Army junior Jordan Thome won four matches on Saturday enroute to earning the 133 lb. title at The Body Bar Invitational. Thome defeated Chris Dardanes from the University of Minnesota by a 9-8 score to capture the crown. He won his other three bouts by the scores of 12-0, 7-0, and 5-4. James Raftery (157), Coleman Gracey (165), and Michael Gorman (184) all earned 6th place honors for the Black Knights who finished 7th out of 12 teams. Host Cornell took the team title with Kent State and the University of Virginia rounding out the top 3. Virginia is coached by 1995 Middletown graduate Steve Garland.
Other locals at the Body Bar included Lock Haven’s Matt Parlier (Port Jervis, 2009) who went 1-2 at 197 lbs. and Dingmans Ferry, PA native Joe Stanzione who placed 5th at 133 wrestling for Cornell.