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GYMNASTICS • Utah State gymnastics (3-2, 1-2 MRGC) split its home tri-meet as it claimed second place behind No. 12 Boise State and ahead of UC Davis. Boise State recorded a 195.975, USU notched a 194.275 and UC Davis earned a 193.550.

"I think gymnastics is a sport of perfection, and it's hard, week in and week out, to be on your game and to be absolutely perfect," said USU head coach Nadalie Walsh. "I think the girls had a lot of mistakes, and we just need to go back in the gym and fix those. Coming home, they were extra excited, and next week we'll be here, so they can be a little more calm, in their rhythm and do their routines a little bit better."

Utah State earned a 48.925 on vault, a 48.100 on uneven bars, a 48.800 on balance beam and a 48.450 on floor. Boise State recorded a 49.175 on vault, behind Ciera Perkins' perfect 10.000, a 49.075 on uneven bars, a 48.975 on balance beam and a 48.750 on floor. UC Davis grabbed a 48.825 on vault, a 47.325 on uneven bars, a 48.650 on balance beam and a 48.750 on floor.

Utah State senior Sarah Landes won the all-around with a season-high 39.225 (vault: 9.850, bars: 9.800, beam: 9.775, floor: 9.800). UC Davis' Dani Judal took second with a 38.700, while Boise State's Kelsey Morris took third with a 38.450. Junior McKinzey Martinez grabbed a 38.125 (vault: 9.825, bars: 9.050, beam: 9.750, floor: 9.500), and sophomore Bailey McIntire scored a 37.125 (vault: 9.750, bars: 8.350, beam: 9.250, floor: 9.775).

• The BYU Cougars managed to slip by SUU in gymnastics on Friday night, thanks to .05 positive margin on their final event. Kirsty Yee set a new school record on the uneven bars, scoring a 9.95 and Tyly Bozzuto won the all-around, but it wasn't enough to seal the victory for the Thunderbirds.

SUU trailed by a slim margin after their first event on vault as Tyly Bozzuto, Brittney Jensen and Rochelle Bernier all received scores of 9.75. Danielle Ramirez kicked it up a notch for the Thunderbirds, scoring a 9.825 and placing second on vault overall. SUU scored a 48.875 on the event, their second lowest score of the season.

Men's tennis • The Cougars swept to a 7-0 win over Montana State in tennis in Provo.

BYU's Scott Monroe earned a straight-sets win over MSU's Andre Napoliatano, a sophomore transfer, at No. 1 singles, but Niklas Brandes lost in three (6-7, 6-3, 6-0) to Jeremy Bourgeois at No. 2. Martin-Morillas posted possibly MSU's most competitive effort of the day one ladder spot down, fall 7-6, 4-6, 7-5, while Harvala also lost in three sets.

• Utah State men's tennis (7-0, 1-0 MW) remained undefeated as it defeated Montana, 7-0, at the Sports Academy and Racquet Club Friday afternoon. The Aggies only lost one set during the day on its way to its third 7-0 victory this season.

The day started with doubles, where USU senior Marcus Fritz and sophomore Dennis Baumgartner quickly defeated Thomasz Soltyka and Peter Mimnagh-Fleming, 6-1, at the first position. Then, senior Matt Sweet and sophomore transfer Jack Swindells topped Semion Branzburg and Tom Witteveen, 6-3, at the second position. Lastly, sophomores Karan Salwan and Sebastian Schneider topped Alexandr Rudenco and Yannick Schmidl, 6-4, at the third position to sweep the doubles point.

The match then moved to singles, where Swindells nearly blanked Soltyka, 6-0, 6-1, at the No. 1 spot. Then, Salwan disposed of Witteveen, 6-1, 6-2, at the No. 4 spot while Fritz clinched the dual match victory with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Branzburg at the No. 3 spot.

Skiing • Freshman Veronika Mayerhofer won her second-straight classical race as four Utah skiers finished in the top 10 on day one at the New Mexico Invitational. Utah is third after day one of the meet in Red River, New Mexico.

Mayerhofer has two wins and four podium finishes through five races this season. The Utah women led the scoring in the 10-km race with 101 points, with Sloan Storey finishing fourth and Josefin Nilsson coming in fifth. It was Storey's third top-five finish of the season while Nilsson tied her best career finish. Natalia Muller also had her best finish of the season, finishing sixth. Anna-Lena Heynen was 13th.

In the men's 10-km classical, Niklas Persson finished ninth while Oscar Ivars finished 10th for his best finish of the year. Noé Bellet was 13th followed by Tucker McCrerey in 14th (his best finish of the year), Kevin Bolger in 19th and Nick Hendrickson in 21st.

The classic races featured a new team start format that saw each school start its entire team together, with a team starting every two minutes.

"We had a pretty interesting day out there," Utah head Nordic coach Abi Holt said. "Heading to the start line, both the women and the men were going for broke in the team score. But, as ever, the 10,000+ foot race elevation leaves little margin for pacing errors. In the end, the women put together a truly exceptional race with four in the top six positions. The men were a little off today and only managed two in the top ten. The team race was a fun change of pace, but now everyone is recovering and preparing for the tomorrow's individual start skate race."

Wrestling • Jade Rauser and Ethan Smith picked up victories for Utah Valley University wrestling in Orem but in the end the Wolverines fell to No. 20 Oregon State by a score of 36-6.

UVU drops to 2-5 on the season on the season with the loss, while the Pac-12 Beavers improve to 8-0 with the win.

Men's volleyball • A team season-high .506 hitting percentage sailed No. 7 BYU men's volleyball past UC San Diego in three sets (25-18, 25-17, 25-18) at the Smith Fieldhouse.

The win extends the Cougars' home-win streak to 31 and its record to 5-2 overall, 4-1 in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation play while UCSD fell to 1-7 overall and 0-5 in conference.

Track and field • Junior Jason Lynch set the new Utah Valley University men's indoor track and field 5000m record with a time of 14:45.16, with a TFRRS altitude adjusted time of 14:24.84 at the Mountain States Games hosted by Idaho State in Pocatello at the Holt Arena.

Lynch's new record gave him the victory in the event and is almost 15 seconds faster than the previous record set by Josh McCabe in 2012. Lynch was the first across the line followed by seven other Wolverines finishing the race in under 16 minutes and all in the top 12.

Seth Gutzwiller finished third overall and second for Utah Valley with a time of 15:27.27. He was followed by Logan Petty, who took fourth with a time of 15:27.63. Jaydn Asay finished in 15:46.61 for eighth. Chris Brower, Taylor Travis, and Rush Mills rounded out the Wolverines, finishing tenth (15:52.98), eleventh (15:55.79) and twelfth (15:56.48), respectively.