NORMAN – Six Oklahoma men's gymnasts earned a total of eight all-conference honors from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation following the MPSF Championship on Saturday, the league announced Monday.
Redshirt junior
Fuzzy Benas earned three All-MPSF accolades on floor exercise, parallel bars and high bar. Senior
Emre Dodanli earned All-MPSF honors on high bar, and senior
Matthew Burgoyne and sophomore
Tas Hajdu were named to the all-conference still rings team. Junior
Ignacio Yockers received All-MPSF honors on pommel horse and sophomore
Tyler Flores earned all-conference recognition on vault.
The top gymnast from each school in each event at the MPSF Championship was an automatic selection, and one additional gymnast per event was chosen as an at-large selection, based on the highest remaining, score regardless of team.
Benas won the parallel bars individual conference title with a 14.100, placed second on floor exercise with his 14.200 and third on high bar with his 13.850. The individual conference event title was the second of his career and first on parallel bars (he also won vault as a freshman in 2022). The Richmond, Texas, product was an automatic selection on floor and p-bars and an at-large selection on high bar.
Dodanli won the high bar conference title with his 14.300. The Milton, Ontario, product has won an individual conference event title in three consecutive year (won floor exercise in 2023 and '24). This is his fourth career MPSF All-Conference honor and his second on high bar. Yockers, a Tulsa, Okla., product was an automatic selection on pommel horse for the third straight year.
This is the first career All-MPSF honor for Burgoyne, Hajdu and Flores. Hajdu, who hails from Las Vegas, Nev., was an automatic selection on rings after closing the meet with a 14.050 to win silver on the event and clinch the team victory for the Sooners.
Burgoyne, a product of Lansdale, Pa., earned at-large all-conference accolades after scoring 14.000 in the third spot in OU's lineup to win bronze on the event. It was his fifth 14-plus rings score in his last six meets and helped set up the team title. Flores, who hails from Mountain House, Calif., placed fourth on vault with his 14.050 to earn automatic all-conference placement.
No. 1 Oklahoma will compete at the NCAA Championships, which will be held April 18-19 in Ann Arbor, Mich. NCAA Championship selections are expected to be announced this week.
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