PROVO -- The BYU women’s gymnastics team (10-6-2) suffered a tough loss on the road Monday against two teams they have faced previously, Auburn and Southern Utah University.

"The last couple meets we've been in kind of a mid-season slump," BYU head coach Brad Cattermole said. "We just need to find a way to come out of it. We're capable of scoring well, we've just got to find a way to hit our rotations and put together an all-around good meet."

The Cougars started the night off on the floor exercise. Upperclassmen Jessica Villegas and Mickell Merrell led the way for BYU as each posted a 9.800 to get the Cougars off to a reasonable start.

With its second highest vault score of the year, BYU was able to pull themselves into contention to take first place. The Cougars did not record a single score under 9.725 and were led by sophomore Haylee Rollins who tied her career high receiving a 9.875. Natalie Eyre and KayCee Gassaway followed closely behind scoring a 9.850 and a 9.825, respectively.

Despite several impressive scores on bars, the third rotation is where things began to fall apart for BYU as the Cougars were forced to count a fall. Rollins once again posted the highest score for BYU with another 9.875. The Phoenix native would win the event title on both vault and bars.

Jennifer Lezeu added a 9.825 on bars. Lezeu competed in the all-around for just the second time this season and finished in third place with a 38.975. On beam, the Cougars were unable to find their balance. BYU’s highest score on the event came from Natalie Eyre who recorded a 9.700.

"We just need to work on staying focused," Rollins said. "We got a little shaken up after the fall on bars and went into the beam rotation nervous."

The Cougars will travel to Tucson this weekend where they will take on Arizona, New Hampshire and Texas Women’s at 7 p.m. in the McKale Center.

PROVO -- The No. 25 BYU women’s gymnastics team (10-3-2) will face two teams within four days with meets against No. 22 Auburn (3-5) and No. 33 Southern Utah on Friday and Monday. The Cougars will host the Tigers of Auburn on Friday night in the Smith Fieldhouse before traveling to Cedar City, Utah, where they will face the Tigers again as well as the host Thunderbirds.

“We’ve got two meets back-to-back,” BYU head coach Brad Cattermole said. “I hope we continue improving and bumping our score up. We’ve shown that we can be a lot better than we have been so far. The girls have prepared well this week and trained hard, so we just need to relax and have fun.”

The Cougars are coming off a tough loss to Arizona at home last weekend. The Wildcats defeated BYU by just two-tenths to clinch the victory. Still, the Cougar’s team score of 195.150 was their second-best score this season.

An SEC competitor, Auburn’s record does not reflect the strength of their team. The Tigers posted a season-high of 195.925 against Pittsburgh last weekend. BYU and Auburn have had four mutual opponents this season: Iowa State, LSU, Georgia and Arkansas. Against those mutual opponents the Cougars are 1-2-1 while the Tigers are 1-3.

Southern Utah opened the season with a huge early win over defending national champion UCLA. However, the Thunderbirds have since struggled, losing once already to the Cougars at home. Their highest score of the season came in a win over Sacramento State when they posted a 195.750.

Tickets are available at byutickets.com and will also be available one hour prior to the meet through the Smith Fieldhouse ticket office.