The Black Knights improve to 4-3 on the season and 2-1 in EIWA matches, while the Quakers fall to 0-3 overall and 0-2 in conference.
ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES
The Black Knights improved to 15-12-1 all-time against Penn.
This was the first time Army defeated the Quakers since 2013-14 when it earned a 21-13 victory in Philadelphia.
Head coach Kevin Ward earned the 10th dual win of his career and his team's fourth of the season, setting a new personal best at West Point.
Army is currently on a three-match winning streak, its longest since winning four straight in 2013-14.
Senior Samson Imonode notched his 16th win of the season, tying a single-season personal best set in 2014-15.
Fellow firstie Trevor Smith notched the 12th win of his senior campaign, tying his single-season high from 2013-14 and 2015-16.
Smith evened his career record to 38-38.
Sophomore Conner Ziegler made his season debut in dual meet action and his first-career dual at 133 lbs.
Ziegler documented the first dual victory of his career.
Senior Logan Everett notched his 15th win of the season.
KEY MOMENT
Senior heavyweight Trevor Smith took a commanding 5-0 decision which sparked a four-match winning streak to push Army to an 18-7 lead.
Results:
165: Andrew Mendel dec. over Brooks Martino, 10-5 (Army leads, 3-0)
174: #10 Casey Kent maj. dec. over Ben Harvey, 8-0 (Penn leads, 4-3)
184: Samson Imonode dec. over Joe Heyob, 8-4 (Army leads, 6-4)
197: #15 Frank Mattiace dec. over Rocco Caywood, 3-1 (Penn leads, 7-6)
285: Trevor Smith dec. over Tyler Hall, 5-0 (Army leads, 9-7)
125: Trey Chalifoux dec. over Jeremy Schwartz, 7-2 (Army leads, 12-7)
133: Conner Ziegler dec. over Tristin DeVincenzo, 6-5 (Army leads, 15-7)
141: #16 Logan Everett dec. over A.J. Vindici, 10-4 (Army leads, 18-7)
149: Joe Oliva dec. over Lucas Weiland, 4-0 (Army leads, 18-10)
157: May Bethea maj. dec. over Mark Marchetti, 12-4 (Army leads, 18-14)
COACHES CORNER
Head coach Kevin Ward -- "We knew going into the match that there were a couple weight classes that were going to be critical to have a chance to win the dual meet. On paper, I knew every match had the possibility of coming down to one or two points and whoever was able to win the close matches was going to win the dual."
"It was big for us to get started winning two out of the first three matches with Mendel and Samson, and Harvey continues to fight hard and get better against some of the top wrestlers in the country."
"Heavyweight through 141 was obviously good for us to be able to rattle off those four straight wins and build a little bit of a cushion into the score."
UP NEXT
The Black Knights will travel to Hofstra and Binghamton next weekend for a pair of EIWA matchups.
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