The Hillcrest Huskies captured the team title for the second year in a row in the girls' state high school gymnastics championships at West Jordan High.
The Huskies placed three girls in the top eight all-around competitors en route to a 184.4 team score, edging Jordan, which also placed three girls in the top eight, including the champion, Jacquie Butler.Butler scored a composite 38.15 Friday to take the all-around title. Her best showing came in the floor exercise, where she scored a 9.7. Butler also picked up two individual titles Saturday, winning the floor exercise and the vault. Her 9.725 in the floor competition barely edged teammate Gina Watson, who scored a 9.7. Butler's winning score in the vault was 9.475. Her 9.625 on the bars was good for second place. She could only muster an 8.9 on the beam, good for 12th place.
The other individual winners Saturday were Brighton's Alicia Crus on the balance beam and Hillcrest's Megan Fenton on the uneven bars. Fenton's 9.9 routine was the highest score of the night in the individual events.
Hillcrest won all four events in Friday's team competition. The Huskies were convincing winners in the floor exercise, the uneven bars and the vault. The balance beam competition was close, with Hillcrest nipping Jordan 45.45 to 45.15.
Hillcrest was led by Heidi Granere's third-place finish. Teammates Janica Hayes and Kim Clark finished fifth and eighth, respectively.
Jordan's Butler was joined by teammates Watson and Jana Borino, who finished sixth and seventh, respectively.
West Jordan's Tiffany Jones finished second in the all-around with a 37.9. She was injured during the final event Friday and was unable to compete for individual medals on Saturday. East's Holly Rausch finished fourth.
Four seniors, Bingham's Missi Petersen and Kari Johnson, East's Melissa Grow and West Jordan's Shanna Morgan, will represent Utah in the national high school competition in Lincoln, Neb., May 25-26.