The 196.900 total was the highest opening meet score since 2005. …
The last apparatus of the night for Utah was the event that kept them out of the Super Six a season ago – the beam.
“It’s not secret that’s been a weak event for us the last two or three years,” Utah co-head coach Greg Marsden said.
It wasn’t weak on Friday night. The Red Rocks rode Baely Rowe’s 9.90 performance, which featured a Michael Jackson moonwalk across the beam, to a 49.200-team score on the event. And that score was with two freshmen in the beam lineup.
Lee scored a 9.850 on the beam and fellow freshman Maddy Stover, who had a wobble in the middle of her routine, posted a 9.775. Marsden thinks Stover is capable of much more.
“I feel they demonstrated to themselves, to the coaching staff and their fans that this could be a beam team,” he said.
As for the meet overall, Marsden said it was a “perfect start” from a coaches’ perspective. …
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