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Colleges News, Notes & Results — # 69

NC State’s Tariq Wilson Named ACC Wrestler of the Week
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – NC State redshirt junior Tariq Wilson has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Wrestler of the Week after his key victory helped the third-ranked Wolfpack to a 19-14 team win over No. 8 North Carolina in last Friday night’s top-10 conference showdown.
Ranked 11th nationally at 141 pounds, Wilson picked up his first top-10 win since 2018 as he defeated the Tar Heels’ No. 10 Zach Sherman 6-0 to give NC State a shot of momentum in a hard-fought bout that was tightly contested through the final weight class. …. rest of story at http://theacc.com/news/2020/2/10/athlete-awards-nc-states-tariq-wilson-named-acc-wrestler-of-the-week.aspx?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Williams baptist PINS WAY TO VICTORY AT LYON 37 – 9
Walnut Ridge, Ark. – The Williams Baptist University wrestling team beat Lyon College 37-9 on Tuesday evening. The Eagles won four decisions via fall, one major decision, one decision and one forfeit to earn their 37 points and the road American Midwest Conference victory. The match was wrestled in Batesville, Ark. …. story at http://www.wbueagles.com/article/1615.php?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Ferrum Panthers Take Down Averett on Senior Night
FERRUM, Virginia — Ferrum College came out on top of a men’s wrestling match over Averett University, 24-15 at home inside Swartz Gymnasium. Ferrum also honored their two seniors, Carlos Leyva and Pablo Zanistanavicius prior to the match.
RECORDS Ferrum (6-3) Averett (9-9) ….. story at https://www.ferrumpanthers.com/sports/wrest/2019-20/releases/20200211wstkwx?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

John Carroll Wrestling Builds Big Lead Then Holds On For Big Win In Dual Meet Season Finale
It was a familiar pattern this evening in Westerville, as John Carroll built a 20-point lead and then survived down the stretch to hold off Otterbein University, 24-21, on the Cardinals’ senior night. The Blue Streaks will finish the OAC season with a 5-2 record and finish in third place behind Mount Union and Baldwin Wallace.  The Blue Streaks were able to wrestle each opponent hard in the season, with their two losses being decided in the last couple of matches in their meets.  hey will finish the dual meet season with a team record of 12-4, those 12 wins being the highest number in head coach Mark Hawald‘s five-year tenure with the Blue Streaks. …. story at https://jcusports.com/news/2020/2/11/john-carroll-wrestling-builds-big-lead-then-holds-on-for-big-win-in-dual-meet-season-finale.aspx?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

No. 7 Lindenwood Rolls Over Kentucky Wesleyan on Senior Night
The No. 7 Lindenwood wrestling team (7-4) shutout Kentucky Wesleyan (4-13) by a 44-0 score on Senior Night in Hyland Arena in St. Charles, Mo.
DUAL OVERVIEW
No. 3 Carlos Jacquez utilized three takedowns in the first period to take a 6-2 lead, setting the tone for the night.  Jacquez finished with a strong 13-5 major decision victory in his final home match of his Lindenwood career.  No. 10 Tanner Hitchcock clashed with his opponent, as the two collided multiple times in a physical battle.  The Basehor, Kan. native earned two minutes of riding time in the second period, and picked up his scoring in the third frame to register a 10-2 major decision. …. rest of story at https://lindenwoodlions.com/news/2020/2/11/no-7-wrestling-rolls-to-shutout-over-kentucky-wesleyan-on-senior-night.aspx?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Streaking Illinois moves into Top 25; Princeton takes first Ivy title in 34 years
Manheim, Pennsylvania — Record-setting crowds and broken streaks were the theme of the week as the NWCA Division I Wrestling Coaches Poll was released on Tuesday. The tightest match between Top 10 teams over the weekend was third-ranked NC State’s 19-14 win over rival and eighth-ranked North Carolina 19-14 in Raleigh. The dual set an NC State home attendance record as 4,383 came into Reynolds Coliseum on Friday night in the first meeting ever between the schools as Top 10 programs. The Wolfpack lead Division I in dual met wins with 13 and remain unbeaten. …. rest of the story at http://www.nwcaonline.com/streaking-illinois-moves-into-top-25-princeton-takes-first-ivy-title-in-34-years/?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Seton Hill ROLLs TO WIN AT EAST STROUDSBURG
The Griffin wrestling team made the long trip across the state to East Stroudsburg for a PSAC Dual on Tuesday evening.  Seton Hill won eight of the ten matches and made the long trip worth while as they rolled to a 31-10 victory over the Warriors.  SHU is now winners of four in a row and 8-5 overall and 5-2 in PSAC Duals.  …. story at http://athletics.setonhill.edu/news/2020/2/11/wrestling-wrestlers-roll-to-win-at-east-stroudsburg.aspx?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Minot State Dominate Dickinson St. for Non-Conference Win
(DICKINSON, N.D.) – The Minot State wrestling team won their second dual is as many contests. The Beavers traveled to Dickinson State and defeated the Blue Hawks 32-19. Minot State dominated the dual from start to finish with a total of four pins and two technical falls. The Beavers are now 6-7 overall with two duals remaining in NSIC competition at UMary and MSU Moorhead. ….. story at https://msubeavers.com/news/2020/2/11/wrestling-minot-state-wrestlers-dominate-dickinson-state-for-non-conference-win.aspx?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Gannon Runs Win Streak To Five, Grabbing Five Bonus Point Wins To Glide By No. 11 Mercyhurst
THE RUNDOWN

