Two-time champ Wood helps Lehigh to EIWA title
JORDAN WOOD (BOYERTOWN) >> The redshirt sophomore repeated as EIWA champion at 285 pounds while helping Lehigh to its second straight conference tournament championship on March 9 at Binghamton, N.Y.
Wood was one of three individual winners for the Mountain Hawks. After beating Ben Sullivan 6-2 in the semifinals, Wood received a win by medical forfeit over Brown’s Ian Butterbrodt in the heavyweight final.
Wood is Lehigh’s highest seed for the NCAA Championships, which begin March 21 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. The former PIAA champion is 21-3 this season. JIMMY FRATANTONI (OWEN J. ROBERTS) >> The senior saw his season come to an end with the Muhlenberg wrestling team when he finished fourth at 174 pounds at the NCAA Mideast Regionals Feb. 24 in Brockport, N.Y. He was beaten 3-1 in the third-place match. Fratantoni competed both at 174 and 184 for the Mules this season. He was 8-3 at 174 and 16-6 at 184 with seven falls and five major decisions. Fratantoni, who missed his freshman season with an injury will return to the team next season and has a career record of 55-27. RYAN RESNICK (OWEN J. ROBERTS)
>> The true freshman finished third at 157 pounds for the Chattanooga wrestling team at the Southern Conference Championships on March 10 in Boone, N.C. Resnick earned a trip to the third place match with a pin in 5:23 and then went on to defeat his opponent 10-7 in the third-fourth place match. That ended his season on a high note. He was 12-14 overall, 5-6 in dual matches and 4-2 against Southern Conference foes. He also posted three falls on the season with his fastest coming in 4:48. DEVIN HASSINGER (OWEN J. ROBERTS) >> The Villanova women’s lacrosse team is 5-3 and red-shirt senior Devin Hassinger has the game-winner in three of them.
Hassinger, a 5-foot-4 midfielder from Glenmoore and an Owen J. Roberts graduate, has 17 goals and an assist for 18 points for the Wildcats. She also has a teamhigh 50 draw controls, 14 ground balls and seven caused turnovers.
The two biggest efforts thus far came against Cornell on Feb. 16 in Villanova and against Drexel on March 9 in Philadelphia. She had four goals and eight draw controls in a 13-12 victory over Cornell and four goals, an assist and nine draw controls in a 13-9 triumph over Drexel. LAUREN WALLER (BOYERTOWN)
>> The junior had two big offensive games but it couldn’t help her Gwynedd Mercy softball team from losing 18-4 and 17-1 to Moravian on March 14 in Bethlehem. Waller had a double and single with a run scored and an RBI in the first game and picked up the 4-6 Griffins only run in the second game with her first home run of the season. She has started all 10 games and is hitting .403 (13-for-32) with four doubles, the home run, nine runs batted in and 11 runs scored. CAMERON SIMMONS (SPRINGFORD) >> The 6-foot-4, 200-pound senior, who missed all of last season because of an injury, is starting in center field for the Virginia baseball team, the Cavaliers 8-7 overall and 1-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference after a 14-5 non-league loss to Liberty last Wednesday in Lynchburg, Va. Simmons is hitting .230 (14-for61) with three doubles, two home runs, 10 runs batted in and 11 runs scored. In the outfield, he’s made two errors on 41 chances (.957). Simmons was an All-ACC second team selection two years ago.