Seven Wrestlers Place, Dragons Finish Sixth Overall at Southern Scuffle

Tuesday, January 2

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Seven Wrestlers Place, Dragons Finish Sixth Overall at Southern Scuffle

1/2/2018 9:20:00 PM | Wrestling

FINAL BRACKET (PDF)

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – A program-best seven Drexel wrestlers placed and the Dragons finished sixth overall as a team Tuesday in the final day of the Southern Scuffle at McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Before Tuesday, Drexel had never placed more than two wrestlers at the Southern Scuffle. Its seven place-winners were bested only by reigning national champion No. 1 Penn State (10) and were tied with No. 6 Lehigh. Stephen Loiseau highlighted the group with a fourth-place finish and was joined on the podium by Garett Hammond (fifth), Austin DeSanto (sixth), Trevor Elfvin (sixth), Ebed Jarrell (sixth), Austin Rose (seventh) and Joey Goodhart (seventh). The Dragons amassed 77.5 points as a team to finish sixth out of 25 squads, their best team finish ever. Their previous best came last year when they finished 12th overall.

Loiseau fought his way into the 197-pound third-place bout with back-to-back wins over nationally ranked opponents. The redshirt-junior beat No. 18 Jacob Seely of North Colorado with a 3-1 decision before outlasting No. 14 Matt Williams of Cal State Bakersfield, 11-9 to move into the third-place match. There Loiseau found himself in a rematch with No. 9 Anthony Cassar of Penn Setate where the result ended the same way as the first, a 4-1 decision in Cassar's favor.

Making his season debut at the Scuffle, Hammond ran into a tough matchup with Mitch Finesilver of Duke at 157 pounds in the semifinals and dropped a 9-1 major decision. The graduate student found himself on the wrong side of a 14-11 decision against No. 17 Coleman Hammond of Cal State Bakersfield and moved into the fifth-place bout, where he earned a high-scoring 20-14 decision win over Navy's Zack Davis. DeSanto was the other Dragon to advance to the 133-pound semifinals. He was ahead late in the match against No. 4 Jack Mueller of Virginia before suffering an injury and defaulting the match to Mueller. A medical forfeit in the fifth-place bout slotted the freshman for a sixth-place finish.

Following a first-round loss, Elfvin battled his way through the consolation bracket all the way to the fifth-place match. In today's action, the freshman 149-pounder pinned NC State's Jamel Morris at the 5:45 mark before earning a 5-2 decision over Chattanooga's Roman Boylen. Elfvin then had a chance at the third-place match, but ran into Navy's Jared Prince, who pinned Elfvin at 4:31. In the fifth-place bout, Elfvin defaulted the win to Northern Iowa's Max Thomsen after sustaining an early injury. Jarrell continued to work his way through the 165-pound consolation bracket after a quarterfinals loss to top-ranked Vincenzo Joseph on Monday. After closing out a 9-4 decision win over Lehigh's Drew Longo, Jarrell was outlasted by Lock Haven's No. 8 Chance Marsteller, 10-5. In the fifth-place bout, Jarrell sustained an early injury himself against No. 19 Gordon Wolf to take sixth.

Rose shook off a second-round loss yesterday to wrestle his way into the seventh-place bout at 174 pounds. The redshirt-senior beat Navy's Spencer Carey with a 5-2 decision before dropping a close 3-2 decision to Appalachian State's Forest Pryzbysz. Rose took seventh after a medical forfeit kept he and Matt Finesilver from a Scuffle rematch of their second-round match. Goodhart took to the consolation bracket after falling to No. 5 Jacob Kasper on Monday and opened with a 7-2 decision over Demetrius Thomas. The redshirt-senior heavyweight then found himself in a matchup with No. 13 Thomas Haines, but Goodhart dropped a 6-0 decision to move into the seventh-place bout, where he received a medical forfeit from No. 12 Jacob Wood of Lehigh.

For more on Monday's first day of action, click here.

The Dragons return to dual action at the Daskalakis Athletic Center when they host Keystone College and Franklin & Marshall in a doubleheader beginning at 5 p.m.

No. 6 Austin DeSanto | 133 pounds | Sixth Place
Austin DeSanto (DU) TF Brandon Bright (GW), 22-7 (3:31)
Austin DeSanto (DU) TF Durbin Lloren (UVU), 26-10 (5:21)
Austin DeSanto (DU) DEC Nathan Boston (CAMP), 8-5
No. 4 Jack Mueller (UVA) by injury default Austin DeSanto (DU), 6:02
*5th Place Bout: Jamel Morris (NCST) by medical forfeit Austin DeSanto (DU)*

Trevor Elfvin | 149 pounds | Sixth Place
Walker Dempsey (STAN) WBF Trevor Elfvin (DU), 6:32
Trevor Elfvin (DU) DEC Mason Wallace (CHAT), 7-3 (consolation)
Trevor Elfvin (DU) receives medical forfeit vs. Cortlandt Schuyler (LEH) (consolation)
Trevor Elfvin (DU) DEC Tristan Moran (OKST), 11-5 (consolation)
Trevor Elfvin (DU) WBF Jamal Morris (NCST), 5:45
Trevor Elfvin (DU) DEC Roman Boylen (CHAT), 5-2
Jared Prince (NAVY) WBF Trevor Elfvin (DU), 4:31
*5th Place Bout: Max Thomsen (UNI) by injury default Trevor Elfvin (DU), 2:04*

