CAMPBELLSVILLE WON THE FIRST-EVER MID-SOUTH CONFERENCE

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Campbellsville University won all four of its matches and collected the first-ever Mid-South Conference Wrestling Tournament hardware Saturday afternoon on its home mats in the Gosser Gym.

The rest of the field: Cumberland University 2-1-1, Lindsey Wilson 2-2, University of the Cumberlands 1-2-1, West Virginia tech 0-4.

"This is pretty neat," said coach Franky James, "and to get it here at home is really special for our guys."

Campbellsville's Tommy Pretty, Nick Waldrop and James Linker were undefeated in their four matches in helping the Tigers to the title.

"We bumped Spencer Adams up to 197 and he got a big win for us today," said James.

James praised Jeremiah Fennel too."He just keeps on improving," said James. "He lost a one-point match to Cumberland University's B.J. Stewart and Stewart was ranked No. 1 at one time this season."

But there is no rest for the weary, as Campbellsville left at 7:00 Saturday for Indiana and a match Sunday at Indianapolis University.

"We started out a little slow, but we got it together after that," said James. "Our guys have been training really hard because we haven't had a match since a January 15th dual against McKendree. We just needed to get out there and compete."

Academic All-Conference

Josh Ashbrook, Matthew David and Jarius Murton, Campbellsville University; Joshua Cappa, Trey Myers and Andrew Shoultz, Cumberland University; Keith Klink, Lindsey Wilson College; Garrett Harrison, University of the Cumberlands; and James kerns and Ben Wood, West Virginia Tech.

All-Conference

Campbellsville: Johnny Papesh, Tommy Pretty, Nick Waldrop, James Linker and Bryan Wells.

Lindsey Wilson: Keith Kirk and Andrew Hairston.

University of the Cumberlands: Larone Madison and Damion Stephenson.

Cumberland University: Mike Davis, James Casadaban, Eric Metzler and B.J. Stewart.

Freshman of the Year: Nick Waldrop, Campbellsville

Coach of the Year: Franky James, Campbellsville

Matches

Campbellsville: Defeated Lindsey Wilson 30-6; defeated University of the Cumberlands 34-20, defeated Cumberland University 20-11, defeated West Virginia tech 60-0.

Cumberland (Tenn.) University: Tied University of the Cumberlands 18-18, lost to Campbellsville 20-11, defeated West Virginia Tech 49-3, defeated Lindsey Wilson 38-12.

Lindsey Wilson: Lost to Campbellsville 30-6, defeated West Virginia tech 54-0, defeated University of the Cumberlands 22-18, lost to Cumberland University 38-12.

West Virginia Tech: lost to Campbellsville 6-0, lost to Lindsey Wilson, 54-0, lost to University of the Cumberlands 51-6, lost to Cumberland University 49-3.

Individual matches went like this for Campbellsville:

Against Lindsey Wilson - Keith Klink (LW) defeated Johnny Papesh 5-3; Tommy Pretty (CU) defeated Brian Thompson 12-3; Matt david (CU) defeated RaShaun Graham 10-2; Jacob Shirley (LW) defeated Seth Lucas 13-9; Conor Young (CU) pinned James Anthony; Jarius Murton (CU) defeated Ryan Shank 9-3; Bryan Wells (CU) defeated Andrew Hairston 10-8; Spencer Adams (CU) defeated Jacob Ilg 3-2; Diante Wright (CU) defeated Bill Semones 9-1; and Jeremiah Fennel (CU) Zach Marshall 6-1.

Against University of the Cumberlands - Papesh (CU) pinned Larone Madison; Pretty (CU) pinned Marcus Saylor; Tim Mitchen (UC) defeated David 3-0; Waldrop )CU) pinned Jeff Steele; Young (CU) pinned Dustin Center; Linker (CU) pinned Deyvon Pasmore; Damion Stephenson (UC) pinned Wells; Adams (CU) defeated Jacob Brady 14-3; Fred Byars (UC) pinned Diante Wright; Carlton Thompson (UC) won by forfeit.

Against Cumberland University - Papesh (CU) defeated Hunt 3-2; Pretty (CU) defeated McKenzie 8-0; Davis (Cumb) defeated Murton 8-6; Waldrop (CU) defeated Shoutz 10-2; Casadaban (Cumb) defeated Young 7-6; Linker (CU) defeated Wiese 3-2; Wells (CU) defeated Sasfy 5-2; Myers (Cumb) defeated Allen Scruggs 5-0; Adams (CU) defeated Metzler 4-1; Stewart (Cumb) defeated Fennel 3-2.

Against West Virginia Tech - 60-0.

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Great post! Thank you for promoting Mid-South wrestling!

Jacob Shirley of Lindsey Wilson recieved All-Conference honors, as well, and was named Co-Freshman of the Year. The release has been updated to include Jacob. We are very proud of his efforts

Again, thank you for the post. Keep up the good work!

-Coach Cross

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Way to go James Linker.  Nice to see Jarius Murton is back in action!