Despite claiming first-place finishes on four events, the No. 2 Illinois men's gymnastics team (8-2, 6-2 Big Ten) fell just short to No. 3 Penn State (11-0, 1-0), 352.100-351.000, Saturday evening at Huff Hall. Highlighting the day were Illini event winners redshirt senior Chad Wiest on floor exercise (15.600), freshman Chad Mason on pommel horse (15.100) and junior Tyler Mizoguchi on parallel bars and all-around (87.200), in addition to tying for first on high bar (14.300) with teammate Jordan Valdez and Penn State's Felix Aronovich.
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