Seton Hill hosted Wheeling Jesuit on Senior Night in the McKenna Center on Saturday evening. Before the match, SHU honored its three seniors,
Brett Smith,
Trey Cole and
Christian Bosco. Wheeling Jesuit won six of the ten matches for a 22-14 victory. SHU drops to 8-4 on the season.
Wheeling Jesuit won the first two matches to take a quick 6-0 lead.
Joseph Alessandro trimmed the lead to 6-5 with a dominating 18-2 tech fall victory at 141 pounds.
Ty Lydic then put the Griffins in front with a 2-1 decision victory at 149 pounds. WJU retook the lead 9-8 with a 4-2 decision win at 157 pounds. SHU jumped back in the lead with a hard fought 5-3 decision victory by
Andrew Doak at 165 pounds. WJU then built their lead to 16-11 with two victories at 174 & 184 pounds.
Jacob Temple trimmed the WJU lead to 16-14 with a tough 3-2 decision victory at 197 pounds. The Cardinals then won the match with a pinfall in the 285 pound match.
SHU will be off for a few days before returning to action at the NCAA Division II Super Region I Championships at Mercyhurst University the weekend of February 26th.
125 Dustin Warner (Wheeling Jesuit University) over Collin Dees (Seton Hill) (Dec 6-1)
133 Nolan Whitely (Wheeling Jesuit University) over rodney sunday (Seton Hill) (Dec 9-5)
141 Joseph Alessandro (Seton Hill) over Damon Outward (Wheeling Jesuit University) (TF 18-2 4:22)
149 Ty Lydic (Seton Hill) over Dominick Nania (Wheeling Jesuit University) (Dec 2-1)
157 Peyton Geary (Wheeling Jesuit University) over Tanner Druck (Seton Hill) (Dec 4-2)
165 Andrew Doak (Seton Hill) over Keegan Driscoll (Wheeling Jesuit University) (Dec 5-3)
174 Dean Meyer (Wheeling Jesuit University) over Christian Bosco (Seton Hill) (Dec 11-8)
184 Sawyer Leppla (Wheeling Jesuit University) over Morris Lawson (Seton Hill) (MD 13-4)
197 Jake Temple (Seton Hill) over Terrance Fanning (Wheeling Jesuit University) (Dec 3-2)
285 Logan Bowman (Wheeling Jesuit University) over Alex Soutiere (Seton Hill) (Fall 6:25)