ANNAPOLIS, Md. - One year after facing off with Penn State at the 2016 NCAA Championships, the Navy gymnastics team will welcome one of the most prominent programs in the nation to Macdonough Hall on Saturday afternoon. Beginning at 2:00 p.m., the No. 12 Mids (6-6) and Nittany Lions (8-2) will compete in a non-conference dual meet event. The matchup will be the first dual competition between the two schools in Annapolis since March 9, 2002. The programs have met intermittently since then in multi-team open or invitational events.

Navy and Penn State both competed at the West Point Open during the weekend of Jan. 13-14, 2017. The Nittany Lions came in first at the event with 412.35 points, while the Mids were fifth at 391.25. At the West Point Open, Jonny Tang finished fifth in the all-around and earned two bids into individual event finals. Penn State's Michael Burns was the all-around champion with 82.7 points.

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Last Time Out

While Jonny Tang competed as an individual and finished 22nd in the all-around meet at the 2017 USA Gymnastics Winter Cup Challenge in Las Vegas last weekend, the Navy program was idle as a team. The last time, the Mids competed as a program was on Saturday, Feb. 11 at the All-Academy Championship in San Antonio. With Army unable to compete due to travel difficulties, the meet saw Navy and Air Force go head-to-head. At the conclusion of the competition, the ninth-ranked Falcons came out on top, 405.8-394.25.

Tang led Navy's closely grouped trio of all-arounders with a cumulative score of 79.3. The senior finished top-five in the parallel bars (13.75), floor exercise (13.7) and rings (13.9). He was backed up in the all-around by Noah Beeman and Tanner West, who finished with respective scores of 79.0 and 78.75.

As a team, Navy posted a 67.6 on the floor exercise, 61.65 on the pommel horse, 68.4 on the rings, 66.9 on the vault, 66.4 on the parallel bars and 63.3 on the high bar.

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