Wrestling

Lock Haven's Henson Secures 100th Career Win

Thursday Wrestling results
George Mason 32, Gardner-Webb 14
Edinboro 53, Mercyhurst 0
Bloomsburg 54, Mercyhurst 0
Penn 22, Rider 18
Lock Haven 37, Kent State 3
Edinboro 28, Bloomsburg 10
 

Recaps courtesy of Athletic Communications Departments

George Mason Ends the Regular Season with a Dominant Win at Gardner-Webb
Fairfax –  The George Mason wrestling team competed in its final regular-season dual of this season with a 32-14 win at Gardner-Webb.

The Patriots (8-6, 4-3) won seven of the 10 matches to finish the season on a three-match win streak. Gardner-Webb drops to 7-12.

Logan Messer (22-6) and Malachi DuVall (22-4) moved closer to 100 career wins, each notching number 97 tonight, ranking 8th all-time, in dominant fashion. Messer earned a technical fall, 17-1 (5:10) to open the match at 174. DuVall followed with a fall (1:25), his 10th of the season, against GWU's Jackson Lusk to get the Patriots out to an 11-0 lead.

George Mason's Jack Kelly earned his fifth fall of the season with quick work (0:40) against Hadyn Danals.
 
Gardner-Webb got on the board with a Josh McCutchen technical fall at heavyweight.

Ben Monn improved to 17-11 with a decision at 125. Tate Hisely (13-9) continues to have a great rookie campaign with a major decision against Till Helma. DJ McGee improved to 21-3 with a decision at 157.

Drew Dickson wrapped up the match with an 18-1 (3:00) against Gunther Gerstenacker at 165 pounds.


Edinboro Sweeps Tri Meet with Mercyhurst and Bloomsburg
Edinboro, Pa. – The Edinboro men's wrestling team closed out its regular-season dual schedule with a pair of wins over Mercyhurst and Bloomsburg on Thursday.
 
Against Mercyhurst, the Scots pitched a 53-0 shutout. Edinboro picked up bonus points in nine of 10 bouts. Eamonn Jimenez scored a 4-0 decision over Travis Browning to open the dual. Landon Bainey scored a tech fall over Edwin Mooney and Jacob Brenneman picked up a forfeit win to extend the lead to 14-0.
 
Ryan Michaels recorded the first fall of the night over Colin Scherer in 2:52. The Scots scored three straight tech falls from Garrett McChesney, Max Kirby and Tate Geiser. Edinboro closed the dual with three straight falls from Jared McGill, Nick Lodato and Eli Makel.
 
In the dual with Bloomsburg, Chris Vargo trailed 4-3 in the third period and Jace Shafer held the riding time point to essentially lead by two. Vargo scored a take down and rode out the period to claim a 6-5 decision.
 
Austin Pollard gave Bloomsburg the lead in the team race with a 12-4 major decision over Bainey at 133. Brenneman put the Scots back ahead with a 20-5 first-period tech fall over Gavin Mundy.
 
Michaels notched a 16-1 tech fall over Cael Raines in 6:01 to push the Scot lead to 13-4. McChesney blanked William Morrow 5-0 to give Edinboro a 16-4 lead at the intermission.
 
Kirby got out fast and needed just 3:50 to score the 16-0 tech fall over Vasillios Dimou at 165. Eric Alderfer stopped the Scot run with a 4-2 decision over Tate Geiser.
 
McGill picked up a major decision 11-3 over Braidon Woodward at 184. Brody Evans was the last Scot to pick up a win 10-3 over Coy Raines. Mason Rebuck earned a 4-3 decision over Aden Roe to close out the dual.
 
The Scots return to action on March 6 on the first day of the MAC Championships in Buffalo.
 

Bloomsburg Shots Out Mercyhurst 54-0
EDINBORO, Pa. – The Bloomsburg wrestling team split a pair of duals Thursday night at Edinboro. The Huskies shut out Mercyhurst 54-0 before dropping a MAC dual to Edinboro, 28-10.

The Huskies used nine bonus point wins to take down the Lakers in the opening match of the night for Bloomsburg. Jace Schafer got a forfeit win at 125 pounds before Austin Pollard worked hard for his first win and pin in a Bloomsburg singlet at 133 pounds. After a scoreless first period and choosing bottom to start the second, Pollard got a quick reversal and four-count near fall to take a 6-0 lead. Pollard kept working Edwin Mooney and eventually got his back on the mat at 4:38 to give Bloomsburg a 12-0 match lead.
 
Gaving Mundy followed up with the first of three-straight tech falls for the Huskies to push the match out of reach. Mundy and Marcus Colson traded take downs in the first period before Mundy pulled away in the second. He chose bottom to start and quickly got an escape. After his first take down, Mundy let Colson back out before getting another take down and allowing an escape. Mundy put the final touches on his tech fall win with a takedown and two four-count near falls, the last one coming as time expired in the second period for the 22-4 win at the 5:00 mark.
 
