CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Anna Kaziska won both the floor and all-around titles Friday night on Pink Up Meet at Houck Field House as Southeast Missouri women's gymnastics totaled a team score of 186.825. Northern Illinois of the Mid-American Conference took the dual with a 194.725.
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Kaziska posted a 9.875 in Southeast's anchor position in the final rotation to tie NIU's Ally Ferber for the floor title. She also won the all-around crown with a total score of 38.425.Â
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Alana Fischer was second in the all-around competition with 37.725, competing in all four events for the first time in her career.
Mackenzie Slee was third (35.600) and
Michael Sanders was fourth (33.475).Â
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Kaziska, a freshman from Louisville, Kentucky, now has six individual event titles in 2019 and also was the runner-up in both vault (9.675) and beam (9.800) at the dual.Â
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Southeast compiled a 46.375 on vault in the opening rotation. Kaziska paced the Redhawks with a score of 9.675 to take second overall at the dual. Slee added a 9.550 and Fischer posted a season best 9.525.Â
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Kendra Benak matched a career-best bars score of 9.525 to lead SEMO to a 45.875 in the second rotation.Â
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The Redhawks then notched a 46.475 in the third rotation on beam. Kaziska led the Redhawks with a 9.800 which placed second at the meet. Fischer and
Gabrielle Adams each tallied scores of 9.625 to tie for second on SEMO. The mark was a career best for Adams and a season high for Fischer.Â
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Southeast then registered its highest event of the meet with a 48.100 on floor in the final rotation.
Allyson Bell led off the rotation with a 9.550 in her first floor routine of 2019. Slee was second on the event behind Kaziska with a mark of 9.775. Fischer and Adams also recorded back-to-back scores of 9.450 at the third and fourth slots in the Redhawks lineup. The score was a career best for Fischer.
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Southeast next hits the road for a pair of meets on Friday, Feb. 15 and Sunday, Feb. 17. The Redhawks face Lindenwood and Texas Woman's in the GymQuarters Mardi Gras Invitational on Friday, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. at the Family Arena in St. Charles, Missouri. SEMO then heads to Chicago, Illinois, for a Midwest Independent Conference dual with Illinois-Chicago on Sunday, Feb. 17 at 2 p.m.
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