The good news for the Fighting Scots is they won't have long to dwell on the loss, returning to action on Saturday night, hosting West Virginia on Senior Night.
Honeycutt, ranked second by InterMat at 197 lbs., defeated fourth-ranked Wilps (26-2) for the second time, and did so in dominant fashion. The senior recorded five takedowns to snap Wilps' 16-match winning streak with an 11-5 decision. Honeycutt is now 33-0 and improved to 123-20 for his career.
Unfortunately, the rest of Edinboro's highly-ranked grapplers struggled against a veteran Pittsburgh team wrestling its final home match. The Panthers won seven of the first eight matches before Edinboro claimed the last two bouts.
Anthony Zanetta, 25-3 and ranked 15th, started the night with a 9-0 major decision over Kory Mines at 125 lbs., dropping Mines to 14-15 on the season.
Pitt picked up a big win in the next match at 133 lbs., as Shelton Mack upset seventh-ranked A.J. Schopp, 3-2. The loss dropped the redshirt freshman to 32-4 and snapped a ten-match winning streak. Mack was able to make a first period takedown stand up.
14th-ranked Mitchell Port improved to 25-6 with his ninth straight win, a 4-2 decision over Travis Shaffer, at 141 lbs. That left the Scots trailing 7-3, but Pitt ran off wins in the next five bouts.
It began with the other marquee matchup at 149 lbs. between Dave Habat, ranked fifth, and Tyler Nauman, ranked 12th. The fourth meeting was the equalizer, after Nauman won the first and Habat the next two. Nauman prevailed 7-4 to improve to 24-4, while Habat suffered his first loss in his last 12 matches to fall to 32-6.
Honeycutt would snap the string with his win at 197 lbs., and Ernest James followed with an impressive 10-1 major decision over Joel Yahner at heavyweight. That leaves the sophomore with 28-8 record.
Results:
125 #15 Anthony Zanetta (UP) maj. dec. Kory Mines (E), 9-0 0-4
133 Shelton Mack (UP) dec. #7 A.J. Schopp (EU), 3-2 0-7
141 #14 Mitchell Port (EU) dec. Travis Shaffer (UP), 4-2 3-7
149 #12 Tyler Nauman (UP) dec. #5 Dave Habat (EU), 7-4 3-10
157 Donnie Tasser (UP) dec. Casey Fuller (EU), 6-0 3-13
165 Tyler Wilps (UP) maj. dec. Jesse Swink (EU), 14-4 3-17
174 Ethan Headlee (UP) fall over Chris Hrunka (EU), 1:51 3-23
184 Andy Vaughan (UP) dec.Vic Avery (EU), 9-3 3-26
197 #2 Chris Honeycutt (EU) dec. #4 Matt Wilps (UP), 11-5 6-26
285 Ernest James (EU) maj. dec. Joel Yahner (UP), 10-1 10-26
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