Dec. 3, 2011

Petrofes Final Results (2011)

GRANTHAM, PA - Johns Hopkins sophomore Matt Fusaro claimed the individual title in the 157-pound weight class to lead the Blue Jays to a seventh-place team finish at Messiah's Petrofes Tournament on Saturday. The tournament championship is the first of Fusaro's career and the Blue Jays totaled 63 points to earn their seventh-place finish.

Fusaro was seeded sixth and was the only non number-one seed to win an individual title in the tournament. After opening with three wins on Friday, he scored a 12-10 overtime victory against second-seeded Brent Lowe of McDaniel in the semifinals to move into the championship bout. In the final, he drew top-seeded Ryan McGilvray of Springfield and secured his title with a third-period pin. Fusaro's 5-0 record in the tournament improved his season record to 13-3 and he is the first Johns Hopkins wrestler to win an individual title at the Petrofes.

Sophomore Ray Yagloski grabbed a fourth-place finish at 125 as he advanced to the consolation final despite not being seeded in the tournament. After falling into the consolation bracket with a 12-3 loss to top-seeded Nigel McNeil of Cortland St. (Yagloski was the only wrestler not to lose by fall or technical fall to McNeil) in his final bout on the opening day of the tournament, Yagloski opened day two with a 7-6 win over Bridgewater State's Jonathan Murray in the consolation quarterfinals. He advanced to the consolation final with a win by forfeit before falling to fifth-seeded Michael Fleck of Wilkes.

The Blue Jays had two wrestlers - junior Paul Marcello and sophomore Duncan Crystal - place in the top seven at 141. Marcello placed fifth and Crystal was seventh in one of the strongest brackets in the tournament.

Marcello was seeded third and won a pair of matches in the championship bracket before falling to the consolation bracket. There, he won three of four matches, including a 4-3 win over seventh-seeded Jeff Peterson of Wilkes and a 3-1 win over fourth-seeded Ryan Wilson, also of Wilkes to place fifth.

Crystal turned in an outstanding effort to earn his seventh-place finish. After falling to Wilson, 7-4, in his first match, he worked his way all the way through the consolation bracket. Among his four straight wins was a 4-2 decision over eighth-seeded Chris Williamson of Messiah before Wilson edged him again, 11-7, to drop him into the seventh-place match. He won by forfeit there to close out the tournament with a 5-2 record that ran his season mark to 10-7.

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