Wrestling advances four to NCAA Championship

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA. – Seniors Kaidon Winters and Zach Stedeford, junior Austin Lamb and freshman Josh Harkless punched their tickets to the NCAA D-III National Championship by finishing in the prime-3 at the NCAA Mideast Regionals, Sunday.

“We are extremely proud of this weekend’s effectiveness. Acquiring two wrestlers from my initially recruiting course qualify jointly is incredibly distinctive,” RIT head wrestling coach Jason Bovenzi stated.

Of the 4, Winters dominated the 157-pound bracket with four pins and took the only two awards supplied to wrestlers at the event Most Remarkable Wrestler and Most Falls in The very least Total of Time.

“Kaidon was his usual dominant self, but Zach coming by way of as a sixth seed to consider third and qualify is unique as very well. He was so shut to qualifying his sophomore calendar year inserting fourth in the area at the rear of a nationwide champion and two other All-People in america. The adhering to year he experienced a time ending shoulder surgical procedure which was followed by a COVID-canceled year past calendar year. To see the joy in him and his family was incredibly fulfilling. Our more youthful qualifiers (Austin and Josh) are of sophomore and freshmen eligibility. The knowledge they get at the NCAA’s will support raise the targets and anticipations for long run teams. We really feel like we had the opportunity to deliver more, but it is a challenging match and there is no margin for mistake. We will discover from it and be far better for it going forward. The up coming competition is in which legends are manufactured. We continue to have work forward of us, Bovenzi reported.

Winters pinned Perry Maio (The College or university of N.J.) in 3:39 in the opening round and then pinned Tyler Newton (College of Pttsburgh-Bradford) in 2:06 in the quarterfinals on Saturday. On Sunday, Winters pinned Muhlenberg’s Anson Dewar in the semifinals just after 6:07 and then took the championship in 3:53 with a pin over The College or university of New Jersey’s Matthew Sacco. Winters essential a merged 15:45 to pin all 4 opponents with an normal pin time of just under 4 minutes for each match.

Lamb completed next in the 165-pound bracket following starting with a pair of 6-1 choices above Oswego’s Isaac Mathews and Matt Surich (The Faculty of N.J.) in the quarterfinals on Saturday. Lamb took a 7-5 unexpected victory above Elizabethtown’s Brian Schneider in the semifinals, prior to falling in the tile bout by a 6-2 choice to Dominick Reyes of Johns Hopkins.

Harkless completed 3rd in the 197-pound bracket starting off with a pin around Scranton’s Steve Murphy in 4:32 and a 4-2 quarterfinal victory in excess of Kyle Hillermeier (N.J. City University) on Saturday. Harkless fell 5-1 to Quinn Haddad (The College of N.J.) in the semifinals, but registered a pair of wrestleback wins to get paid third about Ursinus’ Jason Carter (6:59 fall) and Muhlenberg’s Luca Colestock (5-1 decision).

Taking the most tricky path to a excursion to Iowa was Stedeford. The senior concluded 3rd in the 174-bracket following setting up with a pin in excess of Brockport’s Jared Zenie in 2:42. Stedeford shed a shut 7-6 choice in the quarterfinals to Johns Hopkins’ Joe Paul before profitable all four wrestleback matches (7-, 4-2 SV, 8- MD, 6-2) to assert third.

RIT also experienced one fifth-put finisher, 1 sixth-spot finisher, and two seventh-place finishers. Sophomore Michael Glynn III took fifth in the 149-pound bracket. Junior Colby Giroux concluded sixth in the 184-pound bracket. Senior Christopher Horton (141-pound bracket) and junior Calik Kennedy (285-pound bracket) every concluded seventh.

The NCAA D-III Wrestling Championship commences Friday, March 11 at Alliant Vitality Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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