Wrestling: WVU Takes Fifth at EWLs
March 07, 2010 05:54 PM | General
By Tim Goodenow for MSNsportsNET.com
March 7, 2010
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University wrestling team finished fifth at the 2010 EWL Championships as Edinboro ran away with its eighth-straight EWL tournament title Sunday at the WVU Coliseum.
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| Shane Young took runner-up at 125 pounds as a freshman.
All-Pro Photography/Dale Sparks photo |
The Mountaineers were paced by runner-up finishes from freshman 125-pounder Shane Young, redshirt senior 165-pounder Donnie Jones and junior heavyweight Brandon Williamson.
Young opened the day with a pair of wins to advance to the finals before falling 4-2 to Pitt’s Anthony Zanetta, the top-seed.
Jones finished 2-0 on the afternoon with a pair of decisions before settling for a medical forfeit in the finals to Edinboro’s Jarrod King.
Williamson went 2-1 at his first EWL tournament before being pinned in the final minute of his championship bout with Pitt’s Ryan Tomei.
All three WVU wrestlers have earned bids to the NCAA tournament March 18-20 at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb. Jones will make his third national tournament appearance while Young and Williamson (a junior college transfer) make their first.
At 174 pounds, Mountaineer redshirt sophomore Matt Weston finished in third place. After dropping his opening bout to top seed Phil Maricone of Edinboro, Weston advanced through the consolation bracket to finish with a victory via injury default to Steven Cressley of Clarion.
West Virginia has sent wrestlers to the NCAA tournament every season since 1984.
The NCAA will announce the 46 at-large bids on March 10 to complete the 2010 NCAA Championships field.
Prior to the championship bouts, former Mountaineers Ian “Whitey” Chlebove, Sam Kline and Greg Jones were inducted into the EWL Hall of Fame.
