After a weekend in which the gymnastics team had no falls that counted against its score, senior Amanda Jones said this week has been about fixing the smaller things, the types of things that allowed North Carolina to beat N.C. State on Sunday.

“This week is really detail work,” Jones said.

Senior Katie Ozburn echoed that sentiment.

“It’s just really the cleanliness and the little bobbles here and there that we have to fix,” Ozburn said. “That’s really what we’ve been focusing on a lot.”

Rachel Katz, one of the team’s seven seniors, said the team is also struggling with getting consistent production throughout its lineup in both the vault and floor exercise.

“We normally have really deep, really strong lineups on both of those events,” Katz said. “And this year just because of injuries or some outside factor, it’s just not there.”

On the injury front, freshman Taylor Seaman had to sit out Sunday’s Tar Heel Invitational because of an ankle sprain. She will only compete in the uneven bars in Saturday’s meet.

Seaman had been a fixture in each of the four events — uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise and vault — for the team before she suffered the injury. It’s those kinds of situations Katz said the team is having a tough time dealing with this season.

“If someone goes down with an injury, we don’t really have another person that we stick in that spot with a 10.0 routine,” Katz said.

As tough as the injuries might be to overcome, though, Ozburn said they’re a normal part of the sport.

“Injuries are always going to happen, always going to be hard, and you lose people you don’t expect to lose,” Ozburn said. “But it’s kind of a constant struggle.”

But even with the injuries and the search for more consistency on floor and vault, the team is still second in the East Atlantic Gymnastics League standings and is No. 22 in the country in balance beam average.

Ozburn attributed some of the team’s success so far this season to the tough schedule it has faced, which has featured four top-25 opponents — including No. 2 Georgia.

“We have a lot of confidence this year. Our schedule has been against a lot harder teams, and so we’ve just really kind of put ourselves in position that we’re going to do well because we’re up against these hard teams,” Ozburn said. “And we need to show them that we’re just as good as they are. So we’ve worked really hard on our confidence.”

And the tough schedule will continue in Saturday’s Hearts Invitational at Reynolds Coliseum as the team will take on No. 6 Nebraska, No. 24 West Virginia, George Washington and James Madison in a 7 p.m. meet.

Even with those opponents coming to town, Ozburn said the Wolfpack’s focus shouldn’t change.

“You always have a respect for the gymnastics and the ability of each team, and we really try and focus on ourselves and not really watch the other teams because it’s easy to get distracted. And then your mindset’s not there,” Ozburn said. “But all the teams coming this weekend do really great gymnastics — big gymnastics and it’s pretty. It’ll be a fun meet.”

And even after two weekends in a row of facing Carolina, the team should still have plenty of motivation as both West Virginia and George Washington are conference opponents. In addition, the sixth-ranked Mountaineers are in first place in the EAGL — a fact that is certainly on Amanda Jones’ mind.

“West Virginia is still a conference foe of ours, so it’s the same as Carolina in our minds to beat them,” Jones said. “They’re in our conference, so it’s really important that we come out ahead of them.”