Check out what's happening this week in WVU Tech athletics, January 19-24, 2016 — Featuring Men's and Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Swimming and Wrestling. Head over to goldenbearathletics.com and Game Day Central to stay updated on live coverage options throughout the week.
 

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Women's Basketball Tuesday, 6 p.m., vs. Indiana University East POSTPONED, vs. Carlow University Montgomery, West Virginia Live Coverage
WVU Tech Golden Bears | 6-11, 1-5 KIAC	Roster	Stats
Carlow Celtics | 8-8, 2-6 KIAC	Roster	Stats
Indiana East Red Wolves | 10-8, 5-1 KIAC	Roster	Stats

LAST GAME

• Dropped a road conference game to Ohio Christian University 63-48 Saturday afternoon.
• Senior LaKisha Adkins scored a game-high 15 points while pulling down six rebounds to lead Tech.
• Freshman Savannah Shamblin played the complete game and dropped in 13 points to go with five defensive rebounds.
• Shamblin was 3-for-6 from three-point range.
• Junior Elizabeth Evans contributed with nine points and two rebounds.
• Tech was held to just 32.1 percent (17-for-53) shooting from the field while holding their opponent to 37.7 percent (23-for-61) shooting.
• The Golden Bears shot 52.4 percent (11-for-21) from the foul line.

 

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Men's Basketball Tuesday, 8 p.m., vs. Indiana University East POSTPONED, vs. Carlow University Montgomery, West Virginia Live Coverage
WVU Tech Golden Bears | 13-6, 5-1 KIAC	Roster	Stats
Carlow Celtics | 3-14, 0-8 KIAC	Roster	Stats
Indiana East Red Wolves | 12-8, 6-0 KIAC	Roster	Stats

 

• Won their third KIAC match-up of the week after defeating Ohio Christian University 96-91 in a double overtime thriller Saturday afternoon.
• Tech took wins over Carlow University (January 13 | 76-73) and No. 20 University of Rio Grande (January 14 | 88-85) earlier this week.
• The team had five Golden Bears who scored in double figures including a game-high effort from sophomore Ryan Atkins who posted 31 points.
• Atkins, who also pulled down eight rebounds, is currently averaging 22.22 points per game, good enough for a No. 17 ranking in the Nation (NAIA DII).
• Junior Paul Stone also had a standout game, marking 25 points while grabbing a team-high nine boards. Stone was 8-for-12 from the field and 8-for-9 from the bonus line.
• Sophomore Juwuan Wilson poured in 14 points, senior Eddie Gordon had 11 points and junior Patrick Gnagbo scored 10 points in the victory.
• The three posted seven rebounds each along with junior Matthew Kallead to go with his three points and a block.
• As a team, Tech shot 39.7 percent (31-for-78) from the field while committing 15 turnovers and forcing ten Ohio Christian giveaways.

 

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Wrestling West Virginia Collegiate Invitational Saturday, at Wheeling Jesuit University Wheeling, West Virginia Live Coverage
WVU Tech Golden Bears	Roster

Last Meet

• Finished third out of 15 schools and crowned two champions in the Builder Invitational held at the Newport News Apprentice School Sunday.
• Juniors Paul Gonzales (133) and Terry Nance II (197) each won titles for the Golden Bears for their respective weights.
• Gonzales finished the day a perfect 4-0 including a technical fall over James Madison's CJ Lilovich and a 10-6 decision over Jacob Monn of Alderson Broaddus for the title at 133.
• Nance followed suit at 197, also finishing 4-0 with a fall in the quarterfinal (0:52) and a 6-1 decision over Daniel Bowen of VMI.
• Sophomore Tristan Bean (125) and Junior Conrad Lacey (157) were solid on the mat today, both finishing second in their weight classes.
• Bean was 3-1 during the tournament including a technical fall in the quarterfinal over Apprentice School's Tucker Harvey before falling by decision (9-3) to another Builder in the final to Ty Boyd.
• Lacey also produced 16 team points for Tech with three wins Sunday.
• The junior won by fall (1:40) over ECU's Devin Taylor in the first round and fell to AB's Jason West by decision in the championship round, 8-3.
• Joining those Golden Bears with top-five finishes in the tournament include sophomores Othniel Edmond (133 | 3^rd), Corey Palmer (165 | 5^th) and Andrew Reininger (235 | 5^th) and junior Jon Boarman (285 | 5^th).
• Edmond marked two technical falls while Palmer (1:48) and Reininger (2:47) each had a pin.
• Boarman was 4-2 Sunday, picking up all his wins by fall before falling to teammate Reininger in the fifth place match.
• Reininger finished the day with a fall over Boarman at 2:47.

