Nov 9, 2019
I think I spend more time watching DIY videos on YouTube these
days than I do watching anything else on the platform. Why? My home
renovation, which has entered its fourth month, is nearly complete.
The basement was half finished, but now, we’ll have a legit, legal
guest bedroom and I’ll have a dedicated studio and office space –
tucked away from everyone. In 10 years, when I’ll have two teenage
girls in the house, I’m going to probably need that hideaway – or
speakeasy – if you will. So it’s time to learn how to build desks,
build bars and accent walls. I’m Jason Bryant, and I’m also
building quite the repository of podcasts, this is just one of
them, it’s Short Time Shots, a mostly daily look at the day’s
scores and more from around the world of wrestling.
Dual Meets:
- In the second head-to-head dual between teams ranked in the Top
25 this season, No. 17 North Carolina edged No. 19
Michigan by a coincidentally similar 19-17 score.
Each team won five matches, but the big difference were three
additional bonus points earned at 174 pounds where Clay Lautt
cradled up Reece Hughes and got the fall in the first period. North
Carolina’s Austin Headlee made his move up two weight classes to
157 pounds a successful one, defeating highly touted redshirt
freshman Will Lewan 5-2. Michigan’s Mason Parris had a chance to
give the Wolverines the win, needing a fall at heavyweight, but
managed a 4-0 win over Andrew Gunning.
- At a sold out Saegertown High School in Northwest Pennsylvania,
No. 7 Wisconsin improved to 5-0 win a 28-15 win
over the host Fighting Scots of Edinboro. The
Badgers picked up falls from Seth Gross at 133 pounds, Tristan
Moran at 141 and Evan Wick at 165 pounds. It was a homecoming,
albeit a short trip, for Edinboro’s Cody Mulligan, a Saegertown
native, who fell to Tyler Dow 5-2 at 184 pounds.
- In Division III, Western New England jumped
out to a 23-4 lead over Norwich and ended up
holding off a late rally to pick up a 26-19 win. While Norwich
lost, give their Instagram a follow @cadetwrestling. It’s totally
worth it if they post stuff like they did tonight from their duals.
Quality stuff.
- Bluefield, the only NAIA school in Virginia,
picked up a home win over Truett McConnell 28-19.
Joseph Dudley and Creed Lumpp picked up falls for the Rams at 157
and 165 to help lift Jason Waelti’s squad to the win.
- The Muskegon Duals are going on in Michigan and the club team
from Grand Valley State picked up wins against
Trine and Olivet, while
Niagara Community College picked off the
first-year NAIA program at Rochester (Mich.) and
host Muskegon.
- Late Thursday: Division II San Francisco
State, led by head coach and past three-time Northwestern
All-American Jason Welch, spoiled Vanguard’s first
home dual in 39 years as the Gators topped the Lions 39-11.
Vanguard is coached by California native and former UNI Panther
Caleb Flores. In Ashland, Oregon, No. 2 Menlo
topped Southern Oregon 32-12 as the pair of
women’s teams in the NAIA’s Cascade Conference did battle. Had one
correction to make, Cerritos beat
Palomar last night, not Rio
Hondo. Santa Ana had the 29-18 win over
Rio Hondo out in California. I also said “Fresno
State” instead of Fresno City. Meh, it was after midnight.
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Notables on the Docket for November 9:
- Journeymen Northeast Duals are taking place at Hudson Valley
Community College in Troy, N.Y. Division I teams in action there
are Arizona State, LIU, Purdue, Sacred Heart, Buffalo, Virginia and
Utah Valley. There’s also a solid mix of non-Division I schools
including Division II powerhouses St. Cloud State and
Pitt-Johnstown. Guess what, they aren’t avoiding each other either.
In the past, power teams come to this tournament and don’t wrestle
one another. Come on. Why you going to go all the way across the
country and be a part of an event that showcases wrestling and NOT
wrestle? Division II American International is also there along
with Division III Alfred State, Castleton, Ithaca, Johnson & Wales
and TCNJ. There’s also a youth club division with some of the top
clubs in the Northeast.
- North Dakota State hosts the Bison Open, Appalachian State
hosts the Mountaineer Open, the Ohio Intercollegiate Open is also
floating around on Saturday, as are opens at Maryville, Oklahoma
City, Millikin, UW-Oshkosh, UNC Pembroke, and Dakota Wesleyan.
Invitationals are being hosted by King’s College (Pa.), Gettysburg,
UW-Platteville, Mount Union, Ursinus, and Washington & Jefferson.
On the women’s side, Waldorf hosts its open as well.
- There’s also a ton of duals – check Trackwrestling,
WrestleStat, D3Wrestle and Transition Wrestling for all the
relevant scores from your particular division of choice.
FROM THE
DWN:
- Travis Johnson gives a notebook-style look at the week in
Division I with Penn State media day, Iowa injury updates and some
things from last week.
That’s on Trackwrestling.com.
- In India, wrestling journalist Vinay Siwach explains how a
decades long land dispute between opposing groups could impact a
large state wrestling championship, which could impact athletes
from the region and their opportunity to compete at the Indian
senior nationals.
Check it out on Scroll.in.
- Five Point Move again with the Greco-Roman news as Spenser
Mango returns with his latest blog from the Army’s World Class
Athlete Program called
Fort Greco. There’s a reason Five Point Move was the National
Wrestling Media Association’s website of the year in 2017-18.
-
The RUDIS Podcast with Matt Dernlan and Ben Askren recap the
Princeton Open and they also discuss the impact of true freshmen on
college wrestling.
-
Minnesota Public Radio previews the inaugural season of
Augsburg University’s women’s wrestling team. There’s some hammers
in that wrestling room. There’s no other women’s wrestling programs
in Minnesota. That also doesn’t stop Augsburg from launching a
program. That’s in stark contrast to what the administration is
doing 45 minutes south in Northfield at St. Olaf College. They
still haven’t responded to interview requests.
- A longtime wrestling coach in New Jersey, Russ Riegel, passed
away at age 89. Riegel coached Hunderton Central to 533 wins in his
35 years as the school’s head coach.
Read about it at NJ.com.
- From The Washington Post, Liz Clarke profiles
Mya Kretzler, a Kansas wrestler who spent four years working to
get girls wrestling sanctioned in Kansas.
- Continuing with the women’s and girls wrestling news, Ferrum’s
Talum Smith was honored by Wrestle Like A Girl last week with the
Afsoon Roshanzamir Johnston Courage Award. She’s got a great story,
as the Franklin News-Post outlines. Ferrum SID Gary Holden gets
called into duty with this feature.
- Bloody Elbow’s Ed Gallo goes into a wrestling breakdown with
the 2019 World Championships.
He starts with Gadzhimurad Rashidov of the Russian
Federation.
- Bryce Villa of The Open Mat gives us a look into
five things to watch in Division II wrestling this weekend.
Bryce has been putting in the time to cover D2 wrestling for TOM.
Big props.
- By the way, there’s a ton of news out there on Jim Jordan, the
Republican congressman from Ohio and past NCAA wrestling champion
involving the Richard Strauss case. A handful of links will be
included in the newsletter, but it’s not a topic I care to discuss
on the show. You want wall to wall political coverage of this
topic, I’d implore you to look elsewhere.
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