Addison Trail's Foster wins all-around at York
The 35th annual Ken Scorza Invitational put the finishing touches on a very good week of competition for the Stevenson boys gymnastics team Saturday afternoon at York.
The Patriots have really established themselves as a state-title contender this spring after rolling to the championship of the 10-team meet with 160.95 points.
Stevenson's busiest week of the 2010 season started with a 158.3 Tuesday at Libertyville, followed by the Pats soaring to a state-high 162.6 Thursday against Mundelein.
Fremd was the Patriots' closest competitor Saturday with a second-place 143.75.
Third-place Highland Park-Deerfield co-op (142.3), fourth-place Naperville North (142.0), and fifth-place Addison Trail (139.85) were not far behind the Vikings.
The host Dukes placed sixth with 135.45 points to edge Mundelein (134.81) in seventh and Glenbard East (133.35) in eighth. Hersey (126.7) and Rolling Meadows (114.6) rounded out the field.
The all-around competition went down to the final event with Addison Trail's Matt Foster nipping Stevenson senior Lukasz Adamczyk for the crown.
Glenbard East's Kirk Jackson took third in the all-around with an 8.91 average to edge Stevenson junior Mike Wilner in fourth, York's Caleb Strejc in fifth and Mundelein's Scott Marthinsen in sixth.
Foster took runner-up honors on pommel horse, floor exercise and still rings.
"They're really looking good and yesterday we kind of had a rough meet (at Lake Park)," said Addison Trail coach Mike Galfi, whose team posted a season-high score. "They came in here with a new attitude today and they made a lot of corrections from the mistakes they made yesterday."
Naperville North was led by Billy Suta's 13th in the all-around, while teammate Josh Soto placed 15th overall.
"We know still rings is our weak event and we would like to score at least a 24 in every event," said Naperville North coach Brad Foerch, whose team also hit a season-high score.
"Pommel horse came though today pretty well and today our scores were up on both parallel bars and still rings.
"So all in all, it was absolutely the best meet we've had so far."