Ohio State Men’s Gymnastics Wins Windy City Invitational – Ohio State Buckeyes
1/16/2000 12:00:00 AM | General, Men's Gymnastics
Jan. 16, 2000
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 2 Ohio State men’s gymnastics team opened the season by placing first out of seven Top 15 teams at the Windy City Invitational in Chicago, Ill. on Saturday. The Buckeyes compiled a team score of 225.725 to edge out defending national champion and No. 1-ranked Michigan (224.900) for the meet title. No. 4 (tied) Illinois placed third with a team score of 223.450, followed by No. 7 Iowa, No. 15 Minnesota, No. 11 Michigan State and No. 14 Illinois-Chicago.%^$
%^$ “This was a good win to start the season,” OSU head coach Miles Avery said. “This allowed us to do some routines in a real meet situation. Now we have to get back in the gym to work on winnning the Big Ten title and the national title.”%^$
%^$ The Buckeyes claimed four of the top seven spots in the all-around, with junior Jamie Natalie (Hockessin, Del.) winning the title with a score of 56.375. Natalie set career-highs in the floor exercise (9.750) and the still rings (9.800), while tying his career-best in the horizontal bar (9.925). He won the meet title on the horizontal bar while tying for second on the still rings and fourth in the floor exercise.%^$
%^$ In his first collegiate competition, freshman Raj Bhavsar (Houston, Texas) placed third in the all-around (56.000) and claimed the pommel horse title with a score of 9.750. Michael Morgan (Sr., Cincinnati, Ohio) was sixth (55.225) in the all-around, while Jay Nardelli (Jr., Centerville, Va.) was seventh in the all-around (54.750) and placed first in the vault (9.600).%^$
%^$ The Buckeyes travel to East Lansing, Mich. to face the Spartans in a dual meet Saturday at 7 p.m.%^$
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%^$Windy City Invitational%^$Chicago, Ill., Jan. 15, 2000%^$1. Ohio State 225.725%^$2. Michigan 224.900%^$3. Illinois 223.450%^$4. Iowa 221.175%^$5. Minnesota 219.325%^$6. Michigan State 218.800%^$7. Ill.-Chicago 217.075
%^$All-Around%^$1. Jamie Natalie, Ohio State 56.375%^$3. Raj Bhavsar, Ohio State 56.000%^$—%^$6. Michael Morgan, Ohio State 55.225%^$7. Jay Nardelli, Ohio State 54.750
%^$Floor Exercise%^$1. Justin Toman, Michigan 9.850%^$—%^$4. Jamie Natalie, Ohio State 9.750%^$7. Michael Morgan, Ohio State 9.650%^$18. Michael Evans, Ohio State 9.400%^$21. Raj Bhavsar, Ohio State 9.350%^$31. Dick Huntwork, Ohio State 9.200%^$35. Jay Nardelli, Ohio State 9.150
%^$Pommel Horse%^$1. Raj Bhavsar, Ohio State 9.750%^$—%^$4. Michael Morgan, Ohio State 9.475%^$18. Dick Huntwork, Ohio State 8.850%^$23. Jamie Natalie, Ohio State 8.650%^$29. Michael Evans, Ohio State 8.550%^$24. Jay Nardelli, Ohio State 8.450
%^$Still Rings%^$1. Scott Vetere, Michigan 9.850%^$2. K. Zimmerman, Michigan 9.800%^$ Raj Bhavsar, Ohio State 9.800%^$ Jamie Natalie, Ohio State 9.800%^$—%^$9. Jay Nardelli, Ohio State 9.500%^$13. Rahsaan Williams, Ohio State 9.300%^$18. Mitch Claman, Ohio State 9.200%^$ Michael Morgan, Ohio State 9.200
%^$Vault%^$1. Jay Nardelli, Ohio State 9.600%^$—%^$6. Earnest Nelson, Ohio State 9.350%^$16. Daren Lynch, Ohio State 9.150%^$28. Jamie Natalie, Ohio State 9.000%^$33. Michael Morgan, Ohio State 8.900%^$38. Michael Evans, Ohio State 8.700
%^$Parallel Bars%^$1. Scott Vetere, Michigan 9.675%^$2. Daren Lynch, Ohio State 9.600%^$—%^$9. Jamie Natalie, Ohio State 9.250%^$12. Raj Bhavsar, Ohio State 9.100%^$14. Dick Huntwork, Ohio State 9.050%^$32. Jay Nardelli, Ohio State 8.650%^$33. Michael Morgan, Ohio State 8.600
%^$Horizontal Bar%^$1. Jamie Natalie, Ohio State 9.925%^$—%^$5. Mitch Claman, Ohio State 9.575%^$7. Earnest Nelson, Ohio State 9.450%^$9. Michael Morgan, Ohio State 9.400%^$ Jay Nardelli, Ohio State 9.400%^$30. Raj Bhavsar, Ohio State 8.700
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