Snow has wiped out the IIAC schedule so far this week. Hopefully, it will let up by this weekend so the Dick Walker Inviational at Wartburg can go off smoothly.
Springfield 29, WPI 15
Elizabethtown 30, Johns Hopkins 9
Ithaca 37, RIT 9
Elmhurst 38, Augustana 3
Mount St. Joseph 43, Wilmington 6
Johnson & Wales 21, Bridgewater State 19
Click below for video of the 125-184 finals at the Messiah Petrofes Invitational.
2009 Messiah Petrofes Invitational presented by d3wrestle.com
Finals Results
125 Reynolds (Mount Union) fall Lethbridge (Messiah) 0:40
133 Grippi (Springfield) dec Giron (Springfield) 3-1
141 Krawchuk (Wilkes) dec Glover (Ursinus) 4-3
149 Marsh (Bridgewater St.) dec Dattolo (Wilkes) 8-2
157 Archambeau (Springfield) dec Bressler (Messiah) 4-2
165 Favia (Stevens) dec Zempel (Messiah) 3-1
174 Heffernan (Wilkes) med fft Manypenney (Mount Union)
184 Wake (Oneonta) dec Murren (Ursinus) 4-3
197 Pizarro (Wilkes) win by disqualification Schindel (Mount Union)
285 Glotfelty (McDaniel) maj dec Hesson (Mount Union) 9-1
Big weekend in Division III Wrestling with some very tough tournaments.
Messiah Petrofes Inviational Team Scores | Brackets (Wilkes over Springfield by 1.5)
York Spartan Invitational (Ithaca tops TCNJ by 1.5 pts)
Indiana Little State at Trine
Ohio Northern Invitational Team Scores | Brackets
RIT Invitational Team Scores | Brackets
MSU-Moorhead Dragon Open Red Division | White Division
MSOE Invitational
Wisconin Open at UW-Parkside
Simpson Invitational (Coe and Wartburg tie for championship)
Bob Quade Open at Centenary
Ted Reese Invitational at Southern Maine
UW-Lax 2×4 Duals
NYU 30, F&M 16
Johnson & Wales 28, Roger Williams 6
Norwich 23, WPI 15
Clackamas CC 25, Pacific 21
Highline CC 37, Pacific 6
As a side note, congratulations to Messiah College, as their men’s and women’s soccer teams each won the national championship for the second consecutive year with wins yesterday. The men have now won 7 of the last 10 championships.
MSOE Duals – full results to come
Wheaton 27, Knox 22
Wheaton 34, Hannibal-LaGrange 9
MSOE 47, Hannibal-LaGrange
Washington & Jefferson 28, PSU-DuBois 6
Centenary 21, King’s 18
NYU 20, Hunter 18
The holiday week was slow in Division III, but there was a performance worth noting as the d3wrestle.com/WWSport.com Wrestler of the Week. Steve Poffenberger of Augustana knocked off then-number one ranked Nick Nothern of Cornell 4-3 during a dual meet between the two schools on November 25th. Poffenberger and Nothern were tied at 3 after the second set of tiebreakers, but Poffenberger held the riding time edge and secured the victory over last year’s NCAA runner-up at 133 pounds.
Poffenberger, a freshman from Paw Paw, Michigan, is in his first year of college competition. He has compiled a 6-7 record to this point including a 5th place finish at the Knox Invitational. He was the 119 lb. runner up in Michigan in 2008. Augustana next takes to the mats tonight in a CCIW match at North Central College.
Last rankings were just 10 days ago, but some results since then have warranted a new set of rankings.
The d3wrestle.com/WWSport.com Wrestler of the Week is Tony Valek of Augsburg. Valek was the champion in the 149 lb. Gold Division at the Auggie Brute-Adidas Open this past weekend at Augsburg College. Valek, an NCAA qualifier at 141 lbs. last year, won four matches to take the championship. In the finals, he defeated defending NCAA Division III champion at 149 lbs. Matt Mauseth of Wisconsin-La Crosse. In the semifinals, he defeated UW-La Crosse freshman Brady Schrupp. Schrupp had also defeated Mauseth the previous weekend. Valek is now 4-0 on the year after his season-opening win.
Valek, a sophomore from Belle Plaine, Minnesota, was 32-13 as a freshman last year at 141 lbs. He qualified for the 2009 NCAA tournament after a 3rd place finish at the Great Lakes Regional and a victory in the true 2nd match against Virgil Pope of MSOE. At the NCAA tournament, he was 1-2, with both losses coming to eventual All-Americans. He is the brother of former Augsburg three-time All-American Ryan Valek. In the latest d3wrestle.com Rankings to be released Friday, Valek is ranked 3rd at 149 lbs.
As a side note, this week had a number of very good Wrestler of the Week candidates worth mentioning. Tyler Branham of TCNJ won the East Stroudsburg Open and defeated five D1 wrestlers along the way. Charlie Curran of Elmhurst won the Concordia Open and defeated All-American Jesse Milks. Jason Pyle of Luther defeated ISU starter Mitch Mueller at the Kaufman-Brand Open. Chris Sandy of Wartburg won the Concordia Open and defeated #2 ranked returning All-American Austin Bautista in the finals.
Oneonta Red Dragon Invitational
Concordia University Open
Augsburg Open
Kaufman-Brand Open at UNO
Doug Parker Invitational at Springfield
East Stroudsburg Open
Body Bar Invitational at Cornell University
Inland NW Tournament
Cobber Open at Concordia (MN)
Coe Invitational
Waynesburg Quad (Messiah, B-W, York)
Comet Duals at Olivet (Olivet Results, Trine Results, Heidelberg vs Grand Valley Results)
NYU 42, Yeshiva 9
Buckeye Duals at Ohio State (King’s, Wilkes, Lycoming, Ohio Northern, Mount Union, Mount St. Joseph)
AIC Tri Meet (AIC, JWU, Kutztown)
