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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).

She just really performs it nice, that handpsring full moe.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

Rachel Mattison took first in the bars (9.1), floor (9.4), and all-around (35.8) as the Andover girls gymnastics team topped Tewksbury 139.7-83.4 in their first home meet of the year, but the real story of the night took place far from all the action of the contest.