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Logan Brown shakes hands with Purdue Coach, Scott Hinkle.
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JANUARY 15, 2011 - ASHLAND
Logan Brown, a 2006 state wrestling champion at Covington High School and a senior at Purdue University, stamped his name into the Purdue record books over the weekend with his 100th career win and 300th career takedown.
The 100th career win came in sweet fashion for Brown as he defeated Anthony Biondo of Michigan with a 7-4 decision in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Friday. Brown used a takedown in the first ten seconds and another in the final 10 seconds to secure the win.
"Being an Ohio guy who grew up hating Michigan, it was pretty sweet to get my 100th win against them," Brown said of his 100th win, something only 15 other Purdue wrestlers have accomplished in the history of the school.
The former Buccaneer then reached another milestone in his very next match at Ashland University on Saturday. It came on his very first takedown in the Wendy's Duals against Travis Porter of Gardner-Webb.
From there, Brown cruised to a 20-5 technical fall victory over Porter.
"It is pretty sweet, I guess" said Brown of becoming just the 6th Purdue wrestler to record 300 career takedowns. "But really, I don't think about stuff like that because I'm more focused on getting on the podium (at the NCAA Championships). Everything right now is preparing me for that."
Still, reaching career milestones that put his name along with the premier wrestlers in Purdue history is something to be cherished.
"I'm sure, after my career is over, I'll look back at everything and reflect on what I've accomplished," he continued. "Maybe that's when I'll say to myself, hey, I won over 100 matches and had so many takedowns in my college career and that's something to be proud of. But until my career is over I'm only focused on becoming an All-American."
In his second match of the day at the Wendy's duals on Saturday, things didn't go Brown's way against the pre-season #1 ranked wrestler in the nation, Dustin Kilgore of Kent State.
Brown dropped an 11-3 decision to Kilgore in a match that got completely out of control with each minute. Everything from punches being thrown to an attempted knee to the face - all by Kilgore - materialized over the three periods.
"He thought I was poking him in the eyes," Brown explained. "Whatever. I can't control what he does, I can only control what I do. I just tried to keep my composure and wrestle. Unfortunately, I didn't wrestle very good in that match."
Brown got in deep on a double in the early moments, but wasn't able to finish for the takedown as Kilgore scrambled to get the takedown and three back points.
"I made a couple of mistakes that I guarantee won't happen again if I face him at Nationals," said Brown. "Hopefully that happens (a rematch with Kilgore)."
Brown bounced back in his final match of the Wendy's duals with a convincing 18-5 major decision over Cordy Running of Ashland to improve to 15-3 on the season.
It was Brown's final match in the state of Ohio and he had a large contingent of supporters make the trip from Covington to watch him compete.
"That means a lot to me to have that many people come and watch me wrestle," said Brown. "People in Covington have supported me throughout my entire career and I can't thank them enough for that. To have Coach (Tom Barbee) there, Scooby (Dennis Willoughby) there, all of those people - it really means a lot."
And Brown put on an impressive display of takedowns against Running, a wrestler who won a high school state championship in Ohio last year and was recruited heavily by Purdue.
"It's a shame we couldn't get him (at Purdue)," said Brown of the former Clinton Massie wrestler. "He's going to be a good one, if he has the right people in the room to push him. He would have fit in great in our room and I would have loved to have had him as a drill partner. I wish him the best though."
At the end of the weekend it was about Logan Brown's historic accomplishments as the 9th ranked 197 lb. wrestler in the nation at Purdue University.
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