to the Gators. Bama returns to Coleman Coliseum next week for Pink Meet night against the Auburn Tigers. Let's have a sell-out and remember you have a chance to win a 2007 Toyota Camry if your number is one of six lucky ones drawn from the admission tickets. Roll Tide!

deflation at the end of this meet on beam. She stated she is not afraid to mix up the line-up to get better results and leadership where needed. So it looks like beam intra-squads are in the mix for Sunday's practice. Here's hoping the team responds well to whatever intervention she chooses to implement.

reflect on what might have been. The Tide had this victory in hand, with three very solid beam routines in the bank and needing just two clutch beam performances from senior Erin Rightley and junior All American Terin Humphrey after freshman Ricki Lebegern fell on her front aerial. But they did not deliver. We cannot sugarcoat this and it is what it is, to quote Wayne Huezienga.

Now, the Tide definitely saw improvement on the bars this week, hitting six of six routines with a shift of the line-up (Martin to third as we predicted last week, White to the lead-off position); the Tide's vaulting was much improved after just one week as well, and while floor was not as crisp they still scored a 49.250 and put themselves well in position to capitalize on the beam.

Alabama: 195.650
Florida: 196.825

3rd Terin Humphrey of UA
2nd Amanda Castillo of UF
1st Kassi Price of UA

Bars are won by Hartung, Castillo and Humphrey of UA (9.900)

Beam - 3rd Place: Magee of UA and Sinclair of UF, Price of UA gets 2nd; Hartung wins it with a 9.925

Floor: Gators sweep this week places 1 through 3. Reed of UF wins it with a 9.925

lower than a 9.90. The judges were not as picky the second time around but the Gators hit the big skills, so they deserve the victory. Bama finishes with a 195.65 to the Gators 196.825. Scores are unofficial.

Terin receives a 9.275 for her beam and Erin Rightley a 9.025. So the Tide counts two falls on the beam tonight, basically hands the meet to the Gators with the final three beam routines. Lessons begin immediately no doubt from Coach Patterson.

She falls on the punch front. Switch leap to wolf leap; finishes the rest of her routine without a major mishap. This routine will count as well. Bama needs to start digging deep to find that grit and determination to fight through tough moments like these.

Tide is unfortunately giving it away here at the end. They will have to count a fall on the beam. Castillo receives a 9.90 for her floor routine. Hartung opens with a triple; follows with a front through to a double full; finishes with a 2 1/2 twist; very nice.

and O'Neal a 9.825 for her beam. Lebegern is doing fine so far until the front aerial and falls; Castillo opens with a pike full in on floor, control bounce back on the landing but she keeps it in bounds; follows with a double tuck, bounces back again; finishes with a solid double pike.

last routine. O'Neal is through her flight series but hesitates on the switch leap and has a balance check again on the full turn; she is looking a little tentative; regains her composure with a solid front tuck punch and ends with a super double front dismount, one step forward.

tumbling pass, a double front, follows with front tumbling, ends with a full twist out of it; Celtic music; ends with a double tuck; crowd loves her.

and through her wolf front aerial to scissor jump, switch leap to side split leap combination. BHS to layout step-out, slight shoulder shift. Full turn to wolf leap combination; side Somi, nice, dismounts with a double pike, lands it very well, just slightly steps back after appearing to nail it at first. Way to go!

She opens with a tuck full in, step back on the landing but she stays in bounds. Front, front full to front layout, a little off center and sluggish on that landing (neck was back). She finishes with a double pike, slight shift in place on the landing. Solid routine. Crowd is back in it for the Gators.

jump, front punch, perfect so far, dismounts with a round off to a almost stuck 1 1/2 twist. Great start!

We need the Texas sophomore to start us off solid, hopefully paving the way for six great routines. Let's go Bama!

out. They have a final team score on beam of 49.150 to Bama's 49.250 on the floor. Price finished with a 9.875.

She nails the opening pass this week of the pike full in, much better form in the air and her landing was stuck. She changes the second pass for a front tuck through to a double pike this week and will close with a round off to a double pike, another strong landing.

altered by her in flight, a front-front full to front tuck instead of her usual front layout. She closes with a perfect double tuck, high and the landing was great too. But again, judge on our left hits Bama the hardest, giving her a final score of 9.825.

judge, who has scored the Tide the lowest in the first four routines up. The other judge sees it as a 9.90, final tally of 9.875. What does the girl have to do?

and the 2 1/2 twist to punch front; she finishes with a double pike and just drills it! Big hug for Bryan Raschilla at the end. Wow!

Hartung completes a very strong routine on the beam, ending with what looked like a 1.5 twist.

nice difficulty but several slight but noticeable bobbles here and there.

second pass is a little tricky but she nails it, the Rudi to layout step-out. Finishes with another strong front-front full-front layout.

and O'Neal gets a final score of 9.75. Ricki opens with another super triple twist, follows with another nailed double pike. She closes with a front-front full to front pike, just keeps it in bounds. Another 9.825 score for King of UF.

with a little balancing step back; front-front full-front layout, very nice; smiling throughout; she ends with a double pike, nails the landing. The crowd is appreciative of her selling of this routine. Good way to open for the Tide O!

later, side Somi, 1/4 jump/turn to hip drop down on the beam, gainer full dismount.

Ashley O'Neal will be up first on floor for the Tide.

the Gators' 49.050 on uneven bars, running score of 98.125 for UF, 98.375 for the Tide

White just threw an exhibition vault of a Yurchenko 1/1 for what looks like a 9.675 score.

