Ephs Win NEWA Championship

Complete Results

Springfield, MA - The second ranked Ephs sealed an enormous 30 point victory today at the NEWA championships. This is only the second time ever that the Ephs have won the NEWA championship and the first time since 1995. The Ephs were also awarded the "Highest Team GPA" and "Coach of the Year" honors for head coaches Dan DiCenzo and Rafael Vega.

Eight of the ten Williams wrestlers earned All-New England honors, finishing in the top six in their weight class. Sophomores Corey Paulish and Ryan Malo each won their weight class, earning automatic bids to the NCAA Division III championships at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The rest of the squad will have to wait for the automatic bids to the tournament to be released later tonight.

Paulish, the number one seed, gave up only six points in the tournament, defeating Jacob Gire of Trinity 11-2 in the finals. Malo, the standout transfer from Boston University, rolled through his early matches with three straight pins before defeating Joe Silverman of MIT 1-0 and 2-1 in the semi finals and finals, respectively.  

Co-captains Kyle Ayer '09 and Ethan Cohen '09 gave impressive performances, each finishing second in their weight class.  Cohen fell to rival Dan Bloom of Wesleyan, 3-0 in the final match.  Ayer, after upsetting the first seed Bryan Lenhardt of JWU in overtime in the quarterfinals, could not repeat the upset falling to Lenhardt in the first final 7-5 in overtime and then by pin in the second.  Also earning All-New England honors, Dylan Rittenburg '10, Carl Breitenstein '10, and John Foster '11 finished in third place and Josh Mattana '11 earned a sixth place finish.

More to follow.

1) Williams 136.5

2) JWU 106.5

3) RIC 96

4) Springfield 91

5) Southern Maine 76

6) Wesleyan 75.5

7) Roger Wiliams 67

8) MIT 58.5

9) Trinity 41.5

10) Bridgewater State 40.5

11) Plymouth State 36

12) Coast Guard 23

13) WPI 22

14) Norwich 18

15) WNEC 2.5