Iowa Falls to No. 4 Oklahoma

Feb. 16, 2008

IOWA CITY, IA – The University of Iowa men’s gymnastics team was defeated by Oklahoma Saturday at the UI Field House. The Hawkeyes posted a final score of 338.05, while the Sooners scored a team total of 357.75.

Sophomore Reid Urbain scored a new event high on rings for the 2008 season with a 14.70, to come in fourth place. Dustin Cranmer scored a 14.80 on parallel bars to break the second event high of the day, earning third place. The difficult event of the meet for both teams was the pommel horse. Iowa’s Jacob Becker pulled out a third place finish in the event with a 13.70.

Iowa will travel to Oakland, CA to compete at the Pacific Coast Classic. Competition will begin at 7:30 p.m. CT at the Oakland Convention Center.

Final Team Scores:
Team Floor Pommel Horse Rings Vault Parallel Bars Horizontal Bar Total
1. Oklahoma 61.10 54.90 60.25 63.80 59.30 58.40 357.75
2. IOWA 58.25 53.10 55.80 61.40 57.05 52.45 338.05

Individual Results:
All-Around (winner plus Iowa)
1. Curtis Kleffman (Iowa) 81.15

Floor (winner plus Iowa)
1. Russ Czeschin (Oklahoma) 15.45
5. Ben Ketelsen (Iowa) 14.90
6. Geoff Reins (Iowa) 14.65
7t. Diego Mercado-Austin (Iowa) 14.35
7t. Reid Urbain (Iowa) 14.35
11. Dusty Cranmer (Iowa) 13.95
12. Curtis Kleffman (Iowa) 13.65
13. Jonathan Buese (Iowa) 12.45

Pommel Horse (winner plus Iowa)
1. Corey English (Oklahoma) 14.00
3. Jacob Becker (Iowa) 13.70
5. Ben Ketelsen (Iowa) 13.60
9. Curtis Kleffman (Iowa) 12.95
10. Joel Snyder (Iowa) 12.85
11. Dusty Cranmer (Iowa) 12.00
12. Mike Jiang (Iowa) 11.80

Rings (winner plus Iowa)
1. Taqiy Abdulla (Oklahoma) 15.60
4. Reid Urbain (Iowa) 14.70
7. Jonathan Buese (Iowa) 14.10
9. Curtis Kleffman (Iowa) 13.60
10. Diego Mercado-Austin (Iowa) 13.40
11. Tom Buese (Iowa) 13.10
12. Danny Kuklinski (Iowa) 12.80

Vault (winner plus Iowa)
1. Steve Legendre (Oklahoma) 16.10
5. Geoff Reins (Iowa) 15.70
7. Dusty Cranmer (Iowa) 15.55
9. Ben Ketelsen (Iowa) 15.15
10. Diego Mercado-Austin (Iowa) 15.00
11. Jonathan Buese (Iowa) 14.80
12. Curtis Kleffman (Iowa) 13.05

Parallel Bars (winner plus Iowa)
1. Taqiy Abdullah (Oklahoma) 15.10
3. Dusty Cranmer (Iowa) 14.80
5. Curtis Kleffman (Iowa) 14.50
9. Jonathan Buese (Iowa) 13.90
10. Ben Ketelsen (Iowa) 13.85
11. Diego Mercado-Austin (Iowa) 13.55
12. Danny Kuklinski (Iowa) 13.05

Horizontal Bar (winner plus Iowa)
1. Jonathan Horton (Oklahoma) 15.45
5. Curtis Kleffman (Iowa) 13.40
6. Danny Kuklinski (Iowa) 13.10
7. Dusty Cranmer (Iowa) 13.00
8. Joel Snyder (Iowa) 12.95
9. Ben Ketelsen (Iowa) 12.85
12. Tom Buese (Iowa) 11.65

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