WEST CHESTER, PA. - Senior Bailey Gildemeyer (Liverpool/Cicero-North Syracuse) matched the school record on balance beam and registered three top-five finishes as Cortland finished second in a tri-meet hosted by Division II West Chester University.

The host Rams finished first with a score of 192.05, followed by Cortland with a season-best 185.35 and Rhode Island College at 174.80.

Gildemeyer won balance beam with a school record-tying 9.825. Emma Schulz (Poughquag/Arlington), who last weekend became the third Red Dragon to hold a share of that school record, just missed the mark at West Chester and finished in second place with a 9.80.

Cortland's team score on beam of 48.35 is the third-best in school history, behind only the Red Dragons' 48.625 in 2003-04 and 48.40 at nationals in 2014-15. In addition to Gildemeyer and Schulz, Arianna Turso (Brick, NJ/Brick Memorial) tied for sixth place with a career-high tying 9.675, Julie Giardina (Wantagh) finished eighth with a career-best 9.55, and Genna Orlik (Port Jefferson Station/Comsewogue) placed ninth with a 9.50. Giardina also recorded a career high with her second-place score of 9.70 on floor exercise.

Gildemeyer finished in fifth place on vault with a 9.525 and tied for fifth on floor with a 9.55. Lily Szafranski (Williamsville/Williamsville South) finished sixth on vault (9.475), Turso was seventh on uneven bars (9.10), and Schulz placed eighth on floor (9.475).

Other Red Dragons who placed in the top half of their events included: Sidney McConnell (Winchester, CA/Vista Murrieta), who was eighth on bars (8.925) and tied for ninth on vault (9.30); Rachel Filipski (Lancaster) with an eighth-place showing on vault (9.40); and Mia Dimartino (Charlotte, NC/South Mecklenburg) with a ninth-place finish on bars (8.80).

West Chester's Jessica Meakim won vault with a 9.675, while the Rams' Myranda Marshall was the bars winner with a 9.725 and Emily Loughery captured floor with a 9.775. Miranda Murphy of Rhode Island College was the lone all-around competitor and posted a final score of 35.95.

Cortland will compete at Springfield College next Sunday, Feb. 4, at noon.


West Chester 192.05, Cortland 185.35, Rhode Island College 174.80

Complete Results (PDF)

(Top 6)

Vault:  1) Jessica Meakim (WC) 9.675, tie 2) Meghan Chan (WC) 9.575, tie 2) Lindsey Mathis (WC) 9.575, 4) Rachel Blair (WC) 9.55, 5) Bailey Gildemeyer (CORT) 9.525, 6) Lily Szafranski (CORT) 9.475

Uneven Bars: 1) Myranda Marshall (WC) 9.725, 2) Meghan Chan (WC) 9.625, 3) Melanie Wojewoda (WC) 9.60, 4) Natalie Onderko (WC) 9.575, 5) Jordan Miranda (WC) 9.45, 6) Isabella D'Orazio (WC) 9.325 (Top Cortland: 7) Arianna Turso, 9.10)

Balance Beam: 1) Bailey Gildemeyer (CORT) 9.825, 2) Emma Schulz (CORT) 9.80, tie 3) Sarah Boyd (WC) 9.775, tie 3) Yolanda Nodarse (WC) 9.775, 5) Meghan Chan (WC) 9.75, tie 6) Arianna Turso (CORT) 9.675, tie 6) Emily Loughery (WC) 9.675

Floor Exercise: 1) Emily Loughery (WC) 9.775, 2) Julie Giardina (CORT) 9.70, 3) Casandra Hageman (WC) 9.65, 4) Madison Brent (WC) 9.625, tie 5) Bailey Gildemeyer (CORT) 9.55, tie 5) Jessica Meakim (WC) 9.55

All-Around: 1) Miranda Murphy (RIC) 35.95 (only competitor)