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American Wrestling Takes Ninth at Cornell Invitational
Eagles to face Wagner next

Aviv Bercovicz

November 25, 2002

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The American University wrestling team finished ninth at the 2002 Body Bar Invitational at Cornell University Saturday.

The hosting Big Red captured first with 171 points followed by Edinboro with 162.50 and Oregon at third with 115.50 points. Army (98), Virginia (97.50), Drexel (93), Sacred Heart (51.50) and Ithaca (36) rounded out the scoring before the Eagles’ 22.50 final.

At 149 pounds, junior Aviv Bercovicz (Ocean, N.J./Ocean Township) defeated Army’s Eggleston, 9-4, and beat Virginia’s Hartey, 5-3, before losing to Sacred Heart’s Laramee, 3-2. Bercovicz lost in the first round of consolation. Sophomore Kyle Mason (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Mechanicsburg) advanced to the semifinals of the 184-lb. division with a 14-6 win over Derek Venne in the first round. He followed that up with a fall at 4:47 over Oregon’s Elias Soto before losing to Alex Celmson of Edinboro, at 6:27.

Freshman Daniel Lobsenz (Fairfield, Conn./Choate) earned a win at the 133-lb. division over Sacred Heart’s Henry Rubright with a fall at 6:15 before losing in the second round to Sykar Woods of Oregon, 15-5. He lost in the first round of consolation to Army’s Patrick Simpson by technical fall. Another AU freshman Tom Kniezewski (Boyertown, Pa./Boyertown) defeated Sacred Heart’s Jason Miele, 14-5, before losing to division finalist Ron Doppelheur of Edinboro, 13-3, at 141-lbs.