2020 Elite Team Cup: Region 3 wins fifth-consecutive title

LAS VEGAS, February 21, 2020 – Region 3 successfully defended its team title at the 2020 Elite Team Cup, which features the country’s top junior elite male gymnasts in a regional team competition, at the Westgate Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nev. The Elite Team Cup coincides with the 2020 Winter Cup Challenge, the men’s winter re-ranking event as well as the qualifier to the 2020 U.S. Championships.

Region 3 earned a team total of 312.000, which included the top team scores for the pommel horse, still rings and parallel bars. Region 6 took second place at 305.750 and had the top team score for the floor exercise. Region 1 rounded out the top three at 301.100 and earned the top team scores for the vault and horizontal bar. 

Region 3 consists of team members: Fuzzy Benas of Richmond, Texas/EnRich Gymnastics; Dallas Hale of Frisco, Texas/WOGA; Asher Hong of Tomball, Texas/Cypress Academy; Zachary Nunez of Houston, Texas/Cypress Academy; Daniel Simmons of Cypress, Texas/Cypress Academy; Oliver Zavel of Lakeway, Texas/Crenshaw’s Athletic Club; Cameron Lee of Frisco, Texas/WOGA; and Caden Clinton of Cypress, Texas/Cypress Academy. 

Region 6 team members include: Matthew Cormier of Milton, Mass./Massachusetts Elite Gymnastics Academy; Luke Esparo of North Haven, Conn./New Era Gymnastics; Chris Hiser of Longmeadow, Mass./Daggett Gymnastics; Ian Lasic-Ellis of Dover, Mass./Massachusetts Elite Gymnastics Academy; Luke McFarland of East Hartland, Conn./Daggett Gymnastics; Frederick Richard of Stoughton, Mass./Massachusetts Elite Gymnastics Academy; Syam Buradagunta of Westborough, Mass./Massachusetts Elite Gymnastics Academy; Steven Manolakis of Hanover, Mass./Massachusetts Elite Gymnastics Academy; and Alex Vandendries of Chestnut Hill, Mass./New England Academy of Gymnastics.

In third, the squad for Region 1 included: Jeremy Bischoff of Canyon Country, Calif./Wallers GymJam Academy; Jack Critz of Huntington Beach, Calif./SCATS; Joseph Pepe of Peoria, Ariz./North Valley Gymnastics; David Rauchwerger of San Francisco, Calif./Accel Gymnastics; and Tyler Shimizu of Newark, Calif./WCOGA.

The team scores all nine regional teams are listed below.

1.     Region 3: total, 312.000; floor exercise, 52.400; pommel horse, 51.950; still rings, 51.900; vault, 55.100; parallel bars, 51.650; and horizontal bar, 49.000.

2.     Region 6: total, 305.750; floor exercise, 53.300; pommel horse, 48.200; still rings, 51.100; vault, 54.900; parallel bars, 49.700; and horizontal bar, 48.550.

3.     Region 1: total, 301.100; floor exercise, 49.800; pommel horse, 45.450; still rings, 50.950; vault, 55.300; parallel bars, 49.100; and horizontal bar, 50.500.

4.     Region 5: total, 299.650; floor exercise, 51.000; pommel horse, 44.800; still rings, 49.450; vault, 54.650; parallel bars, 50.750; and horizontal bar, 49.000.

5.     Region 9: total, 298.600; floor exercise, 49.400; pommel horse, 47.900; still rings, 49.700; vault, 53.900; parallel bars, 50.300; and horizontal bar, 47.400.

6.     Region 8: total, 298.200; floor exercise, 50.000; pommel horse, 49.600; still rings, 50.200; vault, 52.250; parallel bars, 48.400; and horizontal bar, 47.750.

7.     Region 2: total, 292.950; floor exercise, 49.950; pommel horse, 46.600; still rings, 47.250; vault, 53.000; parallel bars, 49.700; and horizontal bar, 46.450.

8.     Region 7: total, 288.800; floor exercise, 48.700; pommel horse, 46.300; still rings, 49.050; vault, 52.400; parallel bars, 46.600; and horizontal bar, 45.750.

9.     Region 4: total, 282.500; floor exercise, 48.350; pommel horse, 44.850; still rings, 45.250; vault, 51.600; parallel bars, 47.000; and horizontal bar, 45.450.

The Elite Team Cup features nine men’s Regional Teams, each consisting of six junior elite gymnasts. The states included in each region are as follows:

This press release originally appeared on usagym.org.