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LEHIGH WRESTLING SCHEDULE/RESULTS No. 19 LEHIGH AT No. 6 CORNELL Nov. LEHIGH MOUNTAIN HAWKS (5-3, 2-1 EIWA) AT CORNELL BIG RED (3-0, 1-0 EIWA) 3 Sun. at Clarion Open all day 9 Sat. BUCKNELL* (Grace) L, 18-17 NEWMAN ARENA (4,473)• ITHACA, N.Y. 15 Fri. No. 15 BLOOMSBURG (Grace)W, 22-13 JANUARY 12, 2014 • 2:00 PM 17 Sun. No. 1 PENN STATE (Stabler) L,22-12 22 Fri. No. 13 PITTSBURGH (Grace) L, 16-15 30 Sat. vs. Central Michigan@ W, 24-9 SETTING THE SCENE vs. No. 11 Virginia@ W, 19-14 In its fi rst action of 2014, No. 19 Lehigh heads to Ithaca, N.Y. to battle EIWA rival and vs. Columbia*@ W, 25-9 sixth-ranked Cornell at Newman Arena. Both teams enjoyed success in recent holiday Dec. tournament action. The Mountain Hawks fi nished ninth at the Midlands Championships, 8 Sun. at Penn* W, 21-12 with four place winners, led by freshman Mitch Minotti who claimed the 149 pound title 29-30 Sun.-Mon.at Midlands Championships 9th to become Lehigh’s fi fth undergraduate Midlands champ and its fi rst freshman Midlands Jan. champ. Sophomores Mason Beckman and John Bolich also placed and are expected to 12 Sun. at No. 6 Cornell* 2:00 17 Fri. NAVY* (Grace) 7:00 compete against Cornell. The Big Red fi nished fourth at the Southern Scuffl e with two 23 Thu. at Oregon State 10:00 individual champions: top ranked Nahshon Garrett at 125 and Gabe Dean at 184. 26 Sun. at Boise State 2:00 Feb. FAST FACTS 8 Sat. RUTGERS* (Grace) 7:00 • Freshman Mitch Minotti became the fi fth Lehigh wrestler (and the fi rst freshman) to 14 Fri. IOWA (Stabler) 7:00 win an undergraduate Midlands title with his championship at 149 on December 30. 22 Sat. at Brown* 7:00 23 Sun. at Harvard* 12:00 • The Mountain Hawks (2002-06) and Big Red (2007-13) have combined to win the last 12 EIWA team championships. Mar. • In the last 12 years, Lehigh and Cornell have combined for 16 top ten NCAA fi nishes, 8-9 Sat.-Sun. at EIWA Championships (at Penn) 13 individual national champions, 71 All-Americans and 59 individual EIWA titlists. 20-21 Thu-Sat.at NCAA Championships (Oklahoma City) PROBABLE MATCHUPS * - EIWA Opponent @ - Northeast Duals (Troy, N.Y.) LEHIGH CORNELL 125 Darian Cruz (Fr., Allentown, Pa.) vs. No. 1 Nahshon Garrett (So., Chico, Calif.) 133 No. 6 Mason Beckman (So., Greenville, Pa.) MEDIA INFORMATION vs. No. 9 Mark Grey (Fr., Rockaway, N.J.) Contact 141 No. 18 Laike Gardner (So., Biglerville, Pa.) Steve Lomangino vs. No. 7 Mike Nevinger (Sr., Perry, N.Y.) Offi ce: . (610) 758-3174 149 No. 12 Mitch Minotti (Fr., Easton, Pa.) Cell . (917) 579-0976 vs. No. 6 Chris Villalonga (Sr., Totowa, N.J.) E-mail: . [email protected] 157 Joey Napoli (Sr., Boiling Springs, Pa.) Web: . .www.lehighsports.com vs. No. 7 Brian Realbuto (Fr., Somers, N .Y.) Twitter: . @LehighSports 165 Brian Brill (Fr., Lock Haven, Pa.) . @LehighWrestling vs. No. 12 Dylan Palacio (Fr., Long Beach, N.Y.) Facebook: . 174 No. 15 Elliot Riddick (Fr., Whitehall, Pa.) . .Facebook.com/LehighAthletics vs. Duke Pickett (So., Culpeper, Va.) OR Jesse Shanaman (Sr., Blairstown, N.J.) Broadcast Coverage: 184 Zach Diekel (Fr., Whitehall, N.Y.) vs. No. 2 Gabe Dean (Fr., Lowell, Mich.) Television: None 197 No. 17 John Bolich (So., Willow Grove, Pa.) vs. Jace Bennett (Jr., Amarillo, Texas) Radio : WLVR-FM (91.3) beginning at 285 Doug Vollaro (Fr., Springfi eld, Mass.) 1:45 p.m. with Steve Lomangino and vs. Stryker Lane (Sr., Redvale, Colo.) OR Gary Brownell. Jacob Aiken-Phillips (Jr., Lawrenceville, Ga.) Internet: Video via the Ivy League Digi- Rankings: Amateur Wrestling News, 1/7/14 tal Network, audio at www.wlvr.org 34-TIME EIWA CHAMPIONS 27 INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Lehigh Athletic Media RelationsExperience • 641 Taylor Street, Lehigh Bethlehem, Football PA • Phone 2003 610-758-3174 • Fax 610-758-4407 No. 19 LEHIGH AT No. 6 CORNELL• PAGE TWO LAST TIME THEY MET IN THE POLLS JANUARY 6, 2013 - BETHLEHEM, PA. CORNELL 20 - LEHIGH 13 USA TODAY/NWCA/AWN Top 25 (1/7/14) On a day in which six of the ten matches were decided by two points or less, No. 4 Cornell won seven of ten bouts hand No. 12 Lehigh a 24-12 setback at Newman Arena. 1. Penn State The Big Red built a 17-0 lead at intermission and clinched the dual when Steve Bosak 2. Minnesota upset top-ranked Robert Hamlin 2-1 at 184. The Mountain Hawks fi nally pieced together 3. Iowa a pair of hard-fought wins after intermission as senior Sean Bilodeau and freshman Nate 4. Oklahoma Brown won in sudden victory at 165 and 174 respectively. In the fi nal bout of the dual, 5. Oklahoma State Zach Rey returned to the mats with a second period fall over Maciej Jochym. The pin 6. Cornell was Rey’s 98th career victory. 