When I was around 14 I went to a family reunion near Columbus Ohio. THERE HAD TO be 300 people there. There was a kid who came who was friends with my cousins from North Dakota. Of course we started jawing at each other and he said he felt all Pa kids were soft. Never one to shy away from a challenge, I suggested we see who is tougher through a wrestling match. I had just started wrestling in high school and the kid was a sophomore, abou a year older than me. The rules were w would wrestle until one of us gave up. God the kid was tough. I think we wrestled for about twenty minutes out in a field until we were called to the reunion dinner. We called it a draw but my poin us.... BEWARE NORTH DAKOTA STATE TODAY, PANTHERS!!! Let!s go Pitt.
I wrestled a North Dakota kid!
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9-8 Pitt at the break. Fenton got technicalled. Mickey won 2-0. Tough match against #17. Bentley and Lee both won tough 1 point decisions.
Then Talib demonstrates again why he drives fans nuts. Wrestling unranked kid lackadaisically, he got taken down and put on his back. Down 6-0, he never made it close and lost 10-4. Pitt up 9-8 at the break. Next two matches will be key. We need at least a split.
Then Talib demonstrates again why he drives fans nuts. Wrestling unranked kid lackadaisically, he got taken down and put on his back. Down 6-0, he never made it close and lost 10-4. Pitt up 9-8 at the break. Next two matches will be key. We need at least a split.
Wentzel lost to kid ranked #20. Harvey won at 174 with last second takedown. Pitt up 12-11 with 3 matches left.
Nino up 7-2 after 1 period, with 3 takedowns. Opponent took an injury TO and was examined for a concussion apparently.
How did the North Dakota could get two points at the end of the match?
Pitt clinches with 2-0 win by Stout at 197. Third period escape and riding time. Rode out the 2d period on top.
18-11 with 285 remaining. 6 wins but no bonus points.
18-11 with 285 remaining. 6 wins but no bonus points.
Mooch picks up dominant win at 285, 14-5. Final: Pitt 22, North Dakota State 11.
Mooch had 6 takedowns, an escape when he was on the bottom, and a point for riding time to pick up the major decision.
Score seems pretty one-sided, but most of the matches we won were close: 133, 141, 149, 174 and 197. Bono and Mooch were dominant.
Mooch had 6 takedowns, an escape when he was on the bottom, and a point for riding time to pick up the major decision.
Score seems pretty one-sided, but most of the matches we won were close: 133, 141, 149, 174 and 197. Bono and Mooch were dominant.
Off to Brookings South Dakota tomorrow to take on South Dakota State. Another day another match
Taleb had the flu this week so I’m sure he wasn’t feeling great. Hopefully he bounces back tomorrow vs SDSU
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You know, I almost flew from LA for the two matches. An easy flight from LA non-stop to Minneapolis and then not a bad drive west to Fargo. Plus, I have good friends I was in the Army with in both Minneapolis and Fargo. Anyone whose been in the service in a war zone knows there is a special bond with the friends you served with there that never goes away.
But, between the weather and the government shutdown and its potential effect in the safety of air travel, at the last minute I decided to skip it. I’m very glad I did. Got to see the NDSU match streaming, and SDSU is terrible. Their only wrestler worth watching. Seth Gross, has missed the whole season so far with an injury.
More importantly, Roberto, my younger cat, almost died early Sunday morning, and if I hadn’t been home, the cat sitter wouldn’t have had any idea what to do. He was born with an enlarged heart, and when he was 3, a cardiologist who had examined him told me he wanted to prepare me for the fact Roberto almost certainly wouldn’t live beyond somewhere between ages 4 and 6 because of how enlarged the walls of his heart were.
Roberto now is 12 years and 5 months old. This was his second — and by far the most severe — episode of congestive heart failure, where his lungs fill with fluid because his heart isn’t strong enough to pump the fluid out. We got to the emergency room of a 24-hour pet hospital at 2:42 am. He was barely breathing, suffocating from the fluids. Not one person there thought he would be alive in the morning. He was released at 11 a.m. today, 32 hours later, and is home — weak, but alive. And getting his strength back.
Wrestlers are tough. But, when you talk about toughness, Exhibit A is a 12-year-old, 12 pound cat named Roberto Clemente Brourman!
But, between the weather and the government shutdown and its potential effect in the safety of air travel, at the last minute I decided to skip it. I’m very glad I did. Got to see the NDSU match streaming, and SDSU is terrible. Their only wrestler worth watching. Seth Gross, has missed the whole season so far with an injury.
More importantly, Roberto, my younger cat, almost died early Sunday morning, and if I hadn’t been home, the cat sitter wouldn’t have had any idea what to do. He was born with an enlarged heart, and when he was 3, a cardiologist who had examined him told me he wanted to prepare me for the fact Roberto almost certainly wouldn’t live beyond somewhere between ages 4 and 6 because of how enlarged the walls of his heart were.
Roberto now is 12 years and 5 months old. This was his second — and by far the most severe — episode of congestive heart failure, where his lungs fill with fluid because his heart isn’t strong enough to pump the fluid out. We got to the emergency room of a 24-hour pet hospital at 2:42 am. He was barely breathing, suffocating from the fluids. Not one person there thought he would be alive in the morning. He was released at 11 a.m. today, 32 hours later, and is home — weak, but alive. And getting his strength back.
Wrestlers are tough. But, when you talk about toughness, Exhibit A is a 12-year-old, 12 pound cat named Roberto Clemente Brourman!
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