Black Knights Drop Hard-Fought Match to Bucknell

Sunday, February 12

West Point, N.Y.

2 PM

Army West Point

Bucknell

Black Knights Drop Hard-Fought Match to Bucknell

February 12, 2017 | Wrestling

WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army West Point wrestling team was unable to pull out a nail-biter as Bucknell came away with a 22-16 decision at Gillis Field House Sunday afternoon.

The Black Knights fell to 6-5 on the season and 4-3 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA), while the Bison improve to 11-4 overall and 8-1 in EIWA action.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

Army is now 11-4 in the all-time series versus Bucknell.
The Black Knights opened the meet aggressively, earning the first takedown in the first eight matches.
Freshman Trey Chalifoux started the match with his second victory of the season over Bucknell's Jordan Gessner.
Sophomore Austin Harry earned his fourth dual victory of the season setting a new single-season personal best.
Freshman Lucas Weiland made his career debut at 157 pounds.
Freshman Cael McCormick notched his fifth pin of the season.
The victory was McCormick's first-career dual victory.
Freshman Ben Harvey documented his fifth major decision of the season.
Harvey recorded his fifth dual victory of the year.
Freshman C.J. Morgan competed in his first-career dual match.

HOW IT HAPPENED
125: Trey Chalifoux dec. over Jordan Gessner, 9-3 (Army leads, 3-0)
133: Austin Harry dec. over Joey Gould, 10-5 (Army leads, 6-0)
141: #19 Tyler Smith dec. over #16 Logan Everett, SV-1, 14-10 (Army leads, 6-3)
149: Seth Hogue dec. over Nick Noel, 15-11 (Tied, 6-6)
157: #14 Victor Lopez pins Lucas Weiland at 4:52 (Bucknell leads, 12-6)
165: Cael McCormick pins Logan Kerin at 6:38 (Tied, 12-12)
174: Ben Harvey maj. dec. over D.J. Hollingshead, 9-0 (Army leads, 16-12)
184: Garrett Hoffman dec. over Jack Wedholm, 5-4 (Army leads, 16-15)
197: #15 Tom Sleigh maj. dec. over C.J. Morgan, 14-4 (Bucknell leads, 19-16)
285: Tyler Greene dec. over Trevor Smith, 5-2 (Bucknell leads, 22-16)

COACHES CORNER

Head Coach Kevin Ward – "We knew it was going to be a tough dual meet coming in to it. I think with us wrestling six freshmen in the lineup with a couple of guys out hurt or sick that we were going to have to be tough in every match. I was proud that we gave ourselves a chance to win, but it's one that you feel like you gave it away in a few matches that you had won. Give Bucknell credit. They stayed in matches when I felt like we should've had it well taken care of. They found a way to win some late in matches that won the dual meet for them."
"For us, we haven't thought of that next matchup yet. We wanted to see our guys perform, and we learned some tough lessons in this dual meet. If you don't finish out positions, periods or matches that bad things will happen to you. That happened to us. I felt like we outwrestled people for six and a half minutes and found a way to lose a match. It's a painful lesson to learn, but I'd rather learn it now than in March."

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