Mar 25, 2009

Mar 1, 2009

Paced by strong performances from Russell Czeschin, Jason Laughton and Steven Legendre, the #2 ranked OU men's gymnastics squad dominated #9 Nebraska for the third time this season, Saturday, in an easy 358.300-342.400 win.

 "I actually thought we put things together better today," head coach Mark Williams said.  "The errors that we had earlier in the season, made some nice fixes."

 Legendre and Czeschin jump started the Sooners with impressive performances on the floor exercise while Laughton kept the solidity in place with a team, season high score of 15.000 on the pommel horse.

Czeschin and Legendre starred again two events later on the vault with Czeschin scoring a 16.100 and Legendre breaking the school record with a 16.500.

"Me and Chris Brooks always talk garbage to each other, and he had the previous record from a few weeks ago so I one-upped him so you know that was pretty fun," Legendre said.

 The Sooners who haven't lost at a meet in more than a year, will travel to Minneapolis Saturday  March 7 to face-off with #6 Minnesota as well as the last team to defeat the Sooners, #3 Stanford. 

"This oughtta be a great test for us to go up there and be on the road and handle a great team like Stanford," Williams said.