COLLEGE: TROY GRAD SEYMOUR GETS WIN AGAINST PSU'S STEEN (2023-12-10)

BY BRYAN SEYMOUR
For Northern Tier Sports Report
STATE COLLEGE — Coming out of Thanksgiving Break, four of our area wrestlers were back in action. Sheldon Seymour Kaden Setzer, Gavin Bradley, and Ayden Sprague. All four are working hard and putting the time in. This weekend was a weekend of mixed results for our area wrestlers. 

Wrestling in front of a hostile crowd inside of Rec Hall taking on the nation's best team in Penn State. Seymour got the call against former Pa wrestling standout Gary Steen. These two battled each other while in high school with Steen besting Seymour. Throughout the first period, Seymour was in on multiple shots with Steen fending them off. After a scoreless first period, Steen chose the bottom position. 

Steen earned the escape to take a 1-0 lead. Heading into the third period trailing 1-0 Seymour chose the defensive position. Following the escape to tie the score up at 1. With time running out and the match looking to go into overtime Seymour takes a shot and seems to secure the takedown but the call on the mat was no takedown.

After a short conversation between the officials and an official review the call on the mat is overturned and Seymour is awarded the takedown and secures the 4-1 decision win for Lehigh. Although the final team score was in Penn State's favor with the 30-10 final score, the Lehigh Mountain Hawks did show heart and battled in the individual matches. 

Kaden Setzer and Kent State were in action at the Gardner-Webb Duals in North Carolina. In the team's first dual versus Chattanooga Setzer would face off against Isaiah Powe. Setzer would come up short falling by major decision 13-5. Kent State would fall to Chattanooga 38-3. In the team's second dual Setzer would face Nick Stampoulos of Buffalo. Setzer again would come up on the losing side, falling to Stampoulos by fall in 1:52. Kent State would again lose, this time by a final score of 25-15. In the team’s final dual the team would lose 28-11 to Garnder-Webb. 

Wrestling at the Ted Reese Invite was Gavin Bradley and Castleton University. Bradley would earnthe top seed and face Bruce Rasmusson of Southern Maine. In this quarterfinal match, Bradley would earn the win by a technical fall 19-4 in 4:19. In the semi-final match Bradley would win by a major decision over Nikko Beato of the United States Coast Guard Academy. Bradley would face Tanner Thatcher of Worcester Polytechnic in the finals where he would earn a 14-4 major decision to take the title. Bradley continues his winning ways for Division 3 Castleton University. 

Ayden Sprague and Pennsylvania College of Technology were in action at the R.I.T Invitational. In the preliminary round, Sprague would lose by fall to Toni Bishop of St. John Fisher. In the first round of consolations, Sprague would win by decision 9-8 over Martin Ohlsson of Penn State Behrend. Sprague would see Payne Weinhauer of Oswego State in the second round of consolations, and Sprague would win by fall in 2:35. In the third round of consolations Sprague would face Austin Bourgeois of RIT, losing by fall in 2:10. Sprague would end his day 2-2. Penn College would win the tournament title, which would be the first for the school in over 25 years. 

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