Nov 11, 2019
There’s been 10 straight days of Short Time Shots. This is
National Podcast Post Month, which is kinda like National Novel
Writing Month. NaPodPoMo as compared to NaNoWriMo. The goal is to
put out a podcast a day for the month of November. This is part of
the reason Short Time Shots came back. The season’s here, it
started on November 1 and there’s wrestling news virtually every
day. What’s going to make this suck is Thanksgiving, but I’ll
figure something out. This is Short Time Shots, a mostly daily look
at the scores in more from the world of wrestling, I’m sore from
the trampoline park, I’m installing flooring now in the studio, and
most importantly, I’m your soundtrack, Jason
Bryant.
Dual Meets:
- No. 1 Penn State extended its win streak to 60
in a row with a 45-0 shutout of Navy in front of a
sold out crowd at Rec Hall. Penn State picked up six bonus
victories, including falls from Mark Hall at 174 pounds and Anthony
Cassar at heavyweight. As far as ranked wins go, top-ranked
Vincenzo Joseph teched No. 11 Tanner Skidgel at 165, while Hall
decked Spencer Carey in just under a minute. It was the 49th
straight sellout at home for Penn State. The 60 in a row is the
eighth-longest dual meet win streak in college wrestling history.
It’s the fifth longest in major college wrestling history.
The three longest active streaks in college wrestling are Grand
View’s 76 in a row in the NAIA, St. Cloud State’s 51 in a row in
Division II, which is just three away from tying their own Division
II record and Penn State’s 60 in Division I.
- Ohio State debuted their new arena with some
style as the third-ranked Buckeyes chopped down
Stanford 29-6 in Columbus. The Covelli Center was
abuzz as Ohio State won nine out of 10 bouts, including Luke
Pletcher’s cardiac win over Stanford freshman Real Woods in sudden
victory at 141. At 157, Elijah Cleary recovered from being rode for
about 15 minutes to rally to force sudden victory and beat Tyler
Eischens. Stanford’s only win came by fall at 165 as Shane Griffith
stuck Ethan Smith. Kollin Moore went Hulk Smash on Nathan
Traxler.
- In the first Mound on the Mat dual held at English Field at
Atlantic Union Bank Park, No. 11 Virginia Tech got
a major decision at heavyweight to push past No. 21
Northwestern 21-18. John Borst’s major decision
over Jack Heyob closed out the dual, which was a 5-5 split between
the teams. Northwestern’s Sebastian Rivera, a two-time All-American
at 125, was up at 133 and majored Collin Gerardi 13-4 as the dual
went back and forth but bonus points was also the theme as six of
the 10 bouts had bonus wins. Mitch Moore went yard after pinning
Jack Tolin at 141 pounds, but Yahya Thomas of Northwestern fired
right back with a major over Brent Moore at 149. Northwestern’s
Ryan Deakin and Virginia Tech’s David McFadden traded majors at 157
and 165. Hunter Bolen earned a huge major decision over Jack Jessen
at 184. Lucas Davison, fresh off a Junior world silver, stopped
Stan Smeltzler 5-3 at 197 to give the Wildcats their last lead.
Borstyman then finished it off for the Hokies on a sunny and mild
November afternoon. Play Ball!
- Army West Point went 2-0 at the inaugural
Chattanooga Duals. The Black Knights beat host
Chattanooga 18-12 as Alex Hopkins and Bobby Heald
closed out the Mocs with wins at 197 and 285, while it was the
opposite against Illinois as the Black Knights
built a 19-6 lead after seven matches and cruised. Illinois beat
host Chattanooga 22-10.
- Campbell evened its record at 1-1 with a 24-16
win over host Ohio on Sunday. At 133 pounds, the
top matchup of the day saw Mario Guillen of Ohio top Noah Gonser of
Campbell. Matthew Dallara of Campbell picked up a solid win over
Zac Carson at 157, while Andrew Morgan picked up another major
decision at 184.
- My wife and I started a re-watch of sorts with The Office last
night, so we close out the dual portion of the episode with the
Electric City Duals, hosted by Scranton. The host
Royals went 4-0 and beat Middlesex Community
College 45-3, Oneonta State 19-16,
Rowan College of Gloucester, which used to be
known as Gloucester County, 25-24, and Lackawanna
College 35-18. Toby, NO!
Tournaments:
- Top notes from the DefenseSoap/Journeymen Collegiate Classic
were Dom Demas of Oklahoma pinning Nebraska’s Chad Red at 141,
Arizona State’s Josh Maruca lost three times on the day to finish
sixth in his pool at 149, the pool was won by Nebraska’s Colin
Purinton, who’s like a 10th year senior. This guy has been around
forever, but he wrestled well. Isaiah White of Nebraska beat Josh
Shields of Arizona State 6-1 in a battle of All-Americans at 165
pounds. All-American Jordan Kutler of Lehigh beat All-American
Mikey Labriola of Nebraska 4-1 to claim the title at 174 in Pool A.
