Gymnastics
Mansfield
girls dethrone Sharon
SATURDAY
JANUARY 23, 2010
from
the Sun Chronicle
GYMNASTICS:
Mansfield girls dethrone Sharon
STOUGHTON
- Mansfield High girls' gymnastics coach
Nicole Longo had a bag full of mixed
emotions as her Hornets took on perennial
Hockomock League champion Sharon and
Oliver Ames in a triangular meet Friday
night.
On one hand her unbeaten Hornets were on
the cusp of their first-ever outright
league title, coming into the meet with a
9-0 league mark. On the other hand was her
protege from her team at Arnold's
Gymnastics Academy, Sharon's Sami Kaplan.
I
guess you could say things kind of worked
out and gave Longo the best of both worlds
- Mansfield took home the crown despite an
outstanding individual effort by Kaplan.
"I wasn't real happy seeing her on
the other team," noted Longo as
Kaplan finished first in three of the four
events and was tops all-around with a
score of 36.9.
But it was the consistency up and down the
Hornets' lineup that forced the Eagles to
give up their crown for the first time in
10 years. Sophomore Michelle Ivanoski - a
teammate of Kaplan's at Arnold's - was
second in every event, and second
all-around (36.5), and freshman Danielle
Dousa tied Kaplan for first in the balance
beam and grabbed a third-place finish in
the uneven bars, but it was the
contributions of seniors Casey Burns and
Alyssa Ayalla, junior Amy Sterling and
sophomore Ali Neenan that allowed
Mansfield to overcome the Eagles by over
five points and OA by 16.3.
Mansfield tied Sharon for the top spot
last year.
The Hornets will now have to defend their
dual meet title at the Hockomock League
Championship Meet on Saturday, Feb. 6 at 6
p.m. at Arnold's Gymnastics Academy in
Mansfield.
Mansfield 140.75, Sharon 134.9, Oliver
Ames 124.45: Vault 1-Valerie Cohen
(OA), 2-Michelle Ivanoski (M), 3-Sami
Kaplan (S), 9.2; Uneven bars 1-Kaplan (S),
2-Ivanoski (M), 3-Danielle Dousa (M), 9.3;
Balance beam 1-(tie) Kaplan, Dousa,
2-Ivanoski (M), 3-Cohen (OA), 9.2; Floor
exercise 1-Kaplan (S), 2-Ivanoski (M),
3-Cohen (OA), 9.5; All-around 1-Kaplan (S)
36.9, 2-Ivanoski (M), 36.5, 3-Cohen (OA)
35.5.
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MANSFIELD - Turning in the greatest individual and team performance in the history of the program,
Michelle Ivanoski and the Mansfield High gymnastics team put away King Philip and moved one step
closer to the Hockomock League dual meet title.
Tuesday 1/19/10 at Arnold's Gymnastics Academy,
Ivanoski, a sophomore, beat or tied three individual
school records and the unbeaten Hornets set a team record for total points with a dominating
143.75-115.2 victory over the visiting Warriors.
