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SEATTLE – Ariana Harger won the vault and tied Seattle Pacific gymnastics teammate Lauren Glover for first-place honors on the floor exercise Saturday in the final regular-season home meet at Brougham Pavilion, against Air Force.
 
The visitors won the battle of Falcons with a season-high score of 192.675. SPU was second and surpassed the 190-point plateau for the second straight meet, compiling 190.550 team points.
 


Harger (Castro Valley, Calif.) replicated her scores from a week ago, when she was victorious on the vault and floor in a home dual-meet victory. The junior was the co-champion on the floor at the 2016 USAG Collegiate championships.
 
Saturday Harger received a mark of 9.800 on the vault, coming within one-tenth of her own school record of 9.900 on that event. She shared the floor title with a 9.850. That was a season-high floor score for Glover (Fort Collings, Colo.), a national bronze medalist in that event last season.
 
For the third week in a row, the vault produced SPU's loftiest team total. The Falcons combined for 48.500 points, led by a sweep of the top-three places. Harger was followed by two freshmen teammates, Darian Burns with a second-place score of 9.775 and Lena Wirth in third at 9.750. Those three finished in the same spots last Friday with the identical scores as this week.
 
All six SPU competitors were issued vault scores above the 9.50 level, including Itzia San Roman (9.600), Glover (9.575) and Breanna Beltran (9.550).
 
SPU's schedule is frontloaded with home meets, three of them in the first four weeks, and Saturday was the final regular-season competition of the season at Brougham Pavilion. All five Falcons seniors were honored after the meet: Beltran, Glover, Kristi Hayashida, Tracie Villanueva and Renee Zografos.
 
Villanueva (Kaneohe, Hi.) shone brightly on Senior Night as she was SPU's top performer on both the uneven bars and balance beam. She placed third among beam competitors with a season-best score of 9.80. Villanueva tallied 9.475 points on the bars, good for fifth place overall.
 
Kara Witgen of Air Force earned a first-place mark of 9.875 on the beam en route to a winning total of 38.450 in the all-around. Teammate Mariana Murphy had the second-highest four-event total (37.675) and SPU's Burns was third (36.150).
 
Murphy and Brittney Reed tied for first on the bars with scores of 9.625, sparking an Air Force sweep of the top-four places on that apparatus.
 
These same two teams meet again in a dual next week in Colorado Springs, on Saturday at 6 p.m. Pacific Time. That begins a stretch of six straight road meets for the SPU gymnasts.
 
The five seniors will have an opportunity to compete at Brougham Pavilion again as SPU will serve as the host for the USAG Collegiate Championships, April 7-9. Eight teams and additional individual competitors will vie for national championships at that three-day event.
 

 
NCAA WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS
Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017
Brougham Pavilion / Seattle, Wash.
 
Team Scores
1, Air Force, 192.675
2, Seattle Pacific, 190.550
 
All-Around
1, Kara Witgen, USAF, 38.450
2, Mariana Murphy, USAF, 37.675
3, Darian Burns, SPU, 36.150
 
Vault
1, Ariana Harger, SPU, 9.800
2, Darian Burns, SPU, 9.775
3, Lena Wirth, SPU, 9.750
 
Uneven Bars
1t, Brittney Reed, USAF, 9.625
1t, Mariana Murphy, USAF, 9.625
3, Kara Witgen, USAF, 9.575
  Top SPU scorer – 5, Tracie Villanueva, 9.475
 
Balance Beam
1, Kara Witgen, USAF, 9.875
2, Brittney Reed, USAF, 9.825
3, Tracie Villanueva, SPU, 9.800
 
Floor Exercise
1t, Lauren Glover, SPU, 9.850
1t, Ariana Harger, 9.850
3, Casey Bell, USAF, 9.825
 
 
Next Meet
Seattle Pacific at Air Force
Saturday, Feb. 11, 6:00 p.m. PST
Cadet West Gym / Colorado Springs, Colo.