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had the winning score of 9.4 on vault and was fourth on bars (8.5), tied for fourth on floor (9.0) and tied for sixth on beam (9.0). Doriot was fifth on beam (9.1) and bars (8.3), sixth on floor (8.7) and seventh on vault (8.75).

In Group B, Lydia Schaefer was the all-around runner-up with 35.8 points, a half-point behind Hub City’s Tenley Kolb, while Brynlee Pagel was seventh with 32.0. Schaefer won the beam with a 9.4 and was fourth with 8.85s on floor and bars and sixth with an 8.7 on vault. Pagel got an 8.9 on vault, an 8.4 on beam, a 7.7 on bars and a 7.0 on floor.

Tenley Colby (35.85) and Mya Schreiner (35.25) placed fourth and sixth in Level 2’s Group C. Colby was third on vault (9.25), fourth on beam (9.3), tied for fourth on bars (8.4) and got an 8.9 on floor. Schreiner was second on vault (9.3), third on floor (9.15) and added scores of 8.9 on beam and 7.9 on bars.

In Group A, Chloe Cahoon (34.75) and Ruby Holtman (34.55) were fourth and fifth out of eight girls. Cahoon got a 9.0 on vault, just 0.05 away from first place, and added scores of 9.0 on beam, 8.75 on floor and 8.0 on bars. Holtman got a third-place score of 9.0 on floor along with an 8.9 on beam, an 8.8 on vault and a 7.85 on bars.

Xcel Silver

Sophia Steinman led four Rainbow gymnasts in the 11 and up age group of the Xcel Silver competition. She won it with 35.95 all-around points, while Karly Eckert, Olivia Johnson and Elizabeth Nelles added to the team’s second-place finish. Rainbow’s team total was 106.1 points, while Phoenix was the champion with 112.8.

Eckert finished third with 35.55 allaround points, Johnson had 34.3 and Nelles finished with 32.8.

Steinman won the vault (9.05), bars (9.2) and beam (9.2) and took third on floor (8.5).

Eckert’s 9.0 was good for second on vault, while Nelles (8.6) was fourth on vault and Johnson (8.4) was fifth. Eckert added a second-place score of 8.75 on floor, while Johnson (8.3) was fourth and Nelles (7.5) was fifth. Eckert tied Lakyn Leland of the Junior Blugolds for second on bars with a 9.0, while Nelles (8.7) was fourth and Johnson (8.6) was fifth.

Level 6

Kailyn Haenel and Aliyah Pilgrim were the top two finishers and Finley Arndt was fifth in Group B, while Veronica Mateer was the runner-up in Group C to make up Rainbow’s third-place finish in Level 6. The foursome scored 106.9 points to outscore Phoenix (104.25) and trail Hub City (110.25) and the Junior Blugolds (107.4).

Haenel totaled 35.35 points in her events, while Pilgrim was just two-tenths behind. Arndt’s 34.95 points put her just 0.05 out of a third-place tie.

Haenel won the floor with a 9.25, while Arndt won the bars at 8.85, followed by Haenel (8.75) and Pilgrim (8.4). Pilgrim’s 9.0 was second in beam scoring, while Haenel (8.6) was fourth and Arndt (8.3) was sixth.

Arndt got second on vault with an 8.8, while Haenel (8.75) was third and Pilgrim (8.7) tied for fourth. Pilgrim was fourth on the floor with her 9.05 and Arndt was just 0.05 points behind.

In Group C, Mateer’s 35.65 all-around points, put her just 0.05 behind winner Ashley Jaeger of Hub City. Mateer won the beam with a 9.35 and the floor with a 9.25. She was sixth on bars (8.55) and vault (8.5).

More champions

Anna Wanke, Annalee Bull and Raylin Rothmeier also were on Rainbow’s list of champions Saturday.

Wanke and teammate Kate Malchow were the lone competitors in the 15-16 age group of Level 8. Wanke earned a 9.1 on bars, a 9.05 on floor and 8.5s on vault and beam to score 35.15 points for the day. Malchow won the beam at 8.7 and got an 8.85 on floor, an 8.6 on bars and an 8.1 on vault to score 34.25 points.

Bull earned 33.95 points to outscore Phoenix’s Aydin Bjork (33.7) in the Xcel Bronze competition. Bull’s 9.1 on vault was key to her win. She tied Bjork on floor with an 8.4 and added an 8.8 on beam and a 7.65 on bars.

Rothmeier totaled 34.95 points to edge teammate Avery Losiewicz (34.4) in the three-person Level 5 competition. Rothmeier had the top scores on vault (9.0), floor (8.75) and beam (8.7), while Losiewicz won the bars (8.8). Rothmeier got an 8.5 on bars, good for a second-place tie with Chole St. John of the Junior Blugolds. Losiewicz was second on vault (8.9), third on beam (8.6) and tied St. John on floor (8.1).

Bethany Jokiel scored 34.15 all-around points to place second in the 12 and up age group in Xcel Gold competition. She tied Phoenix’s Trina Pyka for first on the floor with an 8.85, got a 9.0 on bars and added an 8.5 on vault and a 7.8 on beam. Sophie Koester was sixth in the 9-11 age group with 34.45 points. She tied for second on bars with a 9.25 and added scores of 8.5 on beam, 8.45 on vault and 8.25 on floor.

Jordyn Grant (36.6) was second and Rylee Hartwig (35.55) took fourth in Level 3, ages 11-12. Grant tied overall champion Addisyn Thompson of Hub City for first on vault with a 9.4 and took second with a 9.3 on beam, a 9.0 on floor and an 8.9 on bars. Hartwig tied for third on beam with a 9.2 and got a 9.15 on vault, an 8.7 on floor and an 8.5 on bars.

Lindsey Kauffman’s second-place total of 33.65 in the 11-13 age group of Level 4 included wins on vault (8.6) and floor (8.5) as well as scores of 9.05 on beam and 7.5 on bars. Mackinley Mueller was third in the 8-11 age group with 33.15 points with an 8.75 on beam, an 8.5 on vault, an 8.0 on floor and a 7.9 on bars.

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