FeedsCanton gymnasts trounce Hartland, Lakeland Milford
Canton dominated Hartland and Lakeland Milford in a home tri-meet on Tuesday night.
The Lady Chiefs doubled the point total of their nearest competitor, Lakeland Milford, 142.30-70.75. Hartland finished with 65.30.
Canton won the top three spots in the three of the four events.
Alyssa Kelley only competed in two events and won them both. She earned top honors again on vault with a 9.5 and took first on the parallel uneven bars with a 9.05.
Kaitlyn Burns won the beam competition with a solid 9.0 performance. She had her best score on floor with a 9.1—good for third—and was third on vault with a 9.0. She also scored an 8.5 on bars for fourth place. She earned a total of 35.6 points, which tied her with teammate Kate Staley.
Staley earned second on the vault and bars with a 9.2 and 9.0 respectively. She scored an 8.8 on beam for third place and landed in fifth on floor with an 8.6.
Jesse Murray had the best all-around day. She finished with 36.05 points without taking a first place. She was a close second on floor with a 9.4—just behind Lakeland Milford’s Sam Zach’s 9.45.
Murray was second on beam with an 8.9. She tied for third with Zach on bars with an 8.85. She also scored an 8.9 on vault to put her in fourth.
Andrea Houdek had a fifth-place performance on beam (8.0) and a sixth on bars (8.2). She also scored an 8.2 on floor. Olivia Stephens was fifth on vault with an 8.6 and scored an 8.0 on floor to finish with a total of 31.4 points. Courtney Ward took sixth on floor with an 8.5 and scored an 8.3 on vault.
The win boosted Canton to 14-2 overall. They remain undefeated in the conference, 11-0.
Last week, after placing seventh at their own invitational, the Lady Chiefs beat both the Livonia Red and Livonia Blue teams. Canton finished with 145.500 to Blue’s 144.525 and Red’s 144.40.
Kelley won vault with a 9.7 and tied for second (9.6) on floor and took fourth (9.05) on bars to help her finish fourth (37.10) in the all around.
Murray was second (9.65) on beam, fourth (9.2) on vault and sixth (9.2) on floor to help land her in fifth (36.55) in the all around.
Staley was sixth (36.45) all around with third (9.2) on bars, fourth (9.35) on beam and a tie for fifth (9.05) on vault.
Burns was sixth on beam with a 9.1.
“I was very pleased,” said Canton Coach John Cunningham. “The girls were able to put the seventh-place finish at out invitational behind them. We didn’t practice in between the meets and they got better—it takes a special kind of athlete to be able to do that.”
Canton will start preparing for the conference meet at Walled Lake Central next Thursday, Feb. 22.
