Trumbull’s Cross Cannone won his 39th straight collegiate match Saturday.
Trumbull’s Cross Cannone was one of three champions for Division III national champion Wartburg College on Saturday when he won at the Concordia University Wisconsin Open in Mequon, Wisconsin.
Cannone (157 pounds) won the tournament for the second year in a row in dominant fashion. He won four bouts by scores of 16-0, 16-1, 15-0 and 11-1. He beat Steve Bonsall of Chicago in the final, 11-1 and increased his winning streak to 39, dating back to the 2017 NCAA Division III national championships.
He is just seven victories away from tying Wartburg’s record for career technical falls and is seven wins shy of winning 100 collegiate matches.
Cannone, a senior, is ranked No. 2 in the country at 157.
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Freshman Jakob Camacho (125) of No. 8 North Carolina State won three bouts at the annual Wolfpack Wrestling Club Open tournament Sunday. Camacho and fellow redshirt freshman Zurich Storm each went 3-0 in the tournament and were declared co-champions.
Camacho, the Danbury High graduate, outscored his three opponents by a score of 48-17.
Camacho (13-1) has wrestled in three tournaments and won two – the Wolfpack Wrestling Club Open and the Hokie Open in the freshman/sophomore division. He was third in the Bearcat Open.
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Chase Lind (165) of Fairfield went 3-0 to help No .12 WPI win two of their first three dual meets of the season. The Engineers defeated Norwich 45-3 in the opener to give head coach Matt Oney his first dual meet victory on Boynton Hill. WPI then defeated No. 21 Castleton 31-19 before falling to No. 24 Stevens (NJ) 21-19. Lind had a pin in 6:09 along with a 14-5 and 14-1 major victory.
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Trinity College’s Grant Sorensen won the Doug Parker Invitational at 157 pounds to become the first Bantam wrestler in 18 years to win a tournament championship.
Sorensen (Moore, Oklahoma) was wrestling up a weight class and beat three NCAA Division III national championship qualifiers including an All-American. The last Trinity wrestler to win a tournament title was Derby’s Mike Marcucio in 2000.
Sorensen beat William’s Brendon Seyfried in the semifinals, 2-1 on riding time. In the final, he trailed Centenary’s Chris Muce, 1-0 after two periods but had two takedowns in the final 42 seconds of the match to earn a 6-2 victory.
Trinity’s John O’Brien (285) went 5-1 with four pins to finish fifth. The Bantams finished ninth in the tournament.
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Wesleyan’s Roy Forys, a senior from Carlstadt, N.J., was named the Outstanding Wrestler at the Doug Parker Invitational Saturday at Springfield College. Forys won the 165-pound weight class to help Wesleyan finish sixth out of 17 teams in the tournament with 73½ points.
Fory went 5-0 and beat the No. 2 ranked wrestler in the country – Coast Guard’s Nick Remke – in the finals by an 8-5 score.
Southington’s Zack Murillo (125) finished fifth with a 4-1 record for the Cardinals. Dylan Jones (133) finished second while teammate Shane Ross (149) finished fourth. Wesleyan returns to action Saturday, Dec. 1 when they compete at the RIT Invitational.
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Ryan Luth of Washington & Lee was the Centennial Conference’s freshman of the week. Luth, a freshman from Foran in Milford, improved to 9-1 on the season by going 5-0 for the week.
Among his five wins were three pins and a pair of technical falls. In a 36-9 win over Southern Virginia on Friday, Luth notched a pin in just 34 seconds over Easton Whitaker.
He then claimed the 157-pound title at the U.S. Marine Corps Star City Tournament on Sunday. He pinned Michael Duzzny of Otterbein (3:46) in his opening match, then had a 15-0 tech fall over Clay Fritz of West Virginia Tech. In the semifinals, he recorded a 16-0 tech fall over Kaleb Fontenot of Huntingdon, and then he recorded a pin in just 1:03 over Kyle Bythell of Elizabethtown in the title match.
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Coast Guard had three wrestlers finish second and another three wrestlers take third to lead the Bears to a fourth place finish at the season-opening Doug Parker Invitational at Springfield College.
Senior Nick Remke (165), freshman Paul Detwiler (184), and junior Patrick Irwin (285) each finished second for No. 11 Coast Guard. Springfield won the tournament with 111 ½ points followed by Centenary (102½), Southern Maine (97½) and Coast Guard (94½). Senior Christian Gosch (157), junior A.J. Aeberli (174) and Jeremy Berson (184) each finished third.
Remke at 165 opened with a pin in 2:11 then won 10-3 before advancing to the semifinals on a medical forfeit. He earned a 4-2 decision in the semifinals before falling 8-5 to Wesleyan’s Roy Forys from Wesleyan in the final.
Detwiler won his collegiate debut 11-2 and followed that up with a 5-2 win for a spot in the semifinals where he advanced to the final with a medical forfeit. Detwiler lost 8-6 to John Boyle from Western New England, who is ranked second in New England, in the final.
Irwin won by pin in 2:20 to open the tournament then pinned his next opponent in 3:20 to earn a spot in the semifinals where he earned 6-2 decision to make the championship match. He was pinned in 35 seconds in the final by Joe Fusco from Springfield, the top ranked wrestler in New England.
The Bears are back in action on Dec. 1 at the Ted Reese Invitational at Southern Maine.
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Springfield College captured the Doug Parker Invitational for the fourth time in the last six years behind a pair of individual titles from Ryan Peters (Wells, Maine) and Joseph Fusco (Billerica, Mass.). Springfield had 111½ points while Centenary was second with 102½.
Fusco continued his dominant stretch at 285, winning his second invitational of the season after previously claiming the Ithaca Invitational to open the year. After beginning the invitational with a pin in 1:09 versus Wesleyan’s Chris Nizielski, Fusco had a major decision versus Konstantinos Protogeropoulos from Centenary. In the semifinals, Fusco powered past Ryan Higgins from Bridgewater, 6-1, and then sealed the title with a pin in just 35 seconds against Coast Guard’s Patrick Irwin.
Peters put together a great afternoon at 141 for the Pride as he strung together five victories to win the title. He opened the day pinning Western New England’s Omar Velez in 4:23 and then delivered a 16-4 major decision against Andrew Aldina from Bridgewater State. He followed that with a 6-3 victory over Joseph Rossetti from Williams, and then bested top-seeded Dylan Nace from East Stroudsburg, 13-9, in the semifinals. In the finals, Peters prevailed over second-seeded Austin Shorey from Southern Maine, 6-4, to win the title.
Bristol Central’s Chris Trelli finished fourth at 125, losing to teammate Nicholas DeRose in the consolation final, 3-2. Trelli began his morning with a pin in 6:15 against Bridgewater’s Wilson Gomes and then pinned Marquise Johnson from New England College in 2:47.
Trelli then edged Nick Arborio from Western New England, 5-4, but fell to top-seeded Peter Del Gallo, 6-0, in the semifinals before being clipped by DeRosa to conclude his day.
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