Dec 5, 2019
Canada takes this one in a
landslide folks. I’m Jason Bryant and this is Short Time Shots,
your mostly daily recap of the scores and more from around the
world of wrestling. What does Canada take? Well, as I checked into
the Fallsview Marriott, I looked out the window to see the most
glorious sight I’ve ever seen out of a hotel window at a wrestling
event. Seriously, Wrestling Canada Lutte (you have to say Lutte)
has at least made one person happy so far. By the way, it’s also
not everyday you get picked up at the airport by an Olympic
medalist. As far as picking up Olympic medalists, I’ve done that
way more. Not quite like smoking fake pot with Peter Frampton, but
you get the idea. Yes, a Mitch Hedberg reference. Also,
Niagara Brewing Company has some first-class
stuff.
To the scores!
Dual Meets:
- Kentucky Wesleyan won its
first dual in school history on Tuesday night. Well guess what,
they have their first winning streak as the Panthers beat NAIA
Thomas More 28-21to win the school’s second dual
ever and second in a row. Kentucky Wesleyan stormed out to a 28-0
lead and put it in cruise control from there.
- Mount Olive topped
Lander 24-23 in a matchup of first year teams.
With the dual on the line, Mount Olive’s Drew Weichers’ major
decision at 157 pounds in the dual’s final bout was enough to give
the Trojans the win, spoiling the dual debut of the Lander
Bearcats.
- In
Division III, Westminster beat
Fontbonne 31-18, Thiel beat Pitt-Bradford 50-6,
while UW-Platteville beat UW-Stevens
Point 25-15. Stevens Point’s Matt Berlin remained unbeaten
at 13-0 with a fall at 133 pounds. Division III
Millikin, ranked No. 18, beat
Lincoln, which is in its first year active as an
NAIA school, 41-12. Southern Virginia defeated
NJCAA Southwest Virginia 33-15.
- In
the NAIA, Grand View won its 81st straight dual,
but it wasn’t a blowout. The Vikings won six of 10 to defeat
Baker 27-15. Five bouts were decided by two points
or less. No. 10 Life trounced Truett
McConnell 46-5. In Kansas at Olathe South High School,
Ottawa beat Central Christian
45-9. In the desert, Embry-Riddle beat Arizona Christian
35-15.
- On
the women’s side, No. 14 Missouri Valley beat No.
20 Saint Mary (Kansas) 28-15 to pick up their
first win of the season. No report from the women’s dual between
Fontbonne and Westminster.
Notables on the Docket:
- Just
a pair of duals in Division I as Bucknell hosts Bloomsburg, which
is right down the road, unless you’re in a snowstorm like I was
back in 2011 or ‘12. Wrestling’s version of the Backyard Brawl goes
down in Morgantown as West Virginia hosts Pittsburgh. Anyone ever
hear the story about the Pitt PA announcer asking the fans if
anyone owned a tractor with West Virginia plates E-I-E-I-O, because
its lights were on? WVU came back to win that game, by the way.
True story.
- In
Division II, Colorado Mesa (formerly known as Mesa State) hosts
Western Colorado (formerly known as Western State and Western State
Colorado), Emmanuel faces McKendree, MSU-Moorhead faces Northern
State in the Northern Sun Conference. Central Oklahoma will face
off with NAIA Oklahoma City.
- Lourdes, which just added a women’s team, will
face Adrian, North Central’s at Wheaton, while Simpson (Iowa) hosts
a tri-meet with Central College and Augustana (Ill.)
- In
the NAIA, apparently Lindenwood-Belleville is at Lyon. I’d love to
know what’s going on at Belleville, since my emails to the sports
information office and coaching staff have gone unreturned. As have
my phone calls. Does anyone return calls anymore? Missouri Valley
is at Graceland and Concordia (Neb.) is at
Morningside.
- On
the women’s side, East Stroudsburg and King head to Ferrum for a
tri-meet in the only reported action scheduled on Thursday. I’m
going to suggest heading to TransitionWrestling.com for the minutiae of women’s wrestling. Yes,
Gabby gets more plugs.
FROM THE
DWN:
- In
the wake of the gigantic outpouring of support for Iowa alum
Brandon Sorensen and his fight against leukemia, another Iowa
wrestler could also use help from the wrestling community. Justin
Portillo has set up a
GoFundMe for Grand View women’s
wrestler Jas Alexander.
She was in a horrific car accident on her way to volunteer at a
wrestling event in Waterloo several weeks ago. Sorensen’s
GoFundMe raised over $66,000 in 18 hours (and it’s still growing).
Jas transferred to Grand View to join the wrestling team there in
her senior season. She is showing resiliency and could use a hand
there, too.
- The
Oklahoma State student newspaper, the O’Colly,
does a solid feature on Anthony
Montalvo, explaining his
hardships growing up that involved poverty and abuse.
- NJ.com’s
Bill Evans looks into
the careers of three former New
Jersey standouts who are waiting to enroll at Cornell, but are
taking greyshirt years.
- MLive.com features Pennsylvania
high school standout Gaige
Garcia, a two-sport
athlete who plans on playing football and wrestling at
Michigan.
- St.
Cloud State’s 52-match win streak is re-capturing the attention of
its
local news media as WJON
reports. The Huskies set
the Division II record a few years ago at 54 in a row. They’re in
line to beat their own record.
- Craig
Sesker
writes about Sorensen for The
Predicament.
-
Trackwrestling released its first
set of high school wrestling rankings. I did high school rankings from 1997
to 2005. I also did some high school research when I was with The
Open Mat. Yup, not something I ever want to do again. Track,
Willie, whoever else, go for it. That’s on you
man!
- Sam
Herring of the
Home Mat Advantage
fires up another podcast, this time
with Wyoming Seminary’s Scott Green and Beau
Bartlett.
- WIN
Magazine’s Mike Finn profiles Iowa and
why they’re going to wrestle free
and loose to try to
score more bonus points this season.
- Since
I’m up in Canada, I might as well throw some Canadian news out
there as CBC features
2016 Olympic champion Erica
Wiebe and the battle she
must go through just to make the team in order to try to win
another Olympic medal.
BP Sports Niagara
also features another Canadian
women’s wrestler, world medalist Diana Weicker.
- The
Times of India profiles
world medalist Bajrang
Punia, the Indian
wrestler who’s a pretty big fan favorite here in the U.S. That’s
not what the story’s about, but hey.
On The Network
- Chad
Dennis returns with
The MatBoss Podcast
where he interviews Air Force
associate head coach Joe Johnston. .
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