The fifth-ranked ISU women’s gymnastics team gained a 196.10-194.925 victory over Illinois Saturday with eight individual career-high scores and two school event scoring records.

After 12 electrifying routines, the Cyclones replaced the school’s vaulting and floor team records with new marks of 49.5 and 46.625, respectively.

Leading the record-breaking efforts on vault and floor were freshman Janet Anson and sophomore Krystal Carney. Each posted career-high scores on both events, earning four of the Cyclones’ five career-high setting performances of the night.

After a near-perfect performance, Anson took first place on the vault with a 9.975 and made her way into the ISU record books.

“I just went out there knowing I had to stick,” Anson said.

She said she felt the vault went exceptionally well, but did not realize how well.

“One judge popped up a 10, and we all got really excited,” Anson said. “I just kept thinking ‘Oh my gosh, I want a 10.'”

However, the second judged posted a 9.95, leading to Anson’s 9.975 average final score. Anson’s score is second in school history only to 2001 Big 12 vault champion Shelly Kringen, the only Cyclone to ever post a perfect 10.00 on the event.

While Anson’s score highlighted the vault competition, Kindler said it was Carney’s career-high performance that was key for the Cyclones.

Carney, who does not regularly compete in vault for the Cyclones, tied for second place with sophomore Jessica Oney, who also scored a career-high 9.925 on vault.

Anson and Carney kept the momentum going as they both set career-high scores on floor, tying for first place on the event with a pair of 9.95s.

“We really concentrated on the tumbling,” Anson said. “And [in-between passes], I danced my heart out.”

Carney said she may have had a little extra help from above in her career-best performances.

“I was just informed [on Friday] that my grandfather had passed away,” Carney said. “It almost helped. [To do well] I realized I had to get my stuff together and had to really get focused.”

The Cyclones started off the night with a solid performance on bars, rebounding from a season-worst performance last week.

Kindler said the Cyclones remained very clean on bars, despite a fall early in the competition. She said sophomore Erin Dethloff and freshman Katie Lasher came through with outstanding bars routines.

Dethloff clinched first place on the event with a 9.925, and Lasher finished close behind in a tie for second place, matching her career-high score of 9.85.

Though the Cyclones started the meet with their strongest showing of the season, they were unable to capitalize on the success in the beam competition, leaving the team short of their 197.00 overall team scoring goal.

“The window of opportunity was there, but we closed it on our own,” senior Chee Chee Calina said after finishing in a tie for second place on the event with a 9.825.

“Beam is a tough event,” Kindler said. She said the Cyclones went into the event on fire, but missed some difficult skills, causing them to count two falls and keeping them from their goal of 197.

“It’s tough [to stay aggressive] when you’re going in 2.5 points ahead, but you still need to salvage every tenth, and we didn’t do that,” Kindler said.

“That just can’t happen; We’ve got to be more on top of it when we end there on the road. [Beam is] their best event, so we’ll go back into the gym, work [our] butts off and focus on next week.”

“Now we know we have the potential to get the big scores, we just have to put it together,” Calina said.

Anson, Dethloff and Powell placed second (39.075), third (38.9) and fourth (38.575), respectively, in the all-around competition, despite each gymnast counting a fall in her total score.

Kindler said the team was ecstatic about breaking the two school records but was still disappointed in its downfall on beam.

“We’re ready to come with a strong meet next week,” Anson said. “We’ll still focus on routines, and [we’re] not giving up just because they are a less-ranked team.”

The Cyclones move to 6-0 on the season and will return to competition Saturday at the Minnesota Sports Pavilion against the No. 24 Golden Gophers.