College Wrestling
Rider University 43, Bloomsburg University 0
LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ—The Broncs won all 10 bouts to defeat Bloomsburg in an Eastern Wrestling League dual meet Friday night. “Blooms is going through a tough time right now and I feel for that, having been there,” said Rider head coach Gary Taylor. “Our kids wrestled pretty well tonight.”
For Rider (7-8, 3-2 EWL) senior Robert Deutsch (Cherry Hill, NJ/Eastern Regional) won a major decision, sophomore Wayne Stinson (Wrightstown, NJ/Northern Burlington Regional) won a major decision, freshman Michale Fagg-Daves (Somerset, NJ/Franklin) won by a major decision and junior Ryan Wolfe (New Castle, Del./Caravel) won by major decision.
Wolfe won for the sixth straight time and improved to 19-8 overall, 5-0 in the EWL. Since placing eighth at the prestigious Midlands Championships Wolfe is 7-1 in his last eight dual meets. “His experience at Midlands really helped Ryan,” Taylor said. “In the beginning of the year Ryan was still adjusting to moving up two weight classes. He was wrestling at such a fast pace. At 197 you have to be a bit more careful. At Midlands he learned that at this weight it is more of a positional match.”
“I think I peaked at Midlands,” said Wolfe, who was an EWL champion last year at 174. “That got my confidence up. I'm learning how to relax and just wrestle my style, not the style of my opponent. Competing against the level I did at Midlands and being right with them really helped me.”
Senior Conor Brennan (Brick, NJ/Brick Twp.), ranked ninth in the nation, returned to the lineup after missing the last five matches and won. “It is good to have our full team back,” Taylor said.
Brennan improved to 19-2 overall, 2-0 in the EWL.
Rider sophomore Chad Walsh (Cherry Hill, NJ/Camden Catholic) and sophomore Mauro Correnti (Delran, N.J./Holy Cross) also won decisions.
Walsh, ranked 15th in the nation, improved to 18-5 overall, 5-0 in the EWL.
For Bloomsburg (1-13, 0-4 EWL) red-shirt freshman Brendon Colbert gave nationally ranked Walsh a tight match and briefly led 5-4. He was the only Huskie to hold a lead all night.
Rider has now won 10 of the 16 meetings with Bloomsburg, including the last three. The last time Bloomsburg defeated Rider was during the 2008-09 season.
The Broncs compete at the University of Pennsylvania Sunday at 12 noon and return to Alumni Gym to host George Mason in an EWL dual at 6pm Sunday. “That's kind of annoying, having to do that,” Wolfe said, “but we trust the coaches. They know what they are doing. They are trying to get us to peak at the right time. So I'm sure this is good for us.”
“A day like that, it is tough for the guys to do that, but that's what makes them tough,” Taylor said. “Mason is a conference match and very important but right now we are just concentrating on Penn. I can't even think about Mason yet.”
“We're coming together right now,” Wolfe said. “We have our starting lineup back so I think we are going to finish strong.”
Rider 43, Bloomsburg 0
174 Wayne Stinson-R major dec. Casey Glunt-B 12-4 4-0
184 Michale Fagg-Daves-R major dec. Kyle Wojtaszek-B 14-5 8-0
197 Ryan Wolfe-R major dec. Dom Carfagno-B 15-2 12-0
285 Mauro Correnti-R dec. Saul Wilkins-B . 6-1 15-0
125 Zach Valcarce-R wins by forfeit 21-0
133 Robert Deutsch-R major dec. Andy Schutz-B 14-4 25-0
141 Paul Kirchner-R wins by forfeit 31-0
149 B.J. Clagon-R wins by forfeit 37-0
157 Chad Walsh-R dec. Brendon Colbert-B 7-5 40-0
165 Conor Brennan-R dec. Mathew Carr-B 7-0 43-0
