by the Stanford Cardinal Coach, so we will say goodnight - see you on Sunday around 4 pm CST for the Tide's next competition against UCLA, Arkansas and Cal-State Fullerton.

Bama: 195.775 Stanford: 196.775 Nebraska: 196.050

goodbye officially. It's taking a long time because there is a video on each girl and Smyth is talking extensively about each one's accomplishments on these. This is good for our team to hear - this particular Stanford senior team missed nationals their freshman and sophomore years and came back strong last year to make it to the Super Six Finals and have a good chance to repeat this year. It takes hard work all the time - nothing can be taken for granted.

we expected while Bama falls twice on beam under pressure and scores their lowest team total of the season, finishing third at 195.775 to Nebraska's 196.050 and Stanford's 196.775.

switch leap to straddle jump - side straddle jump - looks good - dismounts with a round off to double tuck, on step back. Score: 9.775 - more discrepancy in the judges on this routine - 9.700 from one, 9.850 from the other -

Kayla Hoffman is exhibiting - falls on her flight series - nice switch leap to switch leap series - bhs to two footed bhs to double twist, off to the side a bit on the landing.

front aerial to beat jump - nice - bhs to layout step-out - bend at the shoulder slightly but she pulls it up quick - switch leap to wolf jump - wolf front aerial to beat jump after the full turn - very nice - dismounts with a round off to double pike - one foot check back on the landing. Score: 9.750 big discrepancy between the judges - one gave her a 9.90 and the other a 9.600 - ridiculous!

Score on floor for Stanford's Carly Janiga is a 9.625 (went out of bounds on her opening pass)

that will require the team to count a fall on this event - first time this year - gainer bhs layout - round off to 1 1/2 dismount - stuck it - Score: 9.300

bhs to layout stepout - one foot lift but stays on - switch leap to straddle jump - side straddle jump - nice - full turn - side Somi - very good - dismounts with a round off to double twist - sticks the landing - many high fives from the Bama gymnasts. Score: 9.800

Sabrina Long scores a 9.525 on vault for Nebraska

Amanda Montgomery up for Bama on beam - front walkover to side aerial - slight balance check right before she moves into the second element but she pulls it around but falls on the front aerial - back up - switch leap to tuck full to beat jump - one arm bhs - sticks the running front full twist - first fall of her career. Score: 9.250

Pintchouck - 9.775 on floor for Stanford

nice flight series, leap series, sheep jump, side straddle jump and nails the landing of the bhs to gainer full twist! Score: 9.850

Bama scored a 48.950 on the uneven bars, Stanford a 49.275 on balance beam and Nebraska a 49.00 on floor. Bama is at 147.200, Stanford 147.550, Nebraska at 146.825 after three rotations.

Janiga of Stanford - 9.850 on balance beam, Precourt a 9.700 before her.

Katherine Howard on floor for the Huskers - 9.625

missed one handstand from what we could tell - nice full turn to Tkatchev and the toe shoot straddle to high bar was gorgeous - Score: 9.825

Kassi Price finishes a great routine on bars and sticks her double layout - Score: 9.875 - so they rewarded her for the more difficult release (Hindorff) -

Amanda Montgomery (exhibition) throws her double layout - nice landing! Gienger release as well. Score: 9.675

Tricia Woo on floor - 9.900

front dismount, one step forward on the landing - cowboy position so expect this one to be hit harshly in comparison to the others so far - yep - 9.725

Scafiddi of Nebraska gets a 9.725 on floor

Cassie Martin shows beautiful form throughout her bars routine, toe on toe off to Tkatchev to pak salto combination looked solid - the Comaneci dismount was solid, one foot check on landing. Score: 9.675 - yep, these judges definitely have an agenda tonight on this event.

Jaeger and a stuck full in dismount, legs together! Score: 9.750 - what in the world???

Habbib of Nebraska on floor scores a 9.725

hit all her handstands and the pirouettes on top of the bar - tiny hop in place of the double tuck out of a full turn on the high bar. Nice start. But she scores only a 9.775 - told you the judges were tight tonight on this event.

The Tide is heading into some tight scoring judges on the bars just like on the vault, so they must be clean, hit those handstands and nail the dismount landings. Let's go Bama!

Tabitha Yim scores a 9.875 on the bars for Stanford.

Sabrina Long scores a 9.600 on beam for Nebraska.

Allyse Ishino of Stanford scores a 9.875 for her bars routine.

Parsons of Nebraska gets a 9.85 on beam.

Tricase of Stanford gets a 9.850 for her bars routine.

table - Score: 9.650 - body bent on the front layout off but that score is a little too harsh.

Morgan Dennis hops back on her Y 1/1 - good position in the air and during twisting Score: 9.875

Megan Mashburn scores a 9.700 for her pike 1/2 exhibition

shuffle of one foot. Score: 9.850 - don't know what the judges are thinking, that's the hardest vault thrown out there tonight!

Kayla Hoffman comes right behind her and sticks the Y 1/1 - 9.925 score -

Score: 9.775 - don't get that score at all.