• Final Score: No. 21 Gannon 32, No. 11 Mercyhurst 11
• Records: Gannon (8-5, 5-1 PSAC) | Mercyhurst (10-5, 1-3 PSAC)
• Location: Mercyhurst Athletic Center — Erie, Pa. ….. story at https://gannonsports.com/news/2020/2/11/mens-wrestling-gannon-runs-win-streak-to-five-grabbing-five-bonus-point-wins-to-glide-by-no-11-mercyhurst.aspx?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Ohio Northern wraps up OAC slate with 46-0 victory at Muskingum By Tim Glon
NEW CONCORD — The Ohio Northern wrestling team wrapped up the Ohio Athletic Conference portion of its schedule with a 46-0 victory at Muskingum on Tuesday at the Steele Center. The Polar Bears end their dual meet schedule 14-8 overall and finish tied for fourth in the OAC with a 3-4 league record. The Muskies fall to 2-7, 1-6. …. story at http://www.onusports.com/sports/wrest/2019-20/releases/20200211s3orzq?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

#10 Mount Union Takes OAC Title Outright
TIFFIN – No. 10 ranked Mount Union won the Ohio Athletic Conference title outright with a 25-18 victory at Heidelberg in a conference dual Tuesday at Seiberling Gymnasium. The Purple Raiders finish 7-0 in conference duals to claim their 15^th conference title and are 15-3 overall with 13-straight conference dual wins dating back to the 2017-18 season. …. story at http://athletics.mountunion.edu/sports/wrest/2019-20/releases/20200211urlt5f?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Old Dominion Monarchs Slay the Dragons, 25-11 on Monday Night
NORFOLK, Va. – The Old Dominion wrestling team (7-9, 4-2 MAC) won seven out of 10 bouts, including five straight to open the match, and cruised to a 25-11 victory over Drexel (6-9, 2-5 EIWA) on Monday night at Chartway Arena. “We’re trying to get everyone to compete up to their level,” head coach Steve Martin said after the victory. “I think our wrestlers that won competed up to their level tonight.” …. story at https://odusports.com/news/2020/2/10/odu-wrestling-slays-the-dragons-25-11-on-monday-night.aspx?mc_cid=3ff45774c0&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Track Wrestling Weekend Rundown: The top storylines rolled into 17 sentences
1. This is shaping up to be a historic season for Princeton wrestling and the decision to double down paid immediate dividends for the Tigers, who captured their first Ivy League dual title in 34 years Sunday when they knocked off Cornell 19-13, ending a 92-meet conference win streak for the Big Red. 
2. Princeton went all-in this weekend in its pursuit of the program’s first NCAA team trophy when the Tigers pulled three-time All-American Matthew Kolodzik out of Olympic redshirt, and the 149-pounder scored a pair of victories over the weekend, including a 4-2 win that sparked a string of five straight Tiger triumphs in the Cornell dual. 
3. Though the dual was out of reach by the time he took the mat Sunday, Cornell All-American Ben Darmstadt continued his tear at 197 pounds with an 11-4 victory against No. 3 Patrick Brucki. 
4. There were times during Pat Popolizio’s early days at North Carolina State when crowds of fewer than 100 showed up for home duals, but the Wolfpack packed Reynolds Coliseum on Friday night and defeated North Carolina 19-14 in front of a school-record crowd of 4,383 to run their record to 13-0 on the season. …. rest of list at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1581398894026&twSessionId=dsfvtwoqxk&postId=369174135&mc_cid=3ff45774c0&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

