Raymond Jordan building confidence as he reaches Schultz Memorial finals
By Jackie Branca USA Wrestling 02/03/2012
Past Freestyle National Team member Raymond Jordan is heading into the finals of the 2012 Dave Schultz Memorial International in Colorado Springs. Colo. very confident and poised to take the title at 84 kg/ 185 lbs. “My performance has been OK. There is definitely some room for improvement,” Jordan said after defeating Japan’s Takeshi Yamaguchi in the semifinals. “I think I have to capitalize more on scoring opportunities and work on going from actions to reactions. But all in all it’s been a solid day so far. “ Jordan defeated James Yonushonis of the New York AC, India’s Narsingh Yadav and Yamaguchi to reach the finals. Jordan will meet Phil Keddy of Hawkeye Wrestling Club to determine the tournament champion.
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Wolfpack Hosts Tar Heels on Senior Night
RALEIGH, N.C.– NC State wrestling will honor three seniors on Friday in a ceremony that will take place before the match at 7 p.m. against the North Carolina Tar Heels. Quinton Godley, Darrius Little, and Colton Palmer will all be recognized for their accomplishments during their tenure at NC State. When fans enter the match on Friday, they will have the opportunity to donate to a really good cause and that is the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) foundation, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The wrestling team will be raising money for this great cause and is asking that all fans that attend donate to the foundation. Even if fans would not like to donate money to the foundation, your presence at the match will be good as well because there will be a monetary donation made to the foundation that will be calculated by the number of people that attend. Rest of Story at http://www.gopack.com/sports/m-wrestl/spec-rel/020112aaa.html
Campbell’s Weakley Named Wrestler of the Week
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Campbell senior John Weakley has been honored as the Southern Conference Wrestler of the Week for all competitions from January 25-31. Weakley was 3-0 last week while wrestling at the 197 pound level. The senior from Cleveland, Ohio earned a 13-4 major decision over Duke’s Brian Self to lead the Camels to a 19-17 dual win over the Blue Devils on Jan. 26. Weakley then took two more individual wins on Jan. 28, including a 4-2 decision over Old Dominion’s Joe Budi and a 13-6 decision over Navy’s Paul Rands. Weakley is now 21-7 at 197 pounds this season with six pins, one tech fall and four major decisions.
Jan. 24th-28th Match Results
Jan. 28th
Gray’s Creek High School: 61 Lee County Senior High School: 15
Gray’s Creek High School: 64 South Central High School: 17
Gray’s Creek High School: 73 Swett, Purnell High School: 4
Gray’s Creek High School: 42 Cape Fear Senior High School: 30
Laney High School: 51 JH Rose High School: 14
New Bern High School: 42 Laney High School: 25
Laney High School: 67 New Hanover High School: 6
Laney High School: 46 Hoggard High School: 21
Laney High School: 53 Ashley High School: 18
Laney High School: 57 JH Rose High School: 11
The Black Knight Wrestlers finished 5th place as a team Saturday at the Phillip Reed/Twin City Rumble wrestling tournament held at Glenn High School. The Black Knights had several placers as well. Davie County won the tournament, SE Guilford finished 2nd, East Forsyth 3rd, Glenn 4th, NDHS 5th, Trinity 6th, Salisbury, 7th, Scotland County 8th, Leesville Road 9th, Reagan 10th, Rockingham County 11th, Providence Grove 12th, Atkins 13th and Marion (VA) 14th.
Alex Cave – 285 – Champion
Cody Tysinger – 170 – 2nd Place
Jan Pabon – 145 – 3rd Place
Gabriel White – 113 – 4th Place
Jeremy Hill – 138 – 4th Place
Kameron Dozier – 182 – 4th Place
Congratulations to Cody Tysinger on achieving his 100th career win as well in the tournament. He took on Defending State Champion and fellow King of the Mat Champion, Nick Kee from Scotland County in the Finals in one of the best matches I’ve ever seen. Nick got an escape in the 2nd period, and that was the only points scored in the match, as Nick won the contest 1-0.
Jan. 27th
Enka High School: 54 McDowell High School: 15
Ashe County High School: 54 Alleghany High School: 15
Ashe County High School: 66 Forbush High School: 15
Jan. 24th
Laney High School: 67 Ashley High School: 3
Laney High School: 77 New Hanover High School: 0
New National Duals Format
The 2011-12 wrestling season will showcase an exciting new format for the NWCA/Cliff Keen Division I National Dual Meet Championships that will feature four regional locations and a culminating championship for the final four teams that advance out of each region. This is a change from the original 16 team bracket that has traditionally been contested over two days at the NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals.
