(Scores from Troester)
Gymnastics doesn’t need storylines or scores to be interesting, the routines themselves are worthy of attention, but for those who like storylines and the competitions for the score there’s plenty this weekend in the northeast, with five meets in one day, including four at the same time, and two in the same city. EAGL teams trying to make their way into Regionals will meet up in New Hampshire. The four Ivy League teams will hold their annual meet to determine the Ivy Classic champions at Yale. Temple makes the trip up from Philadelphia to take on Southern Connecticut. High flying Bridgeport will meet Rutgers for the second time in as many weeks and Alaska will cross quite a few time zones to take part in the meet as well. Up in Cambridge, D3 Brockport and MIT will have their last regular season meet before ECAC championships next week and the Engineers will celebrate senior day in their last home meet of the year.

The Ivy Classic: Saturday, February 28th, 2009 1pm, Lee Amphitheater, Yale University, New Haven, CT
(Yale Routines List) (Brown Routines List)

It’s always interesting when the four Ivy League gymnastics teams get together. Cornell has the highest team and average scores of the year, though all the Ivy teams are relatively close scoring wise when they field full lineup. It also looks like the individual events will be very close as well based on past scoring. Yale and Penn have both been facing injury and illness issues, though the host Bulldogs have had to go without a full lineup the past few weeks. Even if Yale is unable to compete for the team crown the white and blue will clearly be in the individual events.

Teams	CORNELL	YALE	PENN	BROWN
Team High Score	191.55	184.6	189.725	189.575
Best Team Event Score	Floor-48.65	Beam-48.2	Beam-47.95	Floor-48.35
Top Individual Scores
Vault	Kerri Lavallee 9.85	Lauren Tatsuno 9.625	Laura DiPaolo 9.825	Carli Wiesenfeld 9.625
	Tiffany Chen 9.75	Allison Mak 9.6	Jordan Brewer 9.675	Chelsey Binkley and Helen Segal 9.575
Bars	Maddie Pearsall 9.7	Alina Liao 9.8	Lizzie Lowe 9.65	Vicki Zanelli 9.725
	Molly Parker and Jennifer Yee 9.675	Allison Mak 9.45	Jordan Brewer 9.625	Lilly Siems9.55
Beam	Melanie Standridge 9.825	Alina Liao 9.825	Jordan Brewer 9.775	Jennifer Sobuta 9.775
	Kim O’Donnell and Danielle Scott 9.75	Allison Mak and Lauren Tatsuno 9.775	Sarah Parsons 9.75	Lauren Tucker 9.75
Floor	Kerri Lavallee, Emily Lenk, Maddie Pearsall 9.775	Alina Liao 9.85	Jordan Brewer 9.85	Chelsey Binkley 9.825
	Stacey O’Hara 9.75	Brigitte Kivisto 9.775	Kerri Lutfey 9.575	Helen Segal 9.8
All Around	Maddie Pearsall 37.75	Alina Liao 38.725	Jordan Brewer 38.85	Vicki Zanelli 38
		Allison Mak 37.55	Elise Bowe 37.5	Lilly Siems 37.775

Temple at Southern Connecticut State University, February 28th, 2009 1pm, Moore Field House, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT
(SCSU Routines List)

It’s Owls versus Owls as Division 1 Temple heads up to Division 2 SCSU to take on the Owls there. Temple has the edge in the high and average score, though the individual competition should be much closer. Though both teams’ scores will figure more into their standing in the different divisions of the ECAC.

Teams	SCSU	TEMPLE
Team High Score	188.4	191.625
Best Team Event Score	FLOOR-48.15	Floor-48.575
Top Individual Scores
Vault	Taylor Murray 9.7	Katie Canning 9.775
	Briana DiPinto 9.575	Kaitlyn Watson 9.725
Bars	Sarah Darst 9.725	Nikki Berrian 9.75
	Justine Basley 9.7	Natasha Crawford 9.675
Beam	Briana DiPinto 9.725	Corrine Williams 9.875
	Justine Basley 9.65	Nina Oteri 9.775
Floor	Briana DiPinto 9.775	Winter Sneed 9.85
	Justine Basley 9.7	Katie Canning 9.825
All Around	Justine Basley 38.3	Katie Canning 38.775
	Taylor Murray 37.4	Natasha Crawford 38.4

George Washington at New Hampshire, February 28th, 2009 1pm, Lundholm Gymnasium, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
(New Hampshire Routines List)

The New Hampshire Wildcats are coming off a rough and tumble weekend, where they still picked up a pair of solid scores, and fellow EAGL team, George Washington had their highest score of the year. Both teams would like to go to Regionals. New Hampshire currently is among the top 36, though GW is currently 41st and has some work to do to make it into the top 36. Thus this meet is important in that respect as well. The individual competition also looks like it could be very close based on past high scores.

Alaska-Anchorage, Bridgeport at Rutgers, February 28th, 2009 7pm, Livingston Recreation Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
(Bridgeport Routines List) (Rutgers Partial Routines List)

This is a rare meet to say the least. The Scarlet Knights of Rutgers and the Purple Knights of Bridgeport met just last week, but now the Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves are coming to New Jersey, which is quite a long flight to say the least. The teams could end up scoring very close teamwise, and individually, though Alaska has the highest team score of the three.

SUNY Brockport at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 28th, 2009 1pm, DuPont Gymnasium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
(MIT Routines List)

The Brockport Golden Eagles will arrive in Cambridge to wrap up the regular season and following a season high 187.6. Scoring like that will make Brockport a factor in the ECAC D3 Championships, though MIT has been hot in the past two championships scoring wise as well. It’s also senior day. Brockport continues to have a deep lineup and MIT is mixing their veterans with the freshmen and sophomores who contribute in different ways each meet. Those looking for all around action should follow MIT’s Julia Zimmerman and Leanna Morinishi and Brockport’s Lauren Gildemeyer and Kaitlin Dewey.

Team	MIT	BROCKPORT
Team High Score	182.625	187.6
Best Team Event Score	Vault-46.975	Floor-47.625
Top Individual Scores
Vault	Julia Zimmerman 9.775	Lauren Gildemeyer 9.725
	Leanna Morinishi 9.375	Kaitlin Dewey and Carrie Rock 9.6
Bars	Julia Zimmerman 9.675	Lauren Gildemeyer 9.575
	Leanna Morinishi 9.45	Stacy Johnson 9.525
Beam	Julia Zimmerman 9.6	Kaitlin Dewey 9.625
	Leanna Morinishi 9.55	Carrie Rock 9.575
Floor	Julia Zimmerman 9.8	Lauren Gildemeyer 9.8
	Leanna Morinishi 9.475	Kaitlin Dewey 9.75
All Around	Julia Zimmerman 38.125	Lauren Gildemeyer 38.5
	Leanna Morinishi 37.6	Kaitlin Dewey 37.675