Ridgewater defeated Minnesota West 26-15 tonight in Willmar, Minn.
Ridgewater 26 Minnesota West 15 125: Christopher Romero (MWC&) over (RICO) (For.) 133: Double Forfeit 141: Double Forfeit 149: Nicholas Compton (RICO) over Rashawn Crumpler (MWC&) (TF 20-3 4:44) 157: Adam Rients (MWC&) over Jacob Revier (RICO) (Dec 10-4) 165: Jacob Backlund (RICO) over Braydon Johnson (MWC&) (Dec 10-3) 174: Carston Toedter (RICO) over Isaac Rue (MWC&) (Fall 1:48) 184: Tristen Todd (RICO) over (MWC&) (For.) 197: Tristan Wheeler (RICO) over (MWC&) (For.) 285: Richard Salzar (MWC&) over (RICO) (For.)
Burnsville, Minn. — Minnesota State’s Louie Sanders has been named Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Wrestler of the Week.
Sanders, who wrestles at 141, stands 10-2 for 2018-19 in helping the ninth-rated Mavericks to a pair of dual wins last week. The Truman, Minn., native earned an 8-6 victory over fifth-rated Kyle Roth of Northern State as Minnesota State downed the 25th-rated Wolves 25-9 last Friday. He also earned a 5-4 decision over Jordan Biehn in Saturday’s 22-9 victory over Southwest Minnesota State.
According to a report from Forbes, Kofi Kingston received the loudest ovation from the crowd at WrestleMania 35 with his WWE Championship victory over “The New” Daniel Bryan with the crowd of more than 82,000 registering a noise level at 103 decibels.
The next-loudest reaction of WrestleMania week actually came on RAW when The Undertaker received a crowd reaction of 99 decibels when he interrupted Elias. Surprisingly, Cesaro was right on The Undertaker’s heels with a reading of 98 decibels for his big swing in the SmackDown Tag Team Championship Fatal 4-Way match at WrestleMania.
Kingston also got the fourth-highest reaction with his appearance on RAW reaching 96 decibels. Seth Rollins rounded out the top 5 with a reading of 93 decibels when he won the Universal Championship against Brock Lesnar. Becky Lynch received the next-highest reaction with a reading 88 decibels when she defeated Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair in the WrestleMania main event.
WITTENBURG, NC — Carpenter Scott Lingerfelt and his crew were remodeling a lake house in Wittenburg on a recent morning when they heard cries. It was a squalling cat, someone said.
But Lingerfelt trained his ear.
“Nah,” he told his co-workers. “That’s not no cat.
“It’s a kid.”
“Help me!” the child hollered.
The frightened plea for help was coming from Lake Hickory, across the cove from the Wittenburg house on Swan Lane, where the Scott’s Carpentry crew was working late in the morning on Dec. 27.
Lingerfelt didn’t hesitate. He didn’t take time to shed his heavy work boots or clothing. He just dove into the lake from the dock at a neighboring house. The water was a chilly 45 to 50 degrees, cold enough for hypothermia to set in during the 40-yard swim.
“It was freezing cold,” Lingerfelt told Patch. “It almost took my breath when I dove in.”
The young child’s life depends on my ability to get across the lake, he told himself. The adrenalin kicked in. With every stroke, he prayed, “Lord give me the strength to get to him, and keep us all safe. Just give me the strength. Lord help me get there.
“My boots were getting heavy,” he recalled. “It was like swimming with cinder blocks on your feet.”
Keep swimming, he commanded himself, reassuring the boy as he got closer.
“You’re going to be OK,” he said. “We’re going to get you. It’ll be OK.”
The 6-year-old is fine, and Lingerfelt and others who helped rescue the boy will be honored as heroes at a 12:30 p.m. Tuesday ceremony at the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office, 91 Commercial Park Ave., Taylorsville.
“I couldn’t sit back and let this go unnoticed,” Sheriff Chris Bowman told Patch. “I told them, ‘In my opinion, y’all are heroes.’ Of course, they said, ‘No, we’re not heroes.’ They said they’d do it again if they had to.”
While Lingerfelt was swimming, James Wycoff, the owner of the house he had been working on, called 911. Another carpenter, Jason Southerland, jumped in his pickup and drove to the other side, where he found the child’s 27-year-old brother, Aaron Bentley, plucking the youngster from the lake.
“We were coming in to him from both sides, trying to get to him,” Lingerfelt said. “He was scared to death when we got there. The cold was worse on him, being so small and a child, than me.”
