Deep bench moves gymnasts' record to 2-1

Team depth was on display Dec. 16 as the Luverne High School gymnastics team earned a conference win against Pipestone Area High School in Pipestone.
Two of the LHS team’s varsity performers sat out the meet due to injury.
Freshman Amira Cowell, one of Luverne’s top all-around performers, and freshman teammate Hailey Como, also out for the Dec. 7 meet, did not compete against the Arrows.
Luverne squeaked out the win with a team score of 123.225 to 121.90, the lowest team score of the season.
Coach Phoebe Flom shuffled her normal team routine around in the win.
“Our saving grace was that Pipestone seemed to have the same situation going on that we did. They were absent people and did not have a good meet,” she said.
“We will be without both girls on Tuesday (Dec. 21), so we don’t have much time to prepare.”
In Pipestone, Luverne swept three of the four team events (vault 34.525, uneven bars 27.9, and floor exercise 32.150) by margins ranging from .2 to .9 of a point.
Pipestone won the balance beam by .4 by posting a score of 29.050.
Freshman Ella Reisdorfer won three of the four events along with capturing the individual all-around title with an accumulated score of 33.225.
Reisdorfer placed first on the vault (9.0), uneven bars (8.275) and balance beam (7.550). Pipestone Area’s Kaysa Douty took the floor exercise title with a score of 8.6.
Kianna Winter placed second to Reisdorfer with an 8.650 on the vault, third on floor exercise (8.225) and third in the all-around (29.925).
Sara DeCesare placed third on uneven bars (7.025) and third on balance beam (7.250).
 Addyson Mann rounded out Luverne’s top-four finishers by placing fourth in the all-around (28.150).
Pipestone Area claimed the junior varsity team win over Luverne 107-104.050.
Luverne was scheduled to take on Fairmont at home Tuesday, Dec. 16, in the last meet of the year. However, the meet was postponed.
 
Individual placings
Vault: Reisdorfer 9.0, Winter 8.650, Mann, 8.3; Tiana Lais 8.450, Kendra Thorson 8.425.
Uneven bars: Reisdorfer 8.275, deCesare 7.025, Winter 6.350, Kendra Benson 6.250, Mann, 6.175.
Balance beam: Reisdorfer 7.550, deCesare 7.250, Winter 6.7, Kendra Thorson 7.150, Mann 5.950.
Floor exercise: Reisdorfer 8.4, Winter 8.225, deCesare 7.8, Mann 7.725, Kendra Thorson 6.825.
All-around: Reisdorfer 33.350, Winter 29.650, Mann 27.950.