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Conant’s Starzynski, Prairie Ridge impress at regional

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Conant's Sarah Starzynski is happy with her performance on the uneven parallel bars at Thursday's Conant regional.

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Conant's Sarah Starzynski has a solid performance on the uneven parallel bars at Thursday's Conant regional.

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Riley Mahoney of Prairie Ridge Co-op on the uneven parallel bars at Thursday's Conant regional.

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Conant's Sarah Zorrilla on the vault at Thursday's Conant regional.

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St. Edward's Abby Madden performs her uneven parallel bars routine at Thursday's Conant regional.

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Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com St. Edward's Abby Madden performs her vault routine at Thursday's Conant regional.

Conant's Meicie Bennett on the vault at Thursday's Conant regional.

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Conant's Meicie Bennett on uneven parallel bars at Thursday's Conant regional.

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Conant was looking for a lift at its own regional on Thursday night, and the Cougars got one from senior Sarah Starzynski. Starzynski missed over a month due to a broken wrist, but the Cougar senior didn’t miss much on Thursday. Limited to two events, Starzynski made the most of them, taking third on the beam (9.025) and tying for sixth on the bars (8.925) in leading the Cougars to a second-place finish with 139.0 points in Hoffman Estates. Conant advanced to the Fremd sectional on Monday night at 6:30 p.m by securing the second at-large bid. Sophomore Rachael Underwood (37.60) and sophomore Riley Mahoney (37.225) went 1-2 in the all-around in propelling Prairie Ridge co-op to the regional title with an impressive 147.175.