Ohio State
No. 7 Penn State
Ohio State Now 10-2 with 397.200-393.900 Win over Penn State
3/5/2022 6:25:11 PM | General, Men's Gymnastics
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 5 Ohio State men’s gymnastics team travelled to State College, Pa., and came home with a 397.200-393.900 win over No. 7 Penn State Saturday afternoon. The win improved Ohio State’s records to 10-2 overall and 2-1 in the Big Ten Conference while Penn State is 10-3 overall and 0-3 in the Big Ten.
Ohio State won five of the six events, including team season-high scores of 72.450 on vault and 66.900 on high bar and a 68.250 score on floor exercise, the second highest score of the season on that event. Other event wins came on the pommel horse and still rings.
Buckeyes claimed individual titles on five of the six events with five different winners. Jesse Tyndall won floor exercise with a personal season’s-high score of 14.450. Donovan Hewitt tied his career high with a 14.200 score to win on still rings. Dexter Roettker set a new career-best with a 14.800 score on vault. Justin Ah Chow won on parallel bars with a 13.500 score. And Kazuki Hayashi established a new personal best with a 13.800 score on high bar.
How it Happened
Floor
The Buckeyes had their second-highest score of the year on floor, 68.250, to win the event. Jesse Tyndall claimed the win (14.450) and Kazuki Hayashi had a season-best score of 13.800 to finish fifth. Justin Ah Chow was third (14.050), Kameron Nelson was fifth (13.900) and Jakob Murray was 10th (12.050).
Pommel Horse
Pommel horse was the only event Ohio State did not win. Andrew Brower (13.450) and Curtis Chang (13.400) were second and third, respectively, and were followed by Justin Ah Chow (12.900), Luke Smigliani (12.250) and Trevor Cummings (11.150).
Rings
Donovan Hewitt’s career-best tying 14.200 score won rings with Luke Smigliani establishing a season’s-best score of 12.850 for seventh-place. Jesse Tyndall (13.400; T3rd), Kameron Nelson (12.950; 6th) and Arthur Ashton (12.100) also competed for the Buckeyes.
Vault
Dexter Roettker soared to his career-best score of 14.800 to win on vault with Justin Ah Chow third (14.550) and Kameron Nelson fourth (14.500). In fifth was Donovan Hewitt (14.400) and Jacob Murray was seventh with a score of 14.200. Ah Chow’s score was a career best while Murray and Nelson each set season-highs with their scores on vault.
Parallel Bars
Penn State may have won the event as a team with a two-through-five finish, but Justin Ah Chow took the individual title with his score of 13.500. Andrew Brower (12.400) was sixth and was followed by teammates Jakob Murray (12.100), Jesse Tyndall (11.950) and Christian Bartolini (11.400).
High Bar
A season-high score of 66.900 on high bar clinched the win for the Buckeyes with Kazuki Hayashi’s career-best 13.800 just enough to hold off Jesse Tyndall, who was second with a score of 13.750. Justin Ah Chow was fourth (13.400) with Donovan Hewitt (13.00) and Domenic Sciulli (12.950) also in the rotation.
What They Said
Head Coach Rustam Sharipov: “Going on the road to Penn State is never easy. We were able to take control of the meet early and use that momentum throughout the entire meet. We were able to post a season-high on vault and high bar while bringing home five individual and team titles as we were able to close the meet out with a win. I’m very proud of the effort and fight we showed today and looking forward to what is yet to come.”
Up Next
The Buckeyes travel to No. 2 Oklahoma next Saturday for a 7 p.m. meet.
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