The National Wrestling Hall of Fame is excited to announce that it is displaying an animatronic Abraham Lincoln for a limited time. …. link and story at https://nwhof.org/blog/hall-of-fame-hosts-animatronic-abraham-lincoln/

HAND RAISED
3rd Season, Column 24: Confer-ence crowns both locked down and in Dispute; SoCon News; and Random Ramblings
Complete column and story at https://morewrestlingplease.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/3rd-season-column-23-conference-crowns-both-locked-down-and-in-dispute-socon-news-and-random-ramblings/?mc_cid=3ff45774c0&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Attack Style Wrestling by Daryl Weber
Gable the GOAT: How I Made It
Dan Gable is the most successful wrestling coach of all time.  During his 21 years as the head coach at Iowa, Gable won 21 Big 10 championships and 15 NCAA team championships, including nine in a row from 1978 – 1986.  …. rest of the story & podcast at https://www.attackstylewrestling.com/gable-the-goathow-i-made-it/?mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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TDR Top 12 – 1st Draft (part 2)

This is a 1st draft for just the top 8 in the last 7 weight classes. Send us your input. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Women’s Wrestling Results & News — # 19

‘It’s an exciting time’: Montana High School Athletics Association looking forward to addition of girls wrestling next season
BILLINGS — As far as scheduling and the format, the state wrestling tournament at First Interstate Arena at MetraPark on Friday and Saturday will look much the same as past years.
The 31st Annual All-Class State Wrestling Tournament will begin at 10:20 a.m. on Friday with the first-round matches. At approximately 5 p.m., the second-round consolation matches are scheduled to start and those bouts will conclude the day. …. rest of story at https://mtstandard.com/sports/high-school/wrestling/it-s-an-exciting-time-mhsa-looking-forward-to-addition/article_e49e6437-5bec-554d-af68-539d81539e8d.html?mc_cid=3ff45774c0&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Chatfield earn Colorado Girls State team title
By Tom Blair, ICW Staff
The 2020 Colorado Girls State Championship being held at Thornton High School on four mats as it was moved to a one-day tournament because of the weather. The 147 girls began the day with weighins and then waited around for the start of the matches / rounds to begin. Most would take this time to hydrate and fuel their body with nutritional food, then came the warmups on all four mats. The tournament started on time as there were no missed weighins and only one change at 161 as the Cherokee Trails girl pulled out early in the week. The whistles sounded the start of the tournament on all four mats. The talent of the girls in this state tournament has come forward 10 folds in one year with not only in the growth of the sport in Colorado but also nationwide. The technique that the girls have shown in the first round, can be tribute to the coaches that have stepped forward across Colorado to take them to next level. This tournament has also grown to the 16-wrestlers per bracket and with 65 high school teams in attendance.  First round on the day, finished with four upsets as the brackets were setup by the girls’ regional finish for the top 6 seeds.  …. rest of the story at http://insidecoloradowrestling.com/index.php/16-high-school/1804-chatfield-earn-colorado-girls-state-team-title?mc_cid=3ff45774c0&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

