Coaches poll, week 7
Johnson & Wales remains on top of
New England poll
New England Division III college wrestling poll for week 7, ending Jan. 13. Record and first place votes in parentheses.
School
Rec. Pts LW
1. Johnson & Wales (10) 7-1 132 1
2. Springfield (4) 1-2 126 2
3. Roger Williams 5-0 118 3
4. Rhode Island College 9-1 99 4
5. Williams 4-3 70 6
6. Wesleyan 1-3 62 5
7. Norwich University 3-1 45 7
8. WPI 4-5 43 10
9. Southern Maine 10-3 21 8
10. Coast Guard 1-4 19 9
Others receiving votes; Bridgewater State, Plymouth State, Western New England
New England Wrestling Association individual rankings, No. 4
As of January 13, 2013
125 Pounds:
1. Tom Casper - Springfield College
2. Jon Murray - Rhode Island College
3. Brian Amato - WPI
4. Anthony D'Anton - Roger Williams
5. James Hamilton - Wesleyan University
6. Andrew Gauthier - Bridgewater State
133 Pounds:
1. Silas Murray - Rhode Island College
2. Paul Sughrue - Bridgewater State
3. Pat Lacroix - Roger Williams University
4. Tyler Keane - Springfield College
5. Dan Evangelakos - Williams College
6. Brian Jennings - WPI
141 Pounds:
1. Ricando Cole - Rhode Island College
2. Tyler Tilbe - WPI
3. Mike Ferinde - Johnson & Wales
4. Jacob Strohman - Springfield College
5. Matt Pelton - Wesleyan University
6. Carson Brooks - Williams College
149 Pounds:
1. Joey Gaccione - Johnson & Wales
2. Tim Garripoli - Williams College
3. Eric Hamrick - Springfield College
4. Mike Perruccio - WPI
5. Joe Slane - Rhode Island College
6. Dan Downes - Roger Williams University
157 Pounds:
1. Devin Biscaha - Springfield College
2. Jorge Lopez - Williams College
3. Ray Welch - Plymouth State University
4. Ethan Farrell - Johnson & Wales
5. Matt Armano - Bridgewater State
6. Kyle Lake - Rhode Island College
165 Pounds:
1. Collin Crowell - Roger Williams
2. Dave Pinto - Norwich University
3. Dylan Foley - Springfield College
4. Steve Jarrell - Johnson & Wales
5. Taran Carr - Wesleyan University
6. Torin Zonfrelli - WPI
174 Pounds:
1. Mike Labell - Johnson & Wales
2. Dan Ressler - Roger Williams University
3. Kyle Lundberg - Trinity College
4. Ryan Sblendorio - Wesleyan University
5. Justin Marsh - WPI
6. Will Burns - Norwich University
184 Pounds:
1. David Welch - Roger Williams University
2. Colin Lenhardt - Johnson & Wales
3. Jon Deupree - Southern Maine
4. Chris Perreault - Plymouth State
5. Alex Freilich - WPI
6. Kyle Humphries - Rhode Island College
197 Pounds:
1. Hunter Ayen - Springfield College
2. Shane Parcel - Roger Williams University
3. Petros Hologitas - Trinity College
4. Sean Fagan - Southern Maine
5. Constanti Rissiotis - Johnson & Wales
6. Mark Howard - USCGA
285 Pounds:
1. Brian Nicoll - Rhode Island College
2. Ricky Caruso - Bridgewater State University
3. Jamison Sacco - Western New England
4. Kyle McGuire - Trinity College
5. Anthony Joyce - Norwich University
6. Dan Suarez - University of Southern Maine
Springfield places in top 12
Chorzepa is NEWA rookie of the week
New England Wrestling Association
NEWA Wrestler of Week: Junior Ed Hamrick (Collingswood, NJ), Springfield College, 149 pounds
Eric Hamrick was 3-0 on the weekend at the National Duals. He started with a 7-6 decision over Josh Dunkle of Coe College. In his second match of the day he defeated Matt Quigley of Elmhurst with a fall 0:38. On the final match of the day Hamrick had a 2-0 decision over Ben Kazimir of Mount Union. Hamrick also won the Williams Invitational last weekend.