Cael Raines got a decisive win at 149 pounds with a tech fall of his own as he built a 12-3 lead after the first period. As his teammates did before him, Raines chose bottom to start the second and got his escape for the 13-3 lead. After another takedown to make it 16-3, Raines let Colin Scherer escape before getting his tech fall sealing take down just 34 seconds into the second period for the 19-4 win at 3:34.
 
William Morrow posted the third-straight tech fall win for the Huskies with a 20-3 victory at 157 pounds. Morrow built a 9-2 lead over Chis Cibrone in the first period before pushing his lead to 13-3 after the second. Cibrone chose neutral to start the third and Morrow went in for the takedown to take a 16-3 lead and got a four-count near fall with 49 seconds left in the third to win 20-3 at 6:11.
 
Vasillios Dimou had one of the more competitive matches at 165 pounds but emerged victorious over Keith Mincin 9-4. Dimou took a 4-0 lead after the first period but Mincin got a takedown in the second to cut the lead to 4-3. Dimou was not down long and got his escape to push his lead to 5-3 after two periods. After choosing bottom, Dimou was issued two stall warnings which gave Mincin a point but got an escape to take a 6-4 lead. Dimou sealed the win with one more takedown to earn a 9-4 decision.
 
Eric Alderfer wasted little time getting his fastest pin in a Husky singlet after a first period take down led to a pin at 1:24 over Brady Fitz at 174 pounds.
 
Braidon Woodward benefited from a forfeit win as Bloomsburg took a 42-0 lead going into the night's final two bouts.
 
Coy Raines was approaching a tech fall in the first period with a 21-6 lead but the last takedown led quickly into a four-count near fall that ultimately got Raines a pin win at 2:25 over Joshua Johnson at 197 pounds.
 
Mason Rebuck closed out the match with the quickest win of the night at 285 pounds over Gino Guerrisi. Rebuck sandwiched a pair of takedowns around an escape by Guerrisi before his final takedown brought his opponent to his back. Rebuck closed out the night with a pin at 1:00, his fastest as a Husky.
 
The Huskies closed out the night against Edinboro and posted their 10th bonus point win of the night. Pollard took control of the match early at 133 pounds and did not back down, defeating Landon Bainey 12-4 for his second bonus point win of the day.
 
Alderfer snapped a four-bout losing streak for the Huskies with a gutsy 4-2 win over Tate Geiser at 174 pounds. Rebuck held one for a 4-3 win over Aden Roe at 285 pounds to close out the night.

The Huskies get back to action on Sunday when they welcome Bucknell to Nelson Field House for a 6:00 p.m. match. Before the start, the Huskies will honor their four graduating seniors, Ethan Ducca, Tyler McCatharn, William Morrow, and Jace Schafer.


Lock Haven Soars to Victory at Kent State
KENT, Ohio – No. 24 Wyatt Henson became the third Lock Haven men's wrestler to reach 100-career victories this season during the Bald Eagles' 37-3 Mid-American Conference (MAC) victory at Kent State on Thursday night.
 
With the win, Lock Haven (13-4 overall) wrapped up its MAC schedule with a 6-1 record to secure second place in the East for the regular season.  
 
Lock Haven, which remained the MAC Tournament favorite following the Feb. MAC rankings, has now won 12 of its last 13 matches.
 
The Haven put on a clinic on Thursday night and took nine of the 10 bouts, including three tech falls, a fall, and a major decision.
 
One of Lock Haven's tech falls came from Henson, who picked up his 100th-career victory with the effort, after defeating Landen Duncan, 20-4, in 4:33. It marks the 11th tech fall of the season for Henson, ranking in the top-4 in the country.
 
No. 33 Avery Bassett (16-1, 4:52) and Sam Gautreau (19-4, 3:45) put the match far out of reach with back-to-back tech fall wins at 174 and 184, respectively.
 
No. 23 Lucas Kapusta secured the loan major decision of the match, after downing Nate Roth, 10-2.
 
Kade Sottolano put an exclamation point on the victory with a pin at heavyweight in 7:24.
 
Curtis Nelson opened the match with a sudden victory (5-2) at 125, while Nick Stampoulos (157), Gable Strickland (133) and Tucker Hogan (197) also picked up decision victories.
 
Kent State's lone victory came by decision at 165 pounds.
 
Next up for The Haven:
The Bald Eagles conclude the 2025-26 regular season on Saturday (Feb. 21) at 6 p.m. by welcoming No. 17 West Virginia to Thomas Fieldhouse for Senior Day.