Trine Weekly Update

[Y2CJ41]

The Thunder Wrestlers competed in Open Tournament competition this past weekend at both the Muskegon (CC) Open on Saturday as well as the Michigan State Open Sunday.

 

Trine's top performances from the Muskegon Open came from:

 

Brandon Harvey (125# So. Elkhart Memorial H.S.) who was runner-up going 4-1 with his lone loss in the finals to a tough Northern Idaho opponent 2-4

 

Jason Alber (165# So. Manchester, MI) also finished runner-up dropping a 0-2 decision in the finals to his Muskegon CC opponent.

 

Tyler Lymburner (Fr. 149# South Bend, Riley) Grappled his way to a hard fought 4th place finish in a tough weight class going 5 and 2 on the day.

 

Note: due to the length of the tournament only top 4 places were recognized as any wrestler who did not compete past the consulation semi-finals was considered eliminated from the tournament.

 

Other notable performances came from:

Forest "Woody" Romer (Fr. 141# Ben Davis HS) finished 3-2 losing in the Conso. Semi's

Nick Odom (Fr. 149# Warren Central HS)  *Wrestled up at 157# finished 3-2

Elliot Corner (So. 157# Peru, HS) 3-2 losing in the Conso. Semi's

Ryan Pieper (So./Fr. eligibility... Onsted HS, MI.) 4-2 losing in conso, semi's

 

 

MSU OPEN:

 

Elias Larson (Fr. Marian Cathlolic HS, IL.) went 5-1 with 2 falls... finished 3rd in the freshman/sophomore division facing all DI and DII opponents disposing of U of Indy starter David Lopez in the consolation finals.

 

FRESH/SOPH - 149

1st Place - Brian Stephens - Una of Virgina Tech

2nd Place - Josh Houldsworth of Holly HS

3rd Place - Elias Larson - Una of Trine

4th Place - David Lopez of University of Indianapolis

5th Place - Drew Leonard of Kent State

6th Place - Mike Fee - Una of Ohio State University

 

1st Place Match

1st Place Match - Brian Stephens - Una (Virgina Tech) won by major decision over Josh Houldsworth (Holly HS) (Maj 11-3)

3rd Place Match

3rd Place Match - Elias Larson - Una (Trine) won by decision over David Lopez (University of Indianapolis) (Dec11-4)

 

 

5th Place Match

Sr. Thomas Pompei (Hamilton S. Eastern) put on an impressive showing finishing 3-2 in the open division Defeating Big Ten opponents from Michigan State, Purdue (Matt Manuel) and MAC opponent from Ohio U.  Losing only to 3rd place finisher, Danny Manaco (IU) and 7th place finisher Vince Castillo (Northern ILL.)

 

Trine will compete this weekend in the Olivet duals (Olivet MI) wrestling 4 duals and competing against the #21 Ranked Heildelburg College (OH)

[raven150]

trine/d3 is making some noise to be the best small school this year for indiana.  hopefully this success will have other programs working hard to keep step.  uindy is a team that could also score well @ d2 nationals in 2010.

[cjl123]

Also at Muskegan  from Indiana were D Marcus Spenser and Joseph Lile

 

 

D Marcus winning at 133lbs

 

Joseph going 3-2 Losing to Tyler Lymburner before the round to place at 149lbs