North Carolina girl won a state wrestling title and ‘inspired a lot of kids’
By Liz Clarke Feb. 29, 2020 at 10:38 a.m. EST
After placing fourth in North Carolina’s high school wrestling championship meet as a sophomore, Heaven Fitch set her sights on winning the 106-pound division as a junior. In doing so last week, triumphing in an eight-wrestler bracket that included seven boys, Fitch made state history as North Carolina’s first girl to win an individual state wrestling championship. In the days since, during which seemingly every media outlet from the local Fox affiliate to the BBC has called, the significance of Fitch’s achievement has grown, according to advocates who have promoted girls’ and women’s wrestling for years. “This has had a ripple effect,” said Sally Roberts, founder and CEO of Wrestle Like a Girl, a nonprofit that promotes wrestling as a means of educating and empowering girls and women. “It is very significant in wrestling history because it’s a great example of, ‘Yes, women can do it if they’re taught, educated and trained.’ Wrestling is a sport for everybody.” Said Michael Moyer, executive director of the National Wrestling Coaches Association: “It has created terrific conversation within the wrestling community, and it has promoted interest in growing girls’ and women’s wrestling among people outside the wrestling community, which is just as important.”
In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship of their own. Mya Kretzer changed that.
Fitch, a junior at Uwharrie Charter Academy in Asheboro, N.C., had a 54-4 record for the Eagles this season and was named Most Outstanding Wrestler for North Carolina’s 1A division. Still, she was overwhelmed by her victory last Saturday, telling Raleigh’s WRAL-TV: “It’s, like, insane what I’ve done. It’s not fully sunken in yet.” …. rest of the story at https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/02/29/north-carolina-girl-won-state-wrestling-title-inspired-lot-kids/

(In Illinois)
Maine East girls wrestling program continues to grow
Prior to her freshman year, Vanessa Montesinos knew nothing about wrestling. She knew the sport existed for boys, but she was much less certain that wrestling had a place for her. That’s when her teammate, Kate Cacho, pitched Montesinos on the opportunity. “I decided to try it out,” Montesinos said. “I’ve grown a passion for it over the years, and now I truly do enjoy putting in all the hard work that it requires. “I felt like the environment was good for me, and (Cacho) felt that way too. Pretty much from the very beginning, it ended up being true.” Four years ago, the Maine East girls wrestling program had one competitor. Now, boys and girls coach Austin Bautista said the Blue Demon girls program has 10 wrestlers, and the number grows by the year. “We’ve had many more girls come out in recent years, girls looking to compete,” Bautista said. “It’s given them many positive moments. The sport of wrestling teaches you to never give up, and this can truly help them become independent, self-confident women and develop a strong belief in themselves. Not just inside, but outside of wrestling.” Montesinos was ranked eighth in the 132-pound class in the inaugural Illinois Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association girls state rankings, which are presented by Rob Sherrill. ….. rest of the story at https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/park-ridge/sports/ct-prh-wrestling-notes-maine-east-maine-south-tl-0213-20200210-pwouscccajc47dr7wimrjsz5wa-story.html?mc_cid=3ff45774c0&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Lynbrook’s Ally Fitzgerald first LI girl to qualify for boys championship meet
By Gregg Sarragregg.sarra@newsday.com @Gregg_Sarra
Ally Fitzgerald became the first girl on Long Island to qualify for a boys sectional wrestling tournament. The Lynbrook junior put together a 4-1 record at the Long Beach qualifier Saturday to secure a spot in the 120-pound weight class in next week’s Nassau championships. “She wrestled her best tournament of the past three years,” Lynbrook coach Rich Renz said. “I knew she could do it. She was focused and wrestled smart. She’s worked hard for the opportunity to wrestle in the county tournament.” After winning her first two bouts by pin, Fitzgerald was pinned in the first period of the semifinals by second-seeded Andres Castro of Long Beach. The loss forced her into the consolation bracket, and she needed one win to qualify for the county tournament. …. rest of the story at https://www.newsday.com/sports/high-school/wrestling/ally-fitzgerald-girls-wrestling-lynbrook-1.41694491?fbclid=IwAR2mZGVVZB31nxo_fhWNfR9RDAVcK_aWp1ODpmImCGHpzqlUY2B_EQLwEHY&mc_cid=ecaa75d4fa&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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