Updated at 4:08 p.m., Saturday, April 14, 2007
Horton adds to men's NCAA gymnastics medal haul
By GENARO C. ARMAS
Associated Press
Horton won the floor exercise and horizontal bar today to give him five career NCAA individual titles, breaking Bart Conner's school record of three.
Conner, who won two gold medals in the 1984 Olympics, won the all-around title in 1977 and 1978 and the floor exercise in 1979.
Horton accepted his first-place floor exercise medal with a big grin and by playing air guitar as the Oklahoma fight song played on the sound system. It was Horton's second-straight floor championship.
Horton also won the all-around title last year, but had to settle for second in the all-around this year, losing to Oklahoma's Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons.
On the floor, Horton's 9.65 edged Minnesota's Adam Reichow for first place. Then Horton scored a 9.675 on his trapeze-like high bar routine, 0.3 points better than second-place Tommy Ramos of Penn State.
California's Tim McNeil also won two individual medals after finishing first on parallel bars and the pommel horse. It was his second straight pommel horse title.
Also Saturday, Stanford's David Sender and Ohio State's Pejman Ebrahimi tied for the vault title; and Stanford's Alex Schorsch edged Ramos by .25 for first on the still rings.
