LOS ANGELES — In a tight battle with rival UCLA on senior night, the Red Rocks couldn’t hang with the Bruins in the end.

The Red Rocks couldn’t piece together a consistent enough back half of the meet as UCLA continued its early momentum to win the meet with a 197.850 score. Utah finished with a 197.400, which is the highest road score of the season.

Senior superstar and Olympian Jordan Chiles closed out her time at UCLA by winning the all-around with a 39.800 score, topping Utah’s Avery Neff (39.675) and Ella Zirbes (39.550).

Utah was without three of its usual contributors in Los Angeles Saturday night, with sophomore Zoe Johnson and freshmen Abbi Ryssman and Sage Curtis out of the lineups due to sickness.

“We definitely had the flu running through our team this week,” Red Rocks head coach Carly Dockendorf said. “Some people weren’t even here, and some people were feeling good enough to go today. So we were changing lineups throughout the meet, basically.

“Honestly, I felt like there was a lot of grit and fight in this team, because it was actually quite a rough week with all the illness and people not being able to practice and all that stuff. So, overall, I felt like they really stepped up for each other and did some really big things after having a week of not feeling great.”

Clara Raposo was the biggest benefactor of the team absences and was inserted into the lineups for Ryssman on bars, Johnson on vault and Curtis on floor.

Raposo earned a 9.850 on bars, but was the dropped score on vault after a side-step on dismount that took her off the mat. On floor, she couldn’t finish her routine after suffering an injury during a tumbling pass that kept her on all fours until a team trainer could eventually help her off the mat.

She was later seen standing with her team but with an ice pack around her right knee. Dockendorf said she’s able to walk around and will be evaluated when she returns to Salt Lake City.

“Unfortunately, didn’t go the way that we had obviously intended, but she’s been training really well, and she looked fantastic in warm up,” Dockendorf said. “She was excited to go. Really unfortunate that it didn’t go how any of us thought for her.”

The two rivals opened up the meet trading similar scores, with UCLA holding a half a tenth lead after the first rotation. The Red Rocks made up a little ground in the second rotation to cut UCLA’s lead in half, setting up for what was expected to be a tight finish in the final two rotations.

The Red Rocks’ floor didn’t start off as planned when the judges returned a 9.725 score for Sarah Krump in the leadoff spot, but the team continued to build on scores with one gymnast to the next and capping out with Ella Zirbes and Makenna Smith earning back-to-back 9.90 scores.

Raposo’s injury in the anchor spot, though, forced the Red Rocks to count Krump’s score, leaving a bit more of a deficit to make up for going into the final event on beam.

But even with the 0.175 deficit going into the final rotation, the Red Rocks started to make up ground and kept the scores within 0.025 of each other through the first couple gymnasts.

Things went a bit south when Smith took a big balance check after her acro series to avoid falling off the beam. The remaining three gymnasts for the Red Rocks, though, did enough to keep Smith’s score from counting, but there were enough slight deductions to keep the visitors out of contention.

Especially with UCLA’s final four gymnasts of the event scoring no lower than a 9.90. Chiles topped the rotation with her final floor routine at Pauley Pavilion, scoring a 9.950 to cap off a standout career and win over the Red Rocks.

The Red Rocks will now enter postseason competition, with a Big 12 championship meet set for Saturday (5 p.m. MDT, ESPN+) at the Maverik Center before a potential rematch with UCLA in one of the four NCAA regionals.

Team scores

No. 5 UCLA

• Vault: 49.475
• Bars: 98.900 (49.425)
• Beam: 148.300 (49.400)
• Floor: 197.850 (49.550)

No. 12 Utah

• Bars: 49.425
• Vault: 98.875 (49.450)
• Floor: 148.125 (49.250)
• Beam: 197.400 (49.275)

Red Rocks scores

1st Rotation: Bars (49.425)

• Makenna Smith: 9.850
• Ashley Glynn: 9.750
• Clara Raposo: 9.850
• Ella Zirbes: 9.900
• Ana Padurariu: 9.850
• Avery Neff: 9.975

2nd Rotation: Vault (49.450)

• Camie Winger: 9.900
• Ella Zirbes: 9.925
• Clara Raposo: 9.575
• Makenna Smith: 9.875
• Ashley Glynn: 9.825
• Avery Neff: 9.925

3rd Rotation: Floor (49.250)

• Sarah Krump: 9.725
• Ashley Glynn: 9.850
• Avery Neff: 9.875
• Ella Zirbes: 9.900
• Makenna Smith: 9.900
• Clara Raposo: 7.250

4th Rotation: Beam (49.275)

• Elizabeth Gantner: 9.850
• Ella Zirbes: 9.825
• Makenna Smith: 9.550
• Ana Padurariu: 9.825
• Avery Neff: 9.900
• Camie Winger: 9.875