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Michigan Defeats Illinois, Nebraska in Season's First In-Person Meet
2/21/2021 8:32:00 PM | Men's Gymnastics
» Paul Juda won floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings and parallel bars, while Cameron Bock took three second-place finishes.
» U-M won team titles on floor, horse, still rings, parallel bars and high bar.
» Michigan's team score of 413.300 remains the second-best score in the country this season.
Site: Champaign, Ill. (Huff Hall)
Score: #2 Michigan 413.300, #7 Illinois 405.550, #3 Nebraska 401.600
Records: Michigan 3-0, 2-0 B1G
Next U-M Event: Fri-Sun., Feb. 26-28-- at Winter Cup (Indianapolis, Ind.), 1 p.m.
• Complete Results (PDF)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The No. 2-ranked University of Michigan men's gymnastics team took a pair of Big Ten road wins over No. 7 Illinois and No. 3 Nebraska in a tri-meet Sunday (Feb. 21) inside Huff Hall.
Michigan (3-0, 2-0 Big Ten), marked the second-best team score in the land with a 413.300 and won five of six team events. Sophomore Paul Juda won floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings and parallel bars, while senior Cameron Bock was runner-up on three events. Juda also took the all-around competition with a score of 85.600.
U-M, competing in its first in-person meet of the season, opened with a 69.200 on still rings that was paced by Juda's 14.50 and Bock's 14.35. U-M sat in second after the rotation heading into floor exercise.
On the floor, U-M marked a 70.850 led by a 1-2 finish from Juda (14.65) and sophomore Adam Wooten (14.60). In the third rotation on pommel horse, Juda scored another event win with a 14.20, narrowly edging Bock (14.15). U-M scored a 67.200 to move into first place as a team by nearly four points.
After a 71.050 on vault that featured a pair of 14.45 scores from senior Nick Guy and Juda for second place, U-M went into the final rotation on parallel bars with more than a six-point lead. On parallel bars in the final rotation, U-M sealed the win with a 67.450 on bars with Juda taking his final event title of the night.
Freshman Javier Alfonso made his U-M debut on two events, scoring a 14.250 on vault and a 13.450 on parallel bars.
The meet was the last six-up, five-count meet of the season, as the scoring system reverts to a five-up, five-count system when regular-season competition begins again.
Tweet of the Meet
Juda highlights.#GoBlue? pic.twitter.com/f9cMkx6WYD
— Michigan Gymnastics ? (@UMichGym) February 22, 2021
Next up, Michigan will take a week-long bye as Bock and Juda will compete in the USA Gymnastics-sanctioned Winter Cup Challenge, Friday through Sunday (Feb. 26-28) in Indianapolis, Ind.
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