Here we go for this final Sunday showdown before conference championship weekend! Three EAGL teams face off in a pseudo-preview for the conference title, adding Maryland to round out the quad. This will be the second time this weekend that the Terps, Tigers, and Revolutionaries meet, offering possible rematch opportunities from Friday. With the postseason looming, teams are carefully balancing fatigue with the need to output defining performances.
Maryland enters as the favorite with its No. 28 national ranking. The Terps will use today to work out the final kinks and build confidence. If they can maintain their standard across all four events, bars and beam will set the tone for how the Terps could perform within the challenging Big Ten field and forthcoming regionals bracket.
Since the EAGL trio is on the outs for regionals as teams, the focus shifts to the run for the conference title. While Towson leads the pack, it has yet to truly put everything together. Doing so this weekend may grant the Tigers an edge to nab the title from the reigning Revolutionaries and defend against a surging New Hampshire. Temple comes off a season high earned last Saturday at Maryland, supported by its best beam showing this year and a solid bars rotation. Like the Tigers, the Owls are on the hunt for a cleanly hit meet. George Washington never quite found its groove this year, but putting up a confident and complete performance on senior night would be a statement sendoff and a welcome boost ahead of next week’s conference matchup.
The meet will be streamed on ESPN+, and scores can be found here.
George Washington debuts “The Jackie” leotard.
Rotation 1: George Washington VT, Temple UB, Maryland BB, Towson FX
Safran (GW): Yfull, little hop. Good start! 9.750
DeHaan (Temple): Low bail out of her Tkatchev, soft landing on the double tuck. 9.700
Lindgren (Towson): Nice double full to open, lots of height. Underrotated 1.5 to lay. 9.725
Bingham (MD): Good bhs loso, check on aerial, step back on RO 1.5. 9.675
Zakaryan (GW): 9.800
Montevago (GW): Power on the yfull, hop and step out backwards. 9.650
Belanovski (TU): 2.5 with great execution 9.725
Bruek (Temple): Good hs on high, chest was down on the DLO 9.625
Reade (MD): Super solid bhs loso, check on leap, clean RO 1.5 and a step fwd. 9.600
Sheremeta (GW): Stuck yfull! 9.800
Mun (GW): Squatty y1.5 but gets the stick, 9.775
Sutphen (Temple): Gets the hs on high, floats her double tuck, hop. 9.700
Calafati (TU): Clean FHS double full to front pike, Rudi to a big jump, shows it off. 9.800
Tucker (GW): Yfull tucked, soft on the table. 9.600
Engelmayer (MD): No movement on her bhs loso, side aerial two foot is solid, controlled landing on the RO 1.5 with a tiny step. Near-stuck. 9.750
White (Temple): Maloney Pak, leg sep on both, short hs, step back on the toe pike half. 9.700
DeCroo (TU): Bouncy double tuck, small slide in the lunge. 9.850
Dunne (Temple): Good hs on high, lots of distance on the FTDT, sticks it cold. 9.875
DeFrees (MD): Arm bend in bhs to loso but a solid finish. A little check on the side aerial, great switch side, great punch on RO 1.5, some leg cross but a nice stick. 9.825
Beck (Temple): Pike Jaeger, shoulders over on her Pak and muscles, nice hs, blind full to a crunchy landing double tuck. 9.650
Minervini (TU): Lay to Rudi, good form throughout. Ro 1.5 to front lay, floats it right to the corner. 9.850
Kogler (MD): Opens with pretty leaps, BHS BHS LOSO, small hip check, really good leg extension on all three skills. Solid switch to split, tiny break out of her turn, standing gainer full, stuck. 9.875
Hoffman (TU): Big FTDT, some form on the RO BHS if I’m being picky. Front through to double tuck, slide in the lunge. 9.775
Komoroski (MD): One arm BHS LOSO, foot was slightly off on the landing but kept it minor. Solid front aerial, nice extension on her leaps, small check on the turn, good form but a hop fwd on the RO 1.5.
AFTER ONE: Towson 49.000, Maryland 48.950, GW 48.775, Temple 48.625
Towson goes 49 on floor with Maryland hot on its heels. GW and Temple are not far behind. The Owls matched their season best bars score, highlighted by a huge 9.875 from Robyn Dunne — a personal best. The Revs featured a few impressively stuck vaults and had an overall clean rotation to kick off their senior night. The Terps’ Josephine Kogler shared in the highest score of the first rotation with a 9.875 on beam.
Rotation 2: Towson VT, George Washington UB, Temple BB, Maryland FX
Toland (TU): Long and low yfull.
Best (Temple): Solid bhs loso to start, sticks her standing gainer full.
Zakaryan (GW): Maloney to Pak bit of leg sep, small step to the side on her FTDT.
DeFrees (MD): Very clean double tuck to start, controlled lunge out. Low landing on her 2nd pass.
Tyeryar (GW): Close ish catch on straddle jaeger, good Pak, hits hs on high, holds for the stick out of the double tuck.
Kogler (MD): Bounces out of her double tuck. Underrotated and falls on the final pass.
Brueck (Temple): Good bhs LOSO, leaps are clean, stuck or close to it on the dismount.
Sheremeta (GW): Tight hs and a good jaeger, Pak goes weird and pings, down for the moment. Remounts, nice hs, blind full, stumbles out of her double tuck. Props to her for finishing that routine.
Minervini (TU): Y full on to pike, 9.825
DeFrees (MD): FHS 2/1, clean twists, cross step. RO 1.5 to lay, maintains form
Beck (Temple): Off on her series but pulls it back, leg cross and a hop on the Ro 1.5
DeCroo (TU): 9.900
Engelmayer (MD): 9.800
Belanovski (TU): Clean yfull and a stick! Towson is on fire on vault. 9.850
Lannon (TU): Y1.5, clean but steps fwd.
Peters (GW): Toe to maloney, good Pak, clean swinging, short hs, hop on her toe pike half
Safran (GW): Maloney to Pak, good, little close for comfort on the DLO, a step there.
White (Temple): Slight bobble on her switch half, holds the bhs loso.
Komoroski (MD): Switch ring to switch ring full is really nice, clean tumbling 1.5 to layout half to split jump and an exaggerated hold on the landing.
Dunne (Temple): Magnetic bhs loso, fluid connection in the front aerial split jump, hs to gainer full, stuck.
Rech (MD): Powerful punch front 2/1, front through to double tuck, lunges out well. RO 1.5 to front lay, no major errors.
Montevago (GW); Big Ray, goes to hs on the bail, stalder to a sky-high double tuck, sticks it.
Rengifo (Temple): Comes off on her bhs loso, side aerial , small hop BHS 1.5 dismount
Reade (MD): Drills the stick out of her RO double lay, keeps precision on her leap turns, legs are glued and gets good height in the front lay front full. 9.900
AFTER TWO: Towson 98.200, Maryland 98.025, GW 97.650, Temple 97.275
Towson absolutely obliterated its vault rotation (in a good way), earning a new season best 49.200 and widening the gap ahead of the Terps. Isabella DeCroo led the charge with her 9.900, the score matched by Aine Reade anchoring for the Terps on floor and Lola Montevago over on bars for the Revs. Both the Terps and Revs fought back to erase a mid-lineup fall, and both succeeded. George Washington also posted a new season high on bars, going 48.875 to surpass their previous best by three tenths. It’s never too late in the season to post a high score, indeed.
Rotation 3: Maryland VT, Towson UB, George Washington BB, Temple FX
Kogler (MD): Stuck yfull, not too much distance. 9.800
Engelmayer (MD): Big hop back on the yfull. 9.675
Reade (MD): Yfull with a hop and step back. 9.700
Rech (MD): Stuck yfull! 9.850
Buckmon (MD): Another stick for Maryland, yfull. 9.850
Mendez-Abolnik (MD): Big step fwd from the y1.5, 9.750
Gough (TU): Nice jaeger to bail, small hop on the DLO. 9.800
Belanovski (TU): Tkatchev, bail slightly short of hs, over and falls on the hs on high. Sky-high and stuck FTDT. 9.275
Slocum (TU): 9.750
Greene (TU): Good distance on her pike jaeger to bail, double tuck with a step fwd. 9.800
Portillo (TU): Nice straddle jaeger, hits her feet on floor out of the Pak, good DLO, shuffle back. 9.375
Minervini (TU): Excellent tkatchev to Pak, hop fwd on her DLO, 9.850
Montevago (GW): Wobble on the bhs loso, saves it, 180 leaps, sticks her RO 1.5. 9.275, not sure what happened there, missed connection, possibly.
Izzo (GW): Hits her triple series, step fwd on the RO 1.5, 9.700
Peters (GW): Quick side aerial and comes off, side aerial BHS, stuck gainer pike. 9.275
Sheremeta (GW): Press mount, hits her bhs loso solidly, hip break on the side aerial, gainer tucked full. 9.650
Kiner (GW): Chest dips on straddle 1/4, front aerial to bhs, solid on the front toss, wobbles on the leap connection, literally the smallest foot movement on the gainer pike and works hard to hold it. 9.500
Kazmierski (GW): Straddle, straddle 3/4 small check, hip break on the bhs loso but holds on, RO 1.5 with a small hop fwd.