At 184 pounds, a late score by returning national champion Zahid
Valencia lifted him to his pool title over Nebraska All-American
Taylor Venz and Utah Valley heavyweight Tate Orndorff probably had
the best day, beating All-Americans Tanner Hall of Arizona State
and Jordan Wood of Lehigh to claim the A bracket at 285
pounds.
- The big result at the Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open at
Binghamton was Lou DePrez of the host squad knocking off
All-American Ben Darmstadt of Cornell, who was returning to the
mats after a year away due to injury - and coming down a weight in
the process.
- Harold Nichols Cyclone Open: Nine of the 10 titles were won by
athletes from schools in the state of Iowa. Iowa State had four
champs, as did Northern Iowa. Grand View also had an individual
champion - all of that from the open division. The one non-Iowa
school to pick up a title was Drew Scharenbrock at 157 - he’s from
Wisconsin. Among the better finals, Northern Iowa’s Max Thomsen
knocked off Iowa State’s Jarrett Degan 12-7 at 149 in a battle of
All-Americans. Bryce Steiert’s move up to 174 has been so far so
good for UNI. Steiert beat Iowa State’s Marcus Coleman 6-0 in the
finals there. The move up was also good for UNI’s Taylor Lujan, who
defeated Sam Colbray of Iowa State 7-5 in the finals at 184. Grand
View’s Tyree Sutton beat Northern Iowa’s Tyrell Gordon 3-1 in the
finals to give the NAIA a champ at the event at 197.
- Some solid Arizona State true freshmen won titles - Nick Raimo
at 125, Trey Munoz at 174 and Cohlton Schultz at heavyweight. Three
notable titles were won by Northern Colorado Bears: Mosha Schwartz
at 133, Andrew Alirez at 149 and Alan Clothier at 184. Last week,
we told you about Boise State alum Ben VomBaur wrestling with his
sons, Will and Vance at the Cowboy Open. Well, he did most of that
again, wrestling with his son Will at the event. This time, they
both took third. VomBaur was a two-time All-American at Boise State
in 2002 and 2003. So he’s close to 40.
- Cleveland State won six titles at the Ohio Intercollegiate
Open, with the most notable coming at 141 pounds as Evan Cheek
knocked off Drew Mattin of Michigan in the semifinals and then beat
younger brother Cole Mattin in the finals. Ohio State won three
weights as Carson Kharchla, Rocky Jordan and Gavin Hoffman won
their weights. The only non-Ohio State or Cleveland State champion
was Mercyhurst heavyweight Jacob Robb.
- On the women’s side, Emmanuel captured six titles at the East
Stroudsburg Open, while first-year Presbyterian won three
weights.
- Bakersfield College won California’s Southeast Conference
tournament, outdistancing second-place West Hills.
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Notables on the Docket for November 11:
- NOTHING. YOU GET NOTHING. Just like Weaver in Wheel of Fish.
Yes, I saw Weird Al Yankovic live back in August at the Minnesota
State Fair. And that’s a UHF reference. Today, we’re going to teach
poodles how to fly.
FROM THE
DWN:
- In many situations during the season, much of what you hear
about in the scores above will be in the daily wrestling
newsletter, so I won’t repeat items that are included here that
I’ve mentioned above.
- The Mankato Free Press follows past
Division II national champion Jason Rhoten from Minnesota
State-Mankato as he’s hunting elk in Montana.
- Omaha.com with the biggest banner ad I’ve ever seen. But below
that is a feature from Gene Schinzel on the
Huskers wrestling lineup this season as the team looks to
butcher the Emeril Lagase phrase by taking it up a notch. It’s like
the guy in the business meeting who thinks he’s big on Emeril and
goes, BOOM, take it to the next level. What up Nate Schy!
- It was in yesterday’s newsletter, but I’ll mention it again
here as Tim Hands of FivePointMove.com
liked his chat with Minnesota Storm Greco-Roman coach Dan
Chandler so much, that he posted it immediately. It’s worth the
read.
- I know he was a pretty decent high school wrestler, but you
will NEVER read anything about Logan Paul in this
newsletter.
- In India,
The Bridge previews the Indian national championships without
Bajrang Punia. I don’t believe there’s any drama here …
yet.
- Finally, this note from Twitter where the new
programs at Corban University in Oregon announced the signing of
triplets - two to their men’s team and the other to the women’s
team that starts next year. That’s absolutely the first time in
history that’s happened.
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