Seton Hill University Athletics

Griffins Dominant in Home Opener

The Griffin wrestling team opened the home portion of their schedule in style with a 29-11 victory over Kutztown on Saturday afternoon.  SHU earned bonus points in three of their seven victories for the convincing win.  SHU improves to 2-0 overall and 2-0 in PSAC dual matches.

Seton Hill opened the match with a 6-4 decision victory from Vincent Distefanis at 125 pounds.  SHU took a 3-0 lead after that match.  At 133 pounds, Rodney Sunday overcame an injury timeout and responded with a win by pinfall 1:10 into the second period of his match.  Sunday extended the Griffins lead to 9-0 early in the match.  Joey Alessandro continued the run of bonus points with a dominating 17-0 tech fall win at 141 pounds.  Alessandro earned the tech fall win 1:22 into the third period.  SHU led 14-0 after three matches.

Kutztown picked up two decision wins in the next two weight classes to trim the Griffins lead to 14-6 midway thru the match. 

The Griffins then responded with four straight wins to solidify the win.  Zach Voytek started the run with a win by pinfall, 6:16 into his match at 165 pounds.  Voytek gave the Griffins a 20-6 lead.  The next three Griffins earned wins by decision.  Damon Greenwald picked up a 9-3 decision win at 174 pounds, Billy Bowlen won 11-5 at 184 pounds and Jacob Temple picked up an 8-3 win at 197 pounds.

SHU will return to action next weekend at the PSAC Championships hosted by Edinboro.

125 Vincent Distefanis (Seton Hill) over Anthony Petril (Kutztown) (Dec 6-4)
133 rodney sunday (Seton Hill) over Lucas Miller (Kutztown) (Fall 4:10) 
141 Joseph Alessandro (Seton Hill) over Jacob Jones (Kutztown) (TF 17-0 6:22)
149 Chad Haegele (Kutztown) over Luke Landefeld (Seton Hill) (Dec 3-1) 
157 Michael O`Brien (Kutztown) over Jake Willochell (Seton Hill) (Dec 13-6) 
165 Zach Voytek (Seton Hill) over William Manley (Kutztown) (Fall 6:16) 
174 Damon Greenwald (Seton Hill) over James Meyer (Kutztown) (Dec 9-3)
184 Nathan Bowlen (Seton Hill) over Jeff Reimel (Kutztown) (Dec 11-5)
197 Jake Temple (Seton Hill) over Evan Kauffman (Kutztown) (Dec 8-3)
285 Ryan Appleby (Kutztown) over Fadehan Kolawole (Seton Hill) (TF 20-4 4:34)