The reigning three-time MPSF Gymnast of the Year, Akash Modi tied for first in the pommel horse on the day (15.400) and took 11th on high bar (14.300), 10th in floor (14.500), 13th in vault (14.900) and 18th in parallel bars (13.850). He did not compete in rings.

Ohio State and Illinois also advance to Saturday night's final with the Cardinal, beginning at 4 p.m. Stanford is in pursuit of its sixth NCAA title.

The second-ranked Stanford men's gymnastics team finished first at the NCAA championship preliminaries on Friday, qualifying for Saturday's NCAA championship finals for the 11th consecutive season.

It was an up-and-down meet for the Cardinal who stumbled in a few events until surging at the end in the last two events.

Gabe Flores fired up to stick a career-best in vault with a 15.300, which took third in the event as Taylor Seaton stepped up to take second with a 15.350.

After Dunlap's double, the Cardinal did not have a base runner again until Beau Branton's pinch-hit infield single to lead off the ninth.

The Wildcats had runners at first and second in the first, and runners at the corners in the second, but Beck escaped each time.

Neither team scored in the first half of the ball game, but both teams did threaten. Nico Hoerner and Alex Dunlap doubled in the first and second, respectively, for the Cardinal, but both were stranded.

Cardinal freshman Tristan Beck allowed just one run on three hits in five innings, but Stanford managed just five hits and one late run in the ninth on a windy night in Tucson.

Stanford ran into a one of the Pac-12 Conference's hottest pitchers on Friday, and was unable to cool him off in a 4-1 defeat to host Arizona at Hi Corbett Field.

Arden Pettit advanced both with a groundout to second before Savannah Schulze knocked one off the foot of Arizona's first baseman.

The Cardinal (13-21, 0-10 Pac-12) was down 3-0 in the second when Victoria Molina led the inning off with a walk and Lauren Wegner followed with a single to put runners on first and second with nobody out.

Sorenson's fifth-inning bomb was the game's only extra-base hit. Arizona (29-12, 6-4 Pac-12) had 11 singles, scoring twice in the first and once each in the second, third and sixth.

Kylie Sorenson launched her team-leading eighth home run of the season and Carolyn Lee tossed her 12th complete game, but No. 17 Arizona took game one of a Pac-12 series with the Cardinal, 5-3, at Smith Family Stadium on Friday night.

The Cardinal returns home on Sunday to host UC Davis in its final home game of the regular season. Game time is set for noon at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium. The seniors will be honored prior to the game.

Julia Massaro and Cusick returned the favor and Paige Southmayd put the nightcap on the game with less than 10 minutes remaining.

Murray and Monika Sivilli scored to start the second half before the Bulldogs stopped the streak.

The Cardinal went on an 11-goal tear to end the half, with Mackenzie Tesei, Anna Salemo, Kelly Myers and Elizabeth Cusick all dropping two in for Stanford as it rolled into the intermission up 13-1.

Kelsey Murray opened the scoring for Stanford in the first two minutes of play. Cusick followed with a goal less than 25 seconds later.

In the ninth, Branton advanced to second on a ground out, moved to third on a single by Hoerner, and scored on Mikey Diekroeger's opposite-field single to left.

Wildcats starter and reigning Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week, Nathan Bannister, retired 20 straight Cardinal batters. Bannister, who is now 5-0 with an ERA below 1.00 at home this season, extended his scoreless innings streak to 18.

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Cardinal men advance to finals of NCAA gymnastics meet