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    Bloomsburg downs Clarion

    BLOOMSBURG -- The Bloomsburg University wrestling team defeated Clarion 22-15 in Eastern Wrestling League (EWL) action on Friday night.

    125- Seventh ranked Mike Sees (Northumberland/Shikellamy) got the Huskies off to a fast start with a 16-5 major decision victory over Jay Ivanco. Sees recorded his first takedown early in the first period of the match and never looked back from there, as he recorded five more takedowns in the bout.

    133- Jason Guffey (Muncy/Warrior Run) gave the Huskies an 8-0 lead with a dominating 11-2 major decision victory over Rob LaBrake. LaBrake took an early advantage in the match with a takedown to take a 2-0 lead. Guffey came back to knot up the match at two with consecutive escape points. From there, Guffey dominated the match, recording nine consecutive points to earn the win.

    141- Clarion's Sal Lascari put the Golden Eagles on the board with a 3-1 victory over Bloomsburg's Darren Kern (Pennsburg/Upper Perkiomenville). After a scoreless first period, Lascari earned an escape point early in the second to take the lead. He would hold that lead for the rest of the second period and eventually took a 3-0 lead after a takedown. Kern cut the deficit to 3-1 after an escape point with a minute left in the match, but Lascari would hang on in that final minute to earn the win.

    149- George Hickman (Castle Hayne, NC/Riverside) increased the Bloomsburg lead to 11-3 after a come from behind 5-3 win over Hadley Harrison. Harrison jumped out to a 3-0 lead with a takedown with 35 seconds left in the first, but Hickman would come back with an escape point late in the first, then another in the second to make the score 3-2 late in the second. Hickman then took the lead with a takedown with 45 seconds left in the second and held on to that lead the entire third period to clinch the win.

    157- 19th ranked Matt Moley (Phoenixville/Spring-Ford) built on the Bloomsburg lead with a 6-2 win over Travis Uncapher. Moley took a 2-0 lead with 35 seconds left in the first, then recorded another takedown 10 seconds later that made the lead 4-1. Moley then put the match away with another takedown with one minute left in the third period to improve his record on the year to 25-6.

    165- Rickey Schmelyun (New Oxford/Bermudian Springs) took control his match from the start against Dominic Ross eventually earning a 10-3 major decision win. Schmelyun recorded his first takedown with 32 seconds left in the first and would proceed to have four more takedowns throughout the course of the match.

    174- Mario Morelli put Clarion back on the board with a 3-2 win over Brian Shaw (Holidaysburg/Holidaysburg). After a scoreless first period, Morelli recorded the first point of the match in the second with an escape. Then in the third, Morelli scored a takedown to make the score 3-0 with 35 seconds left. Shaw tried to comeback after picking up a takedown with 12 seconds left that made the score 3-2, but Morelli would hang on in the final moments of the match to pick up the win.

    184- For the first time in the match, Clarion picked up back-to-back victories after Scott Joseph defeated Jesse Hasseman (Franklin, IN/Franklin) 5-4. Hasseman took the lead early in the first with an escape, then in the second made the score 2-0 with another escape point. Joseph would the knot the score up at two with a takedown with 42 seconds left in the second. After Hasseman took the lead at 3-2 with a point in riding time, Joseph recorded an escape point to start the third, then had a takedown with 1:15 left in the period to take a 5-3 lead. Hasseman would record an escape point with one minute left to make it 5-4, but Joseph would hold on the remainder of the match to take the win.

    197- Jamie Luckett put the Golden Eagles right back in the match after pinning Bloomsburg's Eric Shaw (Holidaysburg/Holidaysburg) in the second overtime period. After a scoreless first period, Luckett picked up a point early in the second on an escape and would hold a 1-0 lead until Shaw picked up an escape point of his own in the third. After both wrestlers failed to score a point in the first overtime period, Lukett recorded a pin in the opening moments of the second overtime period to take the win.

    HWT- Ninth-ranked Mike Spaid (Perkiomenville/Boyertown) sealed up the match for the Huskies with a dominating 12-3 major decision victory over Roman Husam. Spaid set the tempo for the match early after recording a takedown with 2:15 left in the first. From there, Spaid would go on to control the match, as he recorded four more takedowns in the match.

    The victory improves Bloomsburg's record on the year to 4-6-1, 1-3 in the EWL while Clarion falls to 8-10, 0-4 in the EWL. The Huskies return to action Saturday when they host Cleveland State at 1:00 p.m.

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