Princeton University
Columbia
Wrestling Falls In Back End Of Empire State Trip 32-13
January 29, 2005 | Wrestling
Jan. 30, 2005
NEW YORK CITY - The Princeton wrestling team got a trio of individual wins Saturday at Columbia, but the EIWA's sixth-ranked Lions proved dominant and came away with a 32-13 win. The Tigers, now 4-5 on the season, will return home for the next two weekends of competition.
Princeton, which fell 42-0 to Cornell Friday night in its Ivy League opener, are now 0-2 in the Ivy League.
Princeton trailed the team match 9-0 before Matt DeNichilo pulled out a 6-4 win over Sven Hafemeister. The teams split the next two matches, including an 18-4 victory by Princeton's Jake Butler, who is currently ranked sixth in the EIWA. Butlers win's cut the team score to 12-7, but Columbia ran through the next four matches to clinch the team win.
Andrew Iannuzzi put smiles on the Princeton faces in the final match of the day, as he pinned Arash Najafi with one second remaining in the first period. The Tigers return to Princeton for the next two weekends. Princeton will host Brown and Harvard next weekend, and then it will welcome Rutgers and Franklin & Marshall during its 100th Year of Princeton Wrestling celebration weekend.
#6 COLUMBIA 32, PRINCETON 13
157 - Golden Baker, Columbia, dec. Alex Enriquez, 12-5
165 - #2 Matt Palmer, Columbia, pinned Charlie Wiggins, 5:39
174 - Matt DeNichilo, Princeton, dec. Sven Hafemeister, 6-4
184 - Kirk Davis, Columbia, dec. Jack Fleming, 13-8
197 - #6 Jake Butler, Princeton, dec. Jed Wade, 18-4
Hwt - Bart Seemen, Columbia, dec. Kristopher Berr, 0:21
125 - #3 Jeff Sato, Columbia, won by forfeit
133 - Derek Francavilla, Columbia, dec. Greg Redman, 8-0
141 - #6 Anthony Constantino, Columbia, dec. Matthew Piselli, 14-4
149 - Andrew Iannuzzi, Princeton, pinned Arash Najafi, 2:59