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Wrestling 3/4/06 -- Augsburg at NCAA Division III National Championships -- Session 3 AUGSBURG
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS WEBSITE -- CLICK HERE EWING, N.J. (3/4/06) -- Sending three wrestlers to tonight's national championship matches and three more to third-place matches, the Augsburg College wrestling team remained in third place with 84.5 points after the third session of the NCAA Division III national championships on Saturday afternoon at The College of New Jersey's Student Recreation Center. Wartburg (Iowa), which finished second to Augsburg in last year's championship race, sits comfortably in pursuit of its fifth team national title with 134.5 points. The Knights advanced a Division III record-tying six wrestlers to national championship matches and have three more in consolation finals tonight. Wisconsin-La Crosse, with three wrestlers advancing to national championship matches and four in consolation finals, is in second place with 95.0 points. St. John's, with two wrestlers in consolation finals, is in 14th place with 19.0 points. The final session of the meet begins at 4 p.m. (Eastern) tonight, with third-, fifth- and seventh-place matches. The championship finals will begin at 7 p.m. Auggie wrestlers went 8-1 in their matches in the third session on Saturday. Ryan Valek (Sr., Belle Plaine, Minn./Scott West), a three-time All-American at 165 pounds for the Auggies, advanced to the national championship match for the second straight year with the Auggies' first pin of the tournament, a 2:34 pin of Tim Maxworthy of Heidelberg (Ohio). Valek, the No. 2-ranked wrestler nationally at 165, will face Wisconsin-Eau Claire's Derek Sikora in the finals. Sikora topped Valek 3-1 in overtime in the duo's only meeting this year, in the finals of the Wisconsin-Eau Claire Blugold Invitational on Feb. 4. Valek is now 41-3 on the season and 133-38 in his career. Jafari Vanier (So., Minneapolis, Minn./Bloomington Kennedy HS), entering his first NCAA Division III national tournament as an unseeded wrestler, continued his run of wins against seeded wrestlers to reach the 133-pound national championship match. In the semifinals on Saturday, Vanier scored a takedown with 22 seconds left in the first overtime period to claim a 3-1 win over seventh-seed John Sheets of Manchester (Ind.). Vanier will face fourth-seed Mike Lopez of Luther (Iowa) in tonight's championship match. Vanier, now 19-2 on the year, is in his first season at Augsburg after finishing second at the national junior college championships as a competitor at Iowa Central Community College in 2002. Jeremy Anderson (So., Thief River Falls, Minn.), a transfer from the University of Minnesota, advanced to the national title match at 157 pounds for the first time with a 7-5 victory over Robert Gingerich of North Central (Ill.) in Saturday's semifinals. The two had split their two earlier meetings this season. Anderson jumped out to a 4-1 second-period lead and used a takedown with 1:34 left in the third period to clinch the win. Anderson, now 44-2 on the season, will face Joe Pflug of Heidelberg (Ohio) in tonight's championship match. At 184, Augsburg's Brad Tupa (Sr., Dundas, Minn./Faribault HS), took an early lead in his semifinal match against top-seed Duane Bastress of York (Pa.), but Bastress converted a takedown and three-point near-fall in the closing stages of the second period to take the lead, en route to an 11-4 victory. Tupa rallied to clinch a spot in the third-place match with a 10-2, major-decision victory over Terry Madden of Hunter (N.Y.) in the wrestlebacks. Tupa scored seven points on three near-falls in the second period to take a commanding lead, improving to 21-4 on the season. Tupa, who finished fourth last season at 184, will face Jason Lulloff of Wisconsin-La Crosse in the third-place match tonight. At 149, Jared Evans (Jr., Blue Earth, Minn./Blue Earth Area HS) scored two victories in wrestleback matches to reach the third-place match, improving to 38-7 on the season. Evans scored a 5-2 win over Sean Connelly of Mt. Union (Ohio), then rallied from a 5-1 second-period deficit to score a 7-6 victory over top-seed Matt Pyle of Luther (Iowa). Evans will face second-seed Jason Roush of Mt. St. Joseph (Ohio) in the third-place match. At 174, Robbie Gotreau (So., Bloomington, Minn./Jefferson HS) reached the third-place match with two wins in wrestleback action. He scored his second win of the season against Alan Stacilauskas of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a 7-3 triumph, then scored a takedown with 18 seconds left in the first overtime period to score a 6-4 win over Mathias Keib of Ithaca (N.Y.). Gotreau, now 44-8 on the year, will face Wisconsin-La Crosse's Josh Chelf for the second time in the tournament in the third-place match. Chelf topped Gotreau 4-2 in four overtimes (second sudden-victory overtime) in yesterday's quarterfinal match. St. John's 157-pounder Jacob Malone claimed two victories to reach the third-place match, topping Joseph Duca of Ithaca (N.Y.) 3-2 and North Central's Gingerich 2-1. Johnnie 184-pounder Dan Willaert will wrestle for seventh place, after falling 13-6 to Terry Madden of Hunter (N.Y.) in the wrestlebacks. Wrestling -- Augsburg at NCAA Division III National
Championships -- Session 3 Top 10 team standings: 1. Wartburg (Iowa) 134.5; 2. Wisconsin-La Crosse 95.0; 3. Augsburg (Minn.) 84.5; 4. Luther (Iowa) 52.5; 5. York (Pa.) 44.5; 6. Cortland State (N.Y.) 32.5; 7t. Brockport State (N.Y.) 30.0; 7t. Simpson (Iowa) 30.0; 9. Heidelberg (Ohio) 28.0; 10. Delaware Valley (Pa.) 26.0. Other Minnesota school: 14. St. John's 19.0. Saturday's results involving Minnesota wrestlers: To return to Augsburg Wrestling, click here To return to Augsburg Athletics, 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
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