Cliff Keen - Shapiro is for Real
- Thread starter bluemountain1967
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Good Lord that was impressive to watch...The Next Kyle Dake , David Taylor!...Shapiro is the #14 seed in Vegas!
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Knew he was amazing but gdamn that’s crazy.. ur something special when yianni gave such high praise for him…. Happens every year… a crazy freshman arrives on the scene yet we are still surprised by it every year…
Now - true freshman Lorenzo Norman, a Jersey kid, just beat Shane Griffith 4-2. Had over 2 minutes of riding time.
Yeesh, yeah no one is going to beat CStar this year.. thought Griffith mighta had small chance… someone here laughed when I said Iowa fresh, Gabe Arnold could be Cstar’s biggest threat this season… that is unless he RS or goes 184.
This is a fun part of season and see so many upsets and guys/Freshman storming out of the gate...Always interesting following them for next 3.5 months till Kansas City!
Could be going through a soph slump.. ppl always assume that wrestlers will always improve year over year , but I seen plenty of times where a wrestler has his best season his freshman year or as an underclassman.
As impressive as he was vs Andonion... He was outwrestled vs Cardenas...
Then lost his first wrestle back match to Chumbley from Northwestern 2-1. College wrestling is a grind!!
While he is very talented ,he has a very questionable gas tank and doesnt look nearly strong enough for 157. He lost to 2 non AAs and I can’t see him beating Haines or Peyton Robb. He probably should’ve went 149 this year
Other Jersey related results. Danny Wask, from Wantage, who is a freshman at Navy beat Norman and gets Wittlake in the semi-finals. Norman still alive in the wrestle backs. Fernandes the former NJ state champ beat Catka of Virginia Tech 9-3. Fernandes will wrestle Boone McDermott in the wrestle backs. Cardenas from Bergen Catholic has Hilday in the semifinals. Ramirez from Blair in semi-finals and gets David Carr. Unger from Flemington has DeAugustino in the semi-finals at 125.
Top 5 team leaders are Iowa State, Ohio State, Nebraska, Cornell, and NC State. Virginia Tech is currently at # 11.
This is a great tournament with many upsets.
Top 5 team leaders are Iowa State, Ohio State, Nebraska, Cornell, and NC State. Virginia Tech is currently at # 11.
This is a great tournament with many upsets.
Still early my money is he figures it out by years end.. yeah if he ends up not AA then yeah probably shouldn’t have went this year
Wask was teammates with Norman from Blair.. yeah our chances with Blair kids… seems like our recruiting strategy isn’t getting the top top prospects and walkons but rather allocating resources on bunch of mid prospects n have balance dual team..reminds me of fantasy auction draft where u can go route of grabbing gtd point scorers and fill out rest of roster w $1 guys or grab a lot of guys in middle range n have more balance.. can’t get everyone unless ur PSU and have unlimited bankroll..
Some reason thought heard Fernandes was done wrestling at Cornell, guess not..
Can’t remember a year wit this many upsets this early on.. maybe it’s the rule change? The parody is great
Boone had an excellent tournament.. noticed he picked up ranked wins over Nevills, Trephan, Fernandes, Greiss, and is in the third place bout.. wow
Cardenas and Fernandes can only wrestle 1 more year for Cornell but both have 1 more year of eligibility, Fernandes possibly 2 so we ll see both of them somewhere other than Cornell next season
Had no idea Wask was from Wantage , always hate seeing a kid go private when his home public school is a top flight program
We don’t really have a spot for Cardenas but Fernandes is a public school kid who I know has stayed in touch with a lot of wrestling people in the area. I think he’s a real possibility.
Granted heavyweight was pretty weak at the time but his senior year will never be topped as the single most dominant season by a New Jersey high school wrestler. 47-0, 37 pins (35 in the first period including a national record 3 second pin), 9 forfeits, 1 TF (15-0 against the #2 kid in state, he was bored and said he wanted to show his ability to score.) Just ridiculous especially considering he only weighed like 230
That’s pretty bad ass… I’m bored so I’ll decide to tech him instead of pin him.. lol .. would be a nice addition after Yara is done.
Doesn’t Yara have another year after this?
Yara would def be the fav.. but after Boone’s 4th place performance at CLKV.. it’s going to be closer then we would have thought.
who knows, some ppl get more motivation and improve the following year.. he beat some solid guys at CKVL that not sure last year’s version of him woulda beaten.
