King's Wrestlers Earn 40-3 Victory Over Scranton in Metropolitan Action

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. -- The King's College wrestling team got pins from Aaron Perez, Chris Mazzocchi and Gordon Custer to earn a 40-3 victory over visiting Scranton Tuesday night at Scandlon Gymnasium.

The Monarchs jumped out early getting a hard fought 6-4 victory from Jamie Scarantino at 125. Perez scored the first pin of the night at 133 downing Josh Javitz in 4:46 to give King's a 9-0 lead.

DeMarquis Holley picked up a technical fall in 5:32 over Pierce Keane. Mazzocchi and Custer each scored first period pins at 149 and 157 respectively to extend the Monarchs lead to 26-0.

At 165 Tommy Desir added to the King's lead with a 15-6 major decision over Shawn Flesche. Ahmed Burton tallied a 16-5 major decision at 174 against Joe Weitmeyer to push the King's lead to 34-0. Shane Stark added a 10-3 decision at 184.

Cemah Tudoe-Torboh battled back from a 10-7 deficit, but couldn't finish as he dropped an 11-10 decision to Christopher Silakoski at 197. Ryan Longenberger scored a takedown in the first overtime session to get a 6-4 win to set the final at 40-3.

The Monarchs are back in action on Saturday at the Metropolitan Dual Meet hosted by Centenery College wrestling starts at 11:00 a.m.


King's 40 Scranton 3
125 -- Jamie Scarantino (K) dec. Corey Forlenza (S), 6-4 (3-0)
133 -- Aaron Perez (K) pinned Josh Javitz (S), 4:46 (9-0)
141 -- DeMarquis Holley tech. Pierce Keane, 16-0, 5:32 (14-0)
149 -- Chris Mazzocchi (K) pinned Kevin Guenther, 1:30 (20-0)
157 -- Gordon Custer (K) pinned Robert Leavy (S), 1:09 (26-0)
165 -- Tommy Desir (K) maj. dec. Shawn Flesche, 15-6 (30-0)
174 -- Ahmed Burton (K) maj. dec. Joe Weitmeyer, 16-5 (34-0)
184 -- Shane Stark (K) dec. Stephen Kaiser, 10-3 (37-0)
197 -- Christopher Silakoski (S) dec. Cemah Tudoe-Torboh (K), 11-10 (37-3)
285 -- Ryan Longenberger (K) dec. Sal Montouri (S), 6-4 OT, (40-3)