The gymnastics team continued its historic start to the season by winning the Brockport Invitational over the weekend.

After posting the highest-scoring first meet in the history of Cornell gymnastics, the Red continued its dominant start by winning the Brockport Invitational with a team score of 190.425 — almost a full four points higher than both Southern Connecticut (186.725) and host Brockport (186.125). Springfield College rounded out the field with a score of 177.000.

“We’re having the best start of any season in our history,” said head coach Paul Beckwith. “[Saturday] was the highest-scoring second meet of the program.”

Even though the Red’s score was slightly lower than the one from the previous week, Beckwith believes the team has improved.

“We had a better meet than the week before, even though our scores were a bit lower,” Beckwith said. “It’s hard, from a gymnast’s perspective, when you know you did better than the week before but got a couple tenths lower.”

Senior tri-captain Maddie Pearsall spoke with an optimism similar to her coach’s.

“[It’s a] great start to the season for us … everyone’s looking really good so we’re excited,” Pearsall said. “We competed well and coming out on top gave us momentum for the rest of the season.”

Cornell swept away the competition on the vault, as the top five scorers were all members of the Red. Pearsall led the sweep with a score of 9.675, while freshman Melanie Jorgensen and senior Emily Santoro tied for second with scores of 9.625.

On the balance beam, junior Melanie Standridge placed first overall with a 9.675 — a full 0.125 higher than the second-place finisher from Brockport. Sophomore McKenna Archer rounded out the top three with a score of 9.525.

On the floor, Cornell performed well, taking four of the top eight scored, but Brockport’s Kaitlin Dewey won the event, scoring 9.725. Santoro scored a 9.650, coming in second place.

Jorgensen was the top all-around perfor­mer at the meet, with a score of 38.025. Overall, Cornell had five of the top nine scorers individually. The Red’s team scores were the highest for all four events.

Although this early success may lead to an overconfident team, the Cornell squad has managed to stay grounded and keep things in perspective.

“[We’re] taking it one week at a time, and we’re going to look at cleaning things up and perfecting routines,” Pearsall said.

Despite the Red’s great start, Beckwith has also noticed the quality of the competition.

“It’s really early and some of our rivals are scoring right below us by just a hair. The teams that [are usually our rivals] — Bridgeport and [Texas Wo­men’s University] — have scores that are right there,” Beckwith said.

A meet the Red currently has its eye on is the Ivy Classic, taking place on Feb. 27.

“The Ivys are the first thing we’re shooting for … it would be our fourth in a row,” Beckwith said.