Riley Mahoney set two career highs, leading a Flames squad that peppered every rotation with season best scores, as UIC defeated Bowling Green, 195.200-194.825 Saturday afternoon.

Mahoney scored 9.850 on vault and 9.825 on beam.  Both scores were 0.025 higher than her previous career bests.  Freshman Alisa Sheremeta continued her dominant first season with scores of 9.825 on bars and 9.900 on floor.  Ashley Albrecht had her best meet of the season, scoring 9.750 or higher on all three of her events.

"It was another strong performance and a season high," co-head coach Peter Jansson stated.  "It has been a while since we reached the pinnacle of 195-plus.  This team was actually on pace to go 196 when the end of the beam lineup ran into some problems.  But they now believe that they are as good as any team out there and this should be a fantastic season.

"I'm very proud of them for two weeks in a row knocking off one of the top two teams in the MAC."  UIC defeated Kent State last week. 

Rotation 1 – Bars

• Serena Baker established a new career high score, winning the event with a 9.875.
• Sheremeta set a season high with a 9.825.  She finished tied for third.
• Toni Alicke's 9.800 was a season high as well.  She was fifth.
• Albrecht and Northern each scored 9.750 and tied for sixth.
• The team's total of 48.950 was also a season high.

Rotation 2 – Vault

• All six of the Flames' vaulters set season highs.  Riley Mahoney and Kayla Baddeley tied for the event championship with 9.850 – also a career high for each.
• Miki Northern scored 9.775, coming in seventh after a quartet of Falcons all tied with 9.825.
• Maddie Nowak and Ashley Albrecht each posted a 9.750.  Allison Broad was right behind them with a 9.725.

Rotation 3 – Floor

• Sheremeta's 9.900 was UIC's highest floor score since Northern's conference championship performance last spring, and good for first place.
• Northern had yet another very solid floor exercise, scoring 9.825 and placing fourth.
• Abby Hasanov and Baddeley each scored 9.800.
• The team's total of 49.100 is their highest on any apparatus in any meet this season.

Rotation 4 – Beam

• Mahoney set a career high with a 9.825 on the balance beam.  She was third in a very competitive field.
• Dani Maciel turned in a 9.750, and Baddeley a 9.700, with both placing right behind Mahoney.
• Jovannah East won the event with a near-perfect 9.950.

All-Around

• Northern was the only gymnast in the meet to complete the all-around.
• She totaled 38.500.

Up Next

• The Flames will compete against Bowling Green again next week.
• The teams will both travel to DeKalb for a tri-meet hosted by Northern Illinois.
• Action will begin at 1 pm next Sunday.