CORTLAND, N.Y. – Abby Bang (Montgomery, MA/Gateway Regional), Glynis Curcione (Buffalo/Wilson Central) and Bianca Carr (Tappan/Tappan Zee) recorded Cortland's top finishes of the afternoon during the Red Dragons' 189.60-186.625 dual-meet loss to visiting Ithaca. The meet was Cortland's final home event of the season, and Bang, Curcione and Carr were honored at the conclusion as the team's three seniors. 
 
Bang won vault with a 9.675 and tied for first on floor exercise with a season-high 9.775. Curcione won uneven parallel bars with a 9.70, while Carr finished third on bars with a 9.45 and tied for fourth on floor with a 9.675. 
 
Marisa Frascatore (Syracuse/Cicero-North Syracuse) placed fourth on vault with a 9.55. Delaney Brown (Peru) was fifth on vault with a 9.525 and sixth on floor with a career-high 9.65, and Ava Miranov (Morgantown, WV/University) finished fifth on bars with a season/career-high 9.275 and sixth on balance beam with a 9.40. 
 
Ithaca's Emily Kobusky won beam with a 9.675 and Grace Murray tied for first with Bang on floor with a 9.775. The Bombers' Skye Cohen scored a 37.875 as the lone all-around competitor. 
 
The teams tied on vault with scores of 47.425, and Ithaca held a slight 93.275-92.75 lead after two rotations. The Bombers separated themselves after claiming the top five spots on beam and posting a 47.975-45.75 advantage in the event. The teams were close on floor with Ithaca at 48.35 and Cortland eclipsing the 48-point mark for the second straight meet with a 48.125. 
 
Cortland closes out its regular-season schedule next Saturday, March 4, at 2 p.m. with a meet at Brockport that will also feature Division I Cornell.

Coach's Corner - Comments from Cortland Head Coach Sulekha Modi Zaug:

What a special day to celebrate our seniors! It was so great to see so many alumni here as well to support the team and come together for the weekend. Our seniors have had quite the difficult experience with their first season cut short just before regionals where we were seeded 2nd as a team heading into it, no second season due to Covid, overcoming the mental aspect of the sport after not being able to practice for a year and still having strong individual scores and now in their senior year all three having career or season high scores! For these seniors being able to upgrade and maintain the high level of difficulty at this point is so remarkable. Abby received a season high score on floor today!

Honorable mention goes to Delaney Brown who received career high scores on both floor and vault showing that she is ready to lead this team next year as a senior!

As we move closer to the end of the season the goal is to have as many of our team qualify to nationals as possible either as a team if we come in top 3 at Regionals, or individually. There are potential National Champion caliber athletes on this team if they can continue to hit their routines the rest of season!
 
Ithaca 189.60, Cortland 186.625 
 
(Top 4) 

Vault:  1) Abby Bang (CORT) 9.675, tie 2) Kaylie Goodwin (ITH) 9.625, tie 2) Nya Pauldon (ITH) 9.625, 4) Marisa Frascatore (CORT) 9.55 
 
Uneven Bars: 1) Glynis Curcione (CORT) 9.70, 2) Kaylie Goodwin (ITH) 9.675, 3) Bianca Carr (CORT) 9.45, 4) Skye Cohen (ITH) 9.35 
 
Balance Beam: 1) Emily Kobusky (ITH) 9.675, 2) Caitlin Pellegrino (ITH) 9.625, 3) Zoe Kyriakopoulos (ITH) 9.575, tie 4) Kaylie Goodwin (ITH) 9.55, tie 4) Skye Cohen (ITH) 9.55  (top Cortland: 6) Ava Miranov, 9.40) 
 
Floor Exercise: tie 1) Abby Bang (CORT) 9.775, tie 1) Grace Murray (ITH) 9.775, 3) Cameryn Nichols (ITH) 9.75, tie 4) Bianca Carr (CORT) 9.675, tie 4) Caitlin Pellegrino (ITH) 9.675 
 
All-Around: 1) Skye Cohen (ITH) 37.875  (only all-around competitor)