ECU Spring Clinic This Sunday
ECU’s 8th annual Spring Wrestling Clinic set for March 24th. We again have an outstanding staff at a low price. Lunch is now included as well. Our clinicians have a world of experience successfully working with young men. The ECU team will serve as on-mat assistants. This is a great chance to improve your wrestling, see our facilities, and meet the ECU coaches and wrestlers. Get in touch with any questions. Bring both forms to registration.
Milt Sherman
ECU Wrestling
shermanm@ecu.edu 252-341-8980
Six from the NCSU WolfPack Score First Round Wins
Pack went 6-3 in Session I and sits in 12th place
PITTSBURGH, PA. – Six of the nine participants from the NC State wrestling team won their first period matches in Session I at the 2019 NCAA Championships this afternoon. The six will advance to tonight’s second round, while the other three will be in action in the consolation bracket.
Thursday Night Matchups – Session 2:
SECOND ROUND
125 – Bout #185: #14 seed Sean Fausz (12-2) vs. #3 seed Spencer Lee (Iowa – 19-3)
133 – Bout #194: #11 seed Tariq Wilson (15-3) vs. #6 seed Ethan Lizak (Minnesota – 29-5)
149 – Bout #206: #9 seed Justin Oilver (19-5) vs. #8 seed Jarrett Degen (Iowa State – 26-6)
157 – Bout #215: #5 seed Hayden Hidlay (21-2) vs. #21 seed Justin Thomas (Oklahoma – 22-9)
165 – Bout #221: #16 seed Thomas Bullard (21-8) vs. #1 seed Alex Marinelli (Iowa – 24-0)
197 – Bout #248: #13 seed Malik McDonald (19-9) vs. #4 seed Patrick Brucki (Princeton – 30-1)
CONSOLATION
141 – Bout #281: #14 seed Jamel Morris (22-4) vs. #30 seed Nate Limmex (Purdue – 18-16) OR #32 seed Christopher Sandoval (Northern Colorado – 8-11)
174 – Bout #315: #23 seed Daniel Bullard (20-10) vs. #26 seed Drew Hughes (Michigan State – 26-14)
184 – Bout #323: #7 seed Nick Reenan (15-5) vs. #23 seed Jackson Hemauer (Fresno State – 23-12)
FIRST ROUND RECAP
#14 seed Sean Fausz started the Pack’s day with a dominating 8-2 win (with 3:21 of ride time) over #19 seed Mackall of Iowa State. Fausz scored a takedown in the first and third periods and only gave up a reversal.
#11 seed Tariq Wilson followed suit with a 5-0 decision over #22 seed Gosner of Campbell. Wilson scored a takedown in the first and third periods and used 1:44 of ride time to advance. Rest of the story at www.GoPack.com
ACC Wrestling
The ACC will send a league-record tying 41 wrestlers to the 2019 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, which begin Thursday and continue through Saturday at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh.
• ACC champion NC State and runner-up Virginia Tech lead the conference’s six wrestling schools with nine NCAA selections each, and North Carolina has eight.
• The ACC received a league-record 37 automatic bids to this year’s NCAA Wrestling Championship, and qualifying for those slots was determined by the results of the 2019 ACC Championships held March 9 at Virginia Tech. In addition to those automatic qualifiers, the ACC was awarded four at-large berths.
• The ACC’s 41-wrestler contingent is led by a pair of No. 3 seeds in Duke’s Mitch Finesilver at 149 pounds and Virginia Tech’s Zack Zavatsky at 184 … Finesilver’s No. 3 seeding is the best ever for a Blue Devil in the NCAAs … ACC Wrestling Championship MVP Micky Phillipi drew the No. 4 seed at 133 pounds, while Virginia’s Jack Mueller is No. 5 at 125, and NC State’s Hayden Hidlay followed suit at 15 … A total of 12 ACC wrestlers are seeded among the top 10 in their respective weight classes.
• For the second consecutive year, Mitch Finesilver will join his three Duke teammate brothers – Josh at 141 pounds, Zach at 165 and Matt at 174 – in qualifying for the NCAA Championships . Last year marked the first time in history that four brothers had advanced to the NCAAs.
• Pitt is hosting the ACC Wrestling Championships for the first time since 1957 … This will mark the sixth time an ACC member school has hosted the event and the first time since North Carolina hosted in 1994.
• NC State claimed the 2019 ACC Wrestling Championship before a record crowd of 3,742 on March 9 at Virginia Tech’s Cassell Coliseum … The title is the 16th for the Wolfpack overall and the second under seventh-year head coach Pat Popolizio. Rest of the story and details at https://theacc.co/ACCWREST19
Fairmont State University Adds Wrestling As 17th Sport
TDR Editor’s Notes ; Big News! Love to see schools adding wrestling opportunities. Another Division II school which has been a growing group of wrestling teams. Look forward to soon hearing about others
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FAIRMONT, W.Va. — For the first time in more than 30 years, Fairmont State University will offer wrestling as part of its intercollegiate athletics program beginning in the fall of 2019. “I am excited to welcome wrestling back home to the Falcon Nation as our 17th sport,” said Dr. Mirta M. Martin, President at Fairmont State University. “This region has an abundance of talented student-athletes who wrestle, and adding wrestling allows Fairmont State to give these hard-working students access to a quality higher education. “Adding wrestling also gives us one more activity through which we can share with the world how Fairmont State transforms passion and effort into excellence,” Dr. Martin added.
The program is set to begin competition during the 2019-20 athletics season as a member of NCAA Division II and the Mountain East Conference. The search for Fairmont State’s head wrestling coach will begin immediately.
Wrestling will return to Fairmont State University for the first time since the 1982-83 season. “We are extremely excited to bring the wrestling program back to Fairmont State University and the Fairmont community,” said Director of Athletics Chad Fowler. “In my six years as a member of the athletics administration at Fairmont State, we have received plenty of community and alumni support to bring the program back and today is a very special day for the entire community. Rest of the story at https://fightingfalcons.com/news/2019/3/20/general-fairmont-state-university-adds-wrestling-as-17th-sport.aspx
TDR blog
After 20 seasons of publicizing wrestling The TakeDown Report’s (TDR) focus has changed to the collecting of college coaching records from North America since 1903. We will continue to recognize and reward successful wrestlers in eastern North Carolina (east of Raleigh & Fayetteville), assist with schools in starting or re-starting a team and this blog. Join us on our FaceBook Page – “The TakeDown Report” for photos and news. Please send results, stories, links and news to pass along. E-mail us at takedownreport@gmail.com
Martin Fleming, Editor
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