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OU men's gymnastics: Sooners lose national championship in stunning fashion

Yul Moldauer

Then-OU gymnast Yul Moldauer waits to perform on March 9, 2019.

 Paxson Haws/The Daily

No. 1 Oklahoma’s fight for five straight National Championships ends short.

The streak is over.

The top-ranked Sooners fell inches short of a fifth-straight national title Saturday night, losing to No. 2 Stanford 415.222-414.556. The meet came down to the very last routine — high bar.

In rotation one, Oklahoma started the meet on fire with four different Sooners posting 14-plus on floor exercise. Sophomore Gage Dyer lead the Sooners with a score of 14.333.

Oklahoma carried its momentum into pommel horse where the Sooners saw seniors Yul Moldauer and Brian Schibler both perform strong routines by going 14.100 and 13.766 respectively.

Rotation three saw Oklahoma edge into second place overall with three Sooners posting 14-plus routines on still rings. Moldauer, who won the 2019 Nissen-Emery Award for top male gymnast in the NCAA, lead the way with 14.533. Oklahoma posted a team score of 70.565 on rings.

Moving into vault in rotation four, Oklahoma couldn’t have asked for a better start as freshman Vitaliy Guimaraes stole the show by posting a ridiculous 14.800 in the leadoff spot.

All five off the Sooners in the lineup scored above 14.400 in this event.

After rotation five on parallel bars, the Sooners shifted themselves into first place by over four points. A score of 14.166 by senior Genki Suzuki, who went all-around on the day, helped Oklahoma build the lead going into rotation six.

However, after Dyer and senior Peter Daggett started the event with two scores above 13.200, Moldauer took an unfortunate fall in the third routine that the Sooners just couldn’t recover from.

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