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Post Meet Commentary: Georgia (Friday, February 01, 2008)
(Alabama: 196.000; Georgia: 196.625)
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Alabama Crimson Tide vs Georgia Bulldogs: Post-Meet Notes

The Alabama Crimson Tide (196.000) finished second to the Georgia GymDawgs (196.625) before a sell-out crowd in Coleman Coliseum last Friday.  The Tide had to go without senior All American Terin Humphrey, who was suffering from cold symptoms, but managed to sweep the all-around titles, led by sophomore Kassi Price (1st - 39.275), sophomore Morgan Dennis (39.125) and freshman Kayla Hoffman (38.800).  Here are the routine observations:    


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Morgan Dennis: Floor: 9.950
"Great routine. No one executes the double layout better than Morgan - she actually gains height on the second salto. Sassy dance and very nice presentation overall."
Vault Score Post Meet Commentary on Skills Executed and Deductions
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Ricki Lebegern
View the video for vault: Ricki Lebegern: 9.800 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Ricki Lebegern: 9.800 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.800 Yurchenko 1/1 - stuck it with nice body control and twisting in the air - piked down a bit.
2 Kaitlin White
View the video for vault: Kaitlin White: 9.700 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Kaitlin White: 9.700 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.700 Yurchenko 1/1 - nice body control in flight - went in a little flat once again.
Kassi Price
View the video for vault: Kassi Price: 9.625 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Kassi Price: 9.625 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.625 Yurchenko 1/1 - piked down, bent knees in flight and leg separation, limited distance from table.
Brittany Magee
View the video for vault: Brittany Magee: 9.675 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Brittany Magee: 9.675 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.675 Yurchenko 1/1 - great form in the air, one step back - judges perhaps hit her extra hard for piking it down and achieving limited distance from table on landing.
Kayla Hoffman
View the video for vault: Kayla Hoffman: 9.875 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Kayla Hoffman: 9.875 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.875 Yurchenko 1/1 - landed chest high, stuck.  Even the Geogia head coach was baffled by this score.
Morgan Dennis
View the video for vault: Morgan Dennis: 9.850 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Morgan Dennis: 9.850 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.850 Yurchenko 1/1 - also landed chest high but small shuffle step back was deducted harshly.
Ex Casey Overton
View the video for vault: Casey Overton: (Exhibition) (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for vault: Casey Overton: (Exhibition) (Normal Bandwidth)
9.625
Team Total 48.900
Uneven Bars Score Post Meet Commentary on Skills Executed and Deductions
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Kaitlin White
View the video for bars: Kaitlin White: 9.775 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Kaitlin White: 9.775 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.775 Solid routine but not her best - rotation was not as smooth and well-paced as we have seen from her - very nice position in the air though on her Gienger release and the double tuck dismount required a step to balance the landing. 
Morgan Dennis
View the video for bars: Morgan Dennis: 9.800 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Morgan Dennis: 9.800 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.800 Really went for the vertical handstands this week and another effortless pike Jaeger was applauded by the crowd - just missed sticking the double front dismount.  
Ricki Lebegern
View the video for bars: Ricki Lebegern: 9.800 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Ricki Lebegern: 9.800 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.800 Replaced the new pike Jaeger with her old straddle Jaeger to spare the sore back this week as she returned to the bars line-up - stuck the full in dismount but chest was down a bit as she sought the control of the landing. Handstands and overall pacing of this routine was much more confident than last year.
Kayla Hoffman
View the video for bars: Kayla Hoffman: 9.800 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Kayla Hoffman: 9.800 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.800 Had some problems with pirouetting on top of the bar again this week but she showed masterful control of her body as it started to arch over and completed the routine without a break, including a very nice Tkatchev release and a double layout dismount.
5 Jac Shealy
View the video for bars: Jacqueline Shealy: 9.800 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Jacqueline Shealy: 9.800 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.800 Handstands were much improved this week and the score reflects it - beautiful Tkatchev and she stuck the Comaneci dismount with very nice form enroute. A crowd pleaser.
Kassi Price
View the video for bars: Kassi Price: 9.950 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Kassi Price: 9.950 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.950 Fantastic routine - cannot say enough about how much improvement Kassi has made in her overall form, extension, and the smooth pacing of this routine - huge Hindorff release, very nice, stuck double layout dismount, nice pirouetting in between with handstands on top of the bar.
