2015-16 New England Wrestling Association
Dan DiCenzo-NEWA SID Director
Office: 860-685-3012
Fax: 860-685-2213
E-mail: ddicenzo@wesleyan.edu
2015-16 Coaches Poll #5 December 15, 2015
New England Division III Poll: (Record and First Place Votes in
Parentheses)
1. Roger Williams University (14) (7-0)
2. Johnson & Wales University (3-1)
3. Williams College
(1-0)
4. Springfield College (2-2)
5. WPI
(4-1)
6. Wesleyan University
7. U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1-1)
8. Rhode Island College (4-0)
9. Norwich University
(2-2)
10. Plymouth State University (2-2)
140
125
113
93
84
68
52
50
25
15
Others receiving votes: University of Southern Maine
NEWA Wrestler of the Week: US Coast Guard Academy, 157 pounder Chris
Sullivan, SO, (Canton, MA). Sullivan went 2-0 over the weekend to help the
Bears split their home opening Tri-meet. Sullivan beat Carter Merecki of RWU
1-0 and beat CJ Luth of USM 11-0 to earn the Major Decision win. Luth is a
returning Region place winner and beat nationally ranked Ty Herzog in his first
match of the night. Sullivan had a big win over Luth and placed 5th at the
prestigious York invitational last weekend. Sullivan is now ranked #8 nationally.
NEWA Rookie Wrestler of the Week: WPI, 157 pounder Graysen DeLuca, FR,
(Canterbury, CT). DeLuca went 3-0 and had a big weekend for the Engineers.
DeLuca beat Kim of RIT 5-2 and won by major decision over Tom Marrone of
Oneonta14-2. DeLuca also had a huge 5-4 win over Adrian Berry of Cortland 54. Berry was a region finalist and national qualifier last year. Deluca missed the
start of the season due to injury and definitely looked strong in his first event of
the year.
Dual Results from this past week:
Springfield 43 Daniel Webster 6
Roger Williams University 45 Southern Maine 9
Roger Williams University 34 USCGA 9
USCGA 33
Southern Maine 14
Plymouth State 27 Southern Maine 18
Rhode Island College 35 Southern Maine 9
Rhode Island College 30 Plymouth State 6
Williams 53
Trinity 0
WPI 25
Oneonta 12
Cortland 28
WPI 12
WPI 33 RIT 10
JWU 34 Oneonta 13
JWU 36 RIT 6
Cortland 20
JWU 15
In the RWU/USCGA dual, Nick Barbaria of RWU beat Earl Roberts 7-4 at 125.
Senior Dan Roger of RWU won 8-4 over Dominick Summers of CG. At 149
James Knoeller of RWU beat Matt Viera in a high scoring affair 15-11. Then in
a rematch of last year region finals Dan Ressler of RWU beat Mike Shermot 135. We have only seen Shermot a few times this season and last year he had an
outstanding second. In the RWU/USM match Justin Cochran got his second pin
of the day with a fall over Brendan Wei of USM. At 157, CJ Luth of USM had a
big win in an exciting match with Ty Herzog. Luth and Herzog were tied at 13
all and headed into overtime. Luth was able to secure the takedown and win the
match 15-13 in SV-1. The USCGA beat Southern Maine. The Bears won 7 of
the 10 bouts and it was highlighted by wrestler of the week Chris Sullivan beating
CJ Luth 11-0. Coast Guard got solid wins from Roberts at 125 and Painten at
285 and got pins from Palomba at 165 and Shermot at 174. PSU beat USM in a
dual winning 6 of the 10 bouts. PSU got pins from Montgomery at 174 and
Callahan at 165 to help seal the dual. RIC also beat USM. Daniel Del Gallo
went 2-0 on the day for the Huskies. He beat region place winner Jon Costa 8-5.
Teammate CJ Luth beat region place winner Michael Murphy 6-0. Jake Dorman
at 141 for RIC beat Brendan Wei of USM 13-8, Drago at 174, Conrad at 184, and
Georges at 285 all secured pins for the Anchormen. RIC went 2-0 on the day
with the win over PSU. RIC won 6 of the 7 matches decided by decisions.
Shawn Giblin had a big pin at 141 and John Georges won by Tech fall at 285 to
help lead RIC in the dual win. Williams won all ten bouts in their dual vs Trinity.
Williams won by pin in seven of their matches. Trinity had a full lineup and is
definitely moving in the right direction, just unfortunately matched up with a very
strong Williams team. WPI went 2-1 over the weekend. They were led by
Deluca (Rookie wrestler of the week) and fellow freshmen Mike Curtis who also
went 3-0. Curtis beat Pietri of Oneonta 9-2 and he beat Lewis of Cortland 7-1.
Brian Amato at 125, Pete Nash at 141, and Jack Nigro at 149 all went 2-1 for the
Engineers. JWU also went 2-1. The Wildcats had two dominate wins but lost a
tight 20-15 match to Cortland. Joe Ferinde at 133, Stephan Jarrell at 184, Khamri
Thomas at 197 all went 3-0 for JWU. They also went 3-0 at 125 as Jay Albis
went 2-0 and Bobby Jordan went 1-0.