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Men's Gymnastics

The Nation's Best

STANFORD, Calif. - No. 2 Stanford celebrated Senior Night in style on Saturday afternoon, posting an NCAA season-high team score of 421.150 to knock off No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 8 California. 

The top-ranked Sooners finished second in the meet with a 410.500, while Cal notched their season-high mark of 404.950. 

The Cardinal got out to a blazing start in Saturday's action, recording season-high rotation scores in each of the first three events with a 69.600 on floor, 70.400 on pommel horse, and 71.300 on still rings en route to the program's highest regular season meet score since last March when Stanford tallied a 423.550 against Navy and Air Force. 

Asher Hong turned in a career-high all-around score of 86.050 and claimed event titles on still rings and vault as the Cardinal would win five of the seven events on the afternoon. The sophomore would record a 15.000 to pace the field on rings and turned in a season-high 15.200 vault score to capture his team-leading 11th event title of the year. The Tomball, Texas native also earned silver in the parallel bars with a season-high 14.900. 

Instead, it was teammate Khoi Young who claimed the parallel bars title with his career-high score of 14.950, as well as a second-place routine on the floor with a 14.300 and a fourth-place effort on vault with a 14.550. 

Jeremy Bischoff capped off his last meet inside Burnham Pavilion with an event title on the high bar with a 13.900. Bischoff also notched a career-high on the high bar with a 14.550 to earn bronze. 

Brandon Nguyen earned bronze on high bar with a 13.600 and a foruth-place finish on vault with a 14.550, while Colt Walker notched a fourth-place finish on parallel bars with a 14.250. 

J.R. Chou finished second on pommel horse after posting a 14.250 while Mark Berlaga claimed his own silver medal in still rings with a 14.300. 

Arun Chhetri recorded a career-high 14.250 pommel routine to finish fourth in the event, while the meet also saw the season debuts for Marcus Kushner and Nicolas Kuebler on pommel horse and high bar, respectively. 

Oklahoma's Emre Dodanli and Ignacio Yockers rounded out the meet's event winners, with Dodanli recording a flat 15.000 on the floor while Yockers scored a 14.800 on pommel horse. 

Stanford now shifts its attention to the postseason as the Cardinal will look for it's ninth conference title in program history at the MPSF Championships on April 6 in Norman, Oklahoma.