No. 3 QU Acrobatics & Tumbling Drops Season Opener At No. 1 Baylor

Sunday, February 12

Waco, Texas / Ferrell Center

1:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

272.700

281.110

Baylor

No. 3 QU Acrobatics & Tumbling Drops Season Opener At No. 1 Baylor

2/12/2017 6:03:00 PM | Acrobatics & Tumbling

Baylor Scoresheet

By: QU Sports Information

WACO, Texas – A thrilling season-opening National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association (NCATA) match-up in Waco, Texas pitting two of the top three nationally-ranked programs ended with two-time NCATA National Champion No. 1 Baylor topping the No. 3 Bobcats, 281.110 – 272.700.

Despite opening the year at 0-1, the Bobcats showed great potential against Baylor, who ran their winning streak to 22 meets. Quinnipiac took two of the five events – the Acro and Toss event – behind a pair of versatile performances by senior captains Allee Tallman (Farmington, New York) and Kelsey Rule (Kendall Park, New Jersey).

Tallman, a 2016 NCATA All-American, led the Bobcats after competing in 10 of the first 13 heats of the day, while she helped the Bobcats to a win in five of them.
Rule, the 2014 NCATA Rookie of the Year and an All-American in the same season, was also part of the highest scores of the afternoon including the Pyramid Heat of the Compulsory Event (9.80); the 6-Element Heat of the Acro Event (9.75); the Synchronized Toss Heat (9.50) and the Open Toss Heat (9.75) and the Duo Tumbling Heat (9.10).

Baylor took the first event of the afternoon, narrowly defeating the Bobcats in the Compulsory event, 38.40-37.75. The Bobcats followed with a 28.95-28.30 win in the three-heat (5-, 6-, and 7-Element) Acro event to tie the meet at 66.70.

In the 5-Element Heat, Alexandra Williams (Poughkeepsie, New York), Jenna Adams (Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey), Melanie Mancini (Waterbury, Connecticut) and Noelle Brasier (Simi Valley, California) edged Baylor, 9.70-9.55.
Kelsey Rule (Kendall Park, New Jersey), Siobhan Robinson (Palm Harbor, Florida), Erin Redding (Farmington, Connecticut) and Jocelyn Saber (Redding, Connecticut) then took the 6-Element Heat, 9.75-9.35.
Finally, the 7-Element Heat team comprised of Abby Ziser (Pompton Plains, New Jersey), Allee Tallman (Farmington, New York), Redding and Brasier took a 9.50-9.40 decision to tie Baylor.

Baylor bounced-back with a 29.50-27.90 win in the Pyramid event as the Bobcats heading into halftime trailing by less than two points, 96.20-94.60. The Bobcats put up a fight in the Pyramid event, falling just 1.6 points short.

Baylor took the Inversion Heat with a score of 9.85 while the Quinnipiac team comprised of Tallman, Brasier, Karen Defilippo (Durham, Connecticut), Kelly Cates (North Bellmore, New York), Kaitlyn Kelly (Davidsonville, Maryland), Nicole Chamberlain (Richmond, Rhode Island), Alexandra Barnes (Waldorf, Maryland) and Stephanie Van Albert (Silver Spring, Maryland) fell just shot at 9.75.
Quinnipiac then took the Open Heat with a near-perfect 9.95 against Baylor's 9.75, behind the performance of Ziser, Adams, Tallman, Brasier, Williams and Saber.

The Bobcats closed the gap with a 29.00-28.80 win in the Toss event, highlighted by a score of 9.75 in the Open heat. Despite dropping the 2-Element Heat, they responded with wins in the Synchronized Heat (9.50-9.45) and the Open Heat (9.75-9.50).

Adams, Williams, Rule, Robinson, Tallman, Brasier, Alyssa O'Connor (Smithtown, New York), Samantha Gormley (Howell, New Jersey), Jordan Sack (Plainview, New York), Jenna Capristo (Wolcott, Connecticut) and Grace Manthey (Anchorage, Alaska) led the Bobcats in the Synchronized Heat.
Rule, Robinson, Tallman, Brasier and Redding comprised the Open Heat.

Quinnipiac made an incredible effort in the Tumbling event, as Sack, Mancini, Brianna Gerndt (Sparta, New Jersey) and Chelsea Werner (Shoreham, New York) fell just shot in the Quad Heat before Capristo turned in a rock-solid 9.75 in the Aerial Pass heat that fell just short to the Bears. Baylor finished off the day with a 98.81-93.60 win in the Team Event to slide-away with an 8.4-point win.
Quinnipiac returns to action with its first home event of the 2017 season when it hosts No. 2 Oregon on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 12 p.m. at TD Bank Sports Center in Hamden, Connecticut.