By Lindsay Travis | @KyKernelSports
sports@kykernel.com
The No. 21 UK gymnastics team travels to Muncie, Ind., to compete against the Ball State Cardinals on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Irving Gym.
The Cats (5-4-1, 3-3-1 SEC) are coming off of a season-high score of 196.075 against No. 1 Florida in last week’s competition.
Audrey Harrison won her sixth individual all-around title of the season in last week’s meet against Florida.
UK is also coming off of season-high scores of 49-plus in vault and beam.
The Cats come in ranked No. 16 nationally on beam, tied at No. 17 with Washington on uneven bars, No. 19 on floor exercise and No. 26 on vault.
Ball State (5-5, 3-2 MAC) is competing back at home after falling to Bowling Green and Eastern Michigan.
Brittney Emmons, from Ball State, was the Cardinals’ top competitor in the last meet. The senior placed sixth in the all-around and finished second on vault with a 9.850.
The Cardinals are ranked nationally No. 33 on vault, in a three-way tie for No. 41 on floor exercise with Northern Illinois and Boise State, tied for No. 46 with Utah State on beam, and are No. 50 on uneven bars.
The meet is Senior Day for the Cardinals.