TDR Top 12 at 113 lbs.
A preliminary look at some of the top wrestlers at each weight class in eastern N.C.
TDR Top 12 at 106
A preliminary look at some of the top wrestlers at each weight class in eastern N.C.
NCHSAA DUAL TEAM WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
1-A CHAMPIONSHIP: MITCHELL 36, CHATHAM CENTRAL 30
BEAR CREEK—Mitchell won four of the final six matches to take a tough 36-30 victory over host Chatham Central to win the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 1-A dual team wrestling championship on Saturday evening. It was Mitchell’s first NCHSAA dual team championship. Mitchell was runner-up in the very first dual team championship in 1990. Mitchell improved its dual team record to 37-7 while Chatham Central fell to 19-5 overall.
2-A CHAMPIONSHIP: NEWTON-CONOVER 44, DIXON 15
NEWTON– Newton-Conover held off Dixon 44-15 to clinch its second consecutive North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 2-A dual team wrestling championship on Saturday here at Lemon Gymnasium. The Red Devils rolled up a 35-13 margin with three matches to go to clinch the crown in winning their 38th consecutive math and running their overall dual mark to an outstanding 52-1. Newton-Conover made its fifth appearance in the dual team finals. Dixon, which beat last year’s runner-up Newport Croatan in the third round of the dual team playoffs, lost for only the second time in 24 dual meets.
3-A CHAMPIONSHIP: EDEN MOREHEAD 38, NEWTON FRED T. FOARD 28
EDEN—Morehead downed visiting Fred T. Foard 33-28 to win the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 3-A dual team wrestling championship on Saturday afternoon. Morehead, under first-year head coach Daniel Bradford, ran its dual team record to 38-1 and avenged a 41-27 loss to Fred T. Foard in last year’s dual team finals. The Panthers won their sixth NCHSAA dual team title in 10 appearances in the finals, but it was the Panthers’ first state crown since 2006. Foard suffered only its fourth loss against 36 dual team wins.
4-A: WINSTON-SALEM PARKLAND 30, FAYETTEVILLE JACK BRITT 24
WINSTON-SALEM—It wasn’t easy, but Winston-Salem Parkland extended its streak of state dual team wrestling championships to eight on Saturday night in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 4-A final in front of its home crowd. Parkland outlasted Fayetteville Jack Britt 30-24, winning four of the final five matches and finally clinching the crown after the 170-pound match gave the champs an insurmountable 30-21 lead. Parkland has now won five straight 4-A crowns after winning three 3-A titles. Parkland kept its record perfect in dual team matches this season at 52-0 and improved its incredible all-time playoff record in dual team wrestling to 57-8. Britt, which fell to Parkland in a tightly contested final last year, lost its first dual team match after 31 straight wins. For complete summary at http://www.nchsaa.org/newsletter.php?mode=displayHTML&archiveID=3363#.Uve0-vldX_8
Davidson Adds Pair of Former All-Americans to Staff
DAVIDSON, N.C. – Head wrestling coach Bob Patnesky has announced the addition of former All-Americans and Central Michigan standouts Christian Sinnott and Brandon Sinnott to the Davidson wrestling staff. The two began working with the squad this winter and will serve as assistant coaches, while former assistant coach Tim Stroud has moved to Director of Wrestling Operations.
Christian Sinnott joins the Wildcats after two seasons as a private coach for 2013 High School National Champion Parker Vonegidy. Under Sinnott’s tutelage, Vonegidy was also the 2011 Fargo National runner-up and three-time North Carolina State Champion for Piedmont High School. He was also a multiple-time high school All-American. Sinnott also served as an assistant coach for SoCon rival Appalachian State, where he assisted in recruiting efforts and fostered community and alumni relations. In addition, he was in charge of ASU summer wrestling camps and assuring the program was NCAA compliant.
Sinnott was two-time Mid-American Conference Champion and 2008 All-American at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Mich. He helped the Chippewas to a second-place national ranking and seventh place finish at the NCAA Championships while accumulating more than 100 career individual wins. A three-time national qualifier, he earned a Bachelor of Science in sociology from CMU in 2008 before pursuing a Masters’ in Sports Administration while a graduate assistant for the Chippewas. He is currently a patrol officer for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
Brandon Sinnott previously spent a season as an assistant coach at the University of Maryland from 2009-10, helping the Terrapins to a 19-4 record and a second-place finish at the 2010 ACC Championship. Sinnott spent 2010-11 training at the University of North Carolina Olympic Training Center, and has also trained as an MMA fighter. He previously volunteered his time coaching both high school wrestlers and MMA fighters as well.