Evan Barczak | 149 pounds
Josh Heil (CAMP) DEC Evan Barczak (DU), 3-2
Evan Barczak (DU) WBF Tommy Stager (AFA), 1:11 (consolation)
Evan Barczak (DU) DEC Dane Robbins (AFA), 7-5 (consolation)
Evan Barczak (DU) DEC Collin Glorioso (LH), 4-0 (consolation)
Jarod Verkleeren (PSU) DEC Evan Barczak (DU), 6-4 (consolation)

Garett Hammond | 157 pounds | Fifth Place
Garett Hammond (DU) DEC Rian Burris (CIT), 8-2
Garett Hammond (DU) DEC No. 17 Coleman Hammond (CSUB), 3-2
Garett Hammond (DU) DEC Ian Brown (LEH), 9-3
Mitch Finesilver (DUKE) MAJ Garett Hammond (DU), 9-1
No. 17 Coleman Hammond (CSUB) DEC Garett Hammond (DU), 14-11
*5th Place Bout: Garett Hammond (DU) DEC Zack Davis (NAVY), 20-14*

Ebed Jarrell | 165 pounds | Sixth Place
Ebed Jarrell (DU) TF Isaiah Patton (UNI), 16-0 (6:13)
Ebed Jarrell (DU) MAJ Chad Pyke (CHAT), 12-1
No. 1 Vincenzo Joseph (PSU) DEC Ebed Jarrell (DU), 10-7
Ebed Jarrell (DU) TF Neal Richards (unattached), 18-3 (6:52) (consolation)
Ebed Jarrell (DU) DEC Drew Longo (LEH), 9-4 (consolation)
No. 8 Chance Marsteller (LH) DEC Ebed Jarrell (DU), 10-5 (consolation)
*5th Place Bout: No. 19 Gordon Wolf (LEH) by injury default Ebed Jarrell (DU), 1:37*

Austin Rose | 174 pounds | Seventh Place
Austin Rose (DU) WBF Hunter Fortner (CHAT), 1:34
Matt Finesilver (DUKE) DEC Austin Rose (DU), 4-3
Austin Rose (DU) DEC Heston Lamins (OKST), 7-5 (consolation)
Austin Rose (DU) DEC Hunter Bolin (VT), 3-1 (consolation)
Austin Rose (DU) DEC Spencer Carey (NAVY), 5-2 (consolation)
Forest Przybysz (APP) DEC Austin Rose (DU), 3-2 (consolation)
*7th Place Bout: Austin Rose (DU) by medical forfeit Matt Finesilver (DUKE)*

Owen Brooks | 184 pounds
No. 15 Bryce Carr (CHAT) WBF Owen Brooks (DU), 2:41
Owen Brooks (DU) TF Chasen Blair (UNC), 19-3 (6:12) (consolation)
Rodney Jones (CHAT) MAJ Owen Brooks (DU), 17-4 (consolation)

Stephen Loiseau | 197 pounds | Fourth Place
Stephen Loiseau (DU) TF Paul Carson (APP), 15-0 (3:07)
Stephen Loiseau (DU) WBF Tanner Orndorff (UVU), 1:24
No. 9 Anthony Cassar (PSU) DEC Stephen Loiseau (DU), 4-1
Stephen Loiseau (DU) DEC No. 18 Jacob Seely (NCU), 3-1 (consolation)
Stephen Loiseau (DU) DEC No. 14 Matt Williams (CSUB), 11-9 (consolation)
*3rd Place Bout: No. 9 Anthony Cassar (PSU) DEC Stephen Loiseau (DU), 4-1*

Vincenzo Pelusi | 285 pounds
No. 11 Nathan Butler (STAN) DEC Vincenzo Pelusi (DU), 7-0
Jacob Bohlken (unattached) DEC Vincenzo Pelusi (DU), 2-0 (consolation)

Joey Goodhart | 285 pounds | Seventh Place
Joey Goodhart (DU) TF Alex Nicholas (PSU), 15-0, (5:00)
Joey Goodhart (DU) DEC Carter Isley (UNI), 5-3
No. 5 Jacob Kasper (DUKE) MAJ Joey Goodhart (DU), 10-2
Joey Goodhart (DU) DEC Demetrius Thomas (unattached), 7-2 (consolation)
No. 13 Thomas Haines (LH) DEC Joey Goodhart (DU), 6-0 (consolation)
*7th Place Bout: Joey Goodhart (DU) by medical forfeit No. 12 Jordan Wood (LEH)*

Team Score | Sixth Place
1 | Penn State – 197
2 | Northern Iowa – 127
3 | Lehigh – 102
4 | Navy – 87
5 | Duke – 80
6 | Drexel – 77.5
7 | Virginia – 71
8 | CSU-Bakersfield – 69
9 | Stanford – 68
10 | Lock Haven – 64.5
11 | Chattanooga – 51
T12 | Appalachian State – 46
T12 | North Colorado – 46
14 | NC State – 34.5
15 | Air Force – 32
16 | Campbell – 29.5
17 | Oklahoma State – 27
18 | Hofstra – 26
19 | Cleveland State – 20
T20 | Gardner-Webb – 9.5
T20 | George Mason – 9.5
22 | North Carolina – 9
23 | The Citadel – 8
24 | Virginia Tech – 3.5
25 | Utah Valley – 0