Results 
THE RUNDOWN
FAIRMONT, W.Va. - The top-ranked and top-seeded Baylor Acrobatics & Tumbling team defeated the Oregon Ducks, Saturday evening to claim to the program's first-ever NCATA Championship. The Bears downed the Ducks, 286.690-282.870, at Fairmont State's Joe Retton Arena in Fairmont, W.Va.
The national crown marks Baylor Athletics' fourth team national championship as BU men's tennis won the program's first team national championship in 2004 and women's basketball won NCAA titles in 2005 and 2012.
The win marked Baylor's third victory over Oregon this season and denied the defending champion Ducks a fifth national crown. The Bears finished the season with a perfect 11-0 record.
The Bears won five of the six events to claim the national crown. BU claimed victories in compulsory (39.05-39.95), acro (29.50-28.25), pyramid (29.75-29.60), toss (29.20-29.15) and the team event (101.69-98.97). The Ducks claimed a victory in tumbling, 57.950-57.500, it was BU's only loss in the tumbling event this season.
Baylor finished off the meet in style by breaking the 100 point mark for the sixth time this season with a 101.69 while Oregon managed 98.97.
HIGHLIGHTS
? Sophomore Kiara Nowlin, the NCATA's Player of the Year, for the second straight competition nailed today's tumbling aerial performance with a 10.0. ? Allie Williams, Shayla Moore, Kiara Nowlin, Miranda Girouard, Lauren Sturm, Alexa Crumpton and Courtney Pate received a second straight 10.0 in pyramid's heat 2. ? The Bears scored 29.75 of a possible 30.00 points in pyramid.
STAT OF THE DAY
? Baylor won five of the meet's six events to claim the program's first national crown.
TOP QUOTE
"I am so excited to bring this back to Baylor, it is a very deserving program and team. I told the girls at the beginning of the year `if you're going to win, you're going to have to deserve it', and I think they proved that this season and they definitely deserved this today. This team not only improved from the beginning to the end, they improved every single day. We even upped our start values coming into the national championship, most teams can't do that, said head coach Felecia Mulkey."
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