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Wrestling 12/28-29/00 -- Augsburg at Orange Bowl Sunshine Open
Wrestling
12/28-29/00 -- Augsburg at Orange Bowl Sunshine Open
COMPLETE
AUGSBURG RESULTS WILL BE POSTED SATURDAY 12/30
FORT LAUDERDALE,
Fla. (12/29/00) -- For the second year in a row, Augsburg College
claimed the team championship at the Orange Bowl Sunshine Open
wrestling meet, held at the Broward County Convention Center Thursday
and Friday.
Augsburg, the
lone NCAA Division III (non-scholarship) team in the field, won
the title with 162 points, bettering second-place James Madison's
(Va.) 132, third-place Maryland's 121.5 and fourth-place Navy's
83.5. Augsburg's White Team (junior varsity) placed fifth wth
74 points.
Augsburg had
two individual champions in the meet -- defending national champion
Nick Slack (Jr., Belle Plaine, Minn.) at 174 pounds
and Nik Lewandowski (Sr., Hastings, Minn.) at 184.
The Auggies
had four other placewinners. Ben Bauer (Sr., Faribault,
Minn.) finished second at heavyweight, Darin Bertram (Jr.,
Herman, Minn./Herman-Norcross HS) placed third at 125 pounds,
Tony Abbott (Jr., Inver Grove Heights, Minn./St. Thomas
Academy HS) placed third at 165 and Mark Anderson (Sr.,
Corcoran, Minn. /Rockford HS) placed fifth at heavyweight.
Augsburg returns
to action with a dual meet at Augustana College (S.D.) on Friday,
Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. in Sioux Falls, S.D.
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return to Augsburg Wrestling, click here
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click here
Augsburg
College, a college of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, is a member of the Minnesota
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) and the National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III.
This
is the official web site for Augsburg College athletics.
All comments or questions regarding this web site should be directed
to Sports Information Coordinator Don Stoner -- E-mail: stoner@augsburg.edu
Phone: (612) 330-1677 .
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