QU Acrobatics & Tumbling Falls To Oregon, 284-274

Sunday, February 19

Hamden, Conn.

12:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

274.945

284.265

Oregon

2/19/2017 2:18:00 PM | Acrobatics & Tumbling

By: QU Sports Information

HAMDEN, Connecticut – Quinnipiac acrobatics & tumbling lost to Oregon, 284.265-274.945, in a National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association meet at TD Bank Sports Center in Hamden, Connecticut. Quinnipiac drops to 0-2 overall while Oregon improves to 2-0 for the year.

Prior to the start of the event, Quinnipiac acrobatics & tumbling honored the late Manny Bonilla, who passed recently after a long battle with cancer. Bonilla was an assistant coach for head coach Mary Ann Powers' squad for the last six seasons. After a moment of silence in respect to Bonilla, a short video was played to commemorate his contributres to Quinnipiac acrobatics & tumbling.

Oregon won two of the first three events of the first half – the Compulsory and Acro events – by a combined .25 points. Quinnipiac stormed back to take the Pyramid event with a score of 29.35-28.90 and headed into halftime leading 97.15-96.85.

Coming out of the break, the two teams tied in the Toss event, 29.20-29.20, before Oregon won the Tumbling event, 57.275-55-625, and the Team event, 100.94-92.97.

Quinnipiac junior Jenna Adams (Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey) led Quinnipiac to wins in six of the nine heats that she competed in.
Senior captain Noelle Brasier (Simi Valley, California) competed in 10 heats and led the Bobcats to wins in six of those.
Kelsey Rule (Kendall Park, New Jersey) also competed in Quinnipiac's top three highest-scoring heats of which the Bobcats were 2-0-1.
Jenna Capristo (Wolcott, Connecticut) combined with Rule to win the Tumbling Duo heat and also competed in five other heat victories for the Bobcats for the afternoon.

Compulsory Event

Oregon jumped out to a minimal lead through the Compulsory event, 38.90-38.85.
Quinnipiac took two of the four heats in the Compulsory event with wins in the Pyramid (9.95-9.90) and the Tumbling (9.40-9.30) heats.
Jenna Adams, Samantha Gormley, Jenna Capristo, Noelle Brasier, Allee Tallman, Brianna Gerndt and Alyssa O'Connor competed in both heats to lead the Bobcats through the first event.

Acro Event

Oregon took a 67.950-67.800 lead after winning the Acro Event (29.05-28.95) with two of the three heats.
Quinnipiac took the 5 Element heat (9.70-9.45) to start the Acro event, featuring Adams, Brasier, Alexandra Williams and Melanie Mancini.

Pyramid Event

Quinnipiac came-from-behind to grab two-of-the-three heats in the Pyramid event and tied the third. The Bobcats and Ducks tied in the Inversion Heat (9.75-9.75) before the Bobcats took the Synchronized (9.85-9.75) and Open (9.75-9.40) heats.
Adams once-again featured into both heat victories, while Capristo, Tallman and Abby Ziser also competed in both heats.

Toss Event

Quinnipiac and Oregon tied in the Toss Event, 29.20-29.20
O'Connor, Gormley, Williams, Adams, Gormley, Williams, Jordan Sack and Grace Manthey took the 2 Element heat.
O'Connor, Gormley, Adams, Williams, Sack, Tallman, Brasier, Capristo, Manthey, Kelsey Rule and Siobhan Robinson tied Oregon, 9.65-9.65, in the Synchronized heat

Tumbling Event

Oregon captured the six-heat Tumbling event, 57-275-55.625.
Rule and Capristo opened the Event with a 9.45-9.20 win in the Duo Heat.
Capristo was incredible in the Aerial heat and was just edged out by a score of 9.53-9.48
Rule capped off the event with a 9.85, Quinnipiac's second-highest score of the meet, in the Open heat, but it resulted in a tie with Oregon's Krista Phillips.

Team Event

Oregon closed the meet with a 100.94-92.97 win in the Team Event.

Quinnipiac returns to action when they travel to Philippi, West Virginia to take on Alderson Broaddus in a NCATA and ECAC meet on Mar. 16 at 6 p.m. After a meet at King University in Bristol, Tennessee on Mar. 18, the Bobcats return home to host Glenville State on Sunday, Mar. 25 at 12 p.m.