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  1. GYMNASTICS | Injured Elis fall to Owls

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    An injured Yale squad placed second in Saturday’s Bulldog Invitational, finishing ahead of Springfield but behind Temple. The Owls controlled the top spots in each category, finishing with a team score of 191.600, while the Pride fell behind to end at 178.950.

    This Saturday’s team score of 184.350 represents a break in the Eli’s upward scoring trend, which saw Yale score 184.975 last week. Still, it was an impressive score considering that all-rounder Tara Feld ’13 sat out the event with an injury.

    “We were really crippled going into this meet,” head coach Barbara Tonry said, referencing the loss of all-rounder Feld to an abdominal muscle tear, and Nicole Tay’s ’14 restriction to the bars and beam due to an ankle sprain. Feld revealed that she is extremely limited in practice and, though she does not know when she will return to competition, does feel that the tear is healing. Tay has also been cleared by a doctor to return to tumbling and hopes to return to the floor exercise this Saturday.

    “I have to limit any large impact on my ankle,” she said. “In addition, I have to land all my dismounts on softer and thicker mats. My ankle still throbs if I do too much tumbling.”

    These injuries meant that the Elis could not fill all of the positions and were in jeopardy of taking a “0,” an unpleasant position Coach Tonry revealed the team was forced into two years ago. Fortunately, this year Lindsay Andsager ’13 and Ashley O’Connor ’14 were available to step up and fill the void left by Feld, Yale’s record-holder on the vault. O’Connor, who is recovering from injury herself, had very little time to devise a routine for the balance beam that would meet all of the requirements.

    “Thursday is when I actually got on the beam, and right away had to produce a new beam routine,” O’Connor said. She managed to place in the middle of the competition despite only one full day’s preparation, while Andsager, competing on the floor for the first time in her Yale career, scored an 8.925. “I was so proud of everyone who stepped up to fill in for me. It’s difficult to suddenly be told you are going to compete in an event only a day or two before the competition, but they were able to get themselves ready and did a great job,” Feld said.

    Those gymnasts who had more time to prepare included Talis Trevino ’12, who scored a season-high 9.725 in Yale’s best finish of the day, placing second in the floor exercise, and Tabitha Tay ’14 who placed third on the balance beam with 9.525 — a career high. Other scores of note included that of captain Sherry Yang ’11, who had a career high of 9.600 on the floor, and Andsager, whose season-high 9.575 on the uneven parallel bars was good for fourth place.

    For all of the last-minute adjustments, only eight gymnasts overall were able to compete for Yale, compared to the 11 of both Springfield and Temple. Of those eight, four were freshman, matched by the four seniors on both the opposing squads. Coach Tonry revealed the main difficulty in having the smallest roster in the Ivies is being unable to rest anyone, which increases the likelihood for injury. Yang said the recent spate of injuries has caused everyone to spend more time in the training room for maintenance, before and after practice.

    This Saturday’s meet is the last home competition for the Elis this season, and the last of Yang’s career, the team’s sole senior. “It will be a bittersweet moment … the feeling that everyone is on your side — I’m definitely going to miss that,” Yang said.

    SCSU will visit February 19, the meet starting at 1:00 pm in the John J. Lee Amphitheatre in Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

  2. GYMNASTICS | Rutgers leaves improved Yale seeing red

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    Yale gymnasts avenged their early season loss to Ithaca this past Sunday with a perfect team effort on the balance beam. But in the end, though, the Bulldogs finished second to Rutgers at the tri-meet competition Sunday, Yale’s first home meet of the season.

    Not one gymnast fell on the balance beam, as five of the six performers saw either a season or career high, with Stephanie Goldstein ’13 taking first with a career-best 9.675 out of 10, and Tara Feld ’13 tying for third with a season high of 9.500. Falls had previously hurt the Elis’ scores on the beam for their first several matches, so the players said they had changed how they were practicing. Uneven bars specialist Lindsay Andsager ’13 said that the gymnasts’ assignments are now not only to make their routines, but to perform them consecutively.

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    “We need to perform three routines in a row, and we need to connect on every skill,” captain Sherry Yang ’11 said. “It makes us focus on every detail.”

    Goldstein’s performance, which earned her a third place all-around finish, wasn’t confined to the beam. She also posted a career-best score on the floor exercise as well, notching 9.675 points to tie for sixth with teammate Feld. Overall, it was a category dominated by the Scarlet Knights. They were led by Colombian freshman Luisa Maria Leal-Restrepo, who won every category but the balance beam and took first on the all-around.