NEWA Rookie Wrestler of Week: Freshman Chris Chorzepa (Newington CT), Williams, 184 pounds
Chris Chorzepa made his debut for the Ephs this past weekend going 3-0 at the Lycoming Duals. On Sunday, Chorzepa pinned Jerrold Roosa of Thiel in 3:35 and then won by technical Fall 16-0 over David Woolley of Ohio Northern. On the first day of the duals he helped Williams beat No. 25 Wisconsin Stevens Point with a 12-7 decision over Andy Borchardt.
Honorable Mention – Wrestler of the Week
Kyle McGuire – 285, Trinity College – 4-0 at North/South Duals, won the Williams Invitational the week prior
Mike Perruccio – 149, WPI – 5-0 this past week, 4-0 at North South Duals including a strong win over Goretsas of McDaniel 2-0
Joey Gaccione – 149/157, JWU – went 4-0 at Lycoming Duals, helping lead JWU to a 4-1 weekend and a 5th place finish.
George Madosky – 285, JWU – OT win over Heidelberg sealed dual for JWU
Tom Casper – 125, Springfield College – 3-0 at National Duals. Casper continues to beat good wrestlers and raise his level every weekend. He also won the Williams Invitational the weekend before.
Ty Herzog – 157, RWU – won the 157 WT Class at Brockport and led RWU to the Team Championship
Ricondo Cole – 141, RIC – Cole beat Tilbe of WPI 8-0 in a dual during the week and then was dominant at the North South Duals going 4-0, including a Major Decision win over Davidson of Delaware Valley.
Ricky Caruso – 285, BSU – Went 3-0 this week including a 4-1 win over last years region champ Jamison Sacco of WNEU
Honorable Mention – Rookie of the Week
Martin Strenk - 174, Williams College – went 3-1 at Lycoming Duals
Carl Luth - 149, University of Southern Maine – went 4-0, 2 pins, 2 TF’s.
Jonah Aurelio – 285, JWU – went 3-0, won 2-1 over TCNJ to help seal the dual
AROUND THE MAT: It was a great week of wrestling action was highlight by 3 major dual meet tournaments. Springfield College was out at the National Duals and faced 3 top 30 teams and went 1-2 while finishing in the top 12 nationally at the event. The Pride lost to Coe and Mount Union both top 15 teams in the country but beat Elmhurst University. Springfield was led by Eric Hamrick who went 3-0. Hamrick wrestled great on the biggest stage and continues to look strong down at 149. Defending national champion Devin Biscaha went 1-2 losing two close matches. Biscaha is seeing his first action of the second semester after being out last weekend. Biscaha is having a great season and as many saw last year he is a wrestler that gets better as the season continues. Dylan Foley went 2-1 for the Pride and continues to impress at 165. Tom Casper has been outstanding going 3-0 and is doing his job getting the team off to great starts in big duals. Freshman standout Hunter Ayen had a tough weekend seeing his first real obstacle going 1-2. He did have a big pin against Mount Union that kept Springfield in the dual. The Pride has been to the National Duals each of the last two seasons and that challenging schedule really paid off for them at last year’s conference duals and regional tournament.
