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PENN STAWTErestling NITTANY LION‘0S5-06 notes 2005-06 SCHEDULE POSSIBLE LINE-UPS - AS OF 12/5 #13 PENN STATE NITTANY LIONS (3-2, 0-2 BIG TEN) AND RESULTS Wt. Name Yr. Hometown/HS 2005-06 Rec. 3-2, 0-2 Big Ten 125 Tim Haas So. Camp Hill, Pa./Cedar Cliff 6-0 OR Brad Pataky Fr. Clearfield, Pa./Clearfield 7-4 133 (#19)Jake Strayer Fr. South Fork, Pa./Forest Hills 4-0 141 (#15) DeWitt Driscoll Sr. Connellsville, Pa./Connellsville 3-2 November 149 (#10) James Woodall Sr. St. Dupont, Pa./Pittston 2-2 Sun. 13 PA STATE DUALS 10 a.m. 157 (#16) Nathan Galloway Jr. State College, Pa./State College 2-3 165 Phil Bomberger Fr. Port Royal, Pa./Juniata 5-3 vs. PITT-JOHNSTOWN W, 31-10 OR Brian Cantalupi Jr. Carlisle, Pa./Carlisle 6-4 174 (#8) James Yonushonis Jr. Philipsburg, Pa./Philipsburg-Osceola 5-0 vs. YORK, PA. W, 47-3 184 (#1) Eric Bradley Sr. Plaistow, N.H./Timberlane 0-0 OR Neil Bretz Fr. Carlisle, Pa./Cumberland Valley 1-3 vs. #8 LEHIGH W, 18-17 197 (#6) Philip Davis So. Harrisburg, Pa./Harrisburg 5-0 Sat. 19 at East Stroudsburg Open HWT Joel Edwards Sr. Upper Darby, Pa./Upper Darby 3-1 #23 NAVY MIDSHIPMEN (4-0) Sun. 20 #15 WISCONSIN* L, 15-19 Wt. Name Yr. Hometown/HS Sat. 26 #3 MICHIGAN* L, 15-23 125 Alex Usztics Jr. Dauphin, Pa./Central Daupin East OR Caleb Levee Fr. Mandeville, La./Mandeville 133 Brad Canterbury Jr. Blue Bell, Pa./Wissahickon 141 Spencer Manley So. Ooltewah, Tenn./McCallie December 149 (#14) John Cox Jr. Grand Haven, Mich./Grand Haven 157 Adam Brochetti Sr. Kittanning, Pa./Kittanning Sun. 4 NITTANY LION OPEN OR John Jarred Jr. Kansas City, Mo./Park Hill (2 champions, 6 placers, 43-25 overall record) 165 Craig Dziewiatkowski Sr. Aurora, Ill./Montini Catholic OR John Jarred (see above) 174 Matt Stolpinksi So. Westfield, Mass./Phillips Exeter Academy Fri. 9 at Navy 7 p.m. 184 Jonny Kane Sr. Portland, Maine/Deering Sat. 10 at Penn 6:30 p.m. OR Chris Pogue Sr. Chesapeake, Va./Deep Creek 197 Andrew Adams, Sr., Dublin, Ohio, OR Antonio Miranda, Jr., Eugene, Ore., OR Tyler Moyer, Fr., Bremerton, Wash. Sun. 18 at Reno Tournament of Champions HWT (#9) Tanner Garrett Sr. Tulsa, Okla./Cascia Hill Reno, Nev. all day #25 PENN QUAKERS (0-0) Wt. Name Yr. Hometown 125 Mike Silengo Sr. Baptist, Colo. OR Andrew Gold So. Mt. Airy, Md. January 133 (#6) Matt Valenti Sr. Newton, N.J. 141 Nick Matteo JR. Ramsey, N.J. Fri. 6 at Lehigh 7 p.m. OR Cesar Grajales Fr. Brandon, Fla. Sun. 8 CORNELL 1 p.m. 149 Rob Hitschler Jr. Philadelphia, Pa. 157 Brock Wittmeyer Jr. Platte City, Mo. Wed. 11 at Lock Haven 7 p.m. 165 Rich Ferguson Sr. Beach Haven, N.J. 174 Matt Herrington Sr. Cambridge, N.Y. Fri. 27 MICHIGAN STATE* 7:30 p.m. 184 Dustin Wiles Sr. Farmington, Mo. 197 Paul Valekei Sr. Allentown, Pa. Sun. 29 MINNESOTA* 1 p.m. HWT Tim Karmazsin Jr. Edison, N.J. OR Jayson Bowlsby Fr. Eden Prairie, Minn. (#) All rankings listed are USA Today/NWCA as of 11/28 February THIS WEEK Fri. 3 at Iowa* 8 p.m. No. 13 Penn State (3-2, 0-2 Big Ten) heads away from Happy Valley for the first time Sun. 5 at Iowa State 1 p.m. with a dual at No. 23 Navy (4-0) on Friday at 7 p.m. and one at No. 25 Penn (0-0) on Fri. 10 at Indiana* 7 p.m. Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Fri. 17 at Ohio State* 7 p.m. UP NEXT Sun. 19 vs. Purdue* at Conseco Fieldhouse The Lions return to action at the Reno Tournament of Champions on Sunday, Dec. Indianapolis, Ind. 12 p.m. 18, in Reno, Nev. ON THE AIR March TV - None S-Su. 4-5 Big Ten Championships Radio - All Penn State wrestling events will be aired on WBLF 970 AM and streamed Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. live at GoPSUsports.com! Jeff Byers calls the action. Th-S 16-18 NCAA Championships Oklahoma City, Okla. ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS For information or credentials, contact Pat Donghia, Asst. Dir., at 814-865- * Big Ten Match • All Times Eastern 1757, or by email at [email protected]. The Athletics Communications fax Home Events in CAPS number is 814-863-3165. Visit the official website of Penn State athletics: www.GoPSUsports.com PENN STATE NITTANY LION WRESTLING • MATCH NOTES 05-06 INDIVIDUAL TODAY’S MATCH-UP SEASON RECORDS (including unattached action) State College, Pa. - December 5, 2005 - The No. 13 Penn State Nittany Lion wrestlers (3-2, 0-2 Big Ten) will hit the road for the first time this year with dual matches at No. 23 Navy (4-0) and No. 25 Penn (0-0). The match at Navy is set for 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9, while the dual with Penn is on Saturday, Dec. 10, at 6:30 p.m. Name, Wt. Record Tim Haas, 125 6-0 Penn State is coming off a solid showing at the Nittany Lion Open on Sunday. Over 500 wrestlers packed Rec Hall for the 2005 Nittany Lion Open and in the end, ten talented individuals walked away with the coveted title of Nittany Lion Mark McKnight, 125 5-0* Open Champion. Penn State claimed two individual titles in the tournament with two unattached Nittany Lions grabbing Rohan Murphy, 125 1-3* crowns at their respective weights. Head coach Troy Sunderland’s squad posted over 40 wins in the tournament. Brad Pataky, 125 7-4 Red-shirt junior Mark McKnight (McDonald, Pa.), wrestling unattached, won his first four matches at 125 to advance to Bryan Heller, 133 13-2 the finals, where he downed Franklin Gomez of Michigan State (unattached), 6-4, to claim the crown. True freshman Jake Strayer, 133 4-0 David Erwin (Urbana, Ohio), wrestling unattached, also won his first five at 165, including a pin of Davidson’s Trevor Clavette in the semis. The title bout saw Erwin down Phil Bomberger (Port Royal, Pa.) with an 11-3 major to claim the Ben Mandelbraut, 133/141 0-1* championship. DeWitt Driscoll, 141 3-2 Jason Lapham, 149 5-4* The Nittany Lions still sport four undefeated wrestlers in their line-up, plus No. ranked Eric Bradley (Plaistow, N.H.), who may see his first action of the year this coming weekend. Tim Haas (Camp Hill, Pa.) is 6-0 at 125, Jake Strayer (South Dan Vallimont, 149 5-5* Fork, Pa.) is 4-0 at 133, James Yonushonis (Philipsburg, Pa.) is 5-0 at 174 and Phil Davis (Harrisburg, Pa.) is 5-0 at James Woodall, 149 2-2 197. Jonathan Clemens, 157 - Navy comes in 4-0 after a solid showing here in Rec Hall’s Nittany Lion Open and a dual win over Rutgers. Navy sports Mark Friend, 157 0-2 No. 14 John Cox at 149 and No. 9 Tanner Garrett at HWT. Penn comes in 0-0 in duals, but coming off a 10th place fin- Nathan Galloway, 157 2-3 ish at the Cliff Keen Invitational. Penn is led by 133-pounder Matt Valenti, ranked No. 6 nationally. Eric Goodling, 157 - Penn State will return to action on Sunday, Dec. 18, at the Reno Tournament of Champions in Reno, Nev. The Nittany Philip Bomberger, 165 5-3 Lions next home dual is set for Jan. 8 vs. Cornell. Single match tickets can be purchased by visiting the BJC Ticket Brian Cantalupi, 165 6-4 Center or by calling 814-865-5555 or 800-863-3336. Prices are $5 for adults and $3 for youth and senior citizens. Jack Decker, 165 10-6* David Erwin, 165 10-2* HEAD COACH TROY SUNDERLAND Jeremy Hart, 165 5-1* Troy Sunderland (Penn State, ‘93) is in his 8th year at the helm of the Penn State Nittany Lion Odis Johnson, 165 0-1* wrestling program. Sunderland has coached two NCAA Champions, 15 All-Americans as a Craig Owsiany, 165 - head coach (23 overall) and five Big Ten Champions. He was also the 2003 Big Ten Coach of Mike Ward, 174/184 6-8* the Year. Sunderland is 69-66 overall. James Yonushonis, 174 5-0 Neil Bretz, 174/184 1-3 As a wrestler at Penn State from 1988-93, Sunderland was a three-time All-American and a Eric Bradley, 184 0-0 two-time NCAA Runner-Up. He earned both EWL and Big Ten Individual Championships dur- David Klug, 184 0-5* ing his days as a student-athlete and was a University and Espoir National Champion. Nate Rapsey, 184 - Sunderland’s accolades are as follows: EWL Champ at 150 (1992); Big Ten Champion at 150 (1993); NCAA Runner-Up at 150 (1992 and 1993) and 4th at 150 (1991); Career NCAA Chad Unger, 184 3-3* Tournament record of 13-4; Three-time All-American (1991, 1992 and 1993); 100 career vic- A.J. Cummins, 197 - tories (100-13-3 overall record). Phil Davis, 197 5-0 Andrew Haile, 197 2-3* Bert Stackhouse, 197 - THE TROY SUNDERLAND SHOW Aaron Anspach, HWT 6-6 The Troy Sunderland Show will debut on Wednesday, Nov. 2, on WBLF Radio (970 AM). Co- Joel Edwards, HWT 3-1 hosted by Jeff Byers, voice of Penn State wrestling, and Troy Sunderland, head wrestling Joe Farina, HWT 4-6* coach, the thirty-minute call in show airs form 7 to 7:30 p.m.