Wood wins EIWA title, makes NCAAs
JORDAN WOOD (BOYERTOWN) » Lehigh redshirt freshman Wood won the heavyweight championship at the EIWA Championships, helping the Mountain Hawks to the team title on March 4.
Lehigh went 5-for-5 in finals with a win by Wood over 10th-ranked Michael Hughes of Hofstra, the No. 1 seed. Tied 1-1 through regulation and sudden victory, Wood escaped 12 seconds into the first half of the tiebreaker and was able to keep the 285-pound Hughes down in the second half to seal the 2-1, tiebreaker win. Wood is the first Lehigh freshman to win an EIWA title since Randy Cruz in 2013 and just the second since 2003. He advanced to the finals with a 4-1 win over Columbia’s Garrett Ryan in the semifinals.
Wood is seeded 10th at 285 for the NCAA Division I Championships, which will be held March 15-17 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
JOSH LAFFERTY (POPE JOHN PAUL II) » Josh Lafferty picked up his first victory of the season for the Widener baseball team and it earned him MAC Commonwealth Pitcher of the Week on March 4.
The 6-foot-3, 200-pound right-hander worked six innings in a 4-0 victory over Coe on March 3 in Auburndale, Fla. He scattered four hits, walked two and struck out five.