Ex Amanda Montgomery
View the video for bars: Amanda Montgomery: (Exhibition) (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for bars: Amanda Montgomery: (Exhibition) (Normal Bandwidth)
9.725 Gienger release, full turn to double tuck dismount.
Team Total 49.150
Balance Beam Score Post Meet Commentary on Skills Executed and Deductions
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Casey Overton
View the video for beam: Casey Overton: 9.775 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Casey Overton: 9.775 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.775 Deducted for the balance check on the front aerial and the dismount of a bhs to gainer full twist had small hop on landing.  
2 Ricki Lebegern
View the video for beam: Ricki Lebegern: 9.800 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Ricki Lebegern: 9.800 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.800 Well-controlled, confident set - side Somi had just a little balance wave of arm - small shuffle on the double twist dismount.
Kayla Hoffman
View the video for beam: Kayla Hoffman: 9.250 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Kayla Hoffman: 9.250 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.250 Fell on the second element of her flight series (layout step-out); rest of routine was pretty solid with tiny balance check here and there - nice dismount of the bhs to two-footed bhs to double twist.
Kassi Price
View the video for beam: Kassi Price: 9.825 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Kassi Price: 9.825 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.825 One of her better routines - flight series of front aerial to bhs to layout step-out had improved form and control this week; switch leap to wolf was a little tentative - wolf front aerial to flutter jump was nice - dismounted with a double pike, stuck the landing with a huge smile for extra emphasis.
Brittany Magee
View the video for beam: Brittany Magee: 9.675 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Brittany Magee: 9.675 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.675 Balance check on the flight series and a hop on the 1 1/2 dismount cost her the higher score..  Rest of the routine was executed with her usual confidence.
Morgan Dennis
View the video for beam: Morgan Dennis: 9.525 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for beam: Morgan Dennis: 9.525 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.525 A little tentative this week in the anchor spot - flight series consisted of only one layout step-out; dismount cost her the critical tenths, as she bounded forward on the double tuck landing towards the beam.
Ex Amanda Montgomery
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9.150 Front walkover to side aerial, switch leap to tuck full to beat jump, front aerial, split full jump, wolf full jump, one-arm bhs, running front 1/1 twisting dismount.
Team Total 48.600
Floor Exercise Score Post Meet Commentary on Skills Executed and Deductions
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Ashley O'Neal
View the video for floor: Ashley ONeal: 9.825 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Ashley ONeal: 9.825 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.825 Opening double pike could have been executed with more control on landing but the rest of her passes were solid: front-front full twist to front layout, ending with a strong double tuck.  Very nice presentation to the home crowd.  
Kaitlin White
View the video for floor: Kaitlin White: 9.825 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Kaitlin White: 9.825 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.825 Solid execution of the double pike, round off to whip 1/2 to whip full and ending with a punch front layout to immediate Rudi (nice finish on this difficult combination).  
Ricki Lebegern
View the video for floor: Ricki Lebegern: 9.575 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Ricki Lebegern: 9.575 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.575 Great routine going through first two passes (high double pike, front-front full-front layout) but she was really going for the stick on the last pass of a double tuck and under-rotated to the point of sitting it almost completely down (just saved it).  As a result, she had to be heavily deducted for the execution error and the start value was reduced as well.
Kayla Hoffman
View the video for floor: Kassi Price: 9.875 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Kassi Price: 9.875 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.875 Went in a little flat on the opening pike full-in and had to step forward on landing but rest of routine was beautiful - 2 1/2 to punch layout, finished with a terrific double pike.  Great dance and expression throughout.  
Kassi Price
View the video for floor: Kayla Hoffman: 9.875 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Kayla Hoffman: 9.875 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.875 Despite nailing every pass with great control (2 1/2 to punch front, double tuck, closed with a double pike) and throwing a cat leap double to cat leap 1 1/2, Kassi could not garner a higher score from the judges.  The only thing we could see that was missing would be more sassy smiling to go along with the sassy dance moves.  
Morgan Dennis
View the video for floor: Morgan Dennis: 9.950 (HIGH Bandwidth) View the video for floor: Morgan Dennis: 9.950 (Normal Bandwidth)
9.950 Great routine.  No one executes the double layout better than Morgan - she actually gains height on the second salto.  Sassy dance and very nice presentation overall.  
Team Total 49.350
Final: 196.000
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