The boy had fallen off the pier into about 15 feet of water and was barely hanging on when help arrived. He was carried to a waiting ambulance and taken to Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory for evaluation.
“In my opinion, the young man would not have lasted long at all in that water. The good Lord above was looking after all of them,” Bowman said, adding if the child had fallen into the cold water a day earlier or a day later, nobody would have been around to hear his cry for help.
Lingerfelt doesn’t doubt the source of the super-human strength that propelled him across the lake.
“I was tired. I was drained. But I made it,” he said. “I give all the glory to the Lord. He got me there. It was something else.”
It sure was, Bowman said.
“It feels good to report, for a change, something nice happening as far as being able to save a life,” the sheriff said. “Because in this day and time, it seems like us and law enforcement have to report bad things. I’ve always said that in our county, the citizens have never been hesitant to help out or save a life, and this right here backs me up.”
EDITORS NOTE: a new segment where our very own Mr. Nick gives his quick notes on what he saw from the show.
Brock made the suitcase a boom box. The internet wins! Memes rule the world now.
Kofi and Woods get beat up by Ziggler. Smackdown live is off to a great start….wait this is RAW. Ziggler keeps yelling that “It should have been me”, and the crowd could care less.
Shane McMahon is awful and Drew McIntyre deserves better. (but at least he isn’t being fed to Roman) beat him when it matters.
2 Lesnar segments? In 1 night? What is this a PPV? There goes the budget. Seth calls Brock a joke to his face…good thing this is on tv and not an alley. “CASH IT IN”
The made Lesnar a meat-head!! Fantastic acting range! /s
The 24/7 title just seems like a race around the arena and it did a lap inside the ring before leaving as fast as it arrived. 24.7 seconds of tv title.
AJ Styles can’t compete…urge to stop watching RAW grows stronger…
…wait Becky Lynch is on tv! Match against the IIconics? Could they possibly have two solid matches back-to-back? Kinda, Becky wins. Give her another belt please.
Ricochet vs Cesaro? Yes please! This is going to be very fun. New music and the commentary team with heaps of praise…are they finally giving Cesaro a shot? This has been the high water mark of a not great RAW
Switching between RAW and the Stanley Cup Final now during breaks.
There’s a four way match now, seems like Braun vs Lashley throwing each other around.
Corbin has the best finisher, but I still can’t care about him while he looks like the manager of an Applebee’s.
That’s a very unnecessary and elaborate way to get Sami Zayn to say AEW…awful segment.
I missed most of the main event (sorry Seth) because I was watching the last 10 minutes of the hockey game. I’m Canadian what can I say? Looked like Seth tweaked his knee a little so that should be what the Brock/Seth fued will focus on.
Overall, not even the best RAW could follow the expectations fans had coming out of AEW’s weekend. I didn’t expect much and at least got the Cesaro v Ricochet match.
The Golden Gophers hit the road for one more Big Ten Dual against No.9 Nebraska Friday night before returning home to take on the Maryland Terrapins on Sunday afternoon at Maturi Pavilion.
Minnesota Probables 125- No.6 Sean Russell (18-3, Lawrenceville, Georgia, R-SR.) OR Steve Polakowski (5-4,Libertyville, Ill. R-Sr. ) 133- No.8 Ethan Lizak (19-4, Schnecksville, PA, R-Sr.) 141- No.10 Mitchell McKee (13-3, St.Michael, Minn., Jr.) 149- No.19 Thomas Thorn (13-7, St. Michael, Minn, R-Sr.) 157- No.8 Steve Bleise (13-3, Chelsea, MI, R-Sr.) 165- Carson Brolsma (15-8, Osseo, Minn., R-Jr.) OR Jake Allar(18-5, Medina, Minnesota, R-Fr.) 174- No.12 Devin Skatzka (20-6, Richmond, MI, R-Jr.) 184- Owen Webster (7-10, Shakopee, Minn,Junior) OR Brandon Krone (7-8, Anoka, Minn., R-Sr.) 197- Dylan Anderson (11-7, Hudson, Wisconsin, R-So. ) 285- No. 1 Gable Steveson (24-0, Apple Valley, Minn., Fr. )
Previewing the Cornhuskers This top-ten tilt features several ranked battles between the two states, including bookend bouts at 125-pounds and heavyweight. At 125-pounds, No. 6 Sean Russell and No. 16 Zeke Moisey will see which former All-American is ahead of the other in each of their final seasons respectively.
