Weekend Wrap-Up

Notes from the Boston Dual from Friday...

We web cast the match and plan to web cast all of our dual meets this year.  We want to send a big THANK YOU to livesportsvideo.com for allowing our friends, family, etc. to watch our matches.

We started the dual at 184 pounds with Jimmy Hamel.  Jimmy had more fans himself than the entire Boston team.  He was making 184 pounds for the first time and did not disappoint the fans and got a solid win.  We dropped the match at 197 pounds.  Brett Correll got us going again at heavyweight with a pretty dominate match.  Taylor Golba won probably the most exciting match of the night as he trailed all the way to the third period before ultimately winning in overtime.  He did a great job in his match and showed a ton of heart.  We lost a tight match at 133 pounds and needed to get more offensive to beat Santaite (he was top 12 at the NCAA National Tournament last season).  Chris Conti really stepped up to dominate a solid wrestler in his match and Chris looked great on top.  Desi Green put a show on at 149 pounds.  He scored a technical fall over a very solid wrestler and looked great.  He plans to set a new single-season (he already has the single season record at UB) and all-time takedown record at UB.  Mark Lewandowski controlled the entire match with Tourville but just missed the major decision at 157.  We lost the 165 and 174 pound matches to end the dual.  I think both John-Martin Cannon and Brian Sheehan have the ability to wrestle much better and they did just that at the UB Open

Notes from Sunday's UB Open...


The team looked really good at the UB Open.  We dominated the tournament with more finalists and more champions than any other school (including the top 10 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes).  At 125 pounds, Taylor Golba pretty much dominated the tournament.  The only offensive points that were scored on him in the entire tournament was a takedown late in the finals match.  Sean Walton and Max Soria placed 5th and 6th respectively.  At 133 pounds, Kevin Smith made the finals and Justin Farmer placed 6th.  Kevin lost a hard fought 6-0 decision to Ian Paddock of Ohio State in the finals but I felt like the match was much closer than the score indicated.  At 141 pounds, Andrew Schutt wrestled very well and won the championship.  He looked good in all positions and was very aggressive.  At 149 pounds, Desi Green just kept doing what he does best, winning and scoring a lot of points.  Desi dominated until the finals where he won a close match over the NAIA National Champion who did his best to keep the score close.  Mark Lewandowski beat some very good wrestlers on his way to the tournament finals.  In the finals, he lost a hard-fought 4-1 decision to #5 nationally ranked Colt Sponsellor.  Mark wrestled very well but gave up a late takedown when the referee on the next mat blew his whistle while Mark was in on a single leg.  John-Martin Cannon cruised to the championship with scores of 20-6, 22-10, 13-5, and 8-5.  Nearly every point scored on Cannon came from him cutting his opponent to give them an escape point in oder to get another takedown.  Pat Brady also placed and wrestled well in the tournament at 165 pounds.  At 174 pounds, both Brian Sheehan and Ron Majerus placed.  Sheehan finished higher (4th) after edging Majerus 3-2 in the consolation semifinals.  Sheehan had one of the most exciting matches of the entire tournament in the semifinals in a heart breaking loss.  The Sheehan-Majerus match might have been the best match I saw from a defensive stand point, as both got in on several shots and both showed great defense ability.  At 184 pounds, Jimmy Hamel finished 2nd and is a five-time UB Open place winner (5th, 3rd, 2nd, 2nd, and 2nd).  Jimmy did not wrestle his best in the finals and is looking to come back with a vengeance on Friday.  At Heavyweight, Brett Correll finished 2nd only losing to NAIA National Runner-Up Scales.  Brett got taken down to this back midway through the match and that was the difference in the match.  James Donner also placed in the first college tournament that he has competed in, which is a great feat for a true freshman in the heavyweight category.

Overall, I felt like we did not wrestle our best on Friday against Boston but still got a solid win.  As a team, we looked very impressive at the UB Open on Sunday.  It was a great team effort in both events.

Its a big week for us with Oklahoma at home on Friday and the Oklahoma Gold Classic on Saturday.  There will be more information to come on both of these events in the next few days.

Coach Beasley