After opening the season with a home loss to FDR, 150.1-146, Thursday, Wallkill’s gymnastics team rebounded Friday by stopping Kingston and Highland in a tri-meet.

Wallkill stopped Kingston 147.9-124.4 and Highland 147.9-122.15.
Against Kingston, Miah Frisbie, a junior, won all-around with 31.05 points. Frisbie also won the floor exercise and the vault against Kingston and Highland.

Against Highland, Frisbie finished second in all-around when she was edged by Highland’s Valerie Precour, who won with 31.9 points.

Against Kingston, Chloe Quattrochi, an eighth-grader, won the beam and the bar. Rachel Vassell, a seventh-grader, was second on the beam and third on the bars against Kingston.

In the loss to Wallkill, Frisbie won all-around with 32.5 points, and the bars, beam, floor and all-around with 32.5 points. Wallkill opened the season with the loss to FDR, which handed the Panthers their two losses in 2018, and dropped 0-1. A night later, with victories over Kingston and Highland, Wallkill improved to 2-1.
Emma Frisbie graduated from the 2018 team, and five returned this season, including Frisbie’s younger sister, Miah. Both went to the state tournament last season.

Six seventh-graders also started this season for the Panthers as the future starts to take shape for the team.

“Where we lost Emma,” said Nicole Calderone, Wallkill’s coach, “ we really made up for it with the incoming seventh graders.”