The Muhlenberg men's wrestling team fell to a strong Ursinus squad, 38-7, in its final home match of the season.
Prior to the match, the Mules honored seniors
David Rosenfarb,
Trey Miletics,
Ben Krauss,
Logan Hurwitt,
Hayk Grigorian,
Ryan Fairchild, and
Collin Boldt (pictured above with their families).
Five of the 10 bouts were highly competitive, with Muhlenberg winning two of them against a Bears team that has regionally ranked wrestlers at eight of the 10 weight classes.
Miletics got the Mules off to a good start at 165 with an 11-5 decision in his first action in nearly a month. Miletics was reversed twice in the second period, but recorded one takedown just eight seconds into the bout, another in the second period, and a third with 35 seconds remaining to clinch the win.
The 125-pound bout matched two regionally ranked wrestlers, with junior
CJ Horvath (fourth) taking on an Ursinus opponent who is ranked sixth and came in 4-0 in Centennial Conference duals. After a scoreless first period, Horvath escaped and took down his opponent in the second period, then notched another takedown in the third period en route to a 10-1 major decision that improved his season record to 17-2.
Fairchild (197) and junior
Nick Stump (184) both wrestled tight bouts against regionally ranked opponent, losing 4-1 on a single takedown. At 149, freshman
Eoghan O'Hara trailed 10-0 at one point and 12-4 late in the second period before reversing his opponent to his back to cut the gap to 12-10. An Ursinus reversal in the final minute secured the 14-10 win, however.
Ursinus 38, Muhlenberg 7
165
Trey Miletics (M) dec. Derek Giordano, 11-5
174 Anthony Cerulli (U) pinned
Noah Schlofer, 0:53
184 Nils Updale (U) dec.
Nick Stump, 4-1
197 Sean Cowan (U) dec.
Ryan Fairchild, 4-1
285 Mohamed Abdelatty (U) pinned
Hayk Grigorian, 2:04
125
CJ Horvath (M) maj. dec. Michael Adams, 10-1
133 Blaise Verdino (U) pinned
Max Rotter, 2:01
141 Matthew Copeland (U) tech fall
David Rosenfarb, 3:11 (22-6)
149 Evan Shriberg (U) dec.
Eoghan O'Hara, 14-10
157 Braden Kmak (U) pinned
Charles Levine, 6:06
bonus bouts
149 Samuel Teti (U) pinned
Joey Lenio, 1:57
157 Dillon Lombardi (U) tech fall
Logan Hurwitt, 5:42 (21-1)
165 Joseph Martini (U) pinned
Collin Boldt, 4:06