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NIU gymnastics team sets new school balance beam record in win over Easten Michigan

DeKALB — Gymnastics recorded its season-best scores on each event Friday against Eastern Michigan University, finishing with a win and a school record on balance beam.

"We have definitely hit a good stride,"Head coach Sam Morreale said to NIU Athletics. "The team we've been talking about since week one is what we saw tonight, and it's super satisfying to put it all together. We earned it; we felt like we crushed it today."

First-year Brookelyn Sears began the meet scoring a 9.750 on the uneven parallel bars, just under her personal record of 9.