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Mya Graybill

Three wrestlers place at Mideast Futures Tournament

EWING, N.J. -- The Elizabethtown College wrestling team had three athletes place on Sunday at the Mideast Futures Tournament held at The College of New Jersey.

Jimmy Yeingst had the top placement of those three for Elizabethtown at 285. After an initial bye, the sophomore only needed a pair of wins to advance to the first place match and he did just that. Yeingst won by fall over Stevens' Ben Rosa in the quarterfinals in 1:25. In his semifinal match, the Colorado native made it a second consecutive fall by beating Alvernia's Tyler Carter at 5:58.

Yeingst went up against Trevor Gitski of Wilkes in the first place match, where Gitski would take the 285-pound title with a 10-4 decision.

A setback early put Gavin Wagner on the consolation side of things, but from there Wagner cruised into the fifth-place match at 197. The freshman won via fall in consi rounds one and two, and with a spot in the fifth-place match on the line, it took all of 52 seconds to get the pinfall to move on.

Wagner led 4-2 after the first period and 10-4 after the second. Dawson Tallant of Wilkes made a comeback attempt, but Wagner's escape and ensuing takedown late in the third clinched fifth place for the Blue Jay.

Kurt Driscoll also had a bye to start, but a close 4-2 decision did not go his way. Driscoll then won a close decision, 9-7, over Mohamed Abdelatty from Ursinus. The senior was down 5-0 early, but a reversal and a takedown to finish out the first brought the score closer, 6-5 after a period. After starting bottom in period two, Driscoll escaped and got another takedown to push himself into the lead, 9-6. Abdelatty escaped in the third after starting down, but that's the only point tallied as Driscoll moved on to the fifth-place match.

Driscoll would fall to Ben Rosa in the fifth-place match to take sixth for Etown.
 
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