COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Stanford’s Asher Hong won the vault, parallel bars and rings and Khoi Young won the all-around title to help the Cardinal secure its fifth consecutive NCAA men’s gymnastics national title on Saturday.

Stanford won its 10th title — tied with Illinois for third-most all time — and joins Nebraska (1979-83) as the only schools to win five in a row. Penn State and Oklahoma have each won 12 titles.

The Cardinal finished with 425.324 points, 5.635 ahead of second-place Michigan. Oklahoma, which won four straight national championship from 2015-18, finished with 412.956 to edge out fourth-place Nebraska (412.427) and Illinois (411.659). Ohio State was sixth with 399.122.

The sophomore Hong scored a 15.266 to win the vault for the second consecutive season. Michigan’s Paul Juda and Young each had a 15.133 to round out the top 3.

Young ran away with the all-around title, finishing with 86.098 and beating Fred Richard of Michigan by 2.099 points. Oklahoma’s Fuzzy Buenas was third, Juda fourth and Josh Karnes of Penn State fifth. Richard and Karnes were separated by just 0.335 points.

Juda won the floor with a score of 14.800 to beat second-place Taylor Christopulos of Nebraska by 0.300.

Hong beat out a pair of Wolverines to win the rings with a 14.966. Richard was second with 14.500, 0.067 ahead of Javier Alfonso.

Tate Costa of Illinois won the high bar with a score of 13.900.

Zachary Tiderman and Taylor Christopulos — both from Nebraska — round out the top 3.

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