Feb. 5, 2007

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THIS WEEK
Feb. 9 - CAL STATE FULLERTON, 7 p.m.

LAST WEEK
Feb. 4 - at Air Force (1st, 185.600)

NOTES
UC Davis scored a season-low 185.600 at Air Force but overtook the Falcons on the very last performance: senior Mari Inouye hit a 9.500 on balance beam to end the fourth rotation, giving the Aggies the edge over their hosts, who scored 185.425... Inouye was an emergency fill-in on beam, taking over the sixth slot of the lineup after Julia Richards was injured during her floor routine.

UC Davis had event-winners on each apparatus... Freshman Tanya Ho picked up her fourth vault win in as many meets, sticking a 9.800 to help the team score a 48.375... She has averaged 9.831 on vault thus far, 7th in the West Region... As a team, the Aggies continue to rank 3rd in the West on vault with a 48.650 total average... Junior Andi Dolinsky won on bars (9.575) and floor (9.675)... Her bars mark is her second straight personal record, having hit a beam PR a week before at Fullerton... Inouye's 9.500 put her in a tie for first on beam with Air Force's Kayla Kincade.

Sunday's score lowered the Aggies' average to 188.581, second in the MPSF behind Seattle Pacific... However, UC Davis' 191.175 at Fullerton remains the highest score by any MPSF team this season... The Aggies lead the conference on vault and bars (46.687).

UP NEXT: UC Davis returns home to host Cal State Fullerton... Friday's meet will be the second Aggie-Titan matchup in two weeks... CSF edged Sacramento State in a home meet last Friday as part of its "Beauty & The Beast" promotion with Titan wrestling... Freshman Britni Echeverria finished T1st on bars (9.800) while senior Nicole Lim won floor at 9.775 to lead a 1-2-3 finish... CSF previously scored 192.225 to win a four-way meet with Southern Utah, UC Davis and Hamline on Jan. 26.

HEAD COACH JOHN LAVALLEE
"Coming home will be very nice. Hopefully we can have the same kind of crowd that we had at the first meet. It will be just as exciting. We've been on the road for three straight meets, so it will be good to come home. We're still waiting to find out what's going with some bumps and bruises we got on Sunday but we're still in good shape. Like I've been saying from the beginning, we have a lot of healthy people and this will be an opportunity for people to step up and show what they can do."

"We tell the team that you never know when you'll be called upon to step up and get it done, but that's what it takes to be successful in the long term. It takes people who can step in on a moment's notice. That's what happened with Mari [Inouye] this last weekend. She was there to exhibition on beam, but when Julia went down on floor, Mari had to go into Julia's slot. As it turned out, she was the only one who stuck beam and it saved the meet for us. So we tell the kids that you never know when your number will be called. They always have to be ready to go, and this was a prime example of that."

"Hopefully, this was a good learning day in that the team will decide it's not a road they care to go down again. This will be about getting back up on the horse, putting this last meet behind us and continuing to move forward. We tripped, but we have to get back up and keep going."