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Date Posted: 22:57:00 04/17/04 Sat
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Tingui Campeon All Around en la NCAA 2004

PENN STATE TOPS
NCAA TEAMS
POSTED: April 3,
2004

It came down to the last event, but Penn State (pictured) collected a NCAA-record 11 National Title at the 2004 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships tonight in Champaign, Ill.

"It feels great," Penn State head coach Randy Jepson said. "We worked for this all year and we were finally able to put our best team out on the floor and show what we could do."

Oklahoma, the two-time, defending champions coming into tonight's competition, finished second, moving up four spots from their sixth-place prelim ranking, missing just four routines out of 36--a big jump from their dismal 66-percent effort in prelims.

Holding onto a slim lead going into the last event, Oklahoma saw Penn State vault ahead in the meet's final minutes.

"They did everything they could, and I couldn't be any more proud," OU head coach Mark Williams of his squad. "It was so close. It was really, really exciting and I was just pleased to be a part of it. You just can't ask for more from your athletes than their best."

No.1-ranked Illinois, sixth after four events, pulled up to third with super efforts on floor and pommel horse. "This is a school-record score we set," Illinois coach Yoshi Hayasaki said. "I'm proud of these guys. Everyone wants to win a National Championship and tonight, Penn State got it."

Ohio State was fourth followed by Michigan, which had entered NCAAs as the No. 7 seed.

Top prelim scorer Cal struggled tonight, settling for sixth overall. "It's disappointing," Cal coach Barry Weiner said. "A lot of guys did nice routines. A lot of guys did good work. But we started off on pommel horse and we counted two misses, and at the end of the line-up. You just can't count misses."

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