Sinclair misses her mount and sails over the low bar. She also misses the Hindorff. So that will be a sub-9.00 scored routine for sure. Corey Hartung received a 9.90 for her routine and they will finish on this event with a 49.050.

Kassi Price throws the most difficult vault of the night, a Yurchenko 1 1/2 and takes one step to the side to balance the landing. She won the bronze medalist on vault at the USA Nationals this past August.

Terin just hit the Omeliantchik, small hop on the landing. Lutz got a 9.725 for a rough bars set, Castillo a 9.900 for two major releases.

Magee sticks her vault and gets a 9.85. Okay.

crowd got suddenly. Except for the mouthy kid right behind us who keeps shouting how much he hates Alabama.

but has split in the air and has to take a balancing step on the landing. Huge vault in the air and she gets a 9.800.

Reed hops back towards the bars on her double layout landing off the bars. Otherwise a solid routine.

Willis hits her bars routine and lands a very nice double layout.

She'll throw the Y 1/1 again this week but has the 1 1/2 coming soon to a coliseum near you.

We need stuck landings!

The Tide is a better vaulting team than the Gators with more variety as well but they must try and stick the landings to get the maximum score possible. Florida has scored quite high on the uneven bars in their opening two meets and will look to surge past the Tide if they can hit the big skills.

deducted only for a hop on the landing of her double layout dismount. Beautiful handstands and the hop full to Gienger was awesome. Morgan Dennis received a 9.825 for her bars routine.

Kassi hits her big Hindorff and the double layout dismount (one small hop forward, chest down a bit as well). Bama is five for five so far.

Castillo gets a 9.875 for her vault. This vault was piked down and she hopped forward towards the vault. Ashley Reed hits a 9.90 with a much better vault in the air and on the landing.

Rue received a 9.80 for her Y 1/1. Lebegern received a 9.75 for her bars and Martin a 9.825 for hers. Morgan Dennis just hit her routine, tiny step also on the double front dismount.

Rue completes a Yurchenko 1/1, pikes it down, small hop back, limited distance as well.

her vault.

to throw that one out. Ricki Lebegern completes her bars routine successfully, which included a straddle Jaeger and a stuck dismount of a full in! Much better than last week.

with a Yurchenko 1/1 that she lands very well to start her team off. Kaitlin is up for the Tide. Nice Gienger to pak Salto combination, full turn to double tuck is a little labored at the end and she has to take one step forward on the landing but she has us one safe routine in the house!

with Kaitlin White. Let's have a clean six in a row Bama!

Florida is wearing a solid metallic orange leo with silver sequins.

Alabama is wearing a shiny, deep crimson leo with a sharp contrasting white swirling wave that wraps from front to back with silver sequins edging the neckline and white cuffs contrasting at the elbows.

Gator-chopping is rampant in the stands now that they have won a football title this past year along with a basketball title. Will the gym team make it their first and in the same calendar year?

For the Gators they will need to get their home crowd into the meet immediately with strong vaulting. The Florida coaches hope this will fuel the team as they head to their top event so far this season, the uneven bars. Once there, if they perform like they have the past two weeks, then they should start to coast. But anything can happen and if the Gators miscue on bars and later on beam, the Tide will have a chance to put the pressure on them with their two strongest events, vault and floor exercise.

For Alabama, the Tide is looking for improvement this week on the uneven bars, where they have high quality routines but not much depth now with the loss of freshman Jac Shealy last week to an ACL injury. The Tide will need to hit at least five of six routines on the bars to pump up their performances on the vault and hopefully fuel them through another strong set on the floor exercise, where they are number one in the nation.

Perhaps the major key to victory in this series, is the home crowd. And while certainly the O'Connell Center crowd tonight is not near as large as what the Tide is used to in Tuscaloosa, they will be very vocal for the Gators, and that is usually worth several tenths in the final scoring. Best of luck to both teams and here's hoping we come out of here with all gymnasts healthy.

ready to have a final pep talk with the coaches before heading to the locker room.

for the meet to start.

Nice routine rep by Casey Overton and a beautiful wolf front aerial from Kassi.

Casey and Amanda.

don't know if she will actually exhibit it tonight. The Tide rotates now to the balance beam for the final 15 minute warm-up.

layout step-out.

A good number of Tide fans are in the house, and vocal ones at that!

so glad to see her out there on vault and now floor. Will beam and bars be far behind?

Double layout from Morgan had tremendous airtime and she just kept it in bounds.

a bit with it.

15 minute long warm-up. On the floor for the Tide: Erin, Kaitlin, Casey(!), Kassi, Terin, Ashley O, Morgan, Ricki. This is a bouncy floor!

Magee will possibly exhibit uneven bars tonight, as she looked very solid in the 15 minute warm-up earlier. She now throws a Tkatchev release and a pak Salto and dismounts with a 1/2 in 1/2 out.

in gymnastics. It's #1 (UF) versus #4 (UA) and both teams are working through their respective 15 minute long warm-ups on vault (Alabama) and uneven bars (Florida). Alabama will insert Cassie Martin tonight in the third position on the bars and Kaitlin White will open the meet for the Tide tonight on this event. As the host team, UF will start on vault.

Right now we see the following Tide gymansts vaulting: Kassi, Casey, Morgan, Ricki, Brittany, Terin, Ashley O, and Kaitlin. Two stuck Yurchenko 1/1 vaults in a row from freshman Ricki Lebegern.