Dec 19, 2019
Yes, it’s late, it’s cold and I watched Elf tonight. That’s
about all you’re going to get for a cheeky intro.
This is Short Time Shots, your mostly daily look at the day’s
scores and more in and around the world of wrestling. I’m Jason
Bryant.
Minnesota Beer of the Night: Last night, the
Facebook Live crowd didn’t get to hear my lackluster review of a
beer I didn’t really like that much, which was Tin Whiskers Orange
Dream State, which was an orange cream ale. Have no fear, here’s a
better review, at least, an improvement as it’s Bad Weather Brewing’s
Immortal Toast, a coffee infused white stout. Yes, that is such
a thing. It’s surprisingly awesome.
New Patron: As a result of this thing going
live on Facebook last night, we picked up another Patron, this one
from Lauren Ruppert, the sister of one of my high school teammates
and drill partners. What’s interesting is one of my other drill
partners, Curtis Booth, lived up here for six months on a work
contract. As soon as it snowed in November, he was out! He was
about 2 miles from me - he came by the house last week before he
left. Good stuff, Bull Island. This is one time you get mentioned
in the media and it’s not an Allen Iverson documentary. She gets a
glass, a shirt, some other free stuff, and of course, this shout
out. “We’s gonna need some mohr wrassler’s on this heah football
teem.”
Dual Meets:
- No ranked D1 teams in action, but here’s what we’ve got from
around the mid-majors. Gardner-Webb upended
Franklin & Marshall 22-18 in a matinee dual in
Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Even giving up a forfeit, the
Runnin’ Bulldogs won six of the 10 bouts. Franklin & Marshall
picked up a win over the first-year program at
Presbyterian. The Diplomats beat the Blue Hose -
yes, both of those are the schools’ actual nicknames -
38-9.
- In other first-year news, Appalachian State
spoiled the Division I home debut of Little Rock
36-6 at the Jack Stephens Center. It’s effectively the Sun Belt
championship as that all-sports league doesn’t sponsor wrestling.
It wasn’t the first major college competition in the state of
Arkansas, as Arkansas State had a team back in the 1950s, but it
was the first Division I action as there were no divisions back
then. Biggest matches of the dual saw Appalachian State’s Sean
Carter beat Jaylen Carson at 125 and Codi Russell top Paul Bianchi
at 133. App State’s Matt Zovistoski edged Jose Champagne 4-3 at
157.
- Upset of the night came in Edwardsville, Illinois as Justin
Ruffin of SIUE knocked off returning All-American
and fourth-ranked Larry Early of Old Dominion 3-1
in the tiebreakers at 157 pounds. ODU won the dual 33-9, but that
win at 157 for Ruffin was the head-turner. Also in the MAC,
Northern Illinois broke a 13-13 tie by winning the last three
weights to top Kent State 23-13.
- In the NAIA, third-ranked Lindsey Wilson
trounced fourth-ranked Marian 44-4 in a dual at
Jeffersonville High School in Southern Indiana. Nothing yet from
San Francisco State and Simpson, but San Francisco State did beat
Southern Oregon 24-19 on Tuesday night.
- In junior college action, top-ranked Western
Wyoming beat No. 11 Northwest College
(Wyo.) 35-13. Keep an eye on this name, though for
Northwest College - Majid Muratov. He’s a native of Uzbekistan who
was 5th at the 2016 Junior World Championships at 84kg. Muratov is
wrestling at 197 and picked up a 2-1 win in sudden victory three
over top-ranked Tucker Tomlinson. Oh, how did the U.S. entry do
that year in Macon? Zahid Valencia was 7th.
Notables on the Docket for Thursday:
- Bloomsburg’s at Lock Haven in the MAC East (or the PSAC,
whichever you prefer), Rider is right down the street at Princeton
- loser buys at Hoagie Haven - while No. 20 Purdue will face SIUE.
Drexel heads west to take on Cal Poly and No. 25 Stanford, while
Kent State heads to Wisconsin to face the No. 8 Badgers - Mushroom,
Mushroom. Yeah, old reference there too.
- In Division II, Lander heads to Belmont Abbey, while
UW-Parkside heads over to Mankato to take on Minnesota State. Davis
& Elkins will go into Pennsylvania to face Seton Hill. That’s the
Griffins and not the one’s from Quahog.
- In Division III, I mistakenly read Thursday’s matches on the
previous night’s Short Time Shots, so mistakes happen. By the way,
it’s Mt. St. Joseph hosting a tri with Alma and Penn College.
In the NAIA, Menlo heads to Southern Oregon.
FROM THE
DWN:
- After releasing the men’s freestyle seeds on Tuesday, USA
Wrestling and TheMat.com has released the preseeds for this
weekend’s U.S. Senior Nationals in Fort Worth in
women’s freestyle. Top seeds are Victoria Anthony at 50kg, Dom
Parrish at 53kg, two-time Olympic Trials champion Kelsey Campbell
at 57kg, Maya Nelson at 62kg, two-time World teamer Forrest
Molinari at 68kg, and Final X runner-up Precious Bell at 76kg.
-
TransitionWrestling.com gives us the full entry list for
Women’s freestyle at this weekend’s U.S. Senior
Nationals.
- Timmy Hands at
FivePointMove.com does another solid feature, this time on the
return of RaVaughn Perkins to the Greco-Roman scene. It’s also time
for Hands’ Q&A with WCAP’s
Spenser Mango on Fort Greco.
- Purdue wrestling returns with the
Always Aggressive podcast. No, that’s not on the network, but
that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t listen to it.
- Nebraska’s HuskerMat, which produces the Big Mat Show, mostly
on Rokfin now, does a free
podcast episode with Mike Schadwinkel about his new book Purple
Reign. And no, not like Prince.
- Brad Wilson of
LehighValleyLive previews the Phillipsburg wrestling squad, one
of the top programs in New Jersey. It’s also good to see Brad
attending events again. He’d spent some time in the hospital and is
back out in the gyms covering wrestling.
- Matt Levins of the Burlington Hawk Eye, that’s in Iowa,
profiles the situation at
Iowa Wesleyan University and how the school was on the brink of
extinction, and now finds itself starting men’s and women’s
wrestling programs and getting some help from Dan Gable. By the
way, Wilson and Levins are both recipients of the NWMA Journalist
of the Year Award in the past.
-
India.com profiles 2019 men’s freestyle world silver medalist
Deepak Punia. Did you know he was the son of a milkman? No, you
didn’t. That’s not in the story, but just in case you were
wondering. And yes, the Daily Wrestling Newsletter is
GLOBAL.
- And down US 52 in Rochester,
KIMT3 News talks with the Yellow Jackets of Rochester Community and
Technical College - the one in Minnesota. Rochester’s news
outlets do a pretty fair job of covering RCTC and its sports
programs.
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Short Time Episode 588 - December 18, 2019