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NC STATE WRESTLING: #4 Wolfpack Comes Home with 21-12 Win at #10 Pitt

Pack gets first top-10 road win since 2016 season
PITTSBURGH, PA. – The fourth ranked NC State wrestling team up its season record to a perfect 12-0 as the Wolfpack scored a 21-12 win at #10 Pitt in ACC action. NC State won six of the 10 bouts, including five straight at one point, and added a pair of bonus point wins while not conceding any.
The win was the first at a top-10 opponent since the Pack win 21-17 at #2 Iowa in 2016. The dual started at 197 pounds, and Pitt opened with back-to-back decisions to jump out to a 6-0 team lead.
R-Fr. Jakob Camacho got the Pack’s first win, for bonus points at 125 pounds. Camacho scored a takedown in the third and worked for a four-point near fall and finished with an 11-3 major decision. Pitt claimed another decision at 133 pounds, as #6 Micky Phillippi scored a 4-0 win over Jarrett Trombley.
#11 R-Jr. Tariq Wilson used a two-point near fall and a ride out in the third period to score a 5-2 win at 141 pounds. At the intermission, Pitt held a 9-7 lead.
The Pack took its first lead of the night after R-So. A.J. Leitten scored a 7-0 decision at 149 pounds. After a scoreless first, Leitten got a four-point near fall and a ride out in the second.
More bonus points at 157 pounds, and another bonus point win for #2 Hayden Hidlay. His four-point near fall in the third period ended it early, as he scored a 16-1 technical fall over Taleb Rahmani for five team points, a 15-9 team lead.
#13 R-Jr. Thomas Bullard made it four straight Pack wins, as he notched his fourth top-12 win of the season and got a 3-1 decision over #12 Jake Wentzel. The lone takedown of the bout came in the second period. Pitt got the upset at 174 pounds, as Gregg Harvey got a takedown in the final 10 seconds to down #16 Daniel Bullard 10-8.
#3 R-Fr. Trent Hidlay closed the dual with his fourth top-10 win of the season, as he downed #7 Nino Bonaccorsi 6-3. Hidlay scored a pair of first period takedowns, and racked up 2:25 of ride time in the win.
Up Next
NC State will return to home action next weekend, as the Wolfpack will host #8 North Carolina Friday night at 7 p.m. in Reynolds Coliseum. Full details at https://gopack.com/sports/wrestling

February 2, 2020 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized