HARTFORD, Conn. - The visiting Williams College Ephs won at the last three weight classes to earn a 30-17 victory over the Trinity College Bantams in wrestling action this evening at Oosting Gymnasium. The dual match was the first for both teams since 2019-20. Bantam sophomore
Adam Frost (Bennington, Vt.) and first-year
Jacob Marselli (Tolland, Conn.) had pins, while junior co-captain Levin Lyskawa (Londonderry, N.H.) and rookie
Chris Perry (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.) recorded Trinity individual wins.
Marselli opened the match with a technical fall at 125 pounds to give the home team a 5-0 lead but Scott Richter pinned his opponent in just 32 seconds at 133 pounds to put Williams up, 6-5. Perry blanked Jack Napeloni, 4-0, at 141 to put the Bantams back ahead, 9-6, but back-to-back Eph wins made the score, 18-9, in their favor. Trinity battled back with a 5-4 win by Lyskawa over Brendan Kiernan at 165 pounds and a win by fall at 6:05 by Frost at 174 pounds that knotted things back up again at 18 apiece.
Williams used a pair of 9-8 victories to pull ahead by six at 24-18. Will Smith eked out a win over Trinity junior
Anders Klass (Braintree, Mass.) at 184 pounds, and Elias Chen did the same against Trinity first-year Booker Lester (Sturbridge, Mass.) at 197. The Ephs closed it out in the heavyweight match, as Tommy Goodwin pinned Trinity senior co-captain
John O'Brien (Reading, Mass.) to account for the 30-18 final tally.
MATCH RESULTS
125: TC –
Jacob Marselli d. Noe Romero, WBTF at 5:41 (5-0)
133: WC – Scott Richter d. Mo Zaidi, WBF at 0:32 (5-6)
141: TC –
Chris Perry d. Jack Napeloni, 4-0 (9-6)
149: WC – Joe Rossetti d. Finn McGovern WBF at 2:10 (9-12)
157: WC – Albert Xing d. Nick Crotty, WBF at 2:05 (9-18)
165: TC –
Kevin Lyskawa d. Brendan Kiernan, 5-4 (12-18)
174: TC –
Adam Frost d. Dante Gutbrod, WBF at 6:05 (18-18)
184: WC – Will Smith d.
Anders Klass, 9-8 (18-21)
197: WC – Elias Chen d. Booker Lester, 9-8 (18-24)
285: WC – Tommy Goodwin d.
John O'Brien, WBF at 2:08 (18-30)
Williams 30, Trinity (Conn.) 18
