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No. 14 Northwestern Falls to No. 1 Penn State
The three-time defending NCAA champions Penn State Nittany Lions proved too much to handle for Northwestern.
No. 1 Penn State won eight of the ten individual bouts Sunday at the Bryce Jordan Center to upend No. 12 NU 39-8 Sunday.
The
Lions (9-0, 3-0), who featured eight of their ten starters ranked in
the Top 20 including three in the top three by Intermat, won seven
matches with bonus points.
Northwestern (6-4, 1-4) got individual wins by No. 4 Jason Tsirtsis at 149 lbs. and heavyweight No. 4 Mike McMullan.
No.
2 Nick Megalundis began the match winning by tech fall 23-6 over the
`Cats Garrison White to put the Lions ahead 5-0. Penn State would win
the first three individual bouts to take a 12-0 lead it would not give
up.
Tsirtis got NU on the scoreboard with a 5-3 win in overtime
against Zach Beitz to make it 12-3. But Penn State responded to win the
next five matches to take a 39-2 lead after NU was penalized for a
second bench warning and lost a point.
Ranked No. 1 in the
country at 165 lbs., Penn State's David Taylor won by 17-2 tech fall
over No. 9 Pierce Harger and NU's No. 9 Lee Munster lost after an
injury default to No. 3 Mathew Brown.
No. 4 heavyweight Mike
McMullan closed out the match defeating No. 12 Jimmy Lawson, earning
bonus points after 2:44 by injury default and improved to 6-1 on the
season.
The `Cats return home with back-to-back Big Ten home duals at Welsh-Ryan Arena facing Wisconsin on Jan. 26 and Iowa on Jan. 31.
No. 1 Penn State 39, No. 14 Northwestern 8
125: No. 2 Nick Megaludis (Penn State) won by tech fall over Garrison White (Northwestern) 6:39 23-6 (PSU 5, NU 0)
133: No. 15 Jimmy Gulibon (Penn State) won by decision over Dominick Malone (Northwestern) 7-2. (PSU 8, NU 0)
141: No. 2 Zain Retherford (Penn State) won by major decision over Pasquale Greco (Northwestern) 10-2. (PSU 12, NU 0)
149: No. 4 Jason Tsirtsis (Northwestern) won in sudden victory 1 over Zach Beitz (Penn State) 5-3. (PSU 12, NU 3)
157: James Vollrath (Penn State) won by pin over Ben Sullivan (Northwestern) 4:03. (PSU 18, NU 3)
165: No. 1 David Taylor (Penn State) won by tech fall over No. 9 Pierce Harger (Northwestern) 4:47 17-2. (PSU 23, NU 3)
174: No. 3 Mathew Brown (Penn State) won by injury default over No. 9 Lee Munster (Northwestern) 3:55. (PSU 29, NU 3)
184: No. 2 Edward Ruth (Penn State) won by pin over Jacob Berkowitz (Northwestern) 1:36. (PSU 35, NU 3)
197: No. 7 Morgan McIntosh (Penn State) won by major decision over No. 17 Alex Polizzi (Northwestern) 16-8. (PSU 39, NU 3)
Northwestern Second Team Bench Warning, -1 (PSU 39, NU 2)
285: No. 4 Mike McMullan (Northwestern) won by injury default over No. 12 Jimmy Lawson (Penn State) 2:43. (PSU 39, NU 8)
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