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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Senior Tom Fives (Pittsburgh, PA/North Allegheny) took a 5-2 decision victory in the final bout of the match to lift Gettysburg to its initial Centennial Conference (CC) win of the season, defeating Johns Hopkins 22-20 in wrestling action on Tuesday.
With the Blue Jays (5-7, 2-3 CC) taking a 20-19 lead on a Shawn Gould forfeit victory at 149, the Bullets (5-5, 1-1 CC) needed a win at 157 to claim their fifth win in the last six matches.
Trailing 2-1 to open the second period, JHU's Dustin Tamsen chose the bottom position and earned an escape to knot the bout at 2-all.
Midway through the period, Fives grabbed the match-clinching takedown to take a 4-2 advantage and added an escape to start the third period for the 5-2 win.
Josh Kaplan (Canton, CT/Canton) opened the night for Gettysburg with a 9-0 major decision to give the hosts a 4-0 advantage.
Daniel Donnelly (Garden City, NY/Garden City) just missed a second Bullet major decision, winning by a 10-3 margin at 174 for a 7-0 lead.
Jon Freeman started a furious Blue Jay comeback with a 12-2 major decision at 184 to pull his squad within 7-4.
Tony Dambro (197) added a second major decision 11-3 to give Johns Hopkins its first lead at 8-7 before Dave DeGaravilla won by decision at heavyweight.
Scoreless entering the final period, Gettysburg's Mike Pattanite (Tabernacle, NJ/Holy Cross) chose down but DeGaravilla rode him out for the entire period to win 1-0 on riding time, stretching the Blue Jays' advantage to 11-7.
Jimmy Van Daniker tacked on a 9-2 win at 125 to push the lead to 14-7 before the Bullets started their own comeback.
Ray Cottiers (New Milford, NJ/New Milford) – the hero in Saturday's 24-23 win over Messiah – came up with his second straight pin to pull his team within 14-13.
Trailing 6-5 after the first period, Cottiers escaped and notched the takedown 27 seconds into the stanza for the 3-minute, 27-second fall.
Freshman Matt Shank (Reedsville, PA/Indian Valley) added his 11th pin of the season, improving to 29-5 with a pin in 6:10 at 141 to set up the key bout.
Gettysburg returns to action on Saturday in a tri-match at Ursinus with Washington and Jefferson. Action begins at 12 p.m.
Gettysburg 22, Johns Hopkins 20
165 – Josh Kaplan (G) maj. dec. Joe Selba 9-0, 174 – Daniel Donnelly (G) dec. Eric Fishel 10-3, 184 – Jon Freeman (J) maj. dec. John Leinberger 12-2, 197 – Tony Dambro (J) maj. dec. Jeff Morgan 11-3, HWT – Dave DeGaravilla (J) dec. Mike Pattanite 1-0, 125 – Jimmy Van Daniker (J) dec. Kevin Dougherty 9-2, 133 – Ray Cottiers (G) pinned Sam Anderson 3:27, 141 – Matt Shank (G) pinned Marco Priolo 6:10, 149 – Shawn Gould (J) won by forfeit, 157 – Tom Fives (G) dec. Dustin Tamsen 5-2.
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