CENTRAL NEW YORK – While it rained hard outside, the area’s two high school gymnastics teams both opened their 2023 seasons last Tuesday night with contrasting results.
Jamesville-DeWitt/Fayetteville-Manlius scored more points, yet lost 149.55-140.30 to New Hartford while still defeating Whitesboro’s total of 139.5, while East Syracuse Minoa, again pairing up with Liverpool, won 117.40-97.80 over Rome Free Academy.
To lead ESM/Liverpool, Madelynn Gorzka claimed all-around honors with a score of 32.00. She nearly swept the apparatus, too, winning the vault with 8.0, the uneven bars with 7.8 and the balance beam with 7.7.
Only Rylee Gorzka, winning floor exercise with an 8.8 routine, broke this up, and even here Madelynn got an 8.5. Allyson Graham was second on the beam with 7.4 as Breelynn Grevelding took second on the bars with 7.0 to go with a second-place vault of 7.6. Julie Pease scored 27.8 all-around to tie RFA’s Keyarra Moore for second place.
Meanwhile, J-D/F-M faced a lot of star power from New Hartford.
Four Spartans topped 36.00 all-around with Grayson Gall scoring 38.1 to beat Julia Makuszak’s 37.4 as Madison Scranton (36.8) and Jayla Jordan (36.55) were close behind.
Individually, J-D/F-M’s Catherine Rizzo was third on uneven bars with 9.05 and Antoinette Sakellariou got fourth on the vault with a terrific 9.45, Sakellariou scored 35.25 all-around, earning an 8.9 on the beam, which Rizzo equaled to go with 8.65 on the beam and floor.
Jordan picked up 9.65 on the vault and 9.60 on the floor. Gall won the balance beam with 9.7 to go with 9.55 on floor, 9.45 on the vault and 9.40 on uneven bars, where Makuszak won with a 9.5 routine.
ESM/Liverpool competed again Saturday and lost, 122.2-113.15, to Baldwinsville, with Elise Mancini getting an 8.7 on the floor.
Madelynn Gorzka scored 7.6 on the vault and Savannah Gowing had 7.1 on the beam as the Bees’ Miley Basilio swept all four apparatus with a 9.05 floor routine, 8.7 uneven bars and 8.0 on the beam and vault.
