APU - 276.96
FSU - 273.28
GU - 267.60

FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- Azusa Pacific posted an impressive tri-meet sweep of Fairmont State and Gannon Thursday afternoon to follow up on a Tuesday win over Glenville State, scoring a season-best 276.96 points while claiming its first tri-meet sweep since 2011.

The Cougars out-scored Gannon (267.60) by a margin of 9.36 points and beat the meet host Fairmont State (273.28) by nearly four points. Fairmont State opened the meet with a narrow lead of just one-tenth of a point after the compulsory event, but Azusa Pacific registered the highest score in each of the five remaining events to claim the lead and put some distance past its competition.

For the second time in three days, the Cougars notched a perfect-10 in a heat of the pyramid event, finishing the three-heat event perfectly in the pyramid release heat after scoring 9.95 points in the first two heats (flipping and twisting) of the pyramid event. The senior trio ofAhnaliese Spitzer, Ellen Barker, and Gabby Sheffield led Azusa Pacific's perfect-10 pyramid release group, which also included Jamie Nolta, Kalani Aguigui, Lauren Chappell, and Rachel Shier.

Azusa Pacific improved on all six of Tuesday's event scores, showing its biggest improvement with an eight-point gain in the team event with a score of 97.81 points. Another 2.8-point improvement came in the fumbling event, as senior Jamie Montgomery led the way with a team-best 9.70 in her open pass. The Cougars' near-perfect score (29.90 of 30 possible points) in the pyramid event was its best-ever pyramid event performance in program history.

With Thursday's victories, Azusa Pacific improves to 3-1 heading into a Tuesday, March 15 matchup at home with Quinnipiac. Two days later, the Cougars face Hawai'i Pacific and Fairmont State in a home tri-meet.