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DENVER, Colo. – Junior Anissa Madrid produced season-best scores in two events and the all-around Friday for Seattle Pacific which finished fourth in the Burnsley Invitational women's gymnastics meet at Hamilton Gymnasium.

The Falcons, the lone NCAA Division II competitor in the four-team field, registered a team score of 188.800. Host Denver University posted a first-place total of 195.700 to edge runner-up Boise State (195.425) and third-place Southeast Missouri (192.925).

Madrid (Seattle, Wash./Kennedy HS) compiled a score of 38.400, the best all-around total by an SPU gymnast this season. She was the team's top beam performer with a sixth-place mark of 9.725 that was the Falcons' high score this year on that apparatus.

Madrid also recorded her season-best score of 9.600 on vault. Scores of 9.625 on bars and 9.45 on floor completed her seventh-place all-around total.

Sophomore Sherah Veron (Broken Arrow, Okla.) was SPU's top scorer on the vault and floor exercise. Her career-high score of 9.750 was the team's best vault this season. Veron placed 13th on vault and was 14th on floor with a 9.650.

Denver's Kelley Hennigan won the all-around (39.300) and beam (9.875) competitions. Her teammate Brianna Artemev topped the floor field (9.875) en route to a third-place all-around effort (39.175).

Amy Glass of Boise State won the vault (9.900) and was the all-around runner-up (39.225). The Broncos' Hannah Redmon had the meet's best bars performance (9.850).

Falcons' junior Laura Willis received the Falcons' best bars score with a sixth-place mark of 9.725. That was her season-best score in that event. Willis also tallied season-high marks in vault (9.600) and floor (9.450).

SPU sophomore Samantha Taylor finished eighth in the all-around with a score of 35.300 that included her season-best 9.500 result on vault.

The SPU gymnasts remain in Colorado for another meet on Saturday at Air Force. The tri meet in Colorado Springs, which includes Southeast Missouri, begins at 5 p.m. Pacific Time.

The Falcons return to Seattle for a meet at Washington on Friday, Feb. 26. Arkansas joins SPU and UW in the meet that starts at 7 p.m. at Edmundson Pavilion.


New season-high marks for Seattle Pacific
previous 2010 bests in (parenthesis)

All-Around – 38.400, Anissa Madrid (38.275, Samantha Taylor)
Vault -- 9.750, Sherah Veron (9.725, Sherah Veron)
Beam -- 9.725, Anissa Madrid (9.700, Anissa Madrid)


NCAA Women's Gymnastics
Friday, February 19, 2010
Hamilton Gymnasium/Denver, Colo.

Team Scores
1, Denver, 195.700
2, Boise State, 195.425
3, Southeast Missouri, 192.925
4, Seattle Pacific, 188.800

All-Around
1, Kelley Hennigan, DU, 39.300
2, Amy Glass, BSU, 39.225
3, Brianna Artemev, DU, 39.175
4t, Simona Castro Lazo, DU, 39.125
4t, Hannah Redmon, BSU, 39.125
6, Rikara Turner, SEMO, 38.650
7, Anissa Madrid, SPU, 38.400
8, Samantha Taylor, SPU, 35.300

Vault
1, Amy Glass, BSU, 9.900
2t, Hannah Redmon, BSU, 9.875
2t, Hailey Gaspar, BSU, 9.875
Top SPU scorer – 13, Sherah Veron, 9.750

Uneven Bars
1, Hannah Redmon, BSU, 9.850
2t, Kelley Hennigan, DU, 9.825
2t, Taylor Jacob, BSU, 9.825
Top SPU scorer – 6, Laura Willis, 9.725

Balance Beam
1, Kelley Hennigan, DU, 9.875
2, Amy Glass, BSU, 9.825
3, Taylor Sanford, DU, 9.800
Top SPU scorer – 6, Anissa Madrid, 9.725

Floor Exercise
1t, Brianna Artemev, DU, 9.875
1t, Sarah Smith, BSU, 9.875
3t, Kristina Coccia, DU, 9.825
3t, Yvette Leizorek, BSU, 9.825
Top SPU scorer – 14, Sherah Veron, 9.650