Heads up on Rider dual
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Bo "Knows Wrestling" Nickel is up against Wayne Stinson. Slide by for 2 for Bo. Bo looking for cradle and gets it on the edge for 4 back points. Now 6-0. Bo with crab ride. Looking for near side cradle. Stinson gets up trying to get to his feet and Bo "Knows Throws" Stinson to his back for 4. 10-0 for Bo.
MM goes bottom and is out in a few seconds 3-0. FD nice shot, but MM does some had fighting and some splits to defend and get out of bounds. MM again stalking FD. Shot by FD and sprawl by MM to block. End of 2nd 3-0 MM with 50 seconds riding time.
3rd period starts neutral. MM is controlling the center of the mat. FD is shooting, but so far none of shots have come close to taking MM down. Finally a good shot by FD, but MM just sprawls and gets stalemate. Match is over 3-0 MM. Score is way closer than the actual match was.
PSU 34 Rider 0
PSU 34 Rider 0
MM looking like he was just trying to get through the match and not score too many points .
Morgan starts bottom. Morgan working up and they go out of bounds. On the restart Morgan works his way up and out. 7-1 Morgan. Morgan controlling center of mat. Morgan shoots, Wolfe counters shot, but now one scores as Morgan scurries away. Morgan with another td. 9-1. Working bow and arrow again. Morgan with 10-1 win.
PSU 38 Rider 0
PSU 38 Rider 0
It's Caleb Livingston vs. Correnti. Correnti with td. 2-0. Caleb gets out. 2-1. Correnti with single shot for td making 4-1. Caleb works to tripod, but is broken back down. Correnti goes for tilt and Caleb reverse him. Score is now 4-3. Correnti is out to make it 5-3. Nice blast double by Correnti for td. 7-3.
Caleb on top. Caleb has him broker down with legs. Working hand control. Caleb is getting high with his hips ,but gets Correnti flat again. Correnti sits into Caleb's ride to get reversal and Correnti get 1 for locked hands. Score is 14-5. Caleb ip to make it 14-6. Blast double to make the score 16-6.
PSU 38 Rider 4
PSU 38 Rider 4
Wouldn't surprise me if Zain is under the weather - he even surrendered a very un-Zain-like quick escape point at the end of the period. Props to Clagon though, tough kid.
Clagon would of never escaped if it wasn't for that long review on the phantom locked hands. He wrestled well early on and showed some nice athleticism but was clearly gassed heading into the second period and didn't do much for the rest of the match. Every time Retherford tied up the arm with his two-on-one, Clagon immediately started back peddling to the edge of the mat and the ref would not call stalling. Very frustrating match to watch.
The long no-video review definitely benefitted Clagon. In the first period he was all Zain could handle. Good tough match for Zain.
The incident happened about 10 feet from my seat (perhaps even less). Nico had Calas' leg elevated (a couple of feet off the ground). I don't recall exactly the positioning, but I think Nico was on one knee, and his other leg was bent at the knee. Nico had Calas's leg across his thigh (on the knee leg that was bent at the knee). Nico had a hold on the foot or ankle of Calas's elevated leg, and lifted it. Unfortunately, most of the movement was Calas's knee twisting past it's normal range of movement.
The ref was on the opposite side of this action, and either shielded from what took place or focused on something else. I believe that if he had had a different vantage point, he would have stopped action for potentially dangerous, as that's exactly how it looked to me, and nobody was shielding me from what took place.
Calas was scared. He slammed his fist on the mat, and acted as though he felt his knee had been seriously injured. The trainer attended him, and after a bit was able to get Calas to relax and work his knee through a normal range of motion.
I was happy to see that Nico did not go after Calas's affected knee. I believe he only put pressure on that knee two times through the rest of the match.
fen, you did a great job of the play-by-play. I enjoyed reading it after the match, and seeing that you had done a great job of capturing the action from each of the matches.
You've posted play-by-play in the past when I couldn't, and I invite you to do so in the future any time I'm not in a position to do so.
Wow, the Hawkeye board has gone completely off the rails yet again. Today they've got an 80+ post thread discussing "Retherford 2-1 over Clagon", complete with the usual PSU fan hatred, NLWC and scholarship conspiracies and, of course, obligatory Andrew Long mention among other things.
