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Maize and Blue Intrasquad (ex)
Maize Defeats Blue in Intrasquad Meet
12/9/2017 4:36:00 PM | Men's Gymnastics
» The teams split the team event titles over the meet, with Maize winning pommel horse, parallel bars and high bar. Conversely, the Blue team took home floor, still rings and vault wins.
» Maize had four individual event titles on the afternoon thanks to freshmen Jacob Moore (floor, 14.30) and Cameron Bock (still rings, 14.15), junior Uche Eke (pommel horse, 14.10) and senior Dmitri Belanovski (high bar, 14.05).
» The Blue team earned two individual event titles courtesy of junior Anthony McCallum, who took home the win on vault (14.90) and parallel bars (13.60).
Site: Cliff Keen Arena (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Event:Maize & Blue Intrasquad
Score: Maize 399.350, Blue 388.350
Next U-M Meet: Saturday, Jan. 27 -- vs. No. 1 Oklahoma -- Cliff Keen Arena, 1 p.m.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan men's gymnastics team held its annual Maize and Blue Intrasquad meet, with Maize topping Blue by a 399.350-388.350 score Saturday (Dec.9) inside Cliff Keen Arena.
In a meet where five scores counted with as many as eight gymnasts on each event per team, the Blue squad took an early lead after the first rotation, but the Maize team dominated the rest of the afternoon. Maize pulled ahead after a 68.75 on high bar in the fifth rotation to take an insurmountable lead of 7.35.
A pair of freshmen earned event titles for Maize on the afternoon, as Jacob Moore took the floor title with a 14.30 and classmate Cameron Bock took the still rings crown with a 14.15.
Junior Uche Eke took the event title on pommel horse with a 14.10 on the apparatus, while classmate Anthony McCallum took event wins on vault with a 14.90 and parallel bars with a 13.60. Senior Dmitri Belanovski took the event title in the high bar with a 14.05, an event that he earned an All-America citation in 2016.
McCallum also won the all-around with an 80.850. Two freshmen also competed in the all-around with Bock finishing second with 80.550.
A group of nine freshmen donned the Maize and Blue for the first time today including Bock, Moore, Alan Gerdov, Jonathan Liu, Justin Murphy, Shaunak Puri, James Read, Nick Guy and Anthony Tawfik.
Tweet of the Meet
14.30 for @emyre97, a casual 14.90 (!!!) for @antmccallum.#GoMaize #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/RPyxVZSPtE
— Michigan Gymnastics (@UMichGym) December 9, 2017The Wolverines open up their 2018 season Saturday, Jan. 13, at the Windy City Invitational at 7:30 p.m. CST at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois.
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