No. 2 Oregon acrobatics and tumbling surges to win over No. 9 Gannon University

All Oregon had to do was make it to tumbling. In a top-10 meet, the No. 2 Ducks (3-1) still knew they had an advantage deep in the second half. No. 9 Gannon (3-2) declared just 56.4 points in start value in the tumbling event, and Oregon’s combination of skill and difficulty left the Ducks with a joker card: a 2.85-point starting advantage. It made it to tumbling with a lead courtesy of continued improvement in six-element acro and a full-force return from senior top/tumbler Selah Bell. From that point, the Ducks’ stars let it rip to the tune of a 276.055-270.570 win over the Golden Knights. After a compulsory heat which withstood an extra step in the acro heat to score 9.250, the Ducks had...