It was a case of the wobbles at Matthew Knight Arena as the Oregon Ducks (2-1) acrobatics and tumbling team continued their home stand against the Gannon University Golden Knights (2-4). Coming off a tough loss against the No. 1 team in the country, Baylor, the Ducks pulled off a win, despite posting season lows in the first three events.

Acrobatics and tumbling meets are composed of six events, each with a varying number of heats. Every heat has a maximum value of 10 points, except for the team routine event, which has a maximum value of 110 points. The maximum number of points a team could score in a meet is 300.

The meet started off with the compulsory event, where each team showcases an identical predetermined set of skills across four heats — acro, pyramid, toss and tumbling.

In the tumbling heat, Oregon’s Morgan Willingham omitted a flip and instead just walked backwards, while the other athletes completed their flip. After walking off the mat, head coach Taylor Susnara walked over to her to discuss what happened.

“[Willingham] just got confused with the counts,” Susnara said.

Oregon struggled in the opening event, scoring a season low 37.150, while Gannon took the early lead, scoring its season high with a 37.250.

The next event in the meet is the acro event, where teams compete in three heats demonstrating five, six and seven element skills. The skills and movements demonstrate great strength, balance, technique and core from the bases and tops.

The acro event started off with a bang for the Ducks. Freshmen Cassidy Cu and Angelica Martin pulled off their ever impressive stunt, where Martin does the splits and Cu bends over backwards while Martin supports her. Cu and Martin pulled in the high score of the event with a 9.750.

In the six-element heat, both teams struggled. Gannon’s Charisma Felix fell from her tower, causing a season low 6.900 score for the heat. One of the two bases for the Ducks lost their footing, causing the top to wobble a little bit. The wobbles continued for the Ducks in the seven-element heat, where Bethany Glick fell off her tower.

After the event concluded, while waiting for the scores to be announced, Susnara pulled the team into a huddle, trying to get the team grouped together after several mistakes.

Both teams scored a season low in the event. Oregon scored a 26.550 and Gannon scored 24.050. However, the Ducks pulled into the lead, with a 63.700 to 61.300 advantage over the Golden Knights.

In the pyramid event, teams compete in three heats of pyramids. Each heat has a different requirement: inverted top, synchronized and open.

Both teams got back on track without any major falls or mistakes, but it was by no means perfect. Heat two for Gannon was nearly perfect, scoring a 9.950 out of 10. Overall for the event, Gannon scored a 28.850, winning the event over Oregon, who scored a 28.600.

The Ducks’ advantage shrunk heading into halftime, leading the Golden Knights 92.300 to 90.150.

After halftime, both teams take on the toss event. An event with three heats, where four athletes toss a fifth athlete up into the air while completing a flip and/or twisting forwards or backwards. Two of the heats are solo tosses while one heat is a synchronized heat.

In the 450 salto heat, Gannon nearly over rotated, but ended up putting up a 9.350. Oregon stayed mistake free obtaining a 9.550. Gannon’s near over rotation issues continued in the synchronization heat, but it was able to fix them during the open heat.

Oregon took the event, putting up an impressive 29.000, while Gannon’s synchronization heat haunted them, putting up a 28.100.

Oregon extended its meet lead putting the lead over three points, 121.300 to 118.250.

The fifth event is the tumbling event, which shows the sheer power of each team. There are six heats, featuring multiple flips and twists in various passes with athletes tumbling forwards and backwards.

Based on start values, this was supposed to be Gannon’s weakest event and Oregon’s strongest. The low start values hurt Gannon heading into the final event, as it limited their ceiling for points.

In the quad pass, Oregon’s Shea Barnes didn’t stick the landing, but it didn’t affect her score too much, picking up a 9.400. However, Gannon’s low start values helped to minimize the damage, with Gannon picking up a 7.650, out of a possible start value of 8.00.

In the open pass, Willingham scored her season best with a 9.875. Despite a couple of low start values, Gannon was able to score high in the heats with high start values.

The low start values went on to haunt Gannon, as it only scored a 53.175, compared to Oregon’s season-high in the event, a 58.025.

Heading into the final event of the night, Oregon kept and extended its lead further, pushing the lead to 179.325 to 171.425.

The final event is the team routine. Twenty-four athletes perform choreographed skills in a two-minute and forty-five second routine set to music. The team routine is meant to showcase all of the skill sets that have been completed in the previous five events. Often, the meet can be won or lost in this event.

Gannon capped off its night with a rough routine, with multiple athletes taking a fall. The Golden Knights wrapped up the meet with a season-high score of 92.040 in the team routine.

Oregon wrapped up its night with a performance that had a couple of missteps and mistakes, putting up a score of 97.240 in the routine.

The up and down night for both teams, ended with the Oregon Ducks taking the victory over the Gannon Golden Knights 276.565 to 263.465.

The Ducks will look to continue their winning ways when they take on Mary Hardin-Baylor, on March 14, for senior night.