A Sea Of Red

LU wrestles #1 Ok State in the first round this morning (right now...began at 9 a.m.).
The Virginia Duals website is streaming matches live but there are so many mats going at one time there are no guarantees as to which matches you will see. Still...maybe you can catch a glimpse of some of our boys.
http://www.virginiaduals.org/

thanks for the link

We lost to OK State. ODU was upset by Clarion in the first round. Thus, we will wrestle ODU at 1 pm.

appreciate the updates. When I checked on the video stream, I heard the PA guy announcing the upcoming LU match, but only caught "Liberty University". Didn't know the opponent.

thanks again

fan00 wrote:We lost to OK State. ODU was upset by Clarion in the first round. Thus, we will wrestle ODU at 1 pm.

No surprise that we lost to the #1 team in the nation. Did we have any individual wins?

Our individual winners were as follows:
133-Joe Pantaleo dec Tyler Shinn 6-5
149-Frankie Gayeski dec Jake Peck 5-4

Here are the team results:
125 - Chris Notte (Oklahoma State) over Juistin Branham (Liberty ) Maj 11-3
133 - Joe Pantaleo (Liberty ) over Tyler Shinn (Oklahoma State) Dec 6-5
141 - Jamal Parks (Oklahoma State) over Collin Lewis (Liberty ) Maj 11-3
149 - Frankie Gayeski (Liberty ) over Jake Peck (Oklahoma State) Dec 5-4
157 - Neil Erisman (Oklahoma State) over Shaun Smith (Liberty ) Maj 11-2
165 - Alex Meade (Oklahoma State) over Chad Porter (Liberty ) Dec 4-1
174 - Mike Benefiel (Oklahoma State) over Brad Clark (Liberty ) Maj 16-2
184 - Chris McNeil (Oklahoma State) over Nick Knowles (Liberty ) Dec 3-0
197 - Alan Gelogaev (Oklahoma State) over Jacobi Johnson (Liberty ) TF 19-3
HWT - Jared Rosholt (Oklahoma State) over Josh Pelletier (Liberty ) Pin 1:56

Getting 2 wins over the Cowboys is a good result. Congrats to Joe and Frankie!

LU also had two wins over ODU (though not the same two...)

157 - Justin Smith (Liberty ) over Joey Sheridan (Old Dominion) Dec 3-2
HWT - Andrew Wilson (Liberty ) over Grant Chapman (Old Dominion) Dec 7-2

Team Results:
125 - James Nicholson (Old Dominion) over Juistin Branham (Liberty ) TF 16-0
133 - Justin LaValle (Old Dominion) over Joe Pantaleo (Liberty ) Dec 5-3
141 - Craig Wilson (Old Dominion) over Collin Lewis (Liberty ) Dec 8-4
149 - John Nicholson (Old Dominion) over Frankie Gayeski (Liberty ) Dec 5-0
157 - Justin Smith (Liberty ) over Joey Sheridan (Old Dominion) Dec 3-2
165 - Chris Brown (Old Dominion) over Chad Porter (Liberty ) Dec 7-2
174 - Eric Decker (Old Dominion) over Brad Clark (Liberty ) Maj 9-0
184 - Joe Budi (Old Dominion) over Nick Knowles (Liberty ) Dec 4-2
197 - Jesse Strawn (Old Dominion) over Jacobi Johnson (Liberty ) Dec 9-2
HWT - Andrew Wilson (Liberty ) over Grant Chapman (Old Dominion) Dec 7-2

One thing these guys have to get ahold of is the Pins, TF and Majors. No issues in losing to good opponents but they need to cut down on the points given for losing.

BTW I watched the matches this morning and it was really good coverage of all the events with updates for all the matches going on. Highly recommend if you can watch tomorrow. Me, I will be at my sons tournament hopefully watching him pull down another trophy. He already qualified for Ohio TOC so this has been a pretty good year for him and me as his Dad.

Congrats, Steve. I know I enjoy my son winning much more than I ever did myself doing the same.

Thanks Sly and you're so right on watching him win over me doing it, amazing how kids do that to you!

BTW he did well first place in his tournament and improving every day to we'll see how this year pans out.