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Balance beam fells the Arizona GymCats in Pac-12 opener against Oregon State

It might be time to stop talking about the Arizona GymCats being weak on vaulting. For the second straight week, the team broke 49 points on the event, but setbacks on the balance beam kept them from defeating the Oregon State Beavers after outscoring them in a tri-meet last week. The visitors took the Pac-12 opener by a score of 196.400 to 196.150.

“Well, you said (vault was the weak event) for a couple years,” GymCats head coach John Court said. “I’ve really taken offense to that. Yeah, we got to do something about it. And they’ve been working really hard over there.