Titans Record Season Bests At Harley Davidson Invitational

UW-Oshkosh accumulated a season-best team score during its appearance at the Harley Davidson Women's Gymnastics Invitational held Friday (Feb. 17) in Milwaukee.

Two-time WIAC champion UW-Whitewater won the four-team meet with 186.475 points, while UW-Stout finished second with 185.475, Hamline University (Minn.) third with 180.5 and UW-Oshkosh fourth with 178.65.

UW-Whitewater entered the meet ranked sixth in the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) by GymInfo, while UW-Stout listed 10th, UW-Oshkosh 11th and Hamline University 12th.

UW-Oshkosh's overall value also included a season-best team score of 45.80 in the floor exercise competition. The Titans had two of the event's top-nine finishers as Abby Zubella (Jr. • Appleton) finished fifth with 9.675 points and Jill Lindberg (Sr. • Meridian, Idaho) ninth with 9.55. UW-Stout's Brittany DeZiel won the event with a score of 9.725.

The Titans owned three of the top finishers on the uneven bars as Leane Blais (Fr. • Salisbury, N.C.) placed third with 9.25 points, Ashlan Millikan (Fr. • New Castle, Ind.) fifth with 9.20 and Natasha Cattelino (Fr. • Pleasant Prairie) seventh with 9.175. UW-Whitewater's Katie Thompson took first place on the apparatus with a score of 9.40.

Leah Herchenbach (Fr. • Libertyville, Ill.) contributed a pair of top-seven finishes by placing sixth on the balance beam with 9.30 points and seventh in the all-around competition with 35.35. The Titans also had Lindberg finish seventh on the balance beam with a score of 9.25.

On the vault, UW-Oshkosh received 10th-place scores of 9.10 from Cattelino and Millikan.

Katherine Prouty of UW-Stout was the winner in the all-around competition with 37.975 points. She also tallied a first-place score of 9.675 on the vault. UW-Whitewater's Allyse Dieringer won the balance beam competition with a score of 9.625.

UW-Oshkosh travels to ninth-ranked UW-Eau Claire on Friday (Feb. 24).