BATON ROUGE, La. – The No. 3 Alabama gymnastics team (5-3, 3-3 SEC) came up short to No. 2 LSU (7-2-1, 4-2 SEC), 197.975-197.600, Friday night at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The team total marked the second straight week the Crimson Tide recorded one of its top two road scores of the season.

National bars leader Chloe LaCoursiere continued her dominant run on the apparatus, scoring 9.950 to capture her seventh bars title of the season and ninth overall. Noella Marshall set her career high on vault with a 9.875. On bars, Ryan Fuller matched her season high with a 9.900, while Jamison Sears’ 9.925 marked the seventh meet this season the junior has hit 9.900-threshold on the apparatus. Fuller later added a career-high-tying 9.900 on beam before Kylee Kvamme anchored the lineup with a career-high 9.950.

“What a night! I am so incredibly proud of this team for the toughness, the grit and the resiliency that they showed. To come out and compete in an environment like this is what it takes to prepare for being the best team in the country on the final night at a Final Four [national] championship. I’m also incredibly proud of how they continued to dig in, connect with each other and build off of each other. Even when it felt impossible to make the momentum go their way, they continued to create it. That LSU crowd was loud, they were rowdy and [we] continued to answer by creating our own noise, our own momentum and our own excitement.

“Overall, being able to have the second-highest road score of the season is definitely trending in a great way for this team. They are excited for a rematch Sunday and are going to come in hungry and eager to continue to get better.”

Team Stats

• Alabama posted its second-highest road score of the season, one week after setting the previous mark at Auburn (197.950)
• Chloe LaCoursiere captured her seventh uneven bars title of the season, giving her nine total event wins
• Ryan Fuller (bars, beam) and Azaraya Ra-Akbar (vault, floor) each recorded multiple 9.900 scores against the second-ranked Tigers
• In her second collegiate appearance, Noella Marshall set a career high on vault with a 9.875
• As the national bars leader, LaCoursiere’s 9.950 on the uneven bars extended her run of eight straight meets scoring at least a 9.925 on the apparatus
• Sears’ 9.925 gave the junior seven scores of 9.900 or higher on floor this season

How it Happened

Uneven Bars

• Alabama opened with a 49.375
• Ryan Fuller (No. 4 spot) and Chloe LaCoursiere (No. 5 spot) highlighted the rotation with back-to-back scores of 9.900 and 9.950

Vault

• The Tide posted a 49.300
• Jordyn Paradise scored her second straight 9.900 or higher (9.900), while Azaraya Ra-Akbar anchored with a 9.900 – her fourth vault this season reaching the 9.900 threshold

Floor Exercise

• With its 49.500 rotation score, Alabama posted at least a 49.500 for the fifth consecutive meet
• Ra-Akbar led the charge, scoring 9.900, followed by matching 9.925s from UA veteran duo Jamison Sears and Gabby Gladieux

Balance Beam

• The Tide closed with a 49.425
• Fuller led off with a career-high-tying 9.900, while Kylee Kvamme anchored with a career-high 9.950

Up Next

• Alabama will remain in Baton Rouge, La., for its second meet in three days
• The Crimson Tide and the Tigers will compete alongside Arizona and North Carolina at the P&G Podium Challenge on Sunday, March 1, at 3 p.m. CT
• The quad meet will be held at the Raising Cane’s River Center