BERKELEY, Calif. – Earning its best road score of the season, No. 20 Stanford topped No. 15 Ohio State and No. 47 Utah State but fell to No. 7 California at the Haas Quad Meet Friday evening.
The Golden Bears recorded the top score of the quad with a 198.100 while the Cardinal finished second with a score of 197.400, upsetting the Buckeyes by .500. Ohio State earned a score of 196.900, and the Aggies earned a score of 195.000.
Senior Chloe Widner brought home a share of the beam title with a career-best score of 9.975 while junior Ira Alexeeva earned part of the bars title with a collegiate-best total of 9.950.
The Cardinal kicked off the night on floor, earning a team total of 49.250. Widner led the way with a 9.900 in the anchor spot, while freshman Anna Roberts and sophomore Brenna Neault each added scores of 9.875. Freshman Taralyn Nguyen recorded a 9.850 and fifth year Madison Brunette totaled a 9.750 to wrap up Stanford's scoring routines.
Stanford then took on vault, earning its second-best total of the year on the event. Roberts earned her sixth 9.900 score of the year on the event, the best Cardinal score of the rotation, while Nguyen matched her career-best total with a 9.850. To round out the rotation, Neault added a 9.850 in the second spot, Brunette scored a 9.825, and in her collegiate debut on the event, freshman Claire Dean scored a 9.775.
It was then onto bars, where the Cardinal shined with its meet-best-matching event total of 49.475. Guiding the rotation was Alexeeva with her career-best effort of 9.950, while Widner and Brenna also added scores of 9.900-or-better, recording marks of 9.925 and 9.900, respectively. Dean led off with a 9.875, and Roberts earned the Cardinal's final scoring routine of 9.825.
Stanford saved its best routines for the second half of the meet, matching its bars team total on beam, its final rotation of the evening. Widner highlighted the rotation with her title-winning score of 9.975, while Roberts notched her career-best effort with a 9.900. Neault and Dean added marks of 9.875 and Nguyen recorded her collegiate-best total of 9.850 to complete the Stanford rotation.
The Cardinal concluded its 2023 regular season recording only scores of 196.000-or-better, the program's first since at least the 1998 season (as far back as accurate records denote). Stanford now prepares for the 2023 Pac-12 Championships, March 18, at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah.