Forget the exact number but he had a similar record this year, around 50ish-0
He is committed to Drexel
PA Class AAA Finals Thread
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Forget the exact number but he had a similar record this year, around 50ish-0
He is committed to Drexel
Sorry, dude, I don't do social media. But you can tell Gavin for me that I'm very, very sorry for all the rude, inconsiderate, thoughtless, and misinformed people in the world. Does that help?
Labriola pretty much took him down at will and let him up. He looks good (Mike L)!
How much more do you still have to kiss Larry Lee's ass for accusing Brands of illegally arranging the VP job at Coe College?
That was quite a debacle. You had to feel for the kid last year.
195: Jake Woodley (North Allegheny) vs. Ethan Laird (General McLane)
Nice to see a PSU alum in the corner for one of the wrestlers. Abe is the coach of North Allegheny.
Woodley is a returning State Champ. He's headed to Oklahoma.
Per 1
Laird tries for a single, Woodley sprawls, nothng. OOB with 1:18. Woodley in on a single, elevates the leg, but they go OOB as he's taking him down, so nothing. OOB with 17 sec. End
Per 2
Woodley takes bottom. He slowly works up, and is out in 9 sec, 1-0. OOB with 1:29. Woodley in on a single, but Laird with nice hips and a whizzer, but Woodley drives thru and goes to a double for the TD, 3-0. Laird not doing much on bottom. OOB with 20 sec. Laird nearly gets out but Woodley hangs on to the ankle at the buzzer.
Per 3
Laird takes bottom. Optional start and an esc makes it 3-1. Woodley shoots, Laird tries to throw him, and they go OOB. Larid shoots a double, Woodley counters with a single, nothing. 1 min left. OOB with 33 sec. Laird shoots a single, blocked. Woodley starting to run, and they go OOB with 11 sec. Stall warning on Woodley with 5 sec as he runs, but time runs out.
Woodley repeats as State Champion
Nice to see a PSU alum in the corner for one of the wrestlers. Abe is the coach of North Allegheny.
Woodley is a returning State Champ. He's headed to Oklahoma.
Per 1
Laird tries for a single, Woodley sprawls, nothng. OOB with 1:18. Woodley in on a single, elevates the leg, but they go OOB as he's taking him down, so nothing. OOB with 17 sec. End
Per 2
Woodley takes bottom. He slowly works up, and is out in 9 sec, 1-0. OOB with 1:29. Woodley in on a single, but Laird with nice hips and a whizzer, but Woodley drives thru and goes to a double for the TD, 3-0. Laird not doing much on bottom. OOB with 20 sec. Laird nearly gets out but Woodley hangs on to the ankle at the buzzer.
Per 3
Laird takes bottom. Optional start and an esc makes it 3-1. Woodley shoots, Laird tries to throw him, and they go OOB. Larid shoots a double, Woodley counters with a single, nothing. 1 min left. OOB with 33 sec. Laird shoots a single, blocked. Woodley starting to run, and they go OOB with 11 sec. Stall warning on Woodley with 5 sec as he runs, but time runs out.
Woodley repeats as State Champion
Don't try and confront Spyker with facts. Spyker is immune to facts.
Disagree, Jimmy Carr won the US Olympic trials a couple months after the Henry Green loss as a 16 year old!!! He is the youngest man in history (the US or anywhere on the globe) to make an International Olympic team and wrestle in the Olympics - and by several years not days or months! Green stalled his @ss off in neutral (which was most of the match). Additionally, Carr had 2 losses in his PA high school career - he lost at regionals his freshman year, but at a lighter weight I believe (States were one & done back then). Again, Carr went on to win the US Olympic Trials a few months after Green match, he won PA States the following year (his Jr year). Jimmy then moved to Kentucky where his older brother Fletcher was living (Fletcher wrestled for University of Kentucky I believe) and went to high school in Kentucky as a Sr....Jimmy also won The Midlands that year as high schooler (only high school wrestler in history to make US Olympic Team....only high school wrestler in history to win The Midlands Tournament!). IOW, Green beating the greatest high school wrestler in history was a way big upset - way bigger!). But except in that bull$hit Folk match, called in a bull$hit Folk fashion, Henry Green doesn't beat Jimmy Carr (i.e., in a Freestyle match where both wrestlers were forced to wrestle for the entire match or be penalized, Jimmy Carr would have Tech'ed Henry Green - the only reason Green won was the bull$hit Folk-fashion it was called).
But Carr's narrow escape against Larry Kepp a year later, where he got hit for stalling three times and where Kepp had a takedown that would have tied the match and sent an exhausted Carr to a 3 minute overtime mitigates Carr's status. Contemporaneous accounts speak of Carr not wrestling for over a period. The refs knew another stalling call would result in two points for Kepp and they swallowed their whistles and didn't call Kepp's td.
220: Ian Edenfield (Laurel Highlands) vs. Brian Kennerly (Upper Darby)
Per 1
OOB with 22 left. No real shots. Edenfield with a half-shot, Kennerly stuffs his head, but a stalemate with a few sec. End
Per 2
Kennerly takes bottom. He's out in 2 sec, 0-1. OOB with 1:30. Stoppage at 1 min. Just checking on Edenfield. Kennerly blocks a weak shot, and they are OOB at 38 sec. End
Per 3
Edenfield takes bottom. He's out in a few sec, 1-1. Kennerly shoots, blocks, and he nearly gets thrown, nothing. Neither guy has been close to a TD. Edenfield seems to use his arms to keep Kennerly away. 1 min left. Double stall call -- probably warranted. 30 sec left. OOB with 14 sec. Edenfield shoots, Kennerly tried to counter upper body, nothing.
SV
OOB with 19 sec, and no real shots. End.
TB-1
Kennerly takes bottom. And a stall call on Edenfield for not moving up, and then an esc, makes it 1-3 Kennerly. Edenfield shoots from center field, blocked. End
TB-1
Edenfield down, and Kennerly cuts him, 2-3. Stalemate with 11 sec. Edenfield shoots, blocked, END
Brian Kennerly is a State Champion -- first time he's medaled. He's headed to UVA
Per 1
OOB with 22 left. No real shots. Edenfield with a half-shot, Kennerly stuffs his head, but a stalemate with a few sec. End
Per 2
Kennerly takes bottom. He's out in 2 sec, 0-1. OOB with 1:30. Stoppage at 1 min. Just checking on Edenfield. Kennerly blocks a weak shot, and they are OOB at 38 sec. End
Per 3
Edenfield takes bottom. He's out in a few sec, 1-1. Kennerly shoots, blocks, and he nearly gets thrown, nothing. Neither guy has been close to a TD. Edenfield seems to use his arms to keep Kennerly away. 1 min left. Double stall call -- probably warranted. 30 sec left. OOB with 14 sec. Edenfield shoots, Kennerly tried to counter upper body, nothing.
SV
OOB with 19 sec, and no real shots. End.
TB-1
Kennerly takes bottom. And a stall call on Edenfield for not moving up, and then an esc, makes it 1-3 Kennerly. Edenfield shoots from center field, blocked. End
TB-1
Edenfield down, and Kennerly cuts him, 2-3. Stalemate with 11 sec. Edenfield shoots, blocked, END
Brian Kennerly is a State Champion -- first time he's medaled. He's headed to UVA
Ouch. It hurts when that happens, doesn't it?
Kennerly wins a snorer 3-1 OT on a stall call + escape. Not that he did a ton, but the opponent was hell bent on keeping him 5 ft away at all times. Ref issued the near-extinct double stall in the 3rd, and it was merited.
Then he celebrated with a lat drop on his asst coach. Hilarious.
Then he celebrated with a lat drop on his asst coach. Hilarious.
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We can debate the circumstances which there is quite a bit of disagreement about....however, the fundamental question was the biggest upset in PIAA history....and that would be the Henry Green win given that Jimmy Carr is the only high school wrestler in the history of the world, not just PA, to win an Olympic Trials (at 16) and wrestle in the Olympics. He's also the only high schooler in the history of forever to win The Midlands Tournament! IOW, given the timing of all that in regards to Henry Green's win....he beat the greatest high school wrestler in history, so I would say that makes it a bigger upset.
Bushwood: how many keyboards have u worn out. Lord have mercy on Ur poor fingers
285: Brendan Furman (Canon-McMillan) vs. Isaac Reid (Kiski Area)
Per 1
OOB with 1:29. Lot of hand fighting early on. OOB with 1:21. Caution on Reid for jumping the whistle. OOB with 8 sec. End
Per 2
Furman takes bottom. Furman works up, gets tripped back down, is up again, and is out in 15 sec, 1-0. OOB with 1:06. Furman in on a single, but they go OOB with 33 sec. OOB with 10 sec. This is a boring match. End
Per 3
Reid takes bottom. Caution on Furman. Reid up, but gets escorted OOB at 1:56. Up again, and out at 1:53, 1-1. Reid in on a single, but Furman grabs an ankle and spins around for the TD. Nice defense for a 3-1 lead. Furman cuts him at 1:10, so it's 3-2. Reid shoots from centerfield and gets countered for a TD, 5-2. He's up and out and a stall warning on Furman. Oops, he wasn't out -- they went OOB. He's cut off the whistel, so it's 5-3 with 31 sec left. Reid shoots sort of but nothing, and that's a wrap.
Brendan Furman is a State Champion. Believe he's headed to Cornell.
Per 1
OOB with 1:29. Lot of hand fighting early on. OOB with 1:21. Caution on Reid for jumping the whistle. OOB with 8 sec. End
Per 2
Furman takes bottom. Furman works up, gets tripped back down, is up again, and is out in 15 sec, 1-0. OOB with 1:06. Furman in on a single, but they go OOB with 33 sec. OOB with 10 sec. This is a boring match. End
Per 3
Reid takes bottom. Caution on Furman. Reid up, but gets escorted OOB at 1:56. Up again, and out at 1:53, 1-1. Reid in on a single, but Furman grabs an ankle and spins around for the TD. Nice defense for a 3-1 lead. Furman cuts him at 1:10, so it's 3-2. Reid shoots from centerfield and gets countered for a TD, 5-2. He's up and out and a stall warning on Furman. Oops, he wasn't out -- they went OOB. He's cut off the whistel, so it's 5-3 with 31 sec left. Reid shoots sort of but nothing, and that's a wrap.
Brendan Furman is a State Champion. Believe he's headed to Cornell.
If I had the dexterity in my fingers that Franklin has, I'd be in the studio right now with Eddie Van Halen.
Wade Schalles over John Chatman in 1969 would have to be somewhere on the great PIAA upset list.
I was in the Jaffa and I do not recall Henry Green stalling. I do remember there were probably a dozen whistle starts that were stopped because they both kept starting early.
Jimmy was a known quantity, but so was Henry. Jimmy had not won a regional title yet, nor had he won a state title yet, nor had he made the US Olympic team yet and he not won a Midlands title yet.
Jimmy had not accomplished the victories of his legend yet, so there is no way in the world Henry Green's (who won a state title after beating Jimmy) win over Jimmy Carr is comparable to tonight's 126 outcome.
I get all that. But:
1. Jimmy Carr won one state title - in his junior year. Didn't make it states in 1971 or 1972. Won by the narrowest of margins (and probably should have lost and was called for stalling three times) in 1973. Not a powerhouse high school career. Green went on to win states in 1972. So at that point, he had more state titles than did Carr.
2. Jimmy's success was in freestyle at the international level. And there is no doubt about the fact that he had the best Olympic career of any high school kid by far.
3. Spencer Lee was a three time champ coming into the tournament and had teched DeSanto in last year's final while displaying total dominance over those 3+ years.
4. Add in three world titles for Lee and his resume this year dwarfed Carr's heading into the 1972 regionals (he hadn't wrestled in the Olympics yet).
So I have to believe DeSanto's win in the state finals tops Green's win in regionals, based on the above.
I did not go after DeSanto or the fans cheering him. I posted Gavin's tweet because of the ACL. I get that people love a good underdog story. However, a buddy at the tourney said they were jeering Spencer on his way off the mat so maybe that's what Gavin was referring to.
Didn't 132 have like four top 20 IAW intermat kids in it and was the toughest in the state? Would have been five if DeSanto had gone. Don't know how certain it would have been. So if Suriano loses to, hmm let's say Freddie Rodriguez 2nd round or Ethan Lizak in the quarters, are you going to be saying the same thing? That it wasn't a fluke or because Suriano was injured? The only reason Spencer was out there was because it was his shot at four/undefeated and he barely missed. That's life, injuries and all, and he will be back.
I'm glad PIAAs and Lee/Desanto took our minds off of the grueling wait until noon Thursday.
What a finals.
What a finals.
He did not say he was coming down until 6 days after Spencer tore his ACL...There are a lot of kids in young guns....I take it you didn't listen to the radio after the match....But yes i give him credit cause i am not an Iowa fan....But if everyone is true to themselves we all know that Spencer on 2 good legs techs him and everyone else again....
I know he is a top athlete high school wise but I have to wonder if all of the wrestling too
Once again Spyker with misinformation, when will it end.
Again, Carr was undefeated his sophomore year prior to Green match. Again, Carr would win the US Olympic Trials only a couple months later at the age of 16 (only high schooler in history of world, let alone PA to do it), Carr would go undefeated in his Jr year in PA (including a State Title). Carr would go on to win The Midlands Tournament his Sr year in high school in KY (again, the only high school wrestler in the history of forever to win The Midlands Tournament). Jimmy Carr is without question the greatest high school wrestler in the history of the world, let alone PA - his accomplishments have not been even remotely touched or even approached by any other high school wrestler! Lee has never won a "World Championship", let alone 3 LMFAO! Lee has won "Junior World Titles" which are wildly different and not remotely the same....and BTW, Lee is not even remotely close to being the first high schooler to win a Jr. World Title or even multiple Junior Worlds for that matter (believe Martellar won Jr. Worlds as well as countless other high schoolers).
Green beat the GOAT high school wrestler in the history of the world, not just PA, so "logically-speaking" that makes it the biggest upset ever in PIAA.
Chief, I said it was a giant UPSET. An upset, is not a fluke. A fluke, would have been something like catching Spencer, which didn't happen. I wouldn't compare injuries either, each one is different. Now, you say what if Freddie Rodriguez...well I suppose yes, but remember it took Austin DeSanto to beat an injured Spencer Lee. Not a 14 seed, but a legit 2 seed. Basically, the equivalent of Suriano losing to Dance. Not even Lizak.
But you know me and you know I would never say one thing for one team and something else for another, that's not my style and I call people out if THEY do that.
If Nick loses, then Nick loses, fair and square.
But you know me and you know I would never say one thing for one team and something else for another, that's not my style and I call people out if THEY do that.
If Nick loses, then Nick loses, fair and square.
They were on the radio after his match. No i didn't know bro....Also said when that kid said 6 days after he tore it he was coming down...Hey credit to both....
People were cheering because it was insanely exciting and improbable. That's the reality.
I love it how you are always an expert on a subject once it becomes public record. You had no idea Spencer had any knee issue until now or you would have been blubbering about it nonstop. Do yourself a favor and shut up for a while
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