Wrestling | 11/9/2018 8:44:00 PM

THE DETAILS
Bloomsburg (0-0, 0-0 EWL) vs #17 Purdue (0-0, 0-0 B1G)
Saturday, November 10, 2018 - 12:00 p.m.
Hudson Valley Community College - Troy, N.Y.

Bloomsburg vs Sacred Heart (0-0, 0-0 EIWA)
Saturday, November 10, 2018 - 4:00 p.m.
Hudson Valley Community College - Troy, N.Y.

Bloomsburg at Journeymen Collegiate Classic
Sunday, November 11, 2018 - 9:00 a.m.
Hudson Valley Community College - Troy, N.Y.
 
LIVE COVERAGE
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RELATED LINKS
Bloomsburg - Schedule | Roster
Purdue - Schedule | Roster
Sacred Heart - Schedule | Roster

PROJECTED LINEUP (SATURDAY)
125 - Willy Girard (Williamstown, Pa/Williams Valley) / Christian Schilling (Denver, Pa./Garden Spot)
133 - Lewis Williams (Bloomsburg, Pa./Central Columbia)
141 - Aaron Coleman (Iselin, N.J./John F. Kennedy Memorial)
149 - Tim Kane (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Warde)
157 - Nate Newberry (Biglerville, Pa./Biglerville)
165 - Gavin Hale (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown West)
174 - Anthony Vetrano (Middletown, N.J./Middletown North)
184 - Trevor Allard (Mexico, N.Y./Mexico)
197 - Michael Porreca (Barto, Pa./Boyertown)
285 - Bruce Graeber (Feasterville, Pa./Neshaminy)

TROY, N.Y. - After a solid opening to the 2018-19 season last Saturday, the Bloomsburg University wrestling team will be back in action this weekend for a full slate of activity in the state of New York. The Huskies will open the dual season on Saturday at the Journeymen Northeast Duals as they will square off against 17th-ranked Purdue at noon followed by a match against Sacred Heart at 4:00 p.m. Then, on Sunday, Bloomsburg will compete at the Journeymen Collegiate Classic.

Bloomsburg will also be sending three individuals - sophomores Shawn Orem (Pasadena, Md./Mount Saint Joseph), Cary Palmer (Bensalem, Pa./Council Rock South), and Logan Womelsdorf (Benton, Pa./Northwest Area) - to East Stroudsburg University on Saturday to compete in the East Stroudsburg Open.

The Huskies opened the campaign last Saturday with a fifth-place finish at the Clarion Open. Bloomsburg had three wrestlers advance to the championship finals - redshirt junior Lewis Williams (Bloomsburg, Pa./Central Columbia), redshirt junior Trevor Allard (Mexico, N.Y./Mexico), and junior Bruce Graeber (Feasterville, Pa./Neshaminy) - while junior Willy Girard (Williamstown, Pa/Williams Valley) won the consolation finals to earn a third-place result. The Huskies finished with 51.5 team points and trailed only Clarion (135 points), Kent State (113 points), Lock Haven (83.5 points), and Cleveland State (61 points) in the standings.

Girard went 5-1 on the day to earn his third-place finish in the 125-pound bracket. After winning his first bout, 3-1, over Brock Wharton from Clarion (unattached), he suffered a 6-4 loss to Penn State's Justin Lopez to get bumped to the consolation bracket. Girard went on to win four straight matches including a 10-6 decision in the finals over Lock Haven's Luke Werner to capture third place in the weight class. He posted one fall over Daniel Rehfeldt of Kent State (unattached) in his opening match of the consolation bracket.

At 133 pounds, Williams earned decisions over Pittsburgh's Garrett Reinsfelder (unattached), Kent State's Raphael Rodriguez, and West Virginia's Caleb Rea (unattached) to get to the finals. However, the junior is his first season with the Huskies, dropped a 3-2 decision to Cleveland State's Armando Torres to place second. Allard, competing at 184 pounds, posted wins by decision over Clarion's Shae Bloom, Clarion's Luke Funck (unattached), and Kent State's Tim Wallace (unattached) to put him in the finals against Andrew McNally of Kent State. McNally, however, came away with the 6-4 decision in the championship match to send Allard to a second-place finish. Graeber, the Huskies' heavyweight, followed an almost identical path to Williams and Allard. The junior won his first two matches by decision over Pitt-Johnstown's Bishop McCoy (unattached) and Pittsburgh's Cole Rickert (unattached) before claiming a medical forfeit win over Pittsburgh's Zach Bruce to advance to the title match. Graeber fell by major decision to Pittsburgh's Demetrius Thomas to finish second at 285 pounds.

Redshirt junior Grant Bond (Carlisle, Pa./Boiling Springs) advanced to the quarterfinals at 149 pounds by virtue of winning his first two matches over Cleveland State's Grant Turnmire and West Virginia's Seth Hogue (unattached) - both by decision. However, Bond's day was cut short as he was trailing 2-1 to Kent State's Kody Komara in the quarterfinals before having to stop due to an injury. Bond also had to take a medical forfeit in his opening match of the consolation bracket. Meanwhile, junior Nate Newberry (Biglerville, Pa./Biglerville) went 3-2 at 157 pounds on the afternoon as he won his first match of the day over Clarion's Michael Bartolo before falling to Cleveland State's Nico O'dor to drop to the consolation bracket. Newberry went on to post wins over Clarion's Caleb Hetrick (unattached) and Buffalo's Michael Petite (unattached) before losing by fall to Clarion's Avery Shay (unattached) in the consolation semifinals.

At 174 pounds, redshirt sophomore Anthony Vetrano (Middletown, N.J./Middletown North) went 1-2 on the day while junior Dominick DeMarco (Franklinville, N.J./Clayton) and redshirt freshman Michael Porreca (Barto, Pa./Boyertown) went winless on the day at 165 pounds and 184 pounds, respectively. The Huskies also sent six wrestlers who competed as unattached on Saturday. Freshman Alex Carida (Hackettstown, N.J./Hackettstown) went 1-2 at 149 pounds as did junior Kyle Murphy (Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan) at 197 pounds and redshirt freshman Jarrett Walters (Danville, Pa./Danville Area) at 285 pounds. Sophomore Cary Palmer (Bensalem, Pa./Council Rock South) and freshman Aaron Coleman (Iselin, N.J./John F. Kennedy Memorial) went winless at 141 pounds while sophomore Shawn Orem (Pasadena, Md./Mount Saint Joseph) did the same at 133 pounds.

After this weekend, Bloomsburg will return to action on Sunday, November 18, when it heads to Army West Point to compete in the Black Knight Invitational.

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