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Griffins Go 2-0 at SHU Tri Meet

1/20/2026 10:46:00 PM

Seton Hill hosted their first matches of the season as they hosted the SHU Tri Meet on Tuesday evening in the McKenna Center.  

The Griffins hosted Shippensburg in a PSAC West dual before hosting Wheeling in the third match of the evening.   

SHU defeated Shippensburg by the score of 31-9 and then defeated Wheeling 28-15 to go 2-0 on the day.  SHU is now 5-1 in dual matches and 1-1 in PSAC duals on the season.  

The Griffins took an early 7-3 lead in the Shippensburg match after a win from Jacob Sombronski by major decision and one by decision from Youssef Abdelsalam.  SHU increased their lead to 18-3 after a tech fall win from Ty Linsenbigler and a win by fall from Mike Zacur.  The Griffins also got a win by decision from Kane Kettering and a win by major decision from Troy McClellandRitchie McCormack earned a win by forfeit.  

Jacob Houpt gave the Griffins a quick 4-0 lead after a win by major decision to open the Wheeling match.  SHU then took a 10-9 lead after a win by forfeit from Linsenbigler.  Zacur then won a hard fought decision in sudden victory at 157 pounds which increased the Griffins lead to 13-9.  SHU then got a medical forfeit win from Christian Hirak and a forfeit win from Kettering.  McClelland won the final match of the night for the Griffins with a decision win at 184 pounds.  

SHU will travel to Pitt Johnstown on Friday evening for another PSAC dual match.  

SHU 31, Ship 9

125 Jacob Sombronski (Seton Hill) over Colin Marano (Shippensburg) (MD 9-1) 
133 Kyle Von Schmidt (Shippensburg) over Jacob Braun (Seton Hill) (Dec 5-3) 
141 Youssef Abdelsalam (Seton Hill) over Kaden Casey (Shippensburg) (Dec 5-0) 
149 Ty Linsenbigler (Seton Hill) over Michael Trainor (Shippensburg) (TF 16-0 6:28) 
157 Mike Zacur (Seton Hill) over Anthony Lavish (Shippensburg) (Fall 5:46) (delete) 
165 Nick Delp (Shippensburg) over Christian Hirak (Seton Hill) (Dec 6-3) 
174 Kane Kettering (Seton Hill) over Kyler Everly (Shippensburg) (Dec 2-0) 
184 Troy McClelland (Seton Hill) over Cole Lang (Shippensburg) (MD 11-3)
197 Diesel Koser (Shippensburg) over Luke Boylan (Seton Hill) (Dec 4-0) 
285 Ritchie McCormack (Seton Hill) over Unknown (For.) 

Seton Hill 28, Wheeling 15

125 Jacob Houpt (Seton Hill) over Brent Bosley (Wheeling) (MD 11-1) 
133 Leroy Steagall (Wheeling) over Jacob Braun (Seton Hill) (MD 18-7) 
141 Jack Dinwiddie (Wheeling) over Youssef Abdelsalam (Seton Hill) (TF 20-4 6:30) 
149 Ty Linsenbigler (Seton Hill) over Unknown (For.) 
157 Mike Zacur (Seton Hill) over Jeremy Ginter (Wheeling) (SV-1 7-4) 
165 Christian Hirak (Seton Hill) over Jake Taylor (Wheeling) (MFFL) 
174 Kane Kettering (Seton Hill) over Unknown (For.) 
184 Troy McClelland (Seton Hill) over Xander Kartes (Wheeling) (Dec 8-4) 
197 Jaxon Burcher (Wheeling) over Luke Boylan (Seton Hill) (Dec 3-2) 
285 Gavin Harper (Wheeling) over Ritchie McCormack (Seton Hill) (Dec 4-0) 

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