UTC 34, THE CITADEL 3
(Meet started at 184 pounds)125 – Alonzo Allen (UTC) dec. Charles Kearney, 8-2; 133 – Cody Hill (UTC) dec. Caleb Smith, 8-2; 141 – Mike Pongracz (UTC) dec. Tyler Buckiso, 3-2; 149 – Chase Zemenak (UTC) dec. Matthew Frisch, 3-1, SV1; 157 – Aaron Walker (Cit) dec. Kamaal Shakur, 3-1; 165 – Dominic Lampe (UTC) major dec. Jason Carr, 16-6; 174 – Sean Mappes (UTC) major dec. Timothy Knipl, 16-3; 184 – John Lampe (UTC) pinned Sawyer Root, 2:16; 197 – Scottie Boykin (UTC) dec. Marshall Haas, 9-4; 285 – Jared Johnson (UTC) major dec. Joseph Bexley, 10-2.Records: UTC 11-4, 6-1 SoCon; Citadel 5-9, 2-5.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga secured a piece of the Southern Conference wrestling championship Friday.
Wrestling in Charleston, S.C., the Mocs took nine of 10 matches in a 34-3 victory at The Citadel.
Coach Heath Eslinger, somewhat reserved with his comments about sharing the SoCon’s regular-season title with Appalachian State and Gardner-Webb, was enthusiastic about his team’s individual performances Friday. That included their one loss, a 3-1 setback for 157-pound Kamaal Shakur.
“It’s good,” he said. “No one likes sharing, but out of all the years there has been a SoCon (regular-season title) we’ve done a good job of being dominant, and sharing is better than not getting anything.”