BATON ROUGE, La. – Arkansas was able to overcome a lot as the night wore on, but a broken vault wasn’t one as the No. 7 Razorbacks lost their first meet of the season, 198.475-196.200 to No. 5 LSU.
In front of a capacity crowd of over 12,500 fans, a crowd several thousand larger than expected for Saturday’s Arkansas-LSU basketball game that will also originate from the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, the Razorbacks fought through loud outbursts of screams that would suddenly break the silence in the midst of their beam routines at the most inopportune times. However, a broken vault after only a single gymnast from each team had performed at the opening of the meet threw everything off.
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The energy was high from the start for the Razorbacks and Cally Swaney seemed unaffected by the atmosphere, instead drawing off its energy. She got things off to a solid start on bars with a 9.725 with deductions coming from barely coming up short on a hand-stand and a slight hop on the dismount.