Kriengkrairut said. “Tese were the ones that really spoke to us.” Making their Skate America debut, Anastasia Cannuscio and Colin McManus finished seventh with 122.37 points. “It was amazing,” Cannuscio
Gretchen Donlan and Andrew Speroff
at this point.” Russia’s 16-year-old Adelina
Sotnikova, the 2011 World Junior champion, earned the bronze medal with 168.96 points.
ICE DANCE Davis and White won their
third consecutive Skate America ti- tle and 10th consecutive Grand Prix Series/Final event. Te Michigan duo finished with 176.28 points, 16 more than silver medalists Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev of Russia. Te Canadian team of Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje earned the bronze medal.
“Overall, it was a good start to the season and we’re on track to ac- complishing our goals on the ice,” Davis said. “We are thrilled with
Caydee Denney and John Coughlin
our performances and thrilled to perform them here at Skate Amer- ica.”
Te four-time reigning U.S. champions hope to secure their fourth consecutive Grand Prix Final title this month in Sochi, Russia. Lynn Kriengkrairut and Lo-
gan Giulietti-Schmitt enjoyed their highest-ever Grand Prix Series fin- ish, placing fourth with 141.41 points. Te Michigan-based team performed to music by Adele. “We were a little worried about
it with Adele’s recent popularity, about overplaying on the radio and everything,” Giulietti-Schmitt said. “We thought the two songs real-
ly blended together well and we kept coming back to it when we were lis- tening to different pieces of music,”
said. “I loved every second of it. It was almost to the point where I wasn’t even nervous to skate; I just couldn’t believe that I was here. I just wanted to enjoy it. Tis is our first showing and we just wanted to have fun. Te results won’t be there for us this time around, but we knew that and we just wanted to enjoy it as much as we can.”
PAIRS
Denney and Coughlin, the 2012 U.S. champions, finished third with 178.22 points, behind Russia’s Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, the two-time reigning World silver medalists. Tey won the gold medal in Kent with 195.07 points. China’s Qing Pang and Jian Tong, the 2010 Olympic silver medalists and 2006 and 2010 World champions, earned the silver medal with 185.16 points. “Every time we go out and rep-
resent the U.S., it means a lot to us,” said Coughlin, who celebrated the team’s free skate with a fist pump. “Having that support from the
crowd is really awesome,” Denney added. “We’re looking forward to growing and improving at every
Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir Grand Prix we go to.” Te Boston pair of Marissa
Castelli and Simon Shnapir used a personal-best free skate to finish fifth with 164.19 points. Te pro- gram included solid triple toes, a throw triple Salchow and daring lifts.
Teir Skating Club of Boston
teammates, Gretchen Donlan and Andrew Speroff, ended up sixth with 131.26 points. Tey landed a throw triple
loop, but Donlan fell on a double Axel.
“Performance felt good, but the big-ticket items were not there today,” Donlan said after the free skate. “I think it was still pretty dis- appointing, not what we were hop- ing for.”
MEN Te Japanese men recorded
a sweep, with 2011 World silver medalist Takahiko Kozuka finishing first with 251.44 points. Kozuka also won the Skate America title in 2008.
Yuzuru Hanyu captured the
silver medal with 243.74 points. Hanyu broke the World short pro- gram record in Kent with 95.07 points. Tatsuki Machida claimed the bronze medal with 229.95 points. Jeremy Abbott, the 2012 U.S.
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