    Goldstein acknowledged that Rutgers performed well on their floor routines, adding that high-scoring performances require both high-level tumbling and an ability to wow the judges.

    “If you look like you’re having fun in your floor routine, the judges will have fun watching it … this usually translates into a good score,” she said.

    But the team said it focused on its own performances, and not on those of Rutgers.

    “Each team has its own set of special skills, and maximizing your own abilities should be your focus,” Yang said. She mentioned that Rutgers is a top-tier program, with 25 gymnasts on the team. “I’m not making an excuse, we came into the meet looking to give them a run for their money,” Yang said.

    The freshmen showed great improvement in the meet, as Nicole Tay ’14, Tabitha Tay ’14 and Maren Hopkins ’14 took part of that perfect balance beam performance. Both Nicole and Tabitha set career highs, 9.400 and 9.425 respectively, while Hopkins came within 0.025 of her own personal mark set at Penn. When taken as a whole, the trio’s average score per event has risen each week, following the upward trend of the team. This last week saw the greatest jump, from an average score of 8.563 to 8.960.

    “We’ve been getting more accustomed to the college meets,” Nicole said.

    This Saturday is the alumni meet — the Bulldog Invitational — when Yale will face Springfield and Brockport for the second time this season, in addition to hosting Temple. It will be one of several Pink Zone events for Yale Bulldogs against breast cancer that day. The Bulldogs face off at 1:00 pm in the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

  3. GYMNASTICS | Yales rules the floor, but not the day

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    The gymnastics team found itself outshone on the vault and balance beam on Saturday, finishing third out of four teams at Ithaca College.

    The Bulldogs scored 179.500, placing five points behind the host school and Brockport, which were engaged in a battle for the top spot all afternoon. In the end the Ithaca eked out the victory by six-tenths of a point. Brockport, last season’s ECAC Division III champions, finished in second with 184.150 points. All three schools had a comfortable margin of at least 20 points separating them from Rhode Island College, which ended the day at 155.575.

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    The entire competition was a battle between the two Division III schools for top spots, especially in the balance beam and vault categories, Yale’s two weakest events.

    “To get higher scores on beam we … only need to stay on,” said Tara Feld ’13, who had the highest score in the event for the Bulldogs at 9.300, tied for sixth overall.

    One area the Elis did not need higher scores in was the floor exercise, where Feld, Talis Trevino ’12 and Stephanie Goldstein ’13 continued their domination from last week’s meet at Springfield The trio took 1st, 3rd and 5th, with scores of 9.725, 9.625 and 9.600 respectively.

    Despite the fact that Brockport has won its division three of the last four years, this was the first time in the program’s 35-year history that the Golden Eagles have ever defeated a Division I school.

    But the real surprise came from Ithaca College’s performance in its season debut, as last year’s fifth-place finisher in the ECAC Division III pulled a close six-tenths of a point victory away from the defending champion Golden Eagles.

    In comparison to Brockport and Ithaca, which have 22 and 19 members on their rosters, respectively, the Bulldogs — who have 11 — were outnumbered. The number of active Yale gymnasts, however, is even smaller, as two members are recovering from injuries and one, Monica Shoji ’12, will be out for the rest of the season. This left only eight to compete at Ithaca on Saturday.

    “We are not able to specialize on events,” Sherry Yang ’11 said of the small roster size.

    Many on the team do not feel this relative lack of numbers is a weakness, or indeed matters at all. Lone uneven bars specialist Lindsay Andsager ’13 even called it an advantage.

    “The small team size creates more cohesiveness among the girls [which leads to better performances] because you know the whole team is cheering for you and behind you 100 percent,” she said. “[It evokes a team spirit we call] ‘small but mighty.’”

    Andsager took first on the bars at Ithaca with a score of 9.525.

    The Bulldogs will have an extra week to prepare for their next meet at Penn on Jan. 29, which will kick off the Ivy League season. They hope to have Ashley Hopkins ’14 and Mia Yabut ’12 recovered in time for the competition.

  4. GYMNASTICS | Gymnasts downPride in season opener

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    The Yale gymnastics team overcame uneven performances to defeat Springfield College in their season opener.

