DAVIDSON, N.C. – The first of eight meets inside of Southern Conference territory (and the only one of the bunch to take place before the holidays) awaits the Presbyterian College men's wrestling team tomorrow evening in a road environment, competing in their fourth straight dual away from home versus the Davidson Wildcats. Grappling will begin at approximately 7:00 on Friday as the Blue Hose search for a three-match winning streak for the first time in the program's brief history.
PC waltzes into their penultimate date of December riding an increasing wave of momentum thanks to back-to-back wins by comfortable margins over Queens and Truett McConnell. Claiming 18 victories out of 20 attempts in the pair of lopsided decisions, director
Mark Cody's club gained those two W's by a combined margin of 72 points, aiming to keep the Wildcats out of the win column tomorrow and begin SoCon play at 1-0.
Davidson has garnered the victory in each of the teams' prior three meetings, the closest of which occurred last February in a 26-11 result at the Baker Sports Complex, the site of Friday's bout as well. Redshirt senior
Jacob Brasseur grasped one of Presbyterian's three W's in the 125-lb. tussle, handily beating his opponent 16-0 via technical fall in just over four minutes. Since then, the Lexington native has bumped up to the 133-lb. class with a 5-4 record, taking two TF's in his last two appearances.
Brasseur enters tomorrow's match as one of six Blue Hose members with at least a two-match winning streak, joined in that distinction by the freshman trio of
Reed Douglass,
Cordel Duhart, and
Brandon Jacoby, as well as heavyweight grapplers
William Leonard and
Malcolm Wiley. Since the start of the campaign back in early November, PC has accumulated 54 victories over three duals and two tournaments, highlighted by a six-match win streak from Wiley that has spanned 32 days (kicking off the sequence with a 197-lb. championship at The Citadel Open).
The Wildcats have primarily gone down the multi-team route over the fall schedule, participating in five tourneys over the last month and a half, including their last outcome at the Patriot Open (hosted by George Mason) 11 days back. The Wildcats will firstly have their attention narrowed to Queens on Friday, hosting the Royals two hours before tangling with the Blue Hose.
The 2022-23 SoCon curtain jerker will be streamed live via Davidson All-Access. A link to follow along with the action can be found below, or at the top of this page.
PC vs. Davidson Live Video - https://davidsonwildcats.com/watch/?Archive=2181&type=Live