Sinnott was a three-time MAC Champion and two-time NCAA All-American for Central Michigan. He twice claimed top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships in helping the squad to a second-place national ranking and top-10 finish at the NCAA Championships. After receiving a Bachelor’s of Science in Criminal Justice, Sinnott served as an assistant coach with the Chippewas while pursuing a graduate degree. Along with his brother, Sinnott is a member of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. http://www.davidsonwildcats.com/news/2014/1/31/WREST_0131140420.aspx?path=wrestling
College Dual Meets
Feb. 7th : West Virginia 45 Davidson 0
Drexel 20 Rider, 19, With the win, the Dragons improve to 6-13 overall while the Broncs move to 12-7 on the season.
Missouri 41 Buffalo 0
Hofstra 28 (6-6, 4-2 in EIWA) SUNY-Binghamton, 8 (4-11, 3-7)
Feb. 3rd : Stanford 26, Grand Canyon 6
Stanford 22, Arizona State 10 – Stanford ties school record for dual wins
TEMPE, Ariz. – The Stanford wrestling team notched two wins in the state of Arizona, defeating Grand Canyon (26-6) and Pac-12 foe Arizona State (22-10). The Cardinal improves to 15-4 overall and 3-1 in the conference. The Antelopes drop to 11-5 on the year, while the Sun Devils fall to 6-7 and 1-1 in the Pac-12. Stanford remains on the road, travelling to San Luis Obispo, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 9 for duals against South Dakota State and Cal Poly. The Cardinal’s final dual of the year will be at Northwestern on Feb. 16.
Feb. 2nd : #3 Iowa 31 #19 Northwestern 6
#4 Minnesota 35 #21 Indiana 6
Feb. 1st : Campbell 39, Davidson 9
Drexel 24 Duke, 14, for its first home victory of the season. The Dragons improve to 5-13 overall, while the Blue Devils move to 5-10 on the season.
Ursinus 36, Stevens 5
No. 20 Ursinus earned wins in the first seven bouts of the dual to open a 30-0 edge. The Bears tallied two pins and a technical fall. Sophomore Leo Wortman at 157 battled but ultimately dropped a 5-3 decision, as did junior Zach Bass at 174 who dropped a 6-4 decision.
Johns Hopkins 21, Stevens 19
Jan. 31st : #9 OKLAHOMA STATE 28 #10 MIZZOU 6
Oregon State 22 Cal Poly 12
Missouri 18 Oklahoma 15
ECU Open Workouts
Remaining dates for ECU Open Workouts for area youth:
February 16
March 23
April 13
Each of these workouts starts at 10:00am and ends at 12:00 at the Student Rec Center on campus at 8th & Cotanche Streets near downtown. Parking is available behind the building off 9th Street. If you have several wrestlers attending and want input in what we teach that session, just get in touch. Your athletes get free college coaching and a chance to work out with other motivated athletes for the betterment of wrestling in eastern North Carolina. Our competing college club team is presently 4-2 in duals and will host Wake Forest at 2:00 on February 23rd. Admission is free.
NC STATE Pack Takes Down Tar Heels, 19-16
By Brian Reinhardt
Gwiazdowski records pin at 285 and Wilkes upsets No. 30 wrestler at 133
RALEIGH, N.C. – The NC State wrestling team recorded a 19-16 win over North Carolina in an ACC dual Friday at Reynolds Coliseum. NC State used bonus point victories at 174 and 285 pounds and an upset win at 133 pounds clinched the match for the Pack. NC State improves to 12-4, while the Tar Heels fall to 5-9. The dual started at 157 pounds with the two schools splitting the first four matches. Junior Tommy Gantt, ranked 18th nationally, got the Pack on the scoreboard first with his 9-4 decision. Gantt improves to 12-1 in duals this year, including winning his last eight. At 165, senior Nijel Jones dropped a close 3-1 decision as the dual was tied 3-3 after two bouts. Freshman Pete Renda notched the Pack’s first bonus point win of the night, as he scored a 12-3 major decision at 174 pounds. Renda, ranked 20th nationally, improves to 14-1 in duals this year having won six straight. UNC crept back to within a point with a 6-3 decision at 184 pounds. NC State got the three points back at 197 pounds when redshirt senior KaRonne Jones recorded a 7-3 decision. Jones has now won back-to-back ACC matches after his upset of No. 22 Chris Penny of Virginia Tech last weekend. At the halfway point, it was NC State up 10-6. NC State got much needed bonus points at 285 pounds, as redshirt-sophomore Nick Gwiazdowski recorded his 14th pin of the year just 1:03 into the match. Gwiazdowski improves to 30-2 overall and 15-0 in duals this year. UNC closed the gap to 16-10 after a major decision at 125 pounds. NC State got what ended up being the decisive points when freshman Chris Wilkes upset No. 30 Troy Heilmann 7-2 at 133 pounds. The Pack was up nine points going into the final two bouts, and without a UNC pin the Pack ended up with the win regardless of the final two bouts. The Tar Heels did record decisions at 141 pounds (7-0) and 149 pounds (2-0), but the Pack clinched with Wilkes’ win at 133 pounds. NC State will host its final home dual of the season next weekend, as No. 13 Virginia visits Reynolds Coliseum on Sunday, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m.