    Despite several falls on the beam, the Elis’ floor performances were strong enough to power the team past the Division III Pride last Sunday, 175.875–171.150. The result was similar to the Bulldogs’ matchup against Springfield the previous year in which the Bulldogs also came out on top, 188.925–183.000. Stephanie Goldstein ’13, winner of the all-around competition (35.350), attributed the difference in scoring between years to the early timing of the meet. Last year, the Bulldogs faced the Pride in the middle of their season in February.

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    “The team showed great potential; there’s definitely room for improvement,” Tara Feld ’13 said. “But the Springfield meet was a great starting point for the season.”

    Due to the early nature of the meet, Goldstein said some routines were “watered-down” and missing requirements that would have given them higher start values. If last year’s team is any indication, that in-competition experience is vital, as the team average rose almost three points between January and March of last season.

    But the team scores were still more than ten points below last year’s lowest outing, surprising the team and their coaches. Members of the team attributed the lower score to the harsher standards of the meet’s judges as the margin of victory was consistent with last year.

    “Overall, our team is starting off on a much stronger note this year,” Lyndsay Andsager ’13 said. She took first in the uneven parallel bars with a score of 9.350.

    Feld, who took the all-around competition against Springfield last year as a freshman, and set a Yale vault record of 9.850 against Penn, saw her numbers dip on the vault in the first outing.

    “Coming back from an injury this summer, I wasn’t sure if I would even be able to compete this early in the season,” the two-time ECAC rookie of the week said.

    For a team composed of only 11 people, the Elis depended on strong performances from its freshmen as Springfield College fielded a team of 18. Maren Hopkins ’14 was fifth on the vault with 9.050, Nicole Tay ’14 was second on the uneven parallel bars with 8.550, and Tabitha Tay ’14 finished fourth on the floor with 9.225.

    “[The] first competition was a completely new experience for me,” said Hopkins, “The biggest difference with college gymnastics is the energy of the meets and the emphasis on the team rather than the individual.”

    According to her teammates, they didn’t take much time to adjust.

    “All the freshmen really stepped up. Even though they’ve never competed at the college level, they looked experienced. I was impressed with their maturity,” said captain Sherry Yang ’11.

    All Yale gymnasts interviewed emphasized that the team has great chemistry this year. Goldstein credited her teammates with providing a more relaxed and supportive atmosphere, improving her consistency. After just one meet this season, Feld also noted the team’s cohesiveness.

    “We are definitely starting off on the right foot in terms of team spirit and attitude,” Feld said.

    The team will return to competition at Ithaca College this Saturday at 7 p.m.

  5. GYMNASTICS | Bulldogs finish sixth at ECACs

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    The gymnastics team finished sixth out of seven at the ECAC Championships Saturday at Temple University. With a score of 189.500, the Bulldogs saw top performances from Allison Mak ’10 on the balance beam and captain Brigitte Kivisto ’10 in the all-around competition.

    “Although we still counted a few mistakes, it was one of our best performances as a team so we were all really happy,” Talis Trevino ’12 said.

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    With a top score of 192.725, Towson University finished in first place for the sixth straight year. Cornell was the top Ivy League team in the competition, finishing in fourth in the seven-team meet.

    “Competition was tight this weekend, but we did well and are happy with our performance,” Kivisto said.

    Mak performed her best on the balance beam as she took the event by .025 points with a score of 9.775. Kivisto also finished in the top 10 as her score of 9.600 proved good enough for ninth place. One other Bulldog scored above a 9.500 as Goldstein landed 16th place with a score of 9.525.

    The Elis came close to recording their second first-place finish of the day when Kivisto recorded a 38.625 in the all-around competition, just shy of first place, an achievement she says she is proud of regardless of errors.

    “I had a few mistakes that kept me out of first place,” she said. “I’m not happy about the mistakes, but it still felt great placing second in the all-around.”

    On Monday night Kivisto found out her career will continue when she was awarded a spot in the all-around competition at the NCAA Regional Championships on April 10 at Penn State. She is the lone Bulldog to qualify for an NCAA Regional event.

    Mak also finished in the top 10 with a career-high 38.000 in the all-around and a ninth-place finish. Also competing in the all-around competition were Goldstein with a score of 37.600 and Feld with a 36.650.

    On the vault, the event with the lowest finish for the Bulldogs, Kivisto and Tara Feld ’13 each recorded a score of 9.750, good enough to land them in a tie for eighth place. Mak followed with a season-high 9.600 while Stephanie Goldstein ’13 recorded a 9.550 — a career-best — on the vault.

