Four gymnasts win events, Jones breaks vault record

INDIANOLA, Iowa – Four individuals won event titles, Braxton Jones broke the school record on vault, and the Simpson College men's gymnastics team put forth its best performance of the young season on Friday night against Navy.

The Storm posted a score of 297.750 in their first home meet, winning rings and vault as a team. Navy led by just one point going into the fifth rotation of the night, but put together strong parallel bars and high bar lineups to finish with a 306.350.

Jones (vault) and Jake Smith (high bar) won their first collegiate event titles, with Jones' 14.350 on vault also breaking Camden Bontempo's previous school record. Smith tied his career-best high bar score of 13.000 to tie with Navy's Isaiah Drake for first.

Along with Jones and Smith, Brian Rollison (rings) and Alex Catchpole (parallel bars) earned gold medals. Both scored season highs as Rollison recorded a 13.500 and Catchpole registered a 13.250.

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The Storm are off until Feb. 15 when they travel to Norman, Okla. to face Oklahoma and Michigan in a triangular.

MEET REPORT
FLOOR - 51.200
Christopher Duane - 13.100, 2nd place
Jake Smith - 12.900
Braxton Jones - 12.850
Paul Tiedemann - 12.350

POMMEL HORSE - 46.750
William Bacus - 12.050, 3rd place
Ethan Drake - 11.700
Milo Staley - 11.650
Alex Catchpole - 11.350

STILL RINGS - 50.400, 1st place
Brian Rollison - 13.500, 1st place
Alex Campbell - 13.100, 3rd place
Jake Smith - 12.050
Noah Koos - 11.750

VAULT - 53.900, 1st place
Braxton Jones - 14.350, 1st place
Alex Campbell - 13.650, t-2nd place
Milo Staley - 13.050
Jake Smith - 12.850

PARALLEL BARS - 47.850
Alex Catchpole - 13.250, 1st place
Alex Campbell - 12.250
William Bacus - 11.400
Paul Tiedemann - 10.950

HIGH BAR - 47.650
Jake Smith - 13.000, t-1st place
Eric Simon - 11.850
Noah Koos - 11.800
Paul Tiedemann - 11.000