The ultimate goal of this event is to create a premier national dual meet championship that will become a platform for growing spectator and media interest in wrestling both at the institutional and national levels. The initial rollout in the 2011-12 season is designed to assess how the dual meet championships fit into the existing wrestling calendar and also to determine the revenue generating potential for the purposes establishing a revenue-share with participating teams in future years.
The teams for the 2012 event were selected based primarily off the final 2010-11 NWCA Team Rankings as determined by the NWCA Coaches Poll. We are excited to announce that 22 of the top 25 teams from last year’s final coaches poll ranking have accepted invitations including eight of the top ten teams.
The regional competitions will occur Febr. 11th & 12th. The final championship round will feature the dual meet team champion from each of the four regions and will be conducted on the campus of a participating team on the weekend of February 19, 2012.
The top twenty-four teams for the 2012 event have been selected and placed into four regions of six teams (the first team listed will be the host team):
Midwest (host TBD), Iowa State, Iowa, Oregon State, Virginia Tech, Wisconsin and Northern Iowa.
Cornell (confirmed), Central Michigan, Oklahoma, Purdue, Illinois, and American.
Rutgers (confirmed), Minnesota, Kent State, Michigan, Missouri, and Cal Poly.
Oklahoma State (confirmed), Boise State, Ohio State, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Tennessee-Chattanooga.
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Jan. 23rd – Jan. 28th Matches
Jan. 28th
Cape Fear Senior High School: 49 Lee County Senior High School: 27
Gray’s Creek High School: 42 Cape Fear Senior High School: 30
KNIGHTDALE HS: 63 Franklinton High School: 15
KNIGHTDALE HS: 37 Fuquay Varina High School: 36
East Wake High School: 38 KNIGHTDALE HS: 37
KNIGHTDALE HS: 66 Enloe High School: 18
East Chapel Hill High School: 42 KNIGHTDALE HS: 34
Cape Fear Senior High School: 60 St. Pauls High School: 15
Sanford, Terry High School: 47 Cape Fear Senior High School: 25
Cape Fear Senior High School: 60 St. Pauls High School: 15
Cape Fear Senior High School: 52 Lumberton High School: 24
Kell, Ardrey High School: 74 East Mecklenburg High School: 6
Jan. 26th
Swansboro High School: 36 Northside (Jax) High School: 34
Cleveland High School: 75 South Johnston High School: 6
The Black Knight Wrestling team travelled to RJ Reynolds high school tonight for a CPC Dual Match. The Black Knights came out victorious, 68-11. Black Knights (10-14 on season, 2-2 in the CPC).
Jan. 25th
Northern Nash High School: 47 JH Rose High School: 29
KNIGHTDALE HS: 51 Harnett Central High School: 24
Eastern Guilford High School: 52 Northern Guilford High School: 21
Gray’s Creek High School: 42 Douglas Byrd High School: 34
Cummings High School: 75 Bartlett Yancey High School: 6
Cape Fear Senior High School: 63 Smith, E. E. High School: 12
Jan. 24th
Croatan High School: 64 Swansboro High School: 6
Cummings High School: 66 Reidsville Senior High School: 12
Ashe County High School: 54 East Wilkes High School: 19
North Buncombe High School: 39 McDowell High School: 36
Jan. 23rd
Eastern Guilford High School: 48 McMichael High School: 28
Mid January Matches
Jan. 21st
Knightdale High School: 52 Swansboro High School: 28
Laney High School: 57 Dixon High School: 9
West Johnston High School: 51 Swansboro High School: 19
Laney High School: 38 Jordan High School: 30
Croatan High School: 35 Laney High School: 30
Corinth Holders High School: 44 Swansboro High School: 27
Swansboro High School: 42 Hunt High School: 23
Aycock High School: 50 Swansboro High School: 30
Laney High School: 36 Croatan High School: 35
Laney High School: 84 North Brunswick High School: 0
KNIGHTDALE HS: 52 Swansboro High School: 28
Cleveland High School: 43 KNIGHTDALE HS: 34
Rosewood High School: 47 KNIGHTDALE HS: 30
North Pitt High School: 46 KNIGHTDALE HS: 33
KNIGHTDALE HS: 54 North Johnston High School: 30
LEESVILLE ROAD HS: 57 Cummings High School: 18
LEESVILLE ROAD HS: 45 Graham High School: 21
Leesville Road High School: 43 Eastern Guilford High School: 33
Eastern Guilford High School: 42 Graham High School: 37
Chapel Hill High School: 39 Eastern Guilford High School: 36
Orange High School: 64 Eastern Guilford High School: 12
Eastern Guilford High School: 49 Eastern Randolph High School: 28
LEESVILLE ROAD HS: 51 Eastern Alamance High School: 27
Jan. 20th
Kell, Ardrey High School: 49 South Mecklenburg High School: 19
Laney High School: 77 New Hanover High School: 6
Croatan High School: 69 Richlands High School: 5
Topsail High School: 43 Swansboro High School: 36
The Black Knight Wrestling Team travelled to East Rowan High School on Friday January 20 to wrestle NW Cabarrus, Carson and East Rowan. The Black Knights went 2-1 on the evening defeating NW Cabarrus (57-18) and Carson (45-21) and losing to East Rowan (48-31).
