Beaver Wrestling Supporters,
Wow, and just like that our home
season is over. My dad Ron Iwasaki did the match recap below.
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125 Brandon Kaylor took down his
opponent 6 seconds into the match with a Fireman’s and then turned it into a 4
point near fall at the 1 min mark. Shortly
after he gained the fall. Beavs led
6-0.
133 Devan showed lots of confidence
in his dominant – yet at times nonchalant – performance. His opponent shot in at 25 or so seconds and
Devan stymied Reyes with snagging his hip and temporarily tilting him. With
both on their feet, Devan grabbed a single leg – lifted it and tripped the back
leg for a takedown. Devan dominated on top w/Reyes getting a stall
warning – the first period ended 4-1 and Devan had a 2:18 riding time. Devan
escaped 3 seconds in the second; the rest
of the period was wasted with Devan getting another takedown and letting him
go. End of the second, 7-2. In the third period Devan let Reyes go 5
seconds in. This was a good example of
a bad example as Devan wrestled down to his opponent, ultimately winning 10-4
including 2:52 riding time.
141 Cal Poly’s Ryan tried a
couple of cement mixers on Grant Willits.
No dice. Shortly after Grant got the takedown in his
typical unconventional scramble…later threw in his leg and pinned the bearded
man.
149
Lane Stigall vs another
mature man. Both were way cautious causing
the referee to comment: “Action gentlemen”…w/o much to report. 0-0
going into the second. Lane escaped; got taken down by a single leg;
got an escape. Now 2-2.
The “man” escaped in the third to
lead 3-2 and danced around getting a stall warning with 30 seconds
left. Lane shot in with an entertaining scramble
but time ran out. Too little, too late
as if Lane had shown more activity in the first – the opponents stall
warning
in the last period would have tied the score…or possibly his scramble in
last –
if started earlier – would have provided sufficient time to prevail.
157 Logan and his opponent Brawley
Lamer resembled a couple of bull elks locked up. Then Meek gained a double leg takedown and
after a while Lamer escaped to end the first.
In the second Lamer deferred choice to Logan who started down. This was unfortunate as the long-bodied Lamer
– like his dad Chad – threw in his legs and slowly but surely stretched and twisted
Logan to his back for the fall.
165
Aaron Olmos’ opponent was a
different body type. Stocky. Aaron
struck first with a single leg but easily let his opponent go. Later,
unfortunately there was not much to show from either as the most
startling occurrence
was announcer Andrew Stanfield booming:
30 seconds! The Poly coach
could be heard: “Keep him guessing”… and we all were. Someone in the
stands kept saying: “Be First”…The second period was unremarkable
with Aaron leading 5-2 and later 7-5 but in the third, Truax caught up
to win in
a scramble 8-7.
174 Jackson McKinney started
with a nice duck under attempt..... After Miracle countered, then Jackson gained the takedown 2 min
in. McKinney beat Dylan Miracle, final score 6-0 including riding
time.
184 Both Colt Doyle and his
opponent had similar rangy builds but Colt dominated throughout. He hit an early spin under move that also
gained 2 point near fall. In the third
he had another slick duck under that resulted in a takedown and a 9-3 win
w/riding time.
197 J.J. had the upper hand vs
his 12th ranked opponent Tom Lane for the majority of the match. J.J. double legged Lane early and rode him
for 1:41 ‘til he escaped with 57 seconds left in the first. Things looked good ‘til in the second Lane escaped,
takedown, cradled J.J. for a 7-2 lead.
He fought back to within 3 points but the cradle was costly as J.J. had
1:41 riding time and lost 9-7.
285 was last but not least as
Jamarcus entertained throughout. Jamarcus
double legged his barrel-bodied opponent who was quick for his size and reversed
Jamarcus who then escaped. Jamarcus has athleticism but needs to work on
basics like hand fighting off the whistle.
In the inverse of J.J. . Jamarcus
won 6-5 though Poly’s hwt had 1:25 riding time.
Team score
Beavs 24 Cal Poly Mustangs 15
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During
half-time, heavyweight NCAA champs Jess Lewis ('69 & '70) and
Howard Harris ('80) were welcomed onto the mat. OSU Athletic
Director Scott Barnes was in the stands today.
The celebration continued at our social following the meet where Coach
Zalesky shared that he was a high school freshman in the stands watching his
brother
Lenny compete at the 1980 NCAAs in Gill.
He also advised that Howard Harris’ record of pinning his way to the
1980
NCAA title has only been accomplished by 4 other athletes and has not
been done
since. Thank you to Scott Spiegelberg
who got Howard back in the mix and we hope we were enough fun today to
get him
back next season. It was a reunion of
many Beaver greats, including members of Jess’ 1967 Giant Killers
football team
and 6’10” Doug Oxsen of the 1975 basketball team that made the NCAA
Sweet
Sixteen.
Jess Lewis gave a moving speech, calling the team up and told them he
was passing the torch and that their wrestling needed to be exciting for themselves
and for the boosters. Amen! He shook each wrestler’s hand and I hope they
were as inspired as I am!
Senior Christian Robertson was honored prior to the meet and gave words
of appreciation to his wrestling family at the social. Bob Tomasovic gave an update on the Wrestling
Endowment Fund which is at a healthy $5M and is supporting 3 of the current
wrestlers.
Olympian/Penn State 3x All-American/Pac-12 and B1G announcer Ken
Chertow showed up with the other half of his membership dues. I told him Scott Lewis already announced to
the crowd last time that the board was chipping in to show our appreciation for
his dedication to the sport and to the Beaver program. He said thanks and made a donation anyway. We
are grateful to have him join us.
Fall board member John Kowalewski has been as prolific as a Christmas
elf with his woodworking projects and this week, we auctioned his bourbon stand
for $101 bought by Jackson McKinney’s grandpa.
John made 7 other wine stands that were sold at bargains with
all proceeds going to the booster club.
Winemaker Pete Buffington from Silverton is donating his Abiqua Wind wine
next season for more of these fundraiser projects!
Thanks to all who have been a part of our wrestling family in 2019-20 and
best wishes to the team and staff as they finish the season strong!
Go Beavs!
Jana Iwasaki
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