Bonilla-Bowman wrestling in NCAA Championships
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Former three-time sectional champ and two-time state placefinisher Jonny Bonilla-Bowman (East Ramapo) won his 157-pound first-round match, overcoming fourth-seeded Brandon Becker of Indiana, 4-3.
Bonilla-Bowman, the CAA champ, had a first-round bye. Trailing 1-0 entering the third period, Bonilla-Bowman chose neutral. He scored a quick takedown, cut Becker, the took him down again for a 4-2 lead. Bonilla-Bowman cut Becker to make the score 4-3.
Bonilla-Bowman will face 12th-seeded Justin Zupancic of Stanford, who upset fifth-seeded C.P. Schlatter of Minnesota, 5-4 in their match.
Clarkstown North coach Tony Mellino, who is in St. Louis for the Championships, gave me the update on Bonilla-Bowman’s win.
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Tony PinciaroPinciaro, who grew up in Silver Lake, has been covering high school wrestling for The Journal News for 14 years. During this period he has covered some of Section 1's finest wrestlers from Joe Mazzurco to Griff Powell to P.J. Bory to Phil Donnelly, just to name a few. Tony is married with two children, Elena, 9, and Vincent, 6, a future
Section 1 wrestler. (He can already take his father down with a double.)
Wow! Andrew Lenzi made the Daily News! This is great press for Andrew and wrestling in general! Congratulations!
Article:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/high_school/2008/03/18/2008-03-18_fordham_preps_andrew_lenzi_becomes_citys-1.html
Video:
http://media.nydailynews.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?clipId1=2301174&at1=Sport&vt1=v&h1=Bronx+wrestling+champ%21&d1=40433&redirUrl=http://media.nydailynews.com&activePane=info&LaunchPageAdTag=homepage&clipFormat=flv&rnd=50361055
You can watch live web of NCAA Wrestling Championships on ESPN360 Friday and Saturday
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/espn360/index
Live match reporting at http://www.intermatwrestle.com/eventscoverage/NCAA2007Div1.htm
BOWMAN WINS!He will wrestle in the quarters tomorrow against
J Zupancic from Stanford who upset CP Schlatter.Bowman beat the 4th seed. Good luck Jonny