PSU - Bucknell Match Thread
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When Cassar stepped out, my sister said: Oh my. He is a SPECIMEN!
Sorry LemonPie, she's married.
Sorry LemonPie, she's married.
Bo Pipher wrestling up a weight. Why?
1) Where the heck is Mason Manville, haven't seen him in.... forever. Would much rather had seen him go tonight, but 165 might be too low for him these days. Schnupp wins, and a potential shutout waisted? :-/
2) Hmmm, might mean we don't want VJ trying to make weight two days apart, unless I am reading into it too much, I suspect it's still a bit of work for him. We just gave him a little breather
1) Where the heck is Mason Manville, haven't seen him in.... forever. Would much rather had seen him go tonight, but 165 might be too low for him these days. Schnupp wins, and a potential shutout waisted? :-/
2) Hmmm, might mean we don't want VJ trying to make weight two days apart, unless I am reading into it too much, I suspect it's still a bit of work for him. We just gave him a little breather
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I mean this with as little disrespect as possible, but when I saw Cassar's opponent walk out to the center I was like, "oh boy this is not going to be good."
Yeah but Cassar isn’t..
no. Cassar weighed in at 230.X. Stokes weighed in at 221.X.
Stokes wrestled 174 at the beginning of last year. Whatever he weighed today, it wasn't +40 lb of muscle over last fall.
His mom is a HS classmate of mine, and I'm glad I didn't run into her ... because I thought HWT had Bambi vs. Godzilla written all over it.
If it is possible, I thought Bucknell wrestled aggressively, yet cautiously. I realize that’s somewhat of a contradiction, but that’s what I thought as I watched the matches.
Had a similar reaction that maybe isn't simple to explain but here goes anyway ...
Thought they aggressive in the sense that they weren't gonna get pushed around the mat.
Cautious/selective in that (1) they knew their best chance was taking cleaner shots; (2) IMO some PSU wrestlers laid traps and Bucknell wouldn't take the bait. (Bo and Jason especially.)
Aggressive again in that when they found an attack or angle they liked, they didn't half ass it.
they're just solid Pa wrestlers!
2nd half thoughts:
Bill O'Brien just emotionally called Pipher a fighter.
For someone who dominated, Hall seemed off. Don't know if he was using this match as practice, felt like he was looking counter first and shoot if Stephani didn't grab the cheese.
Shak and Raptor -- squash matches.
Bo looked early like he could've teched Phipps in the 2nd or early 3rd, then changed his strategy, looking more counters and big moves. In fairness, 3 different times he had a pancake and Phipps slipped his arm free. OTOH, Bo was way too comfortable on his back in that crab ride, very nearly had a Rachal.
Team in general: impressive on feet, no top scoring other than Shak. Good riding (well, for those who tried to ride) but need to work on turning that into points.
Ref: thought he did a really good job with one glaring exception, the pushout stall call on RBY that proved inconsequential.
Bill O'Brien just emotionally called Pipher a fighter.
For someone who dominated, Hall seemed off. Don't know if he was using this match as practice, felt like he was looking counter first and shoot if Stephani didn't grab the cheese.
Shak and Raptor -- squash matches.
Bo looked early like he could've teched Phipps in the 2nd or early 3rd, then changed his strategy, looking more counters and big moves. In fairness, 3 different times he had a pancake and Phipps slipped his arm free. OTOH, Bo was way too comfortable on his back in that crab ride, very nearly had a Rachal.
Team in general: impressive on feet, no top scoring other than Shak. Good riding (well, for those who tried to ride) but need to work on turning that into points.
Ref: thought he did a really good job with one glaring exception, the pushout stall call on RBY that proved inconsequential.
You don't often see it but that was correctly called, the edge of the mat stall call explicitly includes pushing of the non-wrestling variety. He was pushing there not to wrestle but to force a stall call.
The problem is that action should've been stopped earlier..
Campbell was already out of bounds for several seconds and not working to get back in. He was stepping sideways to his right -- not circling the boundary, rather straddling the tape line parallel to the actual mat edge.
He should've been dinged with a center restart.
Then RBY pushed him, and maybe someone else had a better view, but it looked like s one-hand (LH) push to the shoulder. In any case it didn't drive Campbell out since he already was.
I saw it that RBY was trying to force a stall call by continually moving Campbell to the edge, and as Campbell was trying to find his way back to the center RBY was pushing him, not from a tie-up but from distance. If you want that out of bounds stall call you have to be wrestling. I think the ref did the right thing because if he gives you that call the match is going right back there after restart.
Mason was there—saw him on the bench, which was 20’ from me.
Great Venue, good time. Watches AWL on my laptop at the Bull Run after.
I really hope VJ doesn’t have that Iowa flu. I understand it flares up intermittently and can linger for months.
Thanks for pbp. Listening, it sounded like we were content to put on a show, work on some things and make sure folks got their moneys worth and get a good workout in. Bucknell wrestled hard and didn’t back down......good for them and their program. Sometimes when you are outclassed, things get chippy......which didn’t happen. Two classy programs putting on a great show.
Schnupp lost to one of the Campbell brothers last year, not Barzona
While he started at 174, he did wrestle about half of the season at Hwt last year. Only won 2 or 3 matches.
Really want to see RBY vs Parker. If Parker does not go, RBY misses a LOT of the top 10 at 133 this season. In fact he'd only face two before Big 10s, Micic and Pletcher.
I thought the same thing even during The Keystone Classic.
Was thinking Mason is qualified at 174. Is he eligible to go at 165 also?
Presumably, if he follow(s/ed) a descent plan. I have no intel though.
I don't want to read too much into what I saw, but our seats were very close to the bench, and it looked to me like Mark "had a lot on his mind" sitting there last night. Just something I noticed. Happens to us all, doesn't it? Wishing him the very best, whether it was something or not.
Now I can adequately continue this thought.
Pipher (as a stand-in 2nd string) is tied with a division 1 starter with <30secs left in the match, up a weight from where he probably belongs, AND CHASES DOWN A TRIP FROM AN UPPERBODY TIE... That is a set of grapes that I will probably never possess. He could have easily said, "Well, we can try in OT." BUT HELL NO.
Love it. Thank you, Bo Pipher.
Pipher (as a stand-in 2nd string) is tied with a division 1 starter with <30secs left in the match, up a weight from where he probably belongs, AND CHASES DOWN A TRIP FROM AN UPPERBODY TIE... That is a set of grapes that I will probably never possess. He could have easily said, "Well, we can try in OT." BUT HELL NO.
Love it. Thank you, Bo Pipher.
Pipher would have given up the RT point. They adjusted the riding time in favor of Bucknell kid in long time out review. 1:04 I believe it was at restart
True but the scoreboard read 1:00 RT before the adjustment.
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