PROVIDENCE — The Warwick High School co-operative and Portsmouth gymnastics squads were the winners of the Division I and II titles Saturday afternoon, Feb. 17, at the 2024 Rhode Island Interscholastic League team and individual championship meets held in Rhode Island College's Walsh Gym.

Warwick, a combination of its two schools Toll Gate and Pilgrim, tallied 138.775 points to win the D-I state crown by defeating second-place South Kingstown with 138.025 and third-place Barrington with 137.45. The Rebels and Eagles switched spots from last winter when Barrington was the runner-up to 2023 champ LaSalle and SK was third.

Portsmouth, which was pipped at the post for its league trophy a year ago by the Prout/Exeter-West Greenwich co-op, won the D-II title with 135.95 points. Middletown was second with 131.675 and Mt. Hope third with 127.8.

Individually, LaSalle's Lauren Horrigan captured the Midge Palmer Individual Championship with an all-around total of 36.6 points. The junior was second to Gianna Desmarais Johnston (9.45) on vault with a 9.3, first on bars with a 9.25, first on beam with a 9.5 and 20th on floor with an 8.55.

Madison Long picked up the solo win for the Warwick co-op with a 9.55 on floor, placing just ahead of teammate Riley Bromage, who received 9.4. The pair flip-flopped all-around totals with Bromage second to Horrigan at 36.375 and Long third at 36.35. Rowan Snyder paced Portsmouth to its title by leading the D-II all-arounders in fourth place overall in the Palmer solos with a score of 36.

Locally, only one member of the East Providence High School/Rogers co-op earned a spot to compete at states. Like last winter, EP junior Carter Bessette qualified on floor where she received a score of 8.5 to finish in a share of 22nd place with five other performers. Also of note, Bessette helped opened the festivities Saturday by singing the National Anthem.

The top 10 finishers on each apparatus as well as those all-arounders earned spots in the 2024 New England High School gymnastics championship meet set for Saturday, March 9, at Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough, Mass.

— East Providence Post and eastbayri.com contributing photographer Julie Furtado shot the accompanying gallery of photos.