Johnson and Wales led the conference down at the Lycoming Duals. JWU went 4-1 on the weekend and took 5th place. The Wildcats got a tough seed being seeded 5th and seeing Messiah the eventual champs in the Quarterfinals. The Wildcats came back to win the rest of their duals and place 5th still without their nationally ranked 157 Everett Desilets. The Wildcats used a full team effort to have such a great weekend. The team beat TCNJ and Lycoming for the first time in its program’s history. Joey Gaccione went 4-0 for the Wildcats winning two matches at 149 and bumping up to 157 for two more wins. Gaccione had an impressive major decision win over Steven Feucht of Ohio Northern. Feucht beat Garripoli of Williams 3-1 over the weekend. JWU had two of their 285’s pick up big wins to help seal victories. Freshman Jonah Aurelio beat Pat Schinder of TCNJ, 2-1, and George Madosky beat Nino Majov of Heidelberg, 8-4. Both wins sealed match victories and helped the Wildcats move on at the tournament. Colin Lenhardt went 4-1 on the weekend and had 3 pins. He now has 67 pins in his career (JWU career pin leader), more than 22 pins ahead of the second place wrestler on the list…
Williams College and Coast Guard were both down at Lycoming as well. Both teams went 1-3 in Duals. Williams did have a big first round win over Wisconsin-Stevens Point ranked No. 25 in the country. The win put Williams in the top 12 at the tournament and in a tough bracket that saw them lose their next 3 matches on the weekend. Williams standout Jorge Lope went 2-0 on the weekend sitting out the other two matches as he split time with his teammate Austin Wruble. Williams freshmen Chris Chorzepa and Martin Strenk were outstanding on the weekend at 174 and 184. Both wrestlers could be major factors come the regions at the end of the season. Tim Garripoli at 149 won both of his matches on Saturday but lost two close matches on Sunday going 2-2 on the weekend. Coast Guard was led by Joel Wyman at 285 who went 4-0 to lead the team. Thomas Porzillo went 3-1 at 141 including a pin. Both wrestlers helped Coast Guard to their first dual victory of the season…
The North South Duals were another major dual meet tournament that took place down at Ursinus over the weekend. Rhode Island College had a great week. They beat WPI in a dual on Wednesday 29-16. Jonathan Murray had a big OT win over Brian Amato 10-6 in a match of two top ranked wrestlers at 125. Ricondo Cole beat Tyler Tilbe, who was ranked No. 1 in New England 8-0 and followed it up with a 4-0 weekend at the North South Duals. The Anchormen had wins over Hunter, Elizabethtown, Kings, and nationally ranked Delaware Valley. Cole led the way for the Anchormen who also had a new face in the lineup in Joe Slane a D1 transfer who beat national qualifier Dale Fava of Delaware Valley, 4-3, to help led RIC to a great team win. Rob Sotello at 174 and Silas Murray at 133 went 3-0 on the weekend
WPI went 3-1 with wins over McDaniel, Elizabethtown, and Gettysburg before losing to Merchant Marine Academy. Mike Perruccio went 4-0 at the duals to pace the Engineers and Brian Amato at 125 and Alex Freilich at 184 both went 3-1. Freilich had all 3 of his wins come by pin…Wesleyan University went 1-3 at the North South Duals without their national qualifier Josh Roometua at 197. Wesleyan saw Chris Siracusa at 149, Ryan Sblendorio at 174, and Ed pierce at 157 all win 2 matches for the Cardinals…Trinity College went 0-4 at the North South Duals but had great days from Petros Hologitas at 197 and Kyle McGire at 285 who both went 4-0. Trinity lost close duals to Gettysburg and Hunter by 6 points. McGuire and Hologitas continue to have very strong seasons…Roger Williams won the Brockport Invitational that had Brockport and Alma in attendance both teams ranked in the top 30 in the country. The Hawks placed 15 wrestlers in the top 6 in their weight class. David Welch at 184 and Ty Herzog at 157 both won their weight classes. Welch had a great day beating Jared Groenveld of Alma 14-4 in the finals. Herzog won three straight matches including a 14-11 finals win. Collin Crowell lost in the finals at 165 to finish second. Crowell lost a close 6-5 decision to Roy Daniels of Brockport. Danny Downes at 149 and Danny Ressler at 174 both finished second…Southern Maine went 4-0 this week. They beat BSU and WNEU during the week and then beat WNEU and PSU over the weekend. Carl Luth at 149 and Sean Fagan at 197 were both 4-0. There were no big individual matches in the duals that saw top wrestlers go head to head. At 184 Jon Deupree went 1-0 on the weekend but did not wrestle against Plymouth State which could have seen him wrestle Chris Perreault who is one of the top ranked wrestlers at 184. Perreault went 2-0 on the weekend. WNEU came back and beat PSU in the other dual. BSU went 1-2 in duals this week. They beat WNEU on Wednesday but fell to USM and then went on to lose a close dual 25-19 to Division II AIC. Paul Sughrue at 133, Matt Armano at 157, and Ricky Caruso at 285 were all 3-0 for the Bears.
