The Purple Raiders have returned from our trip to Florida as the Citrus Open Team Champions. We are currently ranked 28th nationally and finished ahead of 29th ranked Rhode Island and 30th ranked Oneonta. We now have a week of solid training before we take on the defending OAC Champions Heidelberg next Tuesday at home.
2009 Citrus Open
Highlights
-Team Champions (My first team title since being at Mount Union)
-4 Individual Champions (Malave, Manypenny, and Hesson each won a college tournament for the first time in their careers. Schindel won a tournament for the second time)
-Mike Manypenny was named OAC Wrestler of the Week for his title
-Place-Winners in all 9 weights we wrestled (we did not wrestle at 125)
-Top three finishers in 8 weights
-4 wrestlers finished in the top 8 at 149 (Clark 3rd, Regula 4th, Shadrach 6th, Severino 7th)
-Clark and Regula both lost close matches in the first round to nationally ranked wrestlers before each winning 5 straight to wrestle for third and fourth
-Two wrestlers earned their first career wins
Team Scores
1 Mount Union 169
2 Rhode Island 149
3 Oneonta 122
4 John Carroll 103
5 Washington and Jefferson 94.5
6 Buena Vista 86
7 Ursinus 67
8 Case Western Reserve 46.5
9 Wilmington 46
10 Concordia 39
11 Milwaukee School of Engineering 27.5
1st Place
Josh Malave 141
Mike Manypenny 174
Bill Schindel 197
Derick Hesson 285
2nd Place
Bryan Skoff 157
3rd Place
TJ Arnone 133
Richie Clark 149
John Piechuta 165
4th Place
Jeremy Regula 149
5th Place
Andy Jenkins 184
6th Place
Kevin Shadrach 149
7th Place
Kody Severino 149