Dunne (Temple): Punch lay to full, bit of a cross over lunge. 9.750
Beck (Temple): Opens late out of the double pike, rolls back out of it. 9.075
Thomas (Temple): Big double pike, chest slightly down. 9.725
Johnson (Temple): Punch Rudi to split jump, a little fwd movement. 9.775
Rengifo (Temple): Lots of distance on the double pike, steps back out of it but stys in bounds. Swtich ring to ring half, good. 9.600
Budd (Temple): Rudi to two foot layout, big stag jump out, switch ring to switch half, good extension on those, FHS 2/1 hands slid a bit so she was underrotated, lunges back. 9.625
AFTER THREE: Maryland 146.975, Towson 146.775, Temple 145.750, GW 145.100
Maryland comes back and edges into the lead, using momentum from a slew of stuck vaults and mistakes from Towson to propel it into position. The Terps are on track for a very as-usual finish, given that they head their lowest-ranked event on bars. Still, the energy is moving in the right direction and they can make the most of it. Towson was forced to count a miss on bars, setting it back slightly but not impossibly. GW encountered issues on beam as well, fighting misses and wobbles abound. Temple showed out on floor and took advantage of the Revs’ missteps to slot into the third position.
Rotation 4: Temple VT, Maryland UB, Towson BB, George Washington FX
Best (Temple): Y full on tuck off, crunchy on the table. 9.650
Thomas (Temple): Yfull, centered and a hop back. 9.625
Johnson (Temple): Yfull, lots of height, hop back. 9.750
Harden (Temple): Yfull, small hop. Some arm bend on the table. 9.800
Rengifo (Temple): Nice power in the yfull, small hop. 9.850
Budd (Temple): Yfull, great block and I believe she gets the stick! Temple really bringing it on vault. 9.875
Saville (MD): Maloney to Pak, nice hs in the pirouette and on high, far DLO, step. 9.800
Bingham (MD): Short first hs, good height on the tkatchev, bail hs, whips the DLO and sticks it. 9.850
Ruffing (MD): Nice straddle jaeger to bail, gets the hs, hop on the DLO. 9.825
Reade (MD): release and bail, hop on the DLO. 9.775
Dennis (MD): Great height on her straddle jaeger right to bail, misses her toes for the dismount, comes off the bar. Goes again, toe pike half, big step fwd. 8.725
Komoroski (MD): Nice jaeger, fluid Pak, fights to stick the DLO, takes a small step back. 9.875
Duerre (TU): Bhs loso is good, comes off on her side aerial. 9.000
Belanovski (TU): Comes off on her front aerial, front aerial bhs series is solid. Clean leaps, does a switch 3/4. 9.225
Lindgren (TU): Bhs bhs loso, unproblematic. Switch to split is clean, RO 2/1, hops in place. Good finish with lots of pressure from the two falls ahead of her. 9.600
Minervini (TU): BHS side aerial, slow but flowed. Split to split 3/4 nice. Stuck gainer full. 9.750
Trotter (TU): Solid on the bhs loso, great extension on her split connection. Kickover to sit, sticks her dismount. 9.825
Portillo (TU): Hits her bhs loso, split to split ring is solid, bhs gainer full and sticks the landing.
Kazmierski (GW): Front lay to Rudi, nicely controlled landing. RO double tuck, bit of a bounce out but chest is up. 9.725
Tucker (GW): Punch 2/1, runs so much into that. 1.5 to front lay is good and right into the corner. Quick transition to a punch Rudi, a tad low. 9.725
Montevago (GW): Lands her first pass well, chest is up. 9.775
O’Rourke (GW): Front lay to Rudi, chest down ish. Clean Ro 1.5 to lay to finish. 9.800
Peters (GW): Punch Rudi, steps fwd out of it. 9.800
Sheremeta (GW): Pretty switch ring to switch ring half, seeing a lot of those today. FHS to Rudi, hangs in the air. 9.850
FINAL: Maryland 196.100, Towson 194.950, Temple 194.675, GW 194.050
And with that, the regular season wraps up for these four teams. Maryland finishes with the win and a 196 to boost its NQS going into the postseason. The three EAGL teams finish in order of ranking, so no real upsets to speak of as they gear up for the conference championship next weekend (Saturday at 5pm ET for all those interested!). The Revolutionaries experienced challenges throughout, though not unusual to this season. The Revs put up an energetic floor rotation to finish out the meet as the key to an emotional senior sendoff.
VT: DeCroo (Towson) – 9.900
UB: Montevago (George Washington) – 9.900
BB: Kogler (Maryland) – 9.875
FX: Reade (Maryland) – 9.900
AA: Minervini (Towson) – 39.275
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