Portions of the release can be found below...
• This Week
After returning from a Thanksgiving weekend break, the Adams State College Grizzlies, ranked ninth in NCAA Division II, return to action at this Friday and Saturday's Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. The tournament is expected to draw approximately 50 teams, many of which are NCAA Division I squads. Action begins at 9 a.m. (PST) each day in the city's Cashman Center. For more information about the tournament, visit the official web site www.cklvwrestle.com. Throughout the tournament, fans can follow the tournament results online at TheWrestlingMall.com
• Reviewing the 2004 Tournament
Adams State College's Kortney Lake (Craig, Colo.) wrestled his way to a place at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational for the second straight year. Finishing eighth with a 4-3 record, Lake led the Grizzlies to a 34th place finish in the 23rd annual tournament. Lake had finished fourth in the 133-pound bracket of the 2003 tournament and went on to All-America honors with a sixth place finish at the 2004 NCAA Division II National Championships in Mankato, Minn. He is the only Grizzly in Jason Ramstetter's coaching tenure, now in its seventh year, to have placed in the tournament.
The eight members of the Grizzly team that competed posted a combined 13 wins, 12 of which came against NCAA Division I foes. All but two of the eight posted at least one win and helped the Grizzlies score 16.5 team points as ASC finished ahead of Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference rivals Western State (37th) and seven NCAA Division I schools in the 46-team tournament.
Michigan, which had finished second to Nebraska in 2003, had four individual champions and scored 148 points to edge Nebraska, which had 139.5 points, for the overall team title.
• ASC's Probable Lineup for Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (Dec. 2-3)
125- #2 Rob McCabe, Sr. (3-2, 1 Fall)
133- #5 Raymond Dunning, So. (4-1, 3 Falls)
141- Brian Pitts, Jr. (3-4, 1 Fall)
149- Dan Intlekofer, Fr. (4-2, 2 Falls)
157- OPEN
165- #2 Evan Copeland, So. (3-2)
174- James Reynolds, Jr. (6-3)
184- Josh Vialpando, Sr. (2-4)
197- Casey Woodall, Jr. (4-1)
HWT- Heath Soderstrom, Sr. (4-3, 1 Fall)
#'s- Indicate National Division II Wrestling Coaches Association Rankings
• Rankings nothing new for Grizzlies
The Grizzlies have been ranked as a team in each of the last 30 sets of NCAA Division II Wrestling Coaches Association Polls dating back to the final 2000-01 season poll. They have been in the top 10 for the last five (dating back to 2004-05) and 11 of the last 15. They reached a Jason Ramstetter coaching era best fifth in the 2003-04 preseason poll.
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