MU gymnasts seeded third at regional

The 18th-ranked Missouri gymnastics team will travel to Berkeley, Calif., as the third seed for the NCAA West Regional on April 14. The Tigers will face No. 6 Nebraska, No. 7 Utah, Washington, Sacramento State and host California.

Six teams, five all-around competitors (who are not on a qualifying team) and one individual event specialist per event were named to each of the six regions.

The top two teams and the top two all-around competitors not on an advancing team from each regional will receive an automatic berth to the NCAA Championships. Event winners at the regional championships also will advance to the national meet if they are not part of a qualifying team or are not all-around qualifiers.

Sophomore Adrianne Perry qualified for last year’s NCAA Championships as an all-around competitor and narrowly missed All-America honors on the balance beam after finishing ninth in the event’s first session. Perry will enter the West Regional as the nation’s 10th-ranked all-around competitor and is tied for 14th on vault, 30th on beam and 33rd on floor.

Cougars softball game postponed

The Columbia College softball doubleheader against Missouri Baptist scheduled for this afternoon was postponed because of rain.

The games had not been rescheduled as of press time.

Harrisburg rallies past MMA

The Harrisburg baseball team scored 11 runs in the final two innings yesterday to rally for a 14-6 victory over Missouri Military Academy.

Trailing 5-0 heading into the bottom of the second, the Bulldogs scored single runs in the next three innings before exploding for a seven-run fifth to take a 10-6 lead.

Josh Taylor went 3 for 4 with four RBI and three runs. Nathan Carey totaled two hits, scored three times and drove home three. Corey Sublett and Eric Harmon both had two hits, with Sublett scoring twice and Harmon collecting two RBI.

Zach Beringer earned the win in relief, allowing six hits and one unearned run over 41/3 innings.

Westminster softball swept

The Westminster softball team managed dropped a pair of games yesterday at Eureka to open St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play.

The Blue Jays (4-18, 0-2) recorded six hits in falling 3-1 in the opener and tallied five hits in losing the nightcap 5-1. Brooke Meisenheimer went 2 for 6 and scored a run in the two games. Amanda Reckamp, Katie Pilgram and Lauren Pilgram each went 2 for 6 on the day.

CSC’s Hodges competes at nationals

Columbia Swim Club’s Wyatt Hodges set two club records while qualifying for the U.S. Spring National Championship long-course meet.

Wyatt finished eighth in the 200-meter breaststroke in the NCSA Junior National meet in Orlando, Fla., with a club-record time of 2 minutes, 3.12 seconds. That got Hodges into the field at the U.S. Nationals, where he finished 37th. His time of 1:07.43 in the 100 breast at the national meet was good for a second team mark.

At the NCSA meet, Kayla Durnil also qualified for the finals in the 200 breast, finishing 23rd. Additional CSC records were set in the 400 individual medley by Durnil with a 4:28.71 and Hodges with a 4:06.38.

Elizabeth Harper set a club record in the 100 butterfly with 57.84, and Michael Sheahen set records in the 200 freestyle (1:45.87), the 500 freestyle (4:44.06), the 1,000 freestyle (9:45.77) and the 1,650 freestyle (16:24.02).

Also competing at the meet were Katherine Caldwell, Nathalia Mello, Marie Pope and Mary Sheahen.

Columbia Crush wins softball tourney

The Columbia Crush softball team lost the opener of bracket play before coming back to win the AFA April Fool’s Day Fiasco Tournement last weekend in Basehor, Kan.

The champmionship secures a berth in the 14B AFA national tournament July 16-22 in Lawrence, Kan.

The Crush players are Lindie Adair, Tiffany Dow, Brooke Holliday, Nicole Jamison, Melissa Kiehne, Danielle Linneman, Zoe McDougal, Nicole Montgomery, Paige Nelson, Mikala Ogden and Meagen Shults. The Crush is coached by Dale Linneman, David Dow and Doug Nelson.

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