Fittery Finishes Third at 133 in 40th Annual East Stroudsburg Open

Nov. 18, 2006

Results

EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. - Freshman Steve Fittery (Denver/Cocalico) earned Shippensburg’s top individual finish at the 40th annual East Stroudsburg Open on Saturday afternoon, which featured over 390 wrestlers in competition. Fittery earned a third-place finish while wrestling primarily against Division I competition.

After earning victories of 15-1, 4-1 and 3-2 to advance into the semifinals at 133 pounds, Fittery fell to Kutztown’s Joe Kemmerer, 3-2. Fittery earned the third-place crown by defeating Chris Notte of Nassau Community College by a 3-2 score and following that up with a 6-2 defeat over Mike Grey of the Finger Lakes Wrestling Club.

Another freshman earned the only other Top-8 finish on the day for the Red Raiders. Freshman David Sunderland (Saltillo/Southern Huntingdon) earned a seventh-place finish for Shippensburg, culminating his day with a 3-2 victory over East Stroudsburg’s Kyle Heselpoth.

After defeating Jeff Jacobs of Old Dominion in the opening round by a 9-4 margin, Sunderland fell to UPJ’s Archie McConnell, 7-5. However, Sunderland proceeded to win five more matches on the day in the loser’s bracket, including a win by fall in 2:30 over Delaware Valley’s Ryan Herwig and a 2-1 victory in two tiebreakers over fellow Raider wrestler, redshirt-sophomore Jake Wilson (Carlisle/Carlisle).

Other wrestlers that won matches on the day included redshirt-junior Darren Murray (Harrisburg/Central Dauphin), redshirt-sophomore Rob Cross (Milton/Milton Area), redshirt-sophomore Derek Deutsch (Nazareth/Nazareth), junior Eric Kauffman (Etters/Red Land), and freshman Adam Stout (Lewistown/Lewistown).

Shippensburg will next return to action on Friday, Dec. 1 at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown. The meet begins at 7 p.m.

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