Seton Hill University Athletics

Griffins Come Up Short in PSAC Battle

Seton Hill and Pitt Johnstown hooked up in an important PSAC Wrestling Dual on Wednesday evening with the winner of the match remaining undefeated in conference matchups.  Pitt Johnstown won the final two matches to rally for a 21-17 win over the Griffins in the McKenna Center.  SHU falls to 6-2 overall and 3-1 in PSAC duals while UPJ improves to 7-3 overall and 3-0 in PSAC duals.

You can hear coach Tucker talk about the match here.

The Griffins got off to a great start by winning the first two matches of the dual.  Vincent Distefanis opened the match with a tight 5-4 victory at 125 pounds to give the Griffins an early 3-0 lead.  Rodney Sunday extended the Griffins lead to 8-0 with an 18-1 tech fall win at 133 pounds.  Sunday closed out the match just 19 seconds into the third period of his match. 

UPJ cut the Griffins lead to 8-4 with a win at 141 pounds.  Joey Alessandro earned a tough 1-0 decision at 149 pounds to increase the Griffins lead to 11-4.  Alessandro earned the point with an escape in the second period of his match..

The Mountain Cats took their first lead of the match with two wins in a row.  They earned a win by fall at 157 pounds and then a 5-4 decision at 165 pounds to take a 13-11 lead over the Griffins. 

Seton Hill responded with two wins by decision to take the lead right back from the Mountain Cats.  Damon Greenwald won a 6-5 decision at 174 pounds to put the Griffins back in front by a 14-13 score.  Zach Mattucci won a back and forth battle at 184 pounds.  Mattucci won by an 8-6 score to give SHU an 17-13 lead with two matches remaining. 

The Griffins were not able to close out the match as they dropped the final two matches in the dual.  UPJ trimmed the Griffins lead to 17-16 after a 6-0 decision loss at 197 pounds.  The Mountain Cats closed out the match with a 21-4 tech fall win at 285 pounds for a 21-17 win for the Cats.

SHU returns to the mats on Friday when they travel to Shippensburg for another PSAC Dual.

UPJ  21  SHU   17
125 Vincent Distefanis (Seton Hill) over Brendan Howard (Pittsburgh-Johnstown) (Dec 5-4)
133 rodney sunday (Seton Hill) over Mathew Siszka (Pittsburgh-Johnstown) (TF 18-1 5:19) 
141 Chris Eddins (Pittsburgh-Johnstown) over Joel Cawoski (Seton Hill) (MD 14-2)
149 Joey Alessandro (Seton Hill) over Corey Falleroni (Pittsburgh-Johnstown) (Dec 1-0) 
157 Cody Law (Pittsburgh-Johnstown) over Austin Shaw (Seton Hill) (Fall 3:50)
165 Devin Austin (Pittsburgh-Johnstown) over Zach Voytek (Seton Hill) (Dec 5-4) 
174 Damon Greenwald (Seton Hill) over Steven Edwards (Pittsburgh-Johnstown) (Dec 6-5) 
184 Zach Mattucci (Seton Hill) over Alex Delp (Pittsburgh-Johnstown) (Dec 8-6)
197 Levi Niebauer (Pittsburgh-Johnstown) over Jacob Temple (Seton Hill) (Dec 6-0)
285 Damon Sims Jr. (Pittsburgh-Johnstown) over Jody Crouse (Seton Hill) (TF 21-4 6:54)