EUGENE, Ore. – Gannon University's Acrobatics & Tumbling team completed its historic week at the NCATA National Championships with a busy Saturday, beginning with three individual event titles (in synchronized pyramid, synchronized toss, and open toss) and ending with a national runner-up finish in the National Championship meet, falling to Baylor University 273.685-268.965.)

Baylor, finishing the season unbeaten at 11-0, earned its seventh-consecutive NCATA title, while Gannon becomes the only non-original NCATA institution to ever advance as far as the title meet.
 
The Golden Knights finish the 2022 season with an overall record of 10-2, including eight victories over ranked opponents, both of which are all-time program highs.
 
The title meet itself began with the Compulsory Event, with Baylor taking a slight lead 38.250-37.500, but highlighted by Gannon's 9.75 in the toss heat, its highest of the event. Baylor also took an event win in Acro (29.575 to Gannon's 28.600) but the Knights put together a solid Pyramid event, as they have all week long, to end the first half of the meet. Gannon scored a 9.85 in the inversion heat, a 9.70 in the synchronized heat, and 9.80 in the open heat but was slightly edged out by Baylor, 29.450-29.350 in the event.
 
After halftime, the Knights also put together an impressive Toss event but again trailed Baylor by the slimmest of margins, 28.800-28.775. Baylor made a final push in the Tumbling event (183.025-178.425) to open up a sizable lead in the meet. Gannon once again nearly equaled Baylor's score in the Team event (a 90.54 to Baylor's 90.66) but the Division I Bears earned a well-deserved seventh consecutive NCATA national title to close out the tournament.
 
Baylor also had earned four individual event titles earlier in the day, one more than Gannon's three. The Knights competed in 11 of the 15 events (for comparison, Baylor competed in 12 of 15) and took home titles in three. Gannon once again displayed prowess in the synchronized Pyramid, besting it's closest competition Oregon (9.775-9.675) to win that event, and followed it up with a pair of wins in the Toss heats. The Knights again finished ahead of Oregon in the synchronized Toss (9.700-9.425) and then put up the best score in the Open heat, 9.775, besting Baylor's runner-up tally of 9.575.