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Beaver Creek junior Amanda Dooyema leaps during her floor routine during Thurdsday's home gimnastics match against Windom.
By John Rittenhouse
The Luverne-Hills-Beaver Creek gymnastics team was unable to snap what has become a three-match losing streak while competing twice late last week.
The Cardinals came up on the short end of an 8.8-point Southwest Conference decision against Windom at the Luverne Armory Thursday. L-H-BC then fell by .175 of one point during a match in St. Peter Saturday.
The L-H-BC squad hosts New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva Saturday and St. James Monday.
SP 126.725,
L-H-BC 126.55
The Cardinals lost a slim .175 of one point margin when it traveled to a St. Peter road duel Saturday.
L-H-BC had at least two athletes place in the Top-Five positions in each individual event, but it wasn’t enough to snap the team’s three-match losing skid.
Callen Bosshart, who placed second all around with 32.4 points, and Amanda Dooyema won individual titles for L-H-BC.
Bosshart who placed third on the bars (7.95) and beam (7.55) and tied for third place with teammate Danielle Cook on the floor (7.9), won the vault with an 8.8 effort.
Dooyema, who was fifth on the floor (7.7) and tied for fourth place with teammate Brittany Mulder on the bars (7.55), took top honors on the beam with an 8.5.
Cook had a good day that featured a third-place performance on the vault with an 8.7. Cardinal Brittany Boeve placed fourth on the vault with an 8.65.
Mulder finished fourth all around with a tally of 29.6 points.
Individual results
Bars: C.Bosshart, 7.95; Dooyema, 7.55; Mulder, 7.55; Morgan Bosshart, 7.35; Cook, 7.3.
Beam: Dooyema, 8.5; C.Bosshart, 7.75; Boeve, 7.4; Mulder, 7.2; M.Bosshart, 7.1.
Floor: C.Bosshart, 7.9; Cook, 7.9; Dooyema, 7.7; Mulder, 7.45; M.Bosshart, 6.95.
Vault: C.Bosshart, 8.8; Cook, 8.7; Boeve, 8.65; Mulder, 8.2; M.Bosshart, 8.2.
Windom 133,
L-H-BC 124.4
The Cardinals came up 8.8 points short when they hosted Windom for a Southwest Conference test at the Luverne Armory Thursday.
With Mary Hartberg and Carissa Carrison leading the way, the Eagles improved their league record to 4-1 with the victory.
Hartberg turned in a commanding performance by winning the all-around (35.15), bars (8.7), beam (8.2) and floor (9.35) championships. Carrison won the vault with a 9.15.
Callen Bosshart paced L-H-BC by placing in three individual events.
Bosshart, who was fourth all around with 31.35 points, placed second on the vault (9.05) and fourth on the bars (7.85) and floor (8.35).
Cardinal Danielle Cook placed third on the vault with a 9.0 effort.
Individual results
Bars: C.Bosshart, 7.85; Amanda Dooyema, 7.7; Cook, 7.65; Morgan Bosshart, 7.4; Brittany Mulder, 6.9.
Beam: Mulder, 7.3; Dooyema, 6.7; M.Bosshart, 6.2; Brittany Boeve, 6.1; C.Bosshart, 6.1.
Floor: C.Bosshart, 8.35; Mulder, 7.9; Cook, 7.85; Dooyema, 7.85; M.Bosshart, 7.25.
Vault: C.Bosshart, 9.05; Cook, 9.0; M.Bosshart, 8.7; Boeve, 8.6; Mulder, 8.5; Victoria Arends, 7.95.