Nov 15, 2019
Someone, anyone, please tell me why Party in the U.S.A. is stuck
in my head. I don’t own that song, but I believe the reason for
this is the fact I live in a house with three females and one of
them might actually own one of the NOW music CDs. I actually own
NOW, when there wasn’t a volume. NOW, Volume 1, which is not its
real name, had some rock on it. It also had some sappy late 90s
R&B that I fell out of favor with once I discovered how badass
Phil Anselmo and Pantera was. Walk on home, boy. This is Short Time
Shots, your mostly daily look at the scores and news from the world
of wrestling. I’m Jason Bryant. So far, this will be 14 straight
episodes. There likely won’t be one on Friday night, since I’ll be
covering the Gopher dual and putting out an episode of The
Guillotine Grapevine. Maybe I’ll record it on Saturday morning for
you guys as you make the last mow of the season, or in some cases,
the first snow shovel of the year worth it.
Dual Meets:
- Unranked Illinois, fresh off getting beat by
Army West Point last weekend, rebounded with a 19-14 win over
border rival and 13th ranked Missouri at Francis
Howell High School in St. Louis on Thursday night. Missouri did
have the services of All-American Grant Leeth at 141, but were
without Dylan Wisman at 184. Illinois had key wins at 125 as Justin
Cardani beat Dack Punke and then three in a row from 165-184 to
take the lead heading into the dual’s final two weights. Freshman
heavyweight Luke Luffman prevailed 9-7 over Rodrigo Diaz to give
Illinois the upset.
- Division II Colorado School of Mines shut down
Northeastern Junior College 34-9. Also out in
Colorado, Western Colorado beat Chadron
State 28-13 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic
Conference.
- Elmhurst beat the University of
Chicago 33-19 as the Bluejays benefited from three Chicago
forfeits. Maroons All-Americans Steve Bonsall and Ben Sarasin were
both victorious.
- A couple of junior colleges picked up wins over Division III
foes - Mercyhurst North East topped
Pitt-Bradford 31-18, while Joliet Junior
College beat MacMurray 36-18.
Lincoln, which is in its first year as an NAIA
member after transitioning from a two-year school to a four-year
one, also beat MacMurray 34-18.
- In Georgia, Brewton-Parker, with a hyphen,
knocked off Truett McConnell, sans hyphen,
38-12.
- Nothing reported from CSU-Pueblo and
Otero, Central Baptist and
Oklahoma Wesleyan or the two duals out west in the
California Community Colleges.
- Late Wednesday: Neosho County and head coach
Nick Nothern knocked off rival Labette 26-16 in
Chanute. That’s action in the NJCAA in case you were wondering. The
Panthers swept six bouts between 149 and 197 to take the
dual.
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Notables on the Docket for November 15:
- Super solid Friday night for wrestling: No. 3 Ohio State heads
to Pittsburgh to take on the No. 15 Panthers, No. 4 Oklahoma State
will have its first dual of the season as it heads to Philly to
take on Drexel. No. 6 Minnesota hosts Rider at Williams Arena, I’ll
be there for that one, as will BDI. No. 8 Arizona State opens its
home slate against Division II Augustana (S.D.), No. 9 NC State
hosts Old Dominion, which was ranked last week and fell out of the
rankings despite not losing. Same thing happened to Wyoming.
Binghamton faces South Dakota State in Sioux Falls, Bucknell heads
to Northern Illinois, Division II Simon Fraser faces Oregon State
in Tahoma, Washington and Rutgers heads to Fresno State where the
Bulldogs are trying to break their own attendance record, looking
for 10,000 fans in the SaveMart Center.
- Notable matches from other divisions include Ithaca traveling
to Stevens Institute, Manchester at Wabash, more news on them in a
second, Campbellsville and the first-year program at Arizona
Christian facing Embry-Riddle - not at same time, that would be
unfair and there’s a doubleheader with the men’s and women’s
programs with Southern Oregon going to Portland to face Warner
Pacific. Tournament-wise, the Roger Williams Invitational kicks off
in Bristol, Rhode Island.
FROM THE
DWN:
- Minnesota
profiles senior Carson Brolsma with the now overused Q&A
segment called Seven Minutes. The Open Mat actually started that,
then Trackwrestling adopted it after TOM stopped doing it. And now
we have it in Minnesota. It’s like every column in every wrestling
magazine being called The Inside Trip - with apologies to Brando
and B-Law with The Inside Trip podcast. End snarky note.
- The week will continue with posts from the early signing
period. Some schools went all out on day one, while others are
trickling out their early classes. While not directly linked in
this section, Thursday’s releases are in the newsletter.
-
We’ve got a new No. 1 in Division III wrestling, mainly because
the rankings in the early season released by the Division III
Coaches Association are on tournament points. Loras, the preseason
No. 1, didn’t lose, but slid one spot to No. 2. This is why
tournament rankings are absolute crap UNTIL the postseason. Next
week’s rankings, as the release says, will be dual strength. I’d
have just held off the team rankings this week, since there was
plenty of movement in the individual rankings. Oh, that new No. 1,
by the way, the Little Giants of Wabash.
- Missouri’s sports information office
features alum and UFC fighter Tyron Woodley, while Penn State
has an in-house feature on
Creighton Edsell, an unlikely small town starter who came up with a
win in last week’s dual against Navy.
- Flowrestling looks at Fresno State’s drive to
break its attendance record and eclipse the 10,000-fan mark in
their upcoming dual against Rutgers.
- The Predicament goes into the Where Are They Now with the
Inside the Rivalry series.
Well, where are they now and what are they all
doing?
- Mason Beckman makes a guest
appearance with a preview of the Bill Farrell Memorial on the
Home Mat Advantage at 74kg.
- TheMat.com gives us the full U.S.-centric
Bill Farrell preview as well.
- Flowrestling
borrows Tim Hands of Five Point Move for their extensive
Greco-Roman preview, not paywalled.
- Patch.com, a collection of like 1,200 hyperlocal news websites,
features Penn State wrestling alum
Rohan Murphy and his message to inmates at Suffolk County
Correctional Facility. Rohan is an amazing dude. Born with no legs,
he’s got a great message to share about perseverance.
- The Southern Illinoisan, yes, that is the actual name of the
newspaper,
featured Carbondale Community High School coach Dennis Ragan
and his recent induction into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
via the Illinois chapter. If that name and location lead you to
connect some dots - la la la la - then you’re right. It’s Alli’s
dad.
- And the biggest Bud heavy advocate in wrestling, Willie Saylor,
drops an interview on
his MatScouts Rokfin channel that Blair Academy’s Travis
Mastrogiovanni, the No. 4 recruit in the Class of 2021 is heading
to Oklahoma State, where his brother Trevor has also
committed.
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