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    Army West Point takes down Hofstra for second straight year

    HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- The Army West Point wrestling team extended its winning streak to four matches after taking nine of 10 matches against Hofstra en route to a 34-3 victory on Saturday afternoon at the David S. Mack Physical Education Center.

    The Black Knights improve to 5-3 overall and 3-1 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA), while the Pride fell to 5-5 on the season and 1-3 in the EIWA.

    ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES
  • The Black Knights improved to 8-12-1 against Hofstra after winning for the second-straight season.
  • Army is now on a four-match winning streak, the longest since a five-match stretch in 2013-14.
  • Sophomore Austin Harry notched his 10th win of the season to set a new single-season personal best.
  • Freshman lightweight Trey Chalifoux earned the second bonus-point victory of his career with a 12-4 major decision over Jacob Martin to even his season record at 9-9.
  • Freshman Noah Hanau made his first-career dual start, earning an 11-7 decision for his 10th win of the year.
  • Senior co-captain Russ Parsons recorded his first pin of the season 2:19 into the second match, marking the 20th dual victory of his career.
  • Junior Andrew Mendel documented his fourth dual win of the season, tying a single-season personal best which he set in 2015-16.
  • Senior Samson Imonode took a 17-7 major decision for his fifth bonus point win of the season, tying from personal best from 2013-14 and 2015-16.
    Imonode is now 7-1 on the season and has 10-career dual victories.
  • Senior heavyweight Trevor Smith improved to 13-8 on the season, setting a new single-season high.

    KEY MOMENT
    Senior co-captain Russ Parsons pinned his opponent, Jake Kaminsky, 2:19 into the match to extend Army's lead to 9-0.

    Results:
    149: Matt Kelly dec. over Ryan Burkert, 5-4 (Army leads, 3-0)
    157: #17 Russ Parsons pins Jake Kaminsky at 2:19 (Army leads, 9-0)
    165: Andrew Mendel dec. over Bobby Fehr, 16-9 (Army leads, 12-0)
    174: Sage Heller dec. over Ben Harvey, 18-11 (Army leads, 12-3)
    184: Samson Imonode maj. dec. over Mike Oxley, 17-7 (Army leads, 16-3)
    197: Rocco Caywood dec. over Nezar Haddad, 3-1 (Army leads, 19-3)
    285: Trevor Smith dec. over Omar Haddad, 4-2 (Army leads, 22-3)
    125: Trey Chalifoux maj. dec. over Jacob Martin, 12-4 (Army leads, 26-3)
    133: Austin Harry tech. fall over Vinny Vespa, 22-4 (Army leads, 31-3)
    141: Noah Hanau dec. over Connor Burkert, 11-7 (Army leads, 34-3)

    COACHES CORNER
    Head Coach Kevin Ward -- "I thought what showed today was that we have made progress and we scored in some positions that we've been focusing on. But, I thought even in the matches we won that they outfought us which is concerning. We let guys back into matches when we could have put them away. The matches didn't need to be that close. We have to be tougher than that. It's going to take more fight than we showed today if we want to be the team we say we want to be. It was good to win nine of 10 matches, no question, but we need to be more dominant."

    UP NEXT
    The Black Knights are back in action tomorrow for a 1 p.m. dual at Binghamton.
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