NC State 19, North Carolina 16
157: #18 Tommy Gantt (NCSU) dec. Jake Crawford; 9-4 – 3-0
165: John Staudenmayer (UNC) dec. #32 Nijel Jones; 3-1- 3-3
174: #20 Pete Renda (NCSU) major dec. ScottMarmoll; 12-3 – 7-3
184: #28 Alex Utley (UNC) dec. Michael Macciavello; 6-3 – 7-6
197: KaRonne Jones (NCSU) dec. Frank Abbondanza; 7-3 – 10-6
285: #5 Nick Gwiazdowski (NCSU) fall Bob Coe; 1:03 – 16-6
125: #25 Nathan Kraisser (UNC) major dec. Micah Perez; 11-2 – 16-10
133: Chris Wilkes (NCSU) dec. #30 Trou Heilmann; 7-2 – 19-10
141: #6 Evan Henderson (UNC) dec. #25 Sam Speno; 7-0 – 19-13
149: #25 Christian Barber (UNC) dec. #26 Brian Hamann; 2-0 – 19-16
More College Dual Meets
Jan. 30th : Oregon State 22 Cal Poly 12 in an outdoor meet.
Jan. 26th : #17 Virginia Tech, 17 N.C. State 16
Pack wins five bouts, but falls short to nationally ranked Hokies
RALEIGH, N.C. – NC State and No. 17 Virginia Tech both won five bouts, but the Hokies came away with a narrow 17-16 win over the Pack in Reynolds Coliseum on Sunday. With the score tied 7-7 after the first four bouts, the Hokies scored a major decision at 133 pounds for a point differential that lasted the remaining five bouts. Northern Colorado 19 Cal Poly 17
The Citadel 26 Davidson Univ. 15
Franklin & Marshall 27 Davidson Univ. 7
Army 20 Drexel 19
Jan. 25th : #6 Oklahoma 20 # Oregon State 18
#7-Missouri 31 Northern Illinois 0
Campbellsville University women’s team places 6th at WCWA Nationals
By Jordan Alves / Campbellsville University Sports Information
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – History was made this weekend for Campbellsville Women’s Wrestling. The Lady Tigers came into the Women’s College Wrestling Association (WCWA) National Tournament ranked No. 8 but finished in sixth place with 112 points and five All-Americans. Breonnah Neal (109 pounds) led the way for Campbellsville for the second-straight day as she fought her way into the WCWA National Championship match but lost to defending national champion Victoria Anthony from Simon Fraser University. Neal is not only the first Lady Tiger national finalist in program history but is the first freshman to ever compete in the WCWA 109-pound national championship match. Neal advanced to the championship with a comeback win in the semifinals. Trailing 3-0 early, she reversed and pinned No. 2 Kristi Garr (Oklahoma City University) to start the second period. “Bre is a freshman who wrestled extremely well to get to the finals and got caught by a senior who was a four-time national world champion,” said first-year Lady Tiger head coach Lee Miracle. “She has a legitimate shot at winning three national titles before she graduates, and I cannot wait to see her grow in our program.” Joining Neal as an All-American were fellow freshmen Rosemary Flores (third, 130 pounds) and Tiaira Scott (third, 191 pounds) and sophomores Hanna Hall (fourth, 143 pounds) and Michelle Organ (eighth, 155 pounds). “The team exceeded everyone’s expectations and we were complimented all day on how hard our girls fought and how good they are for their youth and how good we are for a first year program,” said Miracle. “We placed sixth and there was a gap between where we finished and the rest of the field. These are programs that have been around a lot longer, and it shows just how far we have come in such a short period of time. I am extremely proud and cannot thank them enough for working as hard as they have all season long.” CU started the day in eighth place with 54 points but roared back at the beginning of the consolation rounds. Michelle Lomas started the day for the Lady Tigers, but dropped the elimination match in a hard-fought battle with No. 10 Laura Anderson from Simon