    The Elis finished in third place on the uneven parallel bars as Lindsay Andsager ’13 posted a career-high 9.725 to earn a third-place tie.

    “One of the highlights was Lindsay Andsager’s bar routine,” Mak said. “She’s been working really hard on that event all season, as a freshman and as our bar anchor, and this weekend she really pulled it together and performed very well.”

    Kivisto followed the freshman with a twelfth-place finish of 9.525 while Mak recorded a 9.300 on the bars.

    On the floor exercise, consistently the most successful event for the Bulldogs throughout the season, Kivisto led Yale with her fourth-place finish and a score of 9.750. Kivisto was closely followed by Trevino, who scored a 9.675 to finish in 12th place.

    “This meet was a great way to end our season, we pulled together as a team and overall put forth some of our best routines,” Mak said.

  6. GYMNASTICS | Bulldogs gear up for ECACs

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    The gymnastics team competed three times over the break, and after winning the first event, finished in last place in the final two. The Bulldogs started off the two weeks strong as they beat Springfield College and Rhode Island College to hit a season-high score of 189.950 in Springfield, Mass.

    In the second competition of the break the Elis seemed to pick up where they left off in Springfield. The Bulldogs traveled to Rutgers where they faced the host Scarlet Knights and Towson, and despite finishing third, Yale posted another season-high team score for the second time in a row.

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    “Practice over break went well, and I think our meets reflect that pretty well,” Allison Mak ’10 said. “We counted a few errors this past weekend, but we earned a season-high at Rutgers and competed some very strong routines.”

    The Bulldogs rounded out the break with a quad meet at Maryland where they faced stiffer competition in the host Terrapins, No. 17 Auburn, and George Washington. The Elis finished in fourth, this time plagued by occasional mishaps.

    “We had a couple mistakes here and there but if we use this week to get those quirks out of the way we can pull everything together for the ECACs this weekend,” Chelsea Savit ’13 said.

    The Bulldogs dominated at Springfield, taking first and second place in every event of the day. Starting on the vault, Tara Feld ’13 took first with a score of 9.750 while captain Brigitte Kivisto ’10 followed with a 9.675. Three other Bulldogs also vaulted higher than a 9.000.

    On the uneven parallel bars, the Elis took complete control, filling all of the top five spots and achieving a season-high collective score of 47.325. Lindsay Andsanger ’13 finished first with a 9.750 followed closely by Kivisto with a 9.675. Feld, Stephanie Goldstein ’13, and Allison Mak ’10 rounded out the top five respectively.

    “We hit on bars better than we had in the past, so that was one of many positive outcomes from the meet,” Feld said.

    Kivisto found success on the beam as she posted a career-high score of 9.825 to earn her first place. Mak, the only other senior on the team, was right behind her teammate, posting a 9.675 for second place.

    Kivisto came out on top once again in the floor exercise, scoring a 9.850, while Feld placed second with a 9.750. Talis Trevino ’12 and Goldstein both scored above 9.500 with 9.625 and 9.600, respectively.

    The Bulldogs dominated the overall competition, placing in the top three spots. Kivisto placed first with a career-best 38.975 while Goldstein, coming in third, also hit a career-best of 37.650. Feld finished second with a 37.950.

    In the second competition of the break the Elis seemed to pick up where they left off in Springfield. Finishing with a total of 191.000, good for fourth place, the Bulldogs also placed first in the all-around competition as well as in two out of four events, an accomplishment that Savit said was a confidence booster for the Elis.

    “It showed us what we were realistically capable of doing if we hit all four events and if we all do what we needed to do,” she said.

    The Bulldogs achieved three career-records on the vault and on the uneven parallel bars Kivisto reached a career-best while Mak hit her season-high score. But it was on the balance beam and the floor where the Elis came out on top. In the highest collective Bulldog score of the year in the event, Mak placed first with a 9.825, and the floor proved once again to be a strength for the Elis as all six gymnasts who competed either tied or beat their career-best scores. Kivisto hit another career-best, this time in the all-around competition as she came in first with a 39,075.

    At Maryland, the Bulldogs didn’t find the same success as they did in the first two meets, finishing with their lowest score of the break.

    Facing top-ranked competition, the Elis posted a score of 188.700, which proved to not be enough to pull ahead of their three opponents, all of which scored above 190.000.

