ATHENS, Ohio Junior 184-pounder Ryan Goodman used
riding time to take a 4-3 decision over Erik Schuth in the final match of the
day, lifting
NC State
to a 23-18 victory over the Bobcats in a dual wrestling match.
The victory extended NC State’s unbeaten streak to six matches
and improved the Wolfpack to 6-5-1 in dual matches for the season. Ohio
University fell to 5-11
with the loss.
NC State
got victories from its big four 125-pounder Taylor
Cummings, 141-pounder Joe Caramancia, 149-pounder Darrion Caldwell,
and Goodman at 184 plus decisions from 197-pounder Mark Jahad and 165-pounder
Jalil Dozier. Cummings won by tech fall, and Caldwell
recorded his 14th pin of the season.
The two teams traded wins through the first four weight
classes, with Jahad defeating Chris Iammarino 6-5 in the first match of the
dual, and Cummings winning a 16-0 tech fall over Heath Allen at 125. Cummings
improved to 17-8 on the season with his fourth technical fall of the year.
With Ohio University
holding a 10-8 lead through four matches, Caramanica, ranked No. 7 in the
latest NCWA poll, jumped to an early four-point lead on a takedown and near
fall, then held on to take an 8-7 decision over Germane Lindsey in a bout that
was tight throughout. Caramanica improved to 21-4 with the win.
Caldwell
then gave NC State
a 17-8 lead by pinning Kevin Christensen in 1:46. Caldwell,
who improved to 22-3 for the season, now has 14 pins for the season, has won
his last six bouts by fall or technical fall. He has 24 pins for his career,
which is tied with Pierre
Pryor 1998-2002) for fifth place in school history.
NC State’s
nine-point lead was tenuous. Clay Tucker recorded a technical fall over Chris
Gambino at 157 to make to 17-15, and after Dozier and Ohio’s Jacob Ison swapped decisions at 165
and 174, Goodman and Schuth entered the final bout of the match with the
Wolfpack holding a 20-18 victory.
NC State
returns to action on Saturday, January 26. The Wolfpack will face Maryland in College Park
at noon, and then will roll down the road to Annapolis to take on Navy at 7 p.m.
Notes: With 22 victories so far this season, Caldwell is on a pace that
will put him within reach of the school record of 32 victories in a season by a
sophomore, held by Sylvester Terkay. Caldwell
has eight dual matches, plus the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA
championships, still to go this season. Caldwell
also has a shot at becoming the first NC State wrestler since Mike Miller in
1995 to win 30 matches in a season. Caramanica also is within reach of 30 wins
for the year.
Of Caldwell’s
24 career pins, 21 of them have been first-period falls, 10 in the first
minute, and six in the first 30 seconds of the bout. His pin of Liberty’s Scottie Clymer a week ago was the first in Caldwell’s career that
came after the second period of a match.
Add in technical falls and defaults, and 26 of Caldwell’s 42 career victories came well shy
of the seven-minute mark. All but two of his nine career losses were by pin or
technical fall.
NC State 23, Ohio
18
197 Mark Jahad (NCS) dec. Chris Iammarino, 6-5
Hwt Jason Marshall (Ohio)
pinned Bobby Isola, at 7:48
125 Taylor Cummings (NCS) tech fall Heath Allen, 16-0
133 Seth Morton (Ohio)
major dec. Darius Little, 10-2
141 #7
Joe Caramanica (NCS) dec. Germane Lindsey, 8-7
149 #10
Darrion Caldwell (NCS) pinned Kevin Christensen, at 1:46
157 Clay Tucker (Ohio)
tech fall Chris Gambino, 19-1
165 Jalil Dozier (NCS) dec. Kent Smith, 11-6
174 Jacob Ison (Ohio)
dec. Randy Goodman, 8-4
184 Ryan Goodman (NCS) dec. Erik Schuth, 4-3
Courtesy: NC State
