The best news for the Washington-Liberty Generals at the Liberty District girls gymnastics championships was their team score.
The high-school squad’s total of 143.45 was a season high by 10 points.
What was disappointing for the Generals was that mark fell just short of winning the championship. The McLean Highlanders won the title with 145 at Washington-Liberty, which finished second. The Yorktown Patriots were third (135.825).
“We had a very good meet. McLean was a little deeper as a team than us and they just edged us,” Washington-Liberty coach Joe D’Emidio said. “We missed a lot of little things, or our score would have been higher.”
Leading Washington-Liberty was all-around champion Noki Din with a 37.2 score. She won the uneven bars (9.35), was third on the vault (9.4) and floor exercise (9.3) and sixth on the balance beam (9.15).
The Generals’ Alana Johnson was third in the all-around (36.025) and Mara Gerardi fourth (35.95).
Johnson won the vault (9.7), was second on the floor (9.4), third on the bars (9.05) and had a fall on the beam and finished 23rd (7.875).
Gerardi was fifth on the floor (9.225), sixth on the bars (8.475) and vault (9.25) and ninth on the beam (9.0).
No other Washington-Liberty gymnast had a top-10 finish on any of the four events.
By finishing second and third, W-L and Yorktown advance to the 6D North Region championships on Feb. 7, also at Washington-Liberty.
“We can have a good week or 10 days of practice and overcome that 1.5 points against McLean and win the region,” D’Emidio said.
For Yorktown at the district meet, Madison Mastrangelo finished 10th in the all-around (33.0).
Also for Yorktown, Anya Clemmer was seventh on the beam (9.125) and eighth on the vault (9.15), Cady Anderson Garbow was eighth on the bars (8.425) and tied for ninth on the floor (8.95) with teammate Samantha Stem.
For the sixth-place Wakefield Warriors, Maddie Wearing with fifth in the all-around (35.8) and Sofia Vazquez ninth (33.6).
Wearing won the beam (9.45), was fifth on the vault (9.35) and eighth on the floor (9.025). Vazquez was sixth on the floor (9.2).
