Shippensburg University’s men’s wrestling team competed at the NCAA Division II Super Region 1 Championship last weekend in Fairmont, West Virginia. The team placed eighth overall with 36 points.
SU had ten Raiders participate. The class breakdown was one graduate student, one senior, two juniors, five sophomores and one freshman.
Graduate Nick Delp, redshirt sophomore Mike Trainor, and sophomore Diesel Koser earned placements. Delp and Trainor in fourth at 165 and 149, respectively. Koser in sixth at 197.
Delp fell in his opening match against Gannon’s Nicholas Coreno but fought his way to a third-place match berth with three wins in wrestlebacks.
At the third-place match, he had a rematch against Coreno but fell again by decision, 9-2.
His three wins included two tech falls and one major decision.
Trainor made it to the semifinals of 149 pounds after a 17-3 major decision against ESU’s Brian Lombardi and a 5-2 decision win over Millersville’s Daniel Sinclair.
He fell in the semis to seventh-ranked Gannon wrestler Kenny Kiser, but in wrestlebacks, he defeated Lombardi by decision again to go to the third-place match.
In the third-place matchup, he faced James Ryan from Kutztown and lost by tech fall 15-0.
Delp and Trainor both entered the tournament as fifth seeds but earned a spot above their seeding by their performances.
Koser earned a fall in wrestlebacks and found his way to the fifth-place matchup. He fell by decision to Millersville’s Bruce Vaughn 6-2.
Additionally, freshman Anthony DeAngelo recorded one fall and sophomore Eli Bounds earned one decision win and a tech fall.
Saturday marked the final match for Senior Connor Livingston. He competed in two weight classes for the Raiders over his career and contributed several wins.
SU finishes their season with a 7-10 record.
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