Central Michigan University Athletics
Wrestling Takes On Michigan
12/4/2000 12:00:00 AM | Wrestling
Dec. 4, 2000
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THE TEAM-- The Central Michigan University wrestling team travels to Ann Arbor this Saturday, Dec. 9, to take on the University of Michigan. Action is slated to begin at 7 p.m. The Chippewas head into the match after coming off a first-place tie with Iowa State on Saturday, Dec. 2, at the Simpson Duals. The Cyclones beat the Chippewas, 37-4, in a dual match on Sunday, Dec. 3. The Chippewas look to improve on a career mark of 1-13 against the Wolverines.
THE COACH-- Tom Borrelli enters his 10th season as head coach of the Chippewas. CMU is 93-55-5 overall and 34-11 in the MAC under Borrelli. The veteran coach has been named MAC "Coach of the Year" four times and was tabbed "National Coach of the Year" by two organizations in 1998. He has coached 27 MAC champions and 11 All-Americans. Central has finished in the top 10 nationally in two of the last three seasons.
WEEKEND REVIEW- The Chippewas come off a successful weekend at the Simpson Duals on Saturday, Dec. 2. The team earned a first-place tie with the Iowa State Cyclones. Both teams reached the feat with a 3-0 tournament mark.
Leading the way for the Chippewas at125 was Ahmad Sanders (Flint/Sr.) who was 3-0 with a pin. Jordan Webster (Washington, Ill./So.) went 4-0 at133 with two pins. At 141, Jason Mester (Mineral Point, Wis./Fr.)was 3-0 with two pins. Ty Morgan (New Carlisle,Ohio/Fr.) finished 4-0 and had two pins competing at the 149 and 157 weight classes. Kevin Carr (Milford,Ind./Fr.) was 4-0 at 174 and Brett Faustman (Mason/So.) went 4-0 at197.
Other Chippewas competing in the Simpson Duals were Mark Rusz (St. Charles/So.) who was 1-0 with a pin, Derek Phillips (Perrinton/So.) 2-0 with two pins, Russ Clark (Holt/So.) 2-1 with a pin, Mitch Hancock (Royal Oak/Fr.)1-1 with a pin, Dean Schuler (Delta,Ohio/Fr.) 2-0, Jeff Pangborn (Durand/Fr.) 3-1, Jack Leffler (Morris, Ill./Jr.) 1-1 and Jim Kilcoyne (Portage/Fr.) was 2-0 with two pins.
The Chippewas dropped a 37-4 decision to No. 3-ranked Iowa State on Sunday, Dec. 3. Sanders picked up the lone individual Chippewa victory at 125 with an 18-6 major decision over the Cyclones' Jacob Moore.
HEAD COACH TOM BORRELLI ON THE SIMPSON DUALS-"The main emphasis was on getting experience. The competition was not that good. The only team to give us a challenge was Minnesota State-Mankato. Russell Clark got injured in his match which put us in a disadvantage for that dual meet."
BORRELLI ON IOWA STATE-"We were disappointed with our performance. We wanted to compete harder. I don't want to take anything away from Iowa State but we could have been more aggressive and it showed in the final score. We have a young team that was put in that situation for the first time so, hopefully, we will learn from it."
NOTES-The Chippewas Ahmad Sanders (Flint/Sr.) was the first recipient of the Mid-American Conference "Wrestler of the Week" last week. The standout earned the honor by finishing second at the Michigan State Open on, Nov. 19, with a 3-1 record. Sanders picked up two wins over top-20 wrestlers' Brent Thompson and A.J. Grant...The loss to Iowa State this weekend ended the Chippewas dual winning streak at nine. Prior to the loss, the Chippewas had not loss a dual meet since Jan. 3, 2000, when they dropped a 20-17 decision to Cal-State Bakersfield...The Chippewas had a total of 13 pins at this weekend's Simpson Duals.
