MUNCIE, Ind. – Dahlia Solorzano-Caruso and
Anna Kaziska combined for three event titles as Southeast Missouri women's gymnastics registered season-highs on vault (48.750) and in the team score (191.450) Sunday afternoon at Worthen Arena. Host Ball State won the quad meet with 194.200 followed by Bowling Green (192.725). Wisconsin-La Crosse was fourth with 188.375.
Solorzano-Caruso captured the bars title with a career-best 9.800 in the final rotation. Kaziska earned the beam title with her fourth personal-high score of 9.875 in the opening rotation. She also seized the all-around crown with a career-best total of 39.175 in the nine athlete competition.
Solorzano-Caruso was second in the all-around (39.075) and
Molly Maxwell finished with 36.825 (seventh).
Southeast also registered a season-high vault total of 48.750 in the third rotation. The vault score was the highest for the Redhawks since the team posted a 48.825 against Oklahoma and Texas Woman's on Jan. 23, 2015 in Norman, Oklahoma (11th in SEMO program history).
Each of SEMO's gymnasts during Sunday's vault rotation matched or surpassed their season high.
Gabrielle Adams led off with a season-best 9.750. Maxwell followed with a career-high 9.650.
Mackenzie Slee, the 2019 Midwest Independent Conference Vault Champion, hit a 9.725 in her season debut.
Kaziska finished as the runner-up at the quad with a career-high 9.825. In the anchor position, Solorzano-Caruso tallied her second career-best 9.800 for fifth overall at the meet.
Makenzie Marciniak also had a personal-best vault score of 9.575 which was dropped.
Southeast opened the quad meet with a 48.300 on beam. Kaziska notched her fourth career-best 9.875 to lead SEMO and win the event. Solorzano-Caruso was second overall at the meet with a 9.750.
Alana Fischer added a 9.600, Maxwell chipped in a 9.575 and
Lindsey Moffitt had a 9.500.
In the second rotation, the Redhawks notched a 47.500 on floor. Kaziska posted her second score of 9.825 in 2020 for fourth at the meet. Solorzano-Caruso continued her consistent run on the event with her fifth consecutive mark of 9.725. Moffitt tallied a 9.575 and Maxwell had a 9.475.
Southeast concluded the meet with a 46.900 on bars during the final rotation. Solorzano-Caruso won the event with a career-best 9.800, achieved in the final bars routine of the day. Kaziska was second on SEMO with 9.650 and
Jordan Jones added a 9.425.
The Redhawks next host MIC foe, Illinois State, in their home opener on Friday, Jan. 31 at 6:30 p.m. at Houck Field House. SEMO then stays in Cape Girardeau for a second consecutive home dual on Feb. 7 against Lindenwood.
