McDaniel finishes fifth at Waynesburg Invitational
WAYNESBURG, Pa. – Brock Glotfelty (Grantsville, Md./Northern Garrett) improved to a perfect 20-0 on the season with two pins to lead McDaniel to a fifth-place finish at the Waynesburg Invitational in wrestling action on Saturday.
With his three victories, Glotfelty joins Charlie Conaway atop the Green Terror's all-time wins list with 112 career victories. The senior heavyweight's first two wins of the day were his ninth and 10th pins of the season before recording an 8-1 win in the title bout to tie the record.
After an opening-round bye, Glotfelty notched a 1-minute, 5-second fall of Gettysburg's Branden Strohl before toppling the Bullets' Kevin Poplaski in 1:01. He downed Waynesburg's Brandon Fedorka in his 132nd career match.
As a team, McDaniel finished fifth with 80.5 points with only three of its usual starters in action.
The host Yellow Jackets won the eight-team invitational with 142.5 points.
Will Yeo (Lexington Park, Md./Great Mills) added a second-place showing at 197, recording a 17-2 technical fall and first-period pin en route to the championship match. He fell 4-2 to Johns Hopkins' Reid Mosquera in the title tilt.
James Young III (Fairfax Station, Va./Bishop O'Connell), Sean McGarry (Ocean City, Md./Stephen Decatur) and Tom Boehm (Sea Cliff, N.Y./North Shore) all finished fourth for the Green Terror while Mark Lobeck (Lancaster, Pa./Lancaster Catholic) and Logan Yox (Westminster, Md./Liberty) were fifth. James McGarry (Ocean City, Md./Stephen Decatur) placed sixth.
Young (125) went 3-2 with a 3-minute, 13-second pin to advance to the third-place match, where he fell 6-1 to fourth-seeded Ray Yagloski (Johns Hopkins).
Sean McGarry (149) used a 2-0 victory in the first sudden-victory period to advance to the third-place match, where he fell 10-0 to Jacob Kondrlik (Mercyhurst NorthEast). McGarry went 4-2 on the day with a technical fall, winning 15-0 in just 2:08.
Boehm (157) used a bye and 18-0 third-period technical fall to advance to the semifinals before a first-period pin relegated him to the consolation bracket. Boehm added 7-3 win to advance to the third-place bout, but was pinned by Gettysburg's Joe Fiore in 3:56.
Lobeck topped James McGarry in the fifth-place match at 133, recording a fall in 2:03. McGarry added a 13-1 major decision win on the day.
Yox, the No. 3 seed at 149, finished fifth with a 6-minute fall. He also recorded a pin in 2:00 as part of his 4-2 outing.
McDaniel returns to action at home against Johns Hopkins on Tuesday. Match time is 7 p.m.
Team Scores: 1. Waynesburg (W) 142.5, 2. Baldwin-Wallace (B) 114, 3. Johns Hopkins (J) 110.5, 4. Mercyhurst North East (M) 94, 5. McDaniel (MCD) 80.5, 6. Gettysburg (G) 77.5, 7. Ohio Valley (O) 25.5.
McDaniel Results: 125: #1 Alex Crown (W) dec. Earl Eppard 4-0, #4 Ray Yagloski (J) dec. Eppard 6-0; #3 Jeremy Dombrady (B) pinned James Young 4:23, Young won by forfeit, Young dec. Adam Stevens (J) 12-6, Young pinned #5 Tyler Reed (O) 3:13, #4 Yagloski dec. Young 6-1; 133: #1 Rico Borz (W) tech. fell Mark Lobeck 17-2 (7:00), Lobeck won by forfeit, #2 Christian Drain (M) dec. Lobeck 5-0, #3 Phillip Payne (B) pinned Tim Gainsborg 4:18, #2 Drain maj. dec. James McGarry 9-1, McGarry maj. dec. Gainsborg 13-1, #4 Matt Spano (G) pinned McGarry 4:44, Lobeck pinned McGarry 2:03; 141: #4 Duncan Crystal (J) maj. dec. #5 Tim Hall 13-3, Grant Steward (B) maj dec. Hall 17-6, #2 Vincent Digravio (M) pinned Sean Ensign 1:45, Steward (B) pinned Ensign 2:55; 149: Peter Caruso dec. Hugh Bahe (J) 2-0, Christopher Robins (O) pinned Josh Moore 3:47, Matt Nelson (J) maj. dec. Moore 13-4, Jacob Kondrlik (M) pinned #3 Logan Yox 2:21, Yox maj. dec. Nicholas Carducci (J) 13-0, Yox pinned Robins (O) 2:00, Yox dec. Garrett Wireman (O) 5-1, Kondrlik dec. Yox 18-12, Yox pinned Evan Dahl (M) 6:00, Sean McGarry dec. Wireman (O) 7-0, #2 Rocky Barilla (J) pinned McGarry 4:10, McGarry tech. fell Bahe (J) 15-0 (2:08), McGarry dec. Nelson (J) 2-1, McGarry dec. Dahl (M) 2-0, Kondrlik (M) maj. dec. McGarry 10-0; 157: Tom Boehm tech. fell Jordan Wilner (J) 18-0 (5:21), #1 Sam Lombardo (W) pinned Boehm 1:34, Boehm dec. Joseph Gowen (J) 7-3, #3 Joe Fiore (G) pinned Boehm 3:56, #3 Fiore (G) pinned Jacob Schuster 1:59, Gowen (J) tech. fell Schuster, 16-1 (3:24); 165: none; 174: #1 Andrew Scavuzzo (B) dec. Jacob Reik 3-0, Ben Abbott (W) maj. dec. Reik 14-6, Michael Sheehan (G) pinned Marcus Carter 2:55, Carter dec. #5 Anton Serhan (G) 14-8, Anthony Iorio (G) pinned Carter 4:38, Abbott (W) pinned Brad Thomas 2:56, Anthony Iorio (G) dec. Thomas 8-2; 184: none; 197: #1 Will Yeo tech. fell Tyler Lewis (W) 17-2 (5:00), Yeo pinned #5 Jacob Linn (W) 2:35, #3 Reid Mosquera (J) dec. Yeo 4-2; HWT: #1 Brock Glotfelty pinned Brandon Strohl (G) 1:05, Glotfelty pinned #4 Kevin Poplaski (G) 1:01, Glotfelty dec. #3 Brandon Fedorka 8-1, #6 Richard Welton pinned Mike Hill 1:10, Blake Lewis (O) pinned Hill 3:41.
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