LHS gymnasts win St. James tourney

The Luverne gymnasts participated in the St. James Area Snowflake Invitational in St. James Saturday, Dec. 10.
Of the five teams invited, the Luverne Cardinal girls took the team champion title.
Luverne scored 127.275 points, followed by Redwood Valley at 127.025, Pipestone Area at 125.550, Windom-Mountain Lake at 118.750, and St. James at 95.575.
Individually, Luverne placed several gymnasts in the top ten with first-place in three of the four events.
Sophomore Ella Reisdorfer took first place with a 34.55 on the all-around with teammate sophomore Amira Cowell earning fourth with a 32.1.
In addition to finishing first in the all-around, Reisdorfer placed first on the vault with a score of 9.1, tied for first on bars (8.225) second on beam (8.725) and fourth on the floor (8.5).
Cowell, toward her fourth-place finish in the all-around, placed fourth on the vault (8.4), tied for first on bars (8.225), 12th on beam (6.8), and first on the floor (8.675).
The Cardinals placed other gymnasts in individual events as follows:
•Vault: Hailey Como placed fourth (8.7) and Kendra Thorson placed seventh (8.5) out of 16 gymnasts.
•Uneven parallel bars: Reagan Gangestad placed eighth (7.125), Como placed tenth (6.95) and Addyson Mann placed 12th (6.7) out of 23 gymnasts.
•Balance beam: Thorson placed ninth (7.15), Gangestad placed 10th (6.95) and Winter placed 16th (6.450) out of 22 gymnasts.
Ada Lund from Windom-Mountain Lake won the balance beam event with an 8.75.
•Floor exercise: Thorson placed 12th (7.450), Mann placed 13th (7.4), and Como placed 20th (6.7) out of 23 gymnasts.