It did not take too long for BG’s gymnasts to get comfortable in their new home.

The Falcons won vault, bars and floor and had three individual event wins as they beat Ball State Sunday 189.575-187.325 in front of a home crowd at Anderson Arena.

This season is the first time all home gymnastics meets will be held in Anderson Arena and head coach Kerrie Beach couldn’t be happier.

“It’s amazing,” she said with a big smile on her face when talking about the team’s new home. “It is so much better than last year. The crowd, the noise and being able to bring people in because we’ll have space for them is exciting.”

The Falcons started off the meet strong on the vault landing the top three scores, with an overall score of 47.775.

Moving over to uneven bars next, they took away the top three finishes. On the bars, Amber Brewer, who was out for two years with a torn ACL, recorded her first collegiate event win with a 9.750.

Next in the rotation, BG went to the balance beam and had some problems. But while they struggled last week in the floor exercise, they scored a 47.600, improving almost two-tenths from their opening meet.

Junior Breanne Guy on the vault and in the all-around and Andrea Kinzer on floor exercise were the other individual wins for the Falcons.

“Overall, as a team, we stepped up and got a big win,” Guy said. “But we need to go in this week and fix our problems before going out next week for our next meet.”

The Falcons don’t have a lot of time to practice this week as they are leaving Thursday to take on Illinois State on Friday at 8 p.m.

“We’re going to have to make the most out of the couple of days of practice we have,” Beach said. “We still need to focus on beam and floor. I want to see what we’re doing at practice out on the floor.”

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