Jan. 19th
Millbrook High School: 50 LEESVILLE ROAD HS: 21
The Black Knight Wrestling team dropping a 54-11 match to the visiting Vikings of NW Guilford.
Jan. 18th
Scotland High School: 45 Hoke County High School: 33
Cummings High School: 50 Providence Grove High School: 25
Gray’s Creek High School: 63 Overhills High School: 18
South View High School: 54 Cape Fear Senior High School: 27
North Davidson Report
Jan. 13-14th by Danny Croft
Here are the North Davidson Wrestling Results from Friday night’s dual match with Davie County and the Bobby Lloyd Invitational Wrestling tournament held Saturday at T.W. Andrews High School. Cody Tysinger was the only Black Knight to go undefeated for the two events, at 5-0, as he won his 6th Tournament of the year at the Bobby Lloyd Invitational. Nick Wimmer was the only other Black Knight to win on Friday and place Saturday as he took 4th place at the tournament. The Black Knights were defeated by Davie County 56-15 on Friday night. Winning for the Black Knights were Jan Pabon (145), Cody Tysinger (170), Cody Downs (182) and Nick Wimmer (285). This loss drops the Black Knights to 7-12 overall and to 1-2 in the CPC. On Saturday the Black Knights took 10th out of 16 teams at the Bobby Lloyd Invitational held at T.W. Andrews High School. Cody Tysinger (170) placed 1st and Nick Wimmer (285) placed 4th. The Black Knights will be back in action Thursday night at home against NW Guilford. The match will start at 7 PM. They will also be wrestling in a Quad match on Friday night at East Rowan, with matches starting at 5 PM, the other teams include Carson and NW Cabarrus.
Davie High School: 56 North Davidson High School: 15
Plc Points Team CH CONS
1 150.5 Wheatmore – –
2 149.5 SW Randolph – –
3 130.5 SE Guilford – –
4 119 T.W. Andrews – –
5 114.5 SW Guilford – –
6 104 Trinity – –
7 87.5 East Rowan – –
8 67 Thomasville – –
9 54 Central Davidson – –
10 53 North Davidson – –
11 49.5 Southern Guilford – –
11 49.5 High Point Central – –
13 43 Eastern Randolph – –
14 42 Eastern Guilford – –
15 30 Rockingham – –
16 15 Carson – –
MOW Light Weight – Tyler Miles
MOW Upper Weight – Jesse Doyle
No. 7 Ohio State upsets Big Ten wrestling rival No. 2 Iowa, 21-9
Second-ranked University of Iowa wrestling was ambushed — to use Hawkeye head coach Tom Brands‘ word — by Ohio State, 21-9, in front of 5,684 fans at St. John Arena in Columbus Friday night.
It was the first time the Buckeyes — which are currently ranked No. 7 to No. 10, depending on the website — have defeated the Hawkeyes since 1966, and only the third time in Ohio State history. It was an evening of firsts for Iowa, too: their first loss in 50 road duals, and the first against a Big Ten opponent in 39 duals. Rest of story at http://www.examiner.com/college-wrestling-in-national/no-7-ohio-state-upsets-big-ten-wrestling-rival-no-2-iowa-21-9?CID=examiner_alerts_article
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