Complete Results

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Senior Jake Wilson and red-shirt freshman Joey Anceravage each posted stellar performances on Saturday to highlight a solid team performance for the Shippensburg University wrestling program at the BU Brute Open from the Binghamton University Events Center.

Wilson rebounded on Saturday with a sensational effort to take fourth place at 165 pounds, besting a small armada of other wrestlers. His conquest of Division I wrestlers began with an 11-5 victory over Harvard's Mike Sadler before earning a 3-2 decision over Michael Alvarez of Princeton.

Continuing his run, Wilson defeated Michael Hartman of Sacred Heart by a 7-2 decision to advance to the semifinals. Wilson dropped a 5-0 decision to eventual second-place finisher Ryan McGarity and closed out the afternoon with a loss by fall to Bloomsburg's Ricky Schmelyun.

After a hard-fought 10-7 loss to Army's James Rafferty, Anceravage raced through the consolation brackets at 149 pounds. He began with a 16-1 technical fall in 3:00 over Western NE's Kevin Orchard and then defeated Derek Schreiner, an unattached Cornell wrestler by a 9-0 major decision.

In his fourth match, Anceravage pinned Dave Seidenberg of Rutgers in 40 seconds. Then, Anceravage pinned unattached competitor P.J. Barach in 1:01 for his fourth victory of the day before falling 5-3 to Kellen Bradley of Rutgers. Anceravage finished the day with two pins, a technical fall and a major decision.

In other action at the Open, red-shirt sophomore Andrew Jones earned a fall over Brown's Max McFadden in 4:41 before dropping a 10-3 decision to a wrestler from Rutgers. Freshman Kasey Lyon earned a 3-2 decision at 197, while Nathan Reese earned a 6-3 decision at 174.

At 133, freshman Tom Wiechelt earned an 18-3 technical fall in 4:13 over Ryan Komich of Western NE and followed with a 10-4 decision over Brown's Grant Overcashier.

Shippensburg will return to action next weekend in the Messiah Duals.