Virginia Duals

[Judoka]

Harrington is up 6-5 going in to the third. Gabel chooses down. RT not a factor.

 

[Judoka]

UP by 3 and we cut the guy, of course.

 

[Judoka]

Harrington wins it 8-6. ISU leads 16-11 with only the heavies left.

Walz is ranked #3 and beat Smith by 14 points last time they wrestled. Smith has to avoid the pin or tech fall for ISU to win the meet.

 

[Judoka]

Make that Scanlon. Smith must be hurt or something.

 

[SouthJerseyCy]

Track has Scanlon going to HWT. Q must be hurt?

 

[SouthJerseyCy]

Or maybe they think Joe can avoid the fall....

 

[Judoka]

Or maybe they think Joe can avoid the fall....

Possible, he wrestled the early match to though. No Smith at all today.

 

[Judoka]

Phase 1 of operation "Don't get pinned" is a success. Scanlon down 2-4 after the first period. Walz starts on botton in the 2nd.

 

[Judoka]

He keeps it up in Phase 2. Gives up an escape and a stalling point. Scanlon is down 2-6 going in to the third.

 

[Judoka]

Phase 3 is complete and Scanlon stayed off his back. Goes down 10-3 but ISU wins the dual 16-14 to take 1st place at Virginia Duals.

 

[Judoka]

And I'm sure VT will get exactly as much sympathy on this board for being shorthanded that Iowa State got when the Cyclones were shorthanded for that season opening loss.

 

[SouthJerseyCy]

Phase 3 is complete and Scanlon stayed off his back. Goes down 10-3 but ISU wins the dual 16-14 to take 1st place at Virginia Duals.

VT was less than full strength, but I'll take it! Good win guys!

 

[Cy Hard]

Best news of the day! Glad to see improvement pretty much across the board for the guys.

 

[BCClone]

Short handed or not, several guys improved there matches from the first time. That is very positive. Keep moving forward.

 

[Judoka]

Full results

ISU 16 - 14 Virginia Tech
125: Joey Dance (Virginia Tech University) over Kyle Larson (Iowa State University) Dec 6-1
133: Earl Hall (Iowa State University) over Dennis Gustafson (Virginia Tech University) Dec 6-5
141: Soloman Chishko (Virginia Tech University) over John Meeks (Iowa State University) Dec 6-2
149: Sal Mastriani (Virginia Tech University) over Gabe Moreno (Iowa State University) Dec 6-3
157: Logan Breitenbach (Iowa State University) over Jake Spengler (Virginia Tech University) Dec 12-7
165: Tanner Weatherman (Iowa State University) over David McFadden (Virginia Tech University) Dec 4-1
174: Lelund Weatherspoon (Iowa State University) over Cody Hughes (Virginia Tech University) Maj 12-4
184: Zack Zavatsky (Virginia Tech University) over Dane Pestano (Iowa State University) Dec 3-0
197: Marcus Harrington (Iowa State University) over Austin Gabel (Virginia Tech University) Dec 8-6
285: Ty Walz (Virginia Tech University) over Joe Scanlan (Iowa State University) Dec 10-3

 

[SouthJerseyCy]

And I'm sure VT will get exactly as much sympathy on this board for being shorthanded that Iowa State got when the Cyclones were shorthanded for that season opening loss.

Thing is...the way things are looking now, I don't know how shorthanded we really were in the opener.

 

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Tanner Weatherman is the Outstanding Wrestler

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[SouthJerseyCy]

Short handed or not, several guys improved there matches from the first time. That is very positive. Keep moving forward.

Look, I'm very happy with this win, but let's keep it in perspective. 165 and 184 did better against starters than they did before. 125, 133, 141, & 149 did worse or similar (Gabe lost by a similar score as Briceno, which is not good). 157, 174 & 197 were big swings for us because we were wrestling their backups.

 

[buf87]

Always somebody that will take a positive and turn it into a negative. Enjoy it and quit *******

 

[HitItHard58]

Had to work today and then went straight to a family Christmas so I didn't get to keep up with this much. Thanks for updating as usual Judoka and of course, Go State!