At heavyweight, Gable Steveson will take on David Jensen. Steveson, a 24-0 true freshman, is the consensus No.1 ranked heavyweight in the country. Last week Jensen rocketed up the rankings after defeating last year’s fifth-place finisher, Sam Stoll.
Under head coach Brandon Eggum the Gophers are 0-1 to Nebraska with the loss coming on Jan. 20, 2017 by a score of 21-11.
Nebraska Probables 125- No.16 Zeke Moisey (10-7, Northampton, PA, Sr.) 133- Jevon Parrish (13-8, Olathe, KS, Fr.) OR Tucker Sjomeling (11-5, Delano, MN. R-Fr.) 141- No.19 Chad Red (14-8, Indianapolis, IN., So.) 149- Collin Purinton (8-6, Banks, OR., Jr.) OR Jordan Shearer (7-7, Fargo, ND., Jr.) 157- No.2 Tyler Berger (19-2, Princeville, OR, Sr.) 165- No.6 Isaiah White (13-5, Chicago, Jr.) 174- No.9 Mikey Labriola (18-3, Easton, PA., R-Fr) 184- No.4 Taylor Venz (16-4, Farmington, MN., So.) 197- No.11 Eric Schultz (17-7, Tinley Park, IL., So.) 285- No.10 David Jensen (13-2, Mobridge, SD. Jr.)
Previewing the Terps The Gophers have never lost to the Terps in three battles. Last season, Minnesota defeated Maryland 26-22 in their home gymnasium.
The Gophers match up well with the Terps and have ranked wrestlers of their own to battle against Maryland’s top two wrestlers, 149-pound Alfred Bannister and heavyweight Youssif Hemida. Bannister, a two-time NCAA Qualifier will take on Tommy Thorn while Hemida, a 2018 All-American, will be tested with the top heavyweight in the nation, Gable Steveson.
Both head coaches, Brandon Eggum and Kerry McCoy, were both All-Americans in the late 1990’s before competing for USA Wrestling in the early part of this millennia.
Maryland Probables 125- Brandon Cray (5-11, Hamilton, NJ, R-So.) 133- Orion Anderson (5-13, Suylerville, NY, Fr.) 141- Michael Doetsch (9-9, Severn,MD, R-So.) OR Danny Bertoni (13-9, Jefferson, MD, So.) 149- Alfred Bannister (12-5, La Plata, MD, R-Sr.) 157- Jahi Jones (5-6, Fort Washington, MD, R-Sr.) OR Ryan Diehl (5-1, Berkley Springs, WV, R-Sr.) OR Adam Whiteselll (7-10, Silver Spring, MD, R-Sr.) 165- Phillip Spadafora (10-11, Dix Hills, NY, R-Fr.) 174- Josh Ugalde (3-8, Bound Brook, NJ, R-Jr.) 184- Kyle Janeski (9-10, Schnectady, NY, R-F 197- Niko Capello (2-13, Cranford, NJ, R-So.) 285- No. 9 Youssif Hemida (8-2, Mamaroneck, NY, Sr.)
Keeping it Rolling So far, the Gophers are having their best season across head coach Brandon Eggum’s three year coaching career. The 12 wins is the most he has had in one season and with five Big Ten victories already Eggum is tied with his previous high from last season.
The Gophers have won four straight Big Ten duals and look to continue their streak of no losses away from home continuing. The squad is 4-0 on neutral sites and 5-0 in road duals.
The Lizard and the Thorn Redshirt seniors Ethan Lizak and Tommy Thorn, 133-pounds and 149-pounds respectively, continue to climb up the Gophers all-time wins list. With 107 victories Lizak now sits at 38th place while Thorn, with 87 victories, sits just outside the top-fifty.
The two friends who have been on campus together for the past five years are two of the Gophers leaders on and off the mat with 194 combined victories. Over the past three weeks the pair have each notched four wins in a row.
Georgia Up North At 125-pounds, Sean Russell packs a punch. The Lawrenceville, Georgia, native sits at 18-3 in his first year with the Gophers with his only losses coming to top-five competition. Within those 18 wins, Russell has six technical falls, and five major decisions.
Russell is the active leader in career victories for the Gophers with 113, including the 95 that came before he transferred from Edinboro to Minnesota.
Next Time Out After hosting the Terps, the Gophers close out the Big Ten slate with Indiana the following Sunday in Maturi Pavilion. Senior night against Rider University will be on February 22 and will be hosted in Northrop Auditorium on campus for the theatre’s first ever wrestling dual.
