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Harvard Rallies Past Wrestling Team In Ivy League Opener
February 05, 2011 | Wrestling
With wins in its final six matches, including four by a grand total of seven points, the Harvard wrestling team rallied past Princeton for a 21-15 victory Saturday morning in the 2011 Ivy League opener. The Tigers will return to the mat at 5 p.m. to take on Brown.
Princeton got off to a very strong start, winning three of the first four matches to get out to a 15-3 lead. The run started at 125 pounds, where 17th-ranked sophomore Garrett Frey earned a hard-fought pin over Steven Keith at 5:34. After a scoreless first period, Frey started on the defensive position in the second and nearly ended it with a defensive pin. Keith fought it off, but Frey stayed aggressive and scored a reversal and three near-fall points. Leading 5-1 entering the third, Frey ended it with a pin 34 seconds into the period.
Freshman Adam Krop built on the momentum early in his 133-pound match, scoring a takedown of Shay Warren to take a 2-1 lead into the second. He added an early escape to lead 3-1, but Warren evened it with a takedown late in the period. Warren took neutral to start the third period and the two battled throughout and into a scramble in the waning seconds. Krop seemed to have the advantage and nearly got the takedown, but Warren used a late move to score with three seconds remaining and win 5-3.
Junior Tony Comunale got the three points back with a 5-2 win over Joe Marino at 141. After a scoreless first period, Comunale rode Marino for the full two minutes in the second to build a big edge in riding time. He scored the first points of the match with an early reversal in the third and added two back points for a 4-0 edge. Marino made things interesting with a reversal, but Comunale stayed off his back and picked up a point in riding time for a 5-2 win.
Freshman Brandon Rolnick picked up a forfeit win at 149 and set up the most anticipated match of the morning, as Harvard's eighth-ranked Walter Peppelman took on Princeton junior Daniel Kolodzik, who had won seven straight matches and 18 overall this season. This match started the same way the previous one did; following a scoreless first period, Kolodzik thrilled an energetic home crowd with a full ride in the second period. Unfortunately, Peppelman took over in the third, scoring an early takedown on a single leg and riding the rest of the way to a 2-0 win.
From that point on, every close match went Harvard's way. The Crimson cut the deficit to 15-9 when Adam Hogue scored a takedown with 45 seconds remaining in the third period of a 3-2 win at 165. Junior Andy Lowy, competing at 174 after starter Ryan Callahan was injured late in the week, fought hard against David Lalo, but couldn't manage a takedown and lost 7-4.
Princeton senior co-captain Travis Erdman tried to reverse momentum against Cameron Croy, and came close to an early takedown, but it was Croy who scored late in the first to gain the early edge in the match. Both wrestlers escaped early over the next two periods, leaving Erdman in need of a third-period takedown to force overtime. He nearly got it on a couple of occasions, but Croy fought him off and then spun behind him on a late attempt to score a clinching takedown in a 7-4 win.
With the team match even at 15-15, Tiger freshman Dan Santoro scored on a double leg takedown with 1:14 remaining in the first to grab a 2-0 lead over Bryan Panzano. He nearly pulled out another takedown late in the period, but Panzano held it off and scored on two escapes to even the match at 2-2 entering the third. Santoro entered the period with a small edge in riding time, but that didn't last long. Panzano rode through every Santoro attempt, clutching at an ankle at one point near the edge of the mat and through several desperate moves late, to earn enough riding time of his own for the extra point and a 3-2 win.
At 285, Harvard's Bryan Panzano took control of the match in the third period, turning Charles Fox on his back twice to turn a tight 1-0 lead into a comfortable 7-1 victory.
HARVARD 21, PRINCETON 15
125 – Garrett Frey (P) p. Steven Keith 5:34 (P 6-0)133 – Shay Warren (H) d. Adam Krop 5-3 (P 6-3)
141 – Tony Comunale (P) d. Joe Marino 5-2 (P 9-3)
149 – Brandon Rolnick (P) wins by forfeit (P 15-3)
157 – Walter Peppelman (H) d. Daniel Kolodzik 2-0 (P 15-6)
165 – Adam Hogue (H) d. Jason Ott 3-2 (P 15-9)
174 – David Lalo (H) d. Andy Lowy 7-4 (P 15-12)
184 – Cameron Croy (H) d. Travis Erdman 5-1 (15-15)
197 – Bryan Panzano (H) d. Dan Santoro 3-2 (H 18-15)
285 – Andrew Knapp (H) d. Charles Fox 7-1