After ending the season with the top-three highest scores coming in the final three meets, the gymnastics team will play today in Maryland with a conference championship on the line.

The scores have helped the team to a 13-11 record and No. 22 ranking, the highest ranking of any East Atlantic Gymnastics League member.

Against EAGL competition so far, N.C. State is 5-3, with the losses coming to Rutgers, UNC-Chapel Hill and West Virginia.

The Wolfpack’s five wins in the conference have come against UNC-CH, Pittsburgh, Maryland and George Washington twice — the team has not faced EAGL member New Hampshire this year.

Just one day before EAGL Championships are set to start, six N.C. State gymnasts were named to either first or second All-EAGL teams.

Junior Leigha Hancock, who became the first Pack gymnast to win the vault in last year’s conference championship with a 9.9, has been named EAGL Specialist of the Week four times — second most among EAGL gymnasts — with the most recent honor on March 13.

Hancock’s 2006 performance at the conference championship also included a second-place tie in beam and tied for fourth in the floor routine. Despite leading the Pack in all three of events that she participated in, Hancock and the rest of the team fell short of first by one-fourth of a point.

Hancock was awarded with two All-EAGL first-team honors, coming on vault and beam, and was also named to the second-team for floor routine.

Freshman Taylor Seaman has led the way for State’s newcomers this year, and has been named the EAGL Rookie of the Week four times, including three consecutive weeks to end the year.

Seaman and fellow freshman Lauren Deuser, were also honored by the conference on Thursday.

Seaman was named to the first-team for the all-around, and Deuser made second-team for her performances on the balance beam.

Amanda Jones, the lone senior to be named to either team, made first-team for bars and the all-around. She was also the only gymnast for the Pack to be honored for the bars, which has been the team’s lowest-scoring event.

Sophomore Ashley Shepard made first-team for floor.

Seven gymnasts have combined to win 18 different events this season, Hancock leading the way with six first-place finishes, two in vault, two in beam and two in floor.

Seaman and junior Heather Zolton, two all-around competitors, have won the all-around a combined three times on the year. Zolton joined Seaman on the first-team for the all-around on Thursday.

The last time Maryland was the host for the EAGL Championships, in 1999, the Pack won its first of two conference titles.