Army improved to 8-3 and won of eight of 10 bouts. Christian Snook (157), Brian Rowan (157), Scott Ferguson (184) and Connor Sanders (197) won by decisions while Davey Mason picked up a forfeit at 125.
Smith, who now has 22 wins on the season, turned Jed Giguere in the first period. Simpson opened the match at 133 and cruised to a 9-0 win and Kyler followed with a 9-1 victory at 141.
"I thought we wrestled well," Army coach Chuck Barbee said. "We wrestled with good intensity and shook off some rust early and just got after it. I was pleased with our effort for a mid-week dual."
Following one of two Sacred Heart decisions, Snook battled his way to an 8-4 win at 157, beginning a streak of five straight wins for the Black Knights. Rowan made the match score 14-3 with an 8-5 win.
Smith's fall was followed by decisions from Ferguson, 8-6 and Sanders, a 5-2 winner. Army heavyweight Nathan Thobaben was locked in a close battled with Payam Zarrinpour, the 16th-ranked wrestler in the country, but could not pull out the win and fell 8-7.
"Our big guys wrestled well," Barbee said. "I thought the whole team wrestled well but our big guys – Smith, Ferguson and Sanders – wrestled some really decent guys. They wrestled smart and got after it. And Nathan just ran out of time against a very good wrestler."
Army will host a pair of matches Sunday at Gills Field House. At 2:30 p.m., Army will tangle with Harvard in a match being broadcast live on ESPNU. At 4 p.m., Army will wrestle Brown.
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