Fraser, 5-4, to finish just shy of All-America status. Flores followed and the tone for CU, defeating Dajan Treder (Jamestown) by major decision, 10-5. The Lady Tigers dropped one more match in the fourth consolation round as 136-pounder Kasey Kruczek was pinned late in the second period by Rachel Young (Oklahoma City). But then, CU pulled off six victories in a row, starting with Hall’s tech fall win over Yvone Galindo (Oklahoma City), 10-0. Organ followed suit and used an 11-1 tech fall against No. 9 Heiley Gacia (Oklahoma City). Scott then pinned Sonya Legate (Waldrof) in just 38 seconds. The wins guaranteed the four grapplers their spot on the All-America podium at the end of the night. Neal’s semifinal win kept the Lady Tigers’ pin streak alive. Flores used her fourth pin of the tournament to beat Rachel Factora from Lindenwood in just 1:19, and Hall came back to win a major decision, 10-7, over Lisa Gonzalez from Lindenwood. Going into the consolation semifinals, Flores upset No. 3 Cheyenne Youngblood by way of a pin in the first round. It was her second pin over Youngblood in their last two meetings. She went on to post another pin in the third-place match to finish with a team-high 26 points for CU on five pins. Hall and Scott also collected pins in the consolation semifinals to send them to the third-place matches for their weights. Hall fell short in her third-place match to No. 5 Forrest Molinari (Missouri Baptist) for the second time in the tournament, while Scott collected a pin to finish two spots from the top. Scott joined Neal with 23 team points in the tournament. Organ was the final Lady Tiger to compete in the consolation semifinals, but fell to No. 3 Mary Westman. She was then pinned by No. 10 Monika Podgoski to finish eighth at 155 pounds. CU’s sixth-place team finish is the highest in the state of Kentucky, finishing 38 points ahead of University of the Cumberlands, which had four All-Americans. King University, which entered the tournament ranked No. 1, held on to its top spot by edging Oklahoma City University, 229-227, in the team standings. Simon Fraser University (219), Lindenwood University (148) and Wayland Baptist University (132) rounded out the Top 5. The tournament concludes CU’s WCWA season, but CU has three other individual tournaments on their 2014 spring schedule: Dave Shultz Invitational in Colorado Springs, Colo., Jan. 31-Feb. 1; University Nationals on March 29; the U.S. Senior Open in Las Vegas, April 17-20 and the FILA Junior Nationals in Lakeland, Fla., on May. 9.
Complete Results for Campbellsville University http://www.campbellsvilletigers.com/f/2014_WCWA_National_Championships.php
College Dual Meet Results
During the past week;
Jan. 25th : #6 Michigan 26 Michigan State 6
#19 Stevens Institute of Technology 31, McDaniel College 16
#19 Stevens Institute of Technology 50, Muhlenberg College 3
Stevens Institute of Technology (8-5, 3-0 in Centennial Conference)
#3 Minnesota 19 #2 Iowa 15 (at Iowa!)
Stanford University(13-4) 33 San Francisco State 7
Jan. 24th : NC State (11-3) 34; Campbell (3-1) 10
Hofstra University 29 Drexel 9
Stanford University 35 Simpson 7
#9 Northern Iowa 24 #7 Missouri University 10
Jan. 19th : #2Iowa 22 #8 Nebraska 9
Binghamton (BING) 22, Drexel (DU) 18
#13Michigan 19 #3Minnesota 14
#7 Missouri Tigers slid past conference-rival Central Michigan 16-15
#23 Bloomsburg 24, Hofstra 21
#19 Pittsburgh 19 #5 Oklahoma State 18 (on tiebreaker criteria)
#9 Northern Iowa 19 #4 Oklahoma Univ 17 (first loss of the season)
Jan. 18th : Shippensburg University 37 Stevens Institute of Technology 10
York College (Pa.), 35 Stevens Institute of Technology 8
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