She throws a Y 1/1 - great vault - slight shuffle back on the landing only - we are up here in the rafters and cannot tell much about amplitude but twisting looked good. 9.825

Opens with a double pike - step back on the landing - front-front full to front layout - nice amplitude and control - finishes with a strong double tuck - welcome back O! Score: 9.800

Opens with a double layout - very nice! Tuck full in for her second pass, bounces one foot just out and over the line - more boogeying - finishes with a tuck through to double tuck - in bounds, no trouble on that final pass - great difficulty, but a deduction automatically of one tenth for just going out on the second pass. Score: 9.850 but this changes to a 9.750 for the one tenth deduction. 49.00 even on floor for Bama, 49.225 for Stanford on vault, 48.750 for Nebraska on bars.

chest down on the pike full in, step forward to control the landing - perfect second pass of the 2 1/2 to punch front layout - nice dance and presentation - finishes with a solid double pike - there will be a deduction on the first pass for execution errors but she should be rewarded for the extra difficulty on the first and second pass. Score: 9.850

Opens with a 2 1/2 to punch front tuck - nice! Comes right back with a stuck double tuck - cat leap double to cat leap 1 1/2 - finishes with a stuck double pike - very nice presentation. Score: 9.825 - hmmmm

Desire Sniatynski of Nebraska finishes with a 9.825

Opens with a triple and stands it up well - second pass of the front-front full through to a front layout - nice! finishes with a double pike - very nice. Way to come back Ricki, that's leadership! Score: 9.850

Parsons of Nebraska receives a 9.675 for her bars

Yim of Stanford scores a 9.95 for her Y 1/1

Nicole Ourada on vault for Stanford - 9.800
Step back on the Y 1/1 for Liz Tricase of Stanford - 9.875

bit but stands it up - nails the second pass of a double pike - finishes with a front through to a Rudi but does not get it all the way around and touches one hand down, so that will be a fall. Bama needs to pick up the energy fast! Score: 9.125 for Kaitlin

First tumbling pass is a double pike - perfect; cat leap double - nice - perfect landing of the second tumbling pass - front-front full to front tuck - she is really going for perfection this week on her landings - last pass is a little deep in landing but she throws back her arms to control it and finishes well. Score: 9.725 - way harsh!

Blair Ryland scores a 9.825 for her vault of a Y 1/1

Bama is decked out in the bright crimson metallic leo with the swirling white wave undulating on the front and back.

Nebraska is in black with red piping on the collar, shoulder and Huskers in red on the upper bodice. Stanford is wearing a black, red and white metallic leo.

Video highlight of the Stanford team is shown first. The team then comes out and throws tee-shirts into the stands. Seniors are wearing colorful ponchos (?) and sombreros. Not sure what the connection is but they are beaming with pride as they are introduced. Now time for the national anthem.

It's senior night for Stanford and they expect big performances from Liz Tricase and Tabitha Yim especially - so look for them to perform exceptionally well on every event to send these gals off in style. Alabama will start on floor exercise tonight and must perform strong, dynamic routines on this event to set the tone early. If they can get the same confidence going on this first event as they did last week against Florida on the vault, the Tide should be able to pour it on in the remaining events and finish strong. Nebraska has been hit in recent weeks by the injury bug and has limited depth but regardless they always compete with great confidence. The Cornhuskers had one of their lowest team scores last week and will be highly motivated to get their performances back up to the level needed to move up in the rankings this week (currently at #15). This is an excellent road test for the GymTide and hopefully we will see confident performances on all four events again tonight.

the small crowd worked up. They are doing a terrific job.

about twenty minutes.

Amanda, Brittany, Casey, Kayla, Kassi, Morgan, Ricki are warming up. Price looks very solid so far - working to extend those legs and point those toes. Casey is working on sticking that dismount.

perfect and the Tkatchev just floated!

Very nice double layout just then on bars from Amanda Montgomery, the junior from Jacksonville, Florida! Jac Shealy looks strong on bars during her warm-up as well.

while the rest of the Tide team moves to the uneven bars. For some reason, Alabama is starting on the floor instead of bars. They are the higher ranked team coming in to this tri-meet and should have uneven bars to start and rotate around. It may be that the coaches opted for floor to start to begin preparing the team for this possibility in the post-season.

Kaitlin, Kayla, Kassi, Ricki, Casey, Morgan, Brittany, Megan

Great vault just then from Kayla - the rest of the gals don't seem to favor this table too much - vaults are going in flat.

position. Both ankles are taped.

Bama now moves to the vault for the 15 minute warm-up - Tide looks very loose and are cheering each other heartily on every practice effort.

for the Tide on this event tonight. Warming up also is Kassi, Casey, Morgan, Kaitlin, Ashley O'Neal, Kayla and Ricki. Nice double layout just then from Morgan.

Kayla's uneven bars routine has been adjusted to replace the 1 1/2 with a 1/1 to immediate Tkatchev. Very nice front-front full twist to stuck front tuck (no steps) from Brittany Magee. Nice triple on floor from Ricki Lebegern as well. Will we see this tonight?

San Francisco. The team will be spending time in Los Angeles tomorrow and may be making some expensive purchases on Rodeo Drive, so watch out parents! Your credit cards may have some unexpected charges soon (just kidding).

Alabama is warming up for the first fifteen minute period. Kaitlin, Morgan, Cassie, Jac, Brittany, Kayla, Kassi, Amanda and Ricki are taking the reps. David Patterson reported that Amanda Montgomery will exhibit on bars tonight and throw her new dismount, a double layout.

We are in Maples Pavilion on the campus of Stanford University, where the Alabama GymTide will compete tonight against the Cardinal and the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

Terin Humphrey did not make the trip per assistant head coach David Patterson. Terin is receiving treatment for her back in Tuscaloosa and will take advantage of the rest from competition this weekend to get completely healthy in time for the final two home meets against Penn State on the 14th and senior night, on the 21st against the Auburn Tigers.

Alabama will start tonight on floor instead of the customary bars as the highest ranking of the two visiting teams (Huskers were #15 this past week). Nebraska will start on balance beam and finish on vault for the meet and Stanford will have Olympic Rotation by starting on the vault and finishing on the floor as the host team.