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Friday, January 28
Cambridge, Mass.
12:00 PM

Princeton University

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at
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Harvard

Danny Coles had Princeton's sixth straight win to start the match, getting a 9-4 decision against Kenny Herrmann.
Photo by: Lisa Elfstrum

Wrestlers Open Doubleheader Friday With Win at Harvard

January 28, 2022 | Wrestling

Starting the day with five straight bonus-point wins, the No. 20-ranked Princeton wrestling team won its second Ivy League match to start the league season on Friday at Harvard, getting eight wins overall to defeat the Crimson 34-9.

The Harvard match was the first of two on the day, as the Tigers will head to Brown for a 6 p.m. match. Fans can watch that match on ESPN+ and follow results on TrackWrestling.

With the match starting at 184 pounds, Princeton had two of its four NCAA coaches-ranked wrestlers first up, beginning with No. 22 Travis Stefanik. After a pair of first-period takedowns on the way to a 4-2 lead, Stefanik had the pin of Domonic Mata just 20 seconds into the second period.



Luke Stout, ranked No. 17 at 197, followed and rolled up 10 second-period points including eight on near falls after a pair of first-period takedowns had the Tiger freshman up 4-1 three minutes in. Stout finished it off with a takedown early in the third to reach the tech-fall margin, and Princeton had its second bonus-point win to start the match.



At heavyweight, Matt Cover kept the run going against Jeffrey Crooks, building a 6-2 lead with three first-period takedowns and moving it to 8-4 entering the third. Cover ended the match by keeping Crooks off the board in the third period, using a takedown along with an escape and the riding-time point to reach the eight-point margin and deliver the team's third straight bonus-point win.



Back to the top of the lineup, No. 1-ranked Patrick Glory kept his run of victories going, making it 7-0 to start the year and 31 straight including the 2019-20 season by pinning Beau Bayless in just 92 seconds. 



The bonus-point run continued at 133, where sophomore Nick Kayal picked up his first dual-match win, defeating Dillon Murphy 12-2. Kayal had two takedowns and a reversal between the first and second periods on the way to a 7-1 lead, and Kayal closed out the 12-2 win with two more takedowns in the third along with the riding-time point.



The run of bonus-point wins ended there, but not the run of wins. At 141, Danny Coles made it 28-0 for Princeton with a strong third period that opened up what was a 4-3 read entering the third, using two takedowns and the riding-time point to win 9-4. 



Harvard had its two wins in a three-bout span between 149 and 165. The first of those came when Harvard's Lukus Stricker, rebounding from an early takedown, pinned Marshall Keller in the second period at 149 to get the Crimson on the board and make it 28-6. The other came at 165, where Harvard's No. 12 Philip Conigliaro held off Jake Marsh, taking an 8-4 lead into the third and overcoming a takedown and a pair of escapes from Marsh in the final frame with a takedown an an escape of his own in an 11-8 win.

In between, Princeton's No. 8 Quincy Monday made it back-to-back wins to start Ivy League competition, building a lead against Trevor Tarsi at 157 that stood at 4-1 after a period on two takedowns and grew to 6-2 entering the third on the way to a 10-3 win.



Heading into the last bout of the match, Princeton led 31-9, and Nate Dugan added to it at 174 with a 6-4, sudden-victory win over Harvard's No. 27 Joshua Kim. After trailing Kim 4-3 entering the third, Dugan tied it up with a third-period escape, and it stayed even at 4-4 entering the extra period. A takedown from Dugan gave the Tiger sophomore his second win of the year in four tries against ranked opponents, adding Friday's win to one from the MatMen Open during the holiday break against Rutgers' Jackson Turley, who was No. 16 in the nation by InterMat at the time.

184: #22 Travis Stefanik (P) won by fall over Domonic Mata (H), 3:20 (P leads 6-0)
197: #17 Luke Stout (P) wins by technical fall over Nick Marcenelle (H), 17-1/5:19 (P leads 11-0)
HWT: Matt Cover (P) wins by major decision over Jeffrey Crooks (H), 12-4 (P leads 15-0)
125: #1 Patrick Glory (P) wins by fall over Beau Bayless (H), 1:32 (P leads 21-0)
133: Nick Kayal (P) wins by major decision over Dillon Murphy (H), 12-2 (P leads 25-0)
141: Danny Coles (P) wins by decision over Kenny Herrmann (H), 9-4 (P leads 28-0)
149: Lukus Stricker (H) wins by fall over Marshall Keller (P), 4:10 (P leads 28-6)
157: #8 Quincy Monday (P) wins by decision over Trevor Tarsi (H), 10-3 (P leads 31-6)
165: #12 Philip Conigliaro (H) wins by decision over Jake Marsh (P), 11-8 (P leads 31-9)
174: Nate Dugan (P) wins by decision over #27 Joshua Kim (H), 6-4 SV1 (P leads 34-9)