    Although the Bulldogs couldn’t mirror their Rutgers performance, they saw career-highs from Trevino and Savit on the floor and vault, respectively, and a fourth-place all-around finish for Kivisto. The Elis finished the two-week break with experience against top-ranked teams and having found success that will give them momentum for the end of their season.

    “Looking forward to ECACs, we really need to compete as a strong team and have everyone hit their routine,” Mak said. “This meet is really going to require that we put forth the strongest overall team score as we can.”

    The Bulldogs will travel to Philadelphia on Saturday to compete in the ECAC Championships at 12 p.m.

  7. GYMNASTICS | Bulldogs finish fourth at Ivy League Classic

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    The Yale gymnastics team finished fourth behind Cornell, Brown and Penn at the Ivy League Classic in Providence, R.I., over the weekend. The Elis scored a 187.500, while Cornell finished first with a 192.550 to defend its 2009 title.

    Although the disappointed Bulldog team finished at the bottom of the pack, captain Brigitte Kivisto ’10 found individual success, becoming the 13th Bulldog in program history to win the all-around at the event.

    “We were expecting it to be a tight competition,” Kivisto said. “Even though we beat both Cornell and Penn previously this season, all four teams in the competition have posted high team scores over the past few weeks.”

    Beginning on the balance beam, the Bulldogs had to overcome a setback right off the bat with an injury to Monica Shoji ’12. Due to Shoji’s absence, all five of Yale’s beam scores counted, instead of the top five scores of the six who usually compete. Under this additional pressure, Tara Feld ’13 led the way for the Bulldogs with her seventh-place beam finish and a score of 9.625. Following Feld was Kivisto, who scored a 9.500, and Sherry Yang ’11, who produced a season-best 9.325.

    Three Bulldogs posted scores of 9.500 or above on the floor exercise. Kivisto had a career-best performance, posting a first-place score of 9.875. Feld placed ninth with a 9.625, while Stephanie Goldstein ’13 finished with a 9.500 on the floor.

    After falling during her routine, Talis Trevino ’12 had an uphill battle and finished with a score of 8.900.

    “I knew I really had to fight back after my fall on floor,” Trevino said. “For the future, we’re definitely going to need to eliminate the falls and just work on polishing our routines.”

    Feld also scored above 9.500 on the vault, where she finished third with a 9.700. Kivisto finished sixth with a 9.575 as fellow senior Allison Mak ’10 finished 12th with a 9.475. In addition, Yang landed a season-best 9.200 and Trevino posted a career-high 9.150 despite competing with strep throat and falling on an attempt.

    Lindsay Andsanger ’13, just shy of finishing in the top three, finished in fourth place on the uneven parallel bars with a score of 9.625. Kivisto came through again for the Bulldogs to finish right behind Andsanger with a 9.600.

    Although the meet was plagued with injuries, sickness and some unexpected falls for the Bulldogs, Kivisto provided something to cheer about, finishing first in the all-around with a score of 38.550 to join elite company.

    “It feels good to be able to keep Kat Fong ’05, Anne McPherson ’06 and Alina Liao’s ’09 legacy of first place [all-around] finishes at Iviess in Yale hands,” Kivisto said.

    But Kivisto also stressed the importance of team success.

    “I hope that the learning experience that comes from this is that success can only happen when there is team success and each gymnast is accountable for her routines,” she said.

    Looking forward, Yang said the team will work to compete in pressure situations at the same level it practices.

    The Bulldogs will travel to Springfield, Mass., on Sunday to take on host Springfield and Rhode Island College at 1 p.m.

  8. GYMNASTICS | Elis place second in Senior Day meet

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    Saturday marked Senior Day for the Yale gymnastics team as the Bulldogs placed second, behind Bridgeport and ahead of Southern Connecticut State, at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Seniors Allison Mak and captain Brigitte Kivisto were honored as they led Yale to a 188.300 second-place finish in their last competition at home.

    Bridgeport, ranked No. 2 in Division III, finished with a score of 190.700, while SCSU had a score of 187.200.

    “We expected the meet to be a close one,” Mak said. “We’ve seen SCSU and UB already this season, and they’ve been posting team scores competitive with ours,.”

    Mak had a successful all-around competition, finishing fourth with 37.725. But the Bulldogs were led by Kivisto, who finished first overall with a score of 38.500.

    The two seniors came out strong on the vault, taking the Bulldogs’ top two finishes as Kivisto finished third with a 9.700 and Mak finished ninth with a 9.450. Stephanie Goldstein ’13 also placed on the vault, taking 10th with a career-best 9.425.

