Released By Aaron Sweazy
Asst. Coach
Neosho County Community College

Carney, Nixon pace Panther Wrestlers at Northern Colorado Open.

Greeley, Colorado (11/ 18/2007)-

Kenny Carney and Daunte’ Nixon wrapped up a highly successful weekend by both finishing as runners up in their prospective weights at the UNC Old Chicago Open held in Greeley, Colorado on Sunday. Carney a freshman from New Jersey and Nixon a freshman from South Carolina finished tournament with 4-1 and 3-1 records respectively. Overall the Panthers finished 18-18 on the day record wise with several wrestlers narrowly missing out on top six placing. UNC Open featured colleges from NJCAA all the way up to DI and had typical brackets of around 20 or more combatants in each weight. Neosho is idle this weekend with some wrestlers making the trek to the Oklahoma Open on November 24.

North Colorado’ Old Chicago Open

Neosho Records:

125 Donte Butler 3-2

133 Rory Kendall 1-2

141 Jeremy Lawley 1-2

149 Ty Jaquess 0-2

157 Dustin Burton 0-2

165 Kenny Carney 4-1; 2nd place

174 Jason Green 2-2

184 Tim Cross 2-2

197 Daunte’ Nixon 3-1; 2nd place

197 Sam Robbins 2-2