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NC State Wrestling Shorthanded at ACC Championships
3/8/2003 12:00:00 AM | Wrestling
March 8, 2003
BOONE, N.C.- NC State grabbed three individual championships, while the University of North Carolina won the overall ACC wrestling championship in the 2003 MAT JAM being held at Appalachian State. The Tar Heels won the championship with 104.5 team points and the Wolfpack finished second with 82 points. Virginia went on to finish third (68), followed by Maryland (36), and Duke (17.5).
In the 125-pound weight class, NC State's George Cintron was defeated by North Carolina's Chris Rodrigues, 6-1. To reach the finals, Rodrigues received a bye in the first round and recorded a fall in 4:42 against Virginia's No. 2 seeded Brian Sticca in the semifinals on his way to the finals.
Jake Giamoni grabbed the first individual title of the evening for the Wolfpack by beating Maryland's Adam James, 13-7 at 149 pounds. In the first round, Giamoni won by decision over North Carolina's John Paul Igoe, 11-4. Meanwhile, in the semifinals, the NC State junior won by major decision over Maryland's Brandon Foose, 20-7.
NC State would continue its success in the middle when 157-pounder Scott Garren defeated UNC's Chris DiGuisseppe, 2-1, to win the ACC title. To get to the championship round, Garren recorded a technical fall over Ben Balmages of Duke, 21-5 in the first round and then pinned Maryland's Jason Keissling in 6:54 in the semifinals.
NC State's No. 1 seed Dustin Kawa, who won the conference crown at 174 in 2002, repeated as ACC champion, but this time in the 165-pound weight class. Kawa defeated No. 2 seed Jimmy O'Connor of North Carolina, 6-5, to clinch his second championship. After a bye in the first round, the Wolfpack junior won by major decision over Virginia's No. 4 seed Will Durkee 13-2.
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2003 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship Round Results:
125 Chris Rodrigues (UNC) dec. George Cintron (NCS), 6-1
133 Evan Sola (UNC) dec. Joe Alexander (UVa), 2-0
141 Bob Seidel (UVa) major dec. Brian Baglio, 11-3
149 Jake Giamoni (NCS) dec. Adam James (MD), 13-7
157 Scott Garren (NCS) dec. Chris DiGuisseppe (UNC), 2-1
165 Dustin Kawa (NCS) dec. Jimmy O'Connor (UNC), 6-5
174 Mark Canty (UNC) dec. Brian Muir (UVa), 2-1 OT
184 Dusty Heist (UNC) dec. Jake Stork (MD), 10-4
197 David Dashiell (UNC) dec. Zach Freday (UVa), 5-4 OT
Hwt. Josh Etu (UVa) dec. Ryan Adams (UNC), 2-1 OT
