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Rachel Mattison broke her own school record on the beam with a 9.5, placing second and helping Andover to a third place finish at yesterday's state gymnastics meet.

The Golden Warriors scored 142.675 points, which was just off the pace set by Barnstable (144.75) and Masconomet (143.65).

SALEM, N.H. — Flanked on all sides by its schools many championship banners, the Salem High School gymnastics team made sure it would raise another to the ceiling as it won its third consecutive and 15th overall State championship in its home gym.

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Salem, paced by Leeann Vadala and Shareen Kirata, dominated a six-team meet at home to finish the regular season undefeated (21-0) and in prime position for the state meet Feb. 21 at Salem. Vadala broke the school record in the bars (9.4) and had a personal-best score in the floor (9.3) and a best-ever score of 35.9 while placing first in the all-around. Kirata had a PR score of 9.0 in the vault and a personal-best score of 34.7 in all-around.

Andover's Rachel Mattison scored a 36.3 in the all around to lead the Golden Warriors to a convining win during yesterday's MVC meet. Andover's Jen Quirnbach finished fourth in the all-around and first in the vault.

Courtney Thompson took first in the floor and third in the all-around to help lead Pinkerton (127.6) to a first-place finish  against Pelham (102.4), Souhegan (111.9) and Spaulding (122.1). Joining Thompson in winner's row was Alex Halle, who took third in the beam. Chelsea I'Anson of Pelham finished fifth in all-around.

North Andover topped Masco 142.65-142.2 to improve to 8-1 and claim the CAL championship. Michelle Hall took second in both bars and floor and won all-around, while Paulina Neukuckatz placed first in beam. Said coach Ron Kearn, "Masconomet is always a power team. We knew we would have to hit all of the events in order to win, and we did."

Jenn Quirnbach won all but one event, leading Andover to a 142-131 victory over Lowell. She took the vault (9.5), bars (9.0), beam (9.35) and all-around (36.5), and teammate Rachel Mattison won the floor (9.4).

Michelle Hall had a big meet, winning the all-around, floor and bars to pace North Andover gymnastics in a win over Marblehead.

Sophomore Courtney Smith finished third in the vault, third in the bars, first in the beam and floor and first in the all-around to pace Central Catholic gymnastics in a win over Lowell.

Andover ran its record to a perfect 5-0 after edging Central Catholic, 143.50-140.75. Jenn Quirnbach won the All-Around with a 37.0, edging Central Catholic's Shilanna Gallo (36.7), who had won all All-Around competitions this year. Gallo did win the vault with a 9.4 as well as the bars. Quirnbach finished first in the beam and floor.

Salem topped Pelham 130.05-106.20, but the story of the meet was the matchup between hot shots Leeann Vadala and Chelsea I'Anson. I'Anson won the vault (8.55) and beam (8.7) for the Pythons, but it wasn't enough as Vadala took first in the bars (9.0), floor (9.15) and all-around (35.05) to help lead the Blue Devils to victory.

The Andover girls gymnastics team topped Dracut 143.55-115.05 to improve to 4-0. Four different girls had first places with Rachel Mattison taking vault (9.25), Leah Psoinos winning bars (8.8), Jenny Coneeny taking beam (9.4), and Jenn Quirnbach winning both the floor (9.5) and all-around (35.95). According to coach Kristen Vadala, it's the highest score the team has scored in her four-year coaching career.

Meghan Buttress came up huge, winning the vault, bars and all-around and finishing second on beam and third on floor to lead the North Andover gymnastics team to a win over Salem.

The Andover gymnastics team moved to 3-0 with a big 141-135 win over Billerica. Rachel Mattison was key with first place finishes in the floor (9.45) and all-around (35.75), and Jenn Quirnbach took the top spot in vault (9.2).