    On the uneven parallel bars, it was a freshman who scored highest for the Bulldogs. Lindsay Andsanger ’13 placed fourth in the event with a 9.650 and was followed closely by the senior Bulldogs once again: Kivisto finished eighth with a 9.525, and Mak posted a season-best 9.325 to place 11th on the bars.

    Still, where Mak really shined was on the beam, where she tied for first place with Bridgeport’s Emily Repko with a score of 9.625, a victory that carried more significance for the Yale senior in her final home competition.

    “Beam is my favorite event to compete, and winning the event at home with my last routine here was a great way to go,” Mak said.

    Kivisto and Tara Feld ’13 were close behind Mak, landing fourth and fifth place, respectively.

    The Bulldogs found the most success on the floor exercise. In an event that has been a strength for the team this season, the Elis exceeded their season-high team score by almost a point.

    “We were very happy with our performances on floor, and it would be great if we could get every event that consistent,” Kivisto said.

    Feld placed first on the floor with a career-best 9.850, followed by second-place Kivisto with a 9.750. Talis Trevino ’12 and Goldstein both also hit career bests, finishing fifth and eighth, respectively.

    Although Senior Day was packed with career bests for the Bulldogs, Kivisto said she knows the team will push themselves even further leading up to next week.

    “In addition to made routines, we will be looking to polish our performance by sticking landings and executing our routines with nice form,” she said.

    The Bulldogs look forward to next weekend, when they will participate in the Ivy League Classic at Brown, a competition where Feld feels the team will find success.

    “I truly believe that this team has what it takes to get first place,” she said.

  9. GYMNASTICS | Bulldogs win home opener

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    In the Yale gymnastics team’s home opener Saturday, the Bulldogs placed first in all four events on the way to a 187.775–179.600 win over Penn in a meet packed with multiple personal bests, as well as a record-breaking individual score.

    The Elis posted their highest score of the season as they beat the second Ivy League opponent they have faced this year — making them 2–0 in Ivy League competition after beating Cornell last weekend. The Bulldogs finished first in every event, a result that captain Brigitte Kivisto ’10 said is crucial as the team looks ahead to the upcoming Ivy Championship.

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    “We have beat an Ivy team in each of our last two competitions, which is a really encouraging accomplishment a few weeks from the Ivy League Championship meet,” Kivisto said.

    Among the many high scores the Bulldogs posted Saturday, Tara Feld ’13 scored a 9.850 — a new Eli record in the event.

    “To break the Yale vault record was such an amazing feeling,” Feld said. “It was so great to know that I was able to contribute to the team in this way.”

    Coach Barbara Tonry, along with the rest of the Bulldogs, echoed Feld in her excitement.

    “I didn’t know she had broken the school record until they announced it, and I went wild,” Tonry said. “I was impressed.”

    In addition to Feld, two other Elis posted impressive scores on the vault, Kivisto with a 9.725 and Allison Mak ’10 with a 9.600.

    The Bulldogs continued to dominate as Yale snagged the top-four finishes on the uneven parallel bars. Led by Kivisto with a 9.550, four Elis, including freshmen Stephanie Goldstein ’13, Lindsay Andsanger ’13 and Feld, led the bars with scores all above 9.000.

    On the beam, seniors Mak and Kivisto took the two top spots in the event, with a 9.825 and 9.750, respectively. Sherry Yang ’11 followed in sixth place with a score of 9.100.

    Although the Bulldogs landed high scores across the board on Saturday, Yang said there are still kinks to work out.

    “We had many great individual performances and really came together as a team,” Yang said. “We will need to work on managing nerves during competition.”

    But the Bulldogs yielded their best results of the day in the floor exercises. Yale landed the top six finishes in the event as Kivisto, Feld and Talis Trevino ’12 all achieved career-best scores.

    Such a strong showing from Kivisto, who finished with a personal-best 38.875, earned her the first-place finish in the all-around competition.

    “I like being able to lead by example, and I think placing first all-around is a great example for what our team can do as a whole,” Kivisto said.

    Yale’s second consecutive Ivy victory in as many weekends gave the Bulldogs more confidence about where they are headed..

    “It was a confidence booster to know that even though we counted falls, we still came out on top, meaning that there is nowhere to go but up,” Yang said.

    The team will travel Saturday to face Ithaca and hosts Southern Connecticut State at 1 p.m.