record for consecutive state titles.
One of the nice things about the way Susanna's working, she had a couple of wobbles, but she didn't let it shake her.
She's finishing actually stronger than she started.
Likes to water ski and snow ski, likes dancing and biking, and likes scoring well on the balance beam, which no doubt she will do because of that routine.
17 years old, she's been competing since she was 10.
And a very fine effort by Suzanne Schwartz.
I had the chance to speak to Nola.
There's Nola Ayers right there, that's who we're talking about with Nola.
And Suzanne is quite a good women's pentathlete.
Oh, now that's interesting.
She has great ability in track and field as well as gymnastics.
Here we go with this front kick over, and she's going to do this exceptionally high.
See how her hips rise to a controlled landing.
Again, on four inches of surface area.
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Suzanne Schwartz, waiting for her score now.
We talked about her coach, Nola Ayers, in the striped jacket.
Vaughn Thomas was the assistant coach for Seaham for many years under Nola Ayers.
But Nola had severe back surgery and was sort of kept out of coaching.
I mean, she was there in spirit and always there talking with her athletes,
but she couldn't get in there and spot the athletes, demonstrate,
work with any of that physical type of thing that a gymnastics coach must.
Nevertheless, her team has made it here, and Nola is here with them in many respects,
from what I understand, against doctor's orders, but she's here anyway.
And she saw performances like this from one of her students, Suzanne Schwartz,
a 9.0, 8.8 for an 8.9 total for Suzanne Schwartz.
Now we settle to the floor exercise.
Amy Smith has moved around to take position, the Interlake High School gymnast.
This should be an exciting set, Lou.
She had the highest score in the preliminaries,
and I think we're going to see some strong tumbling from Amy Smith.
She finished third in the vault finals.
She finished fifth in the bars finals.
Now giving it a shot for the floor exercise.
Here's her mount sequence, round up that handspring, double twist.
She has building music too, which can kind of get the crowd involved as well.
Absolutely.
She's avoiding any little wobbles or any little foot faults,
where your foot takes two steps and you can only take one.
Here's a rush in front to a back tuck.
That fulfills her double somersault requirement.
Nice straddle jump.
Here's her dismount sequence, round up that handspring, full twist to a good landing.
She's going to bring that down with a soft ending.
Amy Smith of Interlake High School.
With a very nice routine.
She finished first in the preliminary competition on the floor with a 9.3 score.
We'll add this one to that in the drink of water too and see where she ends here.
She's shocked about something.
I would expect the judges to give her a good score for that routine.
Here's one of her tumbling runs.
This is the mount sequence I think.
We're going to see her do a good, strong round off back handspring.
Into a double twisting, backward somersault, two twists.
And the score is being posted now for Amy Smith.
9.4, 9.4 for a 9.4 total.
Add that to her 9.3 and she takes the lead in the floor exercise.
Good job Amy.
Kim Rogge of Mead High School now, next on the balance beam.
She has a knee injury.
You see the brace there.
I'm sure it's a ligament problem.
Wearing that for protection.
Nice press handstand.
In the floor exercise yesterday.
The preliminary competition.
We saw her with a much more heavily taped knee than the one we see here.
In fact the brace was almost similar to the one you see football players wear.
The metal support.
She's obviously had a fairly serious knee injury and they're using that just as a precaution to keep her healthy through the season.
She is 15 years old.
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I bet her coach wouldn't be too happy to see her.
She's covering up well.
There was a little wobble there out of that full turn.
She stepped right out of the wobble.
Nice area.
This is called a needle scale, Lou.
It's quite a bit of balance and quite a bit of flexibility.
Now she sticks to her program.
We're going to see a triple back handspring here.
One, two, three, oh.
And she missed her foot.
But quick to jump right back up and keep going.
Cartwheel and the dismount.
Now aside from the fall, Lou, taking away five principal points, you're going to see something that indicates very good training for this gymnast.
When she falls, she doesn't stick her hands behind her which could possibly hurt her arm.
She puts them over her head to absorb the fall just like a judo roll.
Kim Rogge of Mead High School doing a very good job there.
Here we go.
The first two flip flops, good form.
She starts to cut away right there.
Doesn't cover as much distance.
Misses.
And look at those hands go up rather than sticking them back where she might hurt her elbows.
That indicates some very good training.
Also some quick reflexes.
And back up there quickly.
Nice routine.
We'll see what her score is here.
We're waiting to see that from the judges who are still calculating the routine of Kim Rogge of Mead High School.
She scored a 9.0 on the beam in the earlier phase.
We'll see if that fall cost her a lot of points.
With the exception of that, she seemed to execute quite a good routine.
And she seems somewhat pleased.
Everyone actually anxiously awaiting her score for Kim Rogge.
So is Kim.
And now the numbers beginning to come in on 9.1 and 8.9 for a 9.0 for Kim Rogge.
And now here's Tammy Sutton, already the all-around champion.
A 9.25 average coming into this phase.
Amy Smith, the leader with a 9.35 average.
She's going to need about a 9.6 to overtake Amy.
If anyone can do it, it would be Tammy Sutton, who exhibited form and expertise in all four disciplines in the all-around competition, winning that title.
And is competing in all four events here this afternoon.
Good double turn.
Nice touch in the dance.
She has that stern look on her face.
Very determined.
That was a good full twist.
Nice straight body position.
She's going to do her triple pirouette on her hands and go for some bonus tenths.
It's a round off.
Half-twisting back to a side summing.
A little bit of a different middle pass.
She says she performed her best floor exercise ever in the preliminary phase and was very excited about competing in this event today.
She ends with another side summing.
It's difficult to tell here, but she has one ankle taped, jammed her ankle in the vault.
But it did not seem to affect her.
You can oftentimes block that pain out, get the ankle taped up, and you're so adrenalized, just go out there and do the best job you can.
You don't feel it till the next day.
So here are her scores, a 9.1, a 9.3 for a total of 9.20.
Now that's not good enough to overtake Amy Smith.
Smith, the winner in the floor finals from Interlake.
Sutton finished second, Kim Rushing third, and the finals in the beam.
Kim Rushing of Kentwood finished first with a 19.15 overall score.
Kim Rogge second, and Suzanne Schwartz finished third.
Enrique Cernas with the winners.
Enrique?
Kim Rushing picked up a first place win in the balance beam.
And Kim, you managed to do that even though you left out one of the hardest stunts in your routine there.
Yeah, I left out my back plunge in the middle.
At least it held up this time, right?
Yeah.
Well that's good. Congratulations there.
Thank you.
Amy, you've had a number of problems and injuries all year long, actually for the last couple of years.
I had to feel pretty good to overcome all of that and win the floor access.
It's the best way to end the week. It felt really good.
And after this, maybe considering a college competition?
I'll go for sure.
Any idea yet?
No, no. I'll never ask for a sweet
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So the individual championships come to a close. We said this at the very beginning.
We've got four different winners in each of the four disciplines.
And I guess if we need anything to show that the level of competition has increased in our state, that result would certainly bear that out.
We saw some really good routines.
They were at a level that is way beyond what we're used to seeing in high school competition.
We saw a lot of bonus points. We saw a lot of good landings.
Some good handstands on bars.
I'm really excited about what we saw here tonight.
Some of these athletes will move on into college.
A lot of them will be back next year.
And I'm sure Bob and I, in one shape, way, form, or another, will be here to watch them as well.
We hope you will too.
For Enrique Cerner and Bob Ido, I'm Lou Geles.
Thanks for joining us everyone. Good night.
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