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Minnesota then hosts the Big Ten Wrestling Championships on March 9 and 10 at Williams Arena.
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Manheim, Pennsylvania – With top-ranked Penn State’s 28-9 thumping of sixth-ranked Ohio State this past weekend, the Nittany Lions extended the program’s dual win streak to 56 in a row and improved to 11-0 on the season. With that, Penn State remained No. 1 in the NWCA Division I Wrestling Coaches Poll released Tuesday.
It was the last true test scheduled for the Nittany Lions as they finish the schedule with unranked Buffalo, Michigan State and No. 24 Illinois the next two weeks of competition. While it was expected to be close, upsets by Roman Bravo-Young at 133 pounds and Nick Lee at 141 pounds set the pace for the Penn State victory in front of over 13,000 fans at St. John Arena in Columbus.
Second-ranked Oklahoma State improved to 11-0 with a conference win at home against Air Force, setting the stage for two of the last four unbeatens in Division I wrestling to do battle this coming week. The Cowboys will go on the road to Columbia, Missouri to face fifth-ranked and unbeaten Missouri on Sunday. Missouri improved to 15-0 and extended its win streak to 35 in a row with a road victory at Arizona State. In the Tigers win, three-time All-American Daniel Lewis pinned returning national champion Zahid Valencia at 174 pounds.
Third-ranked Iowa (12-0) had no trouble with visiting Maryland, shutting out the Terrapins 48-0 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Friday. With unranked Campbell falling to Chattanooga over the weekend, that leaves Penn State, Iowa, Oklahoma State and Missouri as the nation’s last four unbeaten Division I schools.
Fourth-ranked Michigan bested Northwestern 30-7, but the highlight there came at 133 pounds where Northwestern’s top-ranked 125-pounder Sebastian Rivera bumped up to wrestle returning NCAA finalist and top-ranked 133-pounder Stevan Micic. The match was all Micic, but the bump created a fervor around the wrestling community.
Seventh-ranked Minnesota (13-3) split a pair of conference matches, falling to ninth-ranked Nebraska 21-18 in Lincoln before shutting out Maryland 45-0 on Sunday. The win vaulted Nebraska up two spots to No. 7, while Minnesota slipped one spot to No. 8.
No. 8 NC State was upended in the ACC by then-No. 16 Pittsburgh 18-16 in Raleigh. Coupled with No. 11 Virginia Tech falling to then-No. 15 North Carolina 18-14 in Chapel Hill, the ACC dual meet standings find the Tar Heels sitting atop of the conference. NC State slid two spots to No. 10, while North Carolina moved up to No. 13, followed by Virginia Tech at No. 14 and Pittsburgh at No. 15. Cornell (11-2) moved up one spot to No. 9 after a pair of Ivy League wins. The Big Red clinched the Ivy League title with a 34-7 win over No. 19 Princeton (7-6). Keying the Cornell win was Ben Honis’ win at 197 pounds over previously unbeaten Patrick Brucki. The Big Red also beat Penn 40-3.
Wyoming moved back up to No. 12 after conference wins over South Dakota State and Utah Valley. Pittsburgh also picked up two non-conference wins in North Carolina. The Panthers beat Gardner-Webb 38-9 and Davidson 31-6. No. 18 Rutgers earned two weekend dual wins, beating No. 20 Purdue 22-15 and Indiana 24-11. Indiana bounced No. 25 Stanford out of the top 25 as the Hoosiers beat the Cardinal 31-7.
Other ranked victories on the weekend came from: Northern Iowa (over Utah Valley 29-12), Virginia (26-17 over Duke), Wisconsin (17-16 over Illinois on criteria), Iowa State (23-14 over Oregon State) and Lock Haven with a pair of wins (35-6 over Clarion and 23-9 over Rider). Army West Point (7-2) moved into the NWCA Division I Coaches Poll Top 25 for the first time since December 6, 2005.
The NWCA Division I Wrestling Coaches Poll is voted on by two coaches from each Division I wrestling conference. Each first-place vote is worth 25 points, 24 points for a second-place vote, 23 for a third-place vote and so on through to one point for a 25th-place vote.
NWCA Division I Wrestling Coaches Poll – February 12, 2019
Others Receiving Votes: Fresno State 9, Stanford 6, Appalachian State 4, Navy 4, North Dakota State 3, Buffalo 2, Campbell 2, Indiana 2, Arizona State 1, Old Dominion 1 Dropped Out: No. 25 Stanford