7. Missouri 125 Nahshon Garrett (Cornell) tech. fall Alex Abreu (Lehigh) 18-3, 7:00 8. Nebraska 133 Bricker Dixon (Cornell) dec. Randy Cruz (Lehigh) 2-1 9. Ohio State 141 Mike Nevinger (Cornell) dec. Laike Gardner (Lehigh) 11-5 10. Northern Iowa 149 Shane Welsh (Lehigh) dec. Ryan Dunphy (Cornell) 5-4, tb 11. Illinois 157 Joey Napoli (Lehigh) major dec. Chris Dowdy (Cornell) 11-3 12. Pittsburgh 165 Jesse Shanaman (Cornell) dec. Albert Woody (Lehigh) 5-0 13. Virginia 174 Kyle Dake (Cornell) dec. Nathaniel Brown (Lehigh) 9-3 14. Edinboro 184 Robert Hamlin (Lehigh) dec. Steve Bosak (Cornell) 3-1, sv 15. Virginia Tech 197 John Bolich (Lehigh) dec. Jace Bennett (Cornell) 1-0 16. Northwestern 285 Stryker Lane (Cornell) dec. Jack Delia (Lehigh) 3-1 17. Iowa State LEHIGH HEAD COACH PAT SANTORO 18. Michigan Coach Santoro is in his sixth season as the Lawrence White ‘64 Head Coach of Wrestling 19. Lehigh at Lehigh. In fi ve-plus seasons Santoro, a two-time EIWA Coach of the Year, has led the 20. Purdue Mountain Hawks to a 81-25-1 dual meet record. He has coached nine individuals to a to- 21. Stanford tal of ten EIWA titles, four Mountain Hawks to a total of nine All-American medals, and 22. Bloomsburg one national champion, Zach Rey in 2011. He spent fi ve years resurrecting the Maryland program, as he went 48-41-1 in duals and guided the Terrapins to an ACC title in 2008. 23. Wisconsin Prior to his stint at Maryland, Santoro spent nine seasons as an assistant coach at Lehigh. 24. Oregon State He was named NWCA Assistant Coach of the Year in 2003 after helping guide the Brown 25. Boise State and White to its third EIWA title in four years, and a fourth place fi nish at the NCAA Championships. A 1992 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Santoro won a pair of NCAA titles and is the Panthers’ only four-time All-American. INTERMAT (For Santoro’s complete bio, see page seven) TOURNAMENT STRENGTH Top 15 (1/7/14) CORNELL HEAD COACH ROB KOLL Coach Koll is in his 21st year as the head coach of the Big Red. In 20 seasons Koll has 1. Penn State guided Cornell to 14 Ivy League titles and the last seven EIWA team championships. He 2. Iowa has mentored 11 NCAA Champions, 49 All-Americans and 42 Individual EIWA Cham- 3. Oklahoma State pions. Koll led the Big Red to runner-up fi nishes at the 2010 and 2011 NCAA Champi- 4. Minnesota onships. Koll, who was EIWA Coach of the Year in 2010 and 2011, and InterMat’s 2010 National Coach of the Year, is a 1989 graduate of North Carolina. 5. Oklahoma 6. Cornell 7. Ohio State SCOUTING THE BIG RED Cornell, the seven-time defending EIWA Champions, brings a 3-0 dual record into to- 8. Nebraska day’s match. While Lehigh was at the Midlands Championships, Cornell competed at the 9. Edinboro Southern Scuffl e, Jan. 1-2 in Chattanooga, Tenn., where the Big Red fi nished fourth out 9. Northern Iowa of 34 teams. The Big Red claimed a pair of individual titles, with sophomore Nahshon 11. Missouri Garrett winning at 125 and freshman Gabe Dean making waves throughout the wrestling 12. Illinois world with a win over Penn State’s Ed Ruth to claim the 184-pound title and snap Ruth’s 13. Maryland 84-match winning streak. Cornell’s projected lineup features seven wrestlers ranked 14. Michigan by Amateur Wrestling News, including Garrett, who is No. 1 at 125 and Dean, who is 15. Virginia ranked second at 184. The Big Red lineup features four nationally-ranked freshmen, 23. Lehigh including Dean, plus ranked seniors Mike Nevinger (141) and Chris Villalonga (149). Cornell owns dual wins over Binghamton, Maryland and Illinois. The Big Red also won the N.Y. State Collegiate Tournament and placed fourth at the Las Vegas Invitational. Lehigh Athletic Media Relations • 641 Taylor Street, Bethlehem, PA • Phone 610-758-3174 • Fax 610-758-4407 No. 19 LEHIGH AT No. 6 CORNELL • PAGE THREE SERIES HISTORY LEHIGH DUALS BY MONTH... Lehigh and Cornell will meet for the 91st time this afternoon. November: ........................................... 4-3 The Big Red serve as Lehigh’s third most often wrestled op- December: ............................................ 1-0 ponent, behind just Penn State and Navy. The Mountain Hawks January: ................................................ 0-0 have won seven of the last 11 duals in the series. February: .............................................0-0 Meets Record First Most recent LEHIGH IN DUALS DECIDED..