TSSAA State Individual and Dual Tournaments Coming to Middle Tennessee

Saturday, April 18, 2009 0 comments

The TSSAA Indivdual and Dual State tournaments have officially been moved to Middle Tennessee.  They will be held at the Williamson County Agricultural Exposition Park in Franklin and will be hosted by some of the local Williamson County Schools.

From the The Chattanoogan.com:

“We began looking for a new site to hold the State Dual Meet Tournament after Clarksville High School indicated they no longer wanted to host that event, and Joe Blair, wrestling coach at Brentwood High School, approached us with the possibility of moving the State Dual Meet Tournament to the Ag/Expo Center,” said Mark Reeves, TSSAA Assistant Executive Director. “Conversations with the Ag/Expo officials led to discussions about the possibility of moving the individual tournament."

Here are some other articles from Chattanooga about this

Wrestling tourney leaving Chattanooga for Franklin

State Wrestling Tournament is Heading to Franklin

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Raymond Dunning becomes runner-up at Div II championships - 2009

Monday, March 16, 2009 0 comments

Former Father Ryan wrestler Raymond Dunning places second at the NCAA Division II championships this past Saturday. Dunning, an senior at Adams State, lost a close match 5-3 to Doug Surra of West Liberty State

Congratulations to Raymond on a great season!

View full brackets here

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Jordan Leen Interview after EIWA championship win - 2009

Monday, March 16, 2009 0 comments

Jordan Leen of Cornell, the 2009 EIWA champion at 157 pounds, is interviewed after his victory.

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Tennessee State Dual Wrestling Results

Monday, February 09, 2009 0 comments

Here are the final results from the Tennessee State Dual Tournament for the 2008-2009 season:

Div. I Large Schools - Bradley 48 - Cleveland 13

Div. I Small Schools - Hixson 32 - Notre Dame 28

Div. II - Baylor 46 - Father Ryan 15

Links to all results can be found on the TSSAA.org state dual wrestling results page.

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Tennessee State Dual Wrestling Championship Brackets Posted

Monday, February 02, 2009 0 comments

Division I

Small Schools - Class A-AA Brackets

html -- www.tssaa.org/2008Champions/StateDualWrestling/A2ABracket.htm
pdf  --  www.tssaa.org/2008Champions/StateDualWrestling/A2ABracket.pdf

Large Schools - Class AAA Bracket

html -- www.tssaa.org/2008Champions/StateDualWrestling/AAABracket.htm
pdf -- www.tssaa.org/2008Champions/StateDualWrestling/AAABracket.pdf

Schedule - www.tssaa.org/2008Champions/StateDualWrestling/DISchedule.pdf

Division II

html -- www.tssaa.org/2008Champions/StateDualWrestling/DIIBracket.htm
pdf -- www.tssaa.org/2008Champions/StateDualWrestling/DIIBracket.pdf

Schedule - www.tssaa.org/2008Champions/StateDualWrestling/DIISchedule.pdf

I saw a couple predictions on CoachT.com for an Indy vs. Bradley finals.  That won't happen with these brackets, so watch for that match in the semi-finals, if Indy can get past Soddy.  Possible Cleveland vs Blackman match in the bottom bracket semis.  Comment on predictions for all the Divisions.

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Bradley Shuts Out Red Bank

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2 comments

Bradley 81 – Red Bank 0

courtesty of Sheri Vincent

The Bradley Bears had the bigger claws as they shut out the Red Bank Lions 81-0 .

Matches started at 140 lbs.

Randall Taylor (140 lbs) was under the weather and sat house Tuesday’s match. Trevor Herron stepped in to start the night off of for the Bears.

140 – Trevor Herron (BC) pinned Randall Lee (RB) :52
145 – Chris Augilar (BC) dec Jonathon Taylor (RB) 19-17 in OT 6:33
152 – Gabe Murphy (BC) pinned Logan Land (RB) 1:13
160 – Josh Disney (BC) rec’d a forfeit
171 - Matt Roderick (BC) rec’d a forfeit
189 – Tucker Bolton (BC) pinned Delvonte Colvin (RB) :22
215 - Devin McCulley (BC) pinned Tanner Bailey (RB) 1:14
285 – Cody Epperson (BC) rec’d a forfeit
103 – Tyler Pitts (BC) pinned Madison Martin (RB) 2:30
112 – Ethan Hames (BC) pinned Jawaaol Sheikh (RB) 1:03
119 – Logan Biddy (BC) rec’d a forfeit
125 – Vince Aguilar (BC) rec’d a forfeit
130 – Bradley Colbaugh (BC) rec’d a forfeit
135 – David Graham (BC) pinned Zsach Massengale (RB) :29

Bradley had seven pins, six forfeits and won one by decision.

Best match of the night was at 145 lbs when 140 lb 3rd ranked Jonathon Taylor of Red Bank stepped up one weight class to take on Bradley’s Chris Aguilar (6th ranked at 145 lbs). The match was tied at 17-17 at the end of regulation time. Aguilar took just 33 seconds of the first overtime period to score and win 19-17.

Also 3rd ranked Red Bank’s 103 pounder Madison Martin was pinned by Bradley’s Tyler Pitts ranked #5.

Bradley will return to the mats this Thursday when the always powerful Soddy Daisy Trojans come to town. Bradley will end its regular season Monday, January 26, 2009 at home with Walker Valley. The final match will also be senionr recognition night and alumni night.

More photos can be found at LocalReplay.com

Submitted by Sheri Vincent

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How to pin an NCAA champion

Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5 comments

Kent State's Drew Lashaway pins last year's NCAA champ J Jaggers of Ohio State.

How did he do it? ... he found a ref who doesn't mind calling quick pins! WOW!  Take a look and comment on if you think it was a good call:

Wrestling Videos on Flowrestling

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Simpson fifth in freestyle as CISM World Military Championships end Sunday in Split, Croatia

Monday, September 08, 2008 0 comments

The 26th World Military Wrestling Championships came to a close Sunday in Split, Croatia with seven military world champions crowned in Freestyle wrestling. Belarus won the team title in Freestyle to go along with its third place finish in Greco-Roman.

CPT Phillip Simpson of the Army's World Class Athlete Progam and Fort Carson, Colorado, was the highest place finisher for the USA. Simpson lost the Bronze Medal Match at 74 Kg. to Celal Dal of Turkey, 4-3, 2-5, 0-3 to finish fifth. After winning the first period with an early takedown and a turn off of a counter, he initiated two front headlocks, only to be countered himself. In the third period, all of the scoring came within the last 30 seconds, as Simpson was taken down before being turned for the final two points.

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Croy takes 7th at Cadet Nationals

Friday, July 25, 2008 0 comments

Brentwood's Cameron Croy took 7th place at the Cadet national freestyle tournament, held July 23rd - 25th in Fargo, ND.  He went 5-0 before losing his first match to New Jersey phenom Andrew Campolattano 0-2, then 0-7.  Campolattono, who won the Cadet 189 Greco title on Tuesday, also went on to win the Freestyle title on Friday.

Croy beat Dustin Williams of Missouri 6-2, 2-1 for 7th.

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Ohio State NCAA champion Mitch Clark never won a state title

Tuesday, July 01, 2008 0 comments

This is a video with two guys discussing the history of Ohio State's Mitch Clark, who never won a state title, but went on to become an NCAA champion and OW of the tournament that year.  He used his past losses to fuel his desire to reach an even greater goal than a high school state title. A burning desire, hard work and determination are the keys to reaching any goal.

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