 

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Men's and Women's Swimming POSTPONED until: Friday, January 29, 6 p.m., at Milligan University Milligan, Tennessee Live Coverage
WVU Tech Golden Bears (Men's)	Roster	Stats
WVU Tech Golden Bears (Women's)	Roster	Stats

LAST MEET

• Competed in the Zippy Invitational December 4-6 where 20 school records fell overall.
• The women broke eight individual records as well as all five relay records while the men shattered five individual and two relay records.
• The men finished with 774.5 team points to finish sixth out of seven teams while the women finished eighth with 231 points.
• Sophomore Alexandre Quintão led the men's team with a fourth place finish overall in the 200 freestyle while breaking three individual school records.
• The Belo Horizonte, Brazil native swam the 50 freestyle in 21.28 (past record, 21.49), the 100 freestyle in 46.31 (past record, 46.53) and the 200 freestyle in 1:42.05 (past record, 1:42.51).
• Freshman Arthur Bertrand shattered the 100 and 200 backstroke times as an individual, swimming 52.21 (past record, 53.90) and 1:53.20 (past record, 1:59.68) respectively.
• Bertrand, who hails from Lamballe, France, also helped Tech towards new best times in the 200 medley relay and the 400 medley relay.
• The 200 medley relay team also consisted of sophomores Manuel Serrano Laguna, Geoffroy Gauneau and Quentin Cooper who swam a time of 1:34.71 (past time, 1:35.52).
• Bertrand, senior Jack Cavanagh, Gauneau and Quintão made up the 400 medley relay team that touched after 3:28.15 (past time, 3:28.43) to place sixth overall.
• For the women, the Gold and Blue were able to make history by breaking all relay records including completely shattering the time for the 400 medley relay with a 4:02.05 (past time, 4:20.82) and the 800 freestyle relay with a 7:58.53 (past time, 8:31.11).
• Both teams were made up of freshmen Isabela Kiesewetter Zandavalli and Mariana Loureiro, sophomore Kendra Monnin and junior Francine Meyer.
• Those Golden Bears also broke the past school record (3:53.31) in the 400 freestyle relay by touching at 3:42.27.
• The team of Meyer, seniors Rubhi Garcia-Mercado and Shannon Wiercioch and junior Janay Wright-Parks swam a 1:44.02 (past record, 1:44.08) and 1:53.69 (past time, 1:54.57) in the 200 freestyle and medley relays respectively.
• Individually, Meyer busted the 50 freestyle with a time of 24.67 (past time, 24.92) and the 100 freestyle by finishing with a time of 53.52 (past time, 55.73).
• Monnin grabbed four new school records in the 200 freestyle (1:55.58), the 100 breaststroke (1:05.73), the 200 breaststroke (2:22.58) and the 200 individual medley (2:08.28).
• Zandaval also posted new school records in the 100 and 200 backstroke with times of 59.15 and 2:08.41 respectively.
• The WVU Tech swim program is on the rise in David Dent's first year as the interim head coach. In duals, the men are 4-1 while the women hold a record of 2-3, winning their first and second dual meets in program history.

 

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