University of Illinois
Windy City Invitational
No. 3 Illinois Takes Second at Windy City Invitational
January 10, 2004 | Men's Gymnastics
Jan. 10, 2004
Chicago, Ill. - The third-ranked Fighting Illini men's gymnatics team finished second in a loaded six-team field at the pretigious Windy City Invitational Saturday evening in Chicago. Illinois finished with 214.425 points, just behind top-ranked Ohio State's total of 215.750. No. 4 Michigan was third with 214.100, followed by No. 6 Iowa (213.150), #14 Illinois-Chicago (208.800) and #8 Minnesota (205.450).
"I'm very pleased with were we finished, especially for the first meet of the year," said Illini head coach Yoshi Hayasaki, now in his 28th season. "We have a lot of room for improvement, but we're still way ahead of where we were last year at this point. This was one of our better season openers in a quite a while."
Illinois' total of 214.425 is over seven points better than last season's Windy City Invite total of 207.050.
Sophomore Justin Spring and junior Ben Newman each took home an individual event title. Spring won the floor exercise with a 9.600, and also posted the team's top high bar score (9.325) to take fifth on the event. Newman, the defending Big Ten pommel horse champion, won the pommel horse with a career-high score of 9.800.
Other notable performances were turned by sophomore Adam Pummer, who scored a 9.250 on vault to tie for fourth and an 8.95 on the parallel bars to tie for third.
The Illini will return to action next Saturday, when they travel to No. 5 Penn State for a dual meet.
2004 Windy City Invite
Team Results
1. Ohio State - 215.750
2. Illinois - 214.425
3. Michigan - 214.100
4. Iowa - 213.150
5. Illinois-Chicago - 208.800
6. Minnesota - 205.450
Illinois Scores
FLOOR
Justin Spring - 9.600 - 1st Place
Adam Pummer - 9.050 - t-6th
Bob Rogers - 9.050 - t-6th
Anthony Russo - 8.250
Scott Wetterling - 8.250
TEAM TOTAL - 35.950
POMMEL HORSE
Ben Newman - 9.800 - 1st Place
Casey Hayasaki - 9.050 - 8th
Ted Brown - 8.750
Peter Shostchuk - 8.300
Mike Filla - 7.750
Adam Pummer - 7.150
TEAM TOTAL - 35.900
STILL RINGS
Ben Newman - 9.000 - t-6th
Scott Wetterling - 8.750
Justin Spring - 8.600
Adam Pummer - 8.450
Peter Shostchuk - 7.450
TEAM TOTAL - 34.800
VAULT
Adam Pummer - 9.250 - t-4th
Justin Spring - 9.150 - t-6th
Anthony Russo - 9.050
Scott Wetterling - 8.850
Mike Filla - 8.800
Ben Newman - 8.650
TEAM TOTAL - 36.300
PARALLEL BARS
Adam Pummer - 8.950 - t-3rd
Erik Garnett - 8.900 - t-5th
Peter Shostchuk - 8.900 - t-5th
Scott Wetterling - 8.550
Anthony Russo - 8.250
Justin Spring - 6.100
TEAM TOTAL - 35.300
HIGH BAR
Justin Spring - 9.325 - 6th
Bob Rogers - 9.100 - t-7th
Scott Wetterling - 9.050 - 9th
Adam Pummer - 8.700
Anthony Russo - 7.900
Matt Michalek - 7.250
TEAM TOTAL - 36.175
ALL-AROUND
Adam Pummer - 51.550 - 8th
Justin Spring - 49.575 - 12th
