DUKE WRESTLING MATCH NOTES

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1 18 DUKE WRESTLING MATCH NOTES CONTACT INFORMATION Meredith Rieder Associate Sports Information Director (P) (C) SCHEDULE & RESULTS NOVEMBER ALL TIMES EASTERN 4 at Hokie Open NTS 18 at Keystone Classic 6th of 10, at Cliff Keen Invitational 28th of 43, 22.5 DECEMBER 6 at Gardner-Webb ESPN+ W, 36-9 JANUARY 1-2 at Southern Scuffle FloWrestling 7th of 23, 70 6 PENN ACCNE W, BROWN ACCNE L, at Navy 4 p.m. 25 at NC State * ACCNE 7 p.m. 27 at Old Dominion W, 3-1 FEBRUARY 1 VIRGINIA TECH * ACCNE 7 p.m. 7 APPALACHIAN STATE ACCNE 7 p.m. 9 at Virginia * ACCNE 1 p.m. 15 at Pittsburgh * ACCNE 7 p.m. 22 NORTH CAROLINA * ACCNE 7 p.m. MARCH 9 at ACC Championships ^ ACCNE All Day at NCAA Championships % ESPN All Day BOLD denotes home contest * ACC Contest, ^ Blacksburg, Va., % Pittsburgh, Pa. GENERAL INFORMATION Duke University Location... Durham, N.C. Founded as Trinity College Enrollment...6,526 Colors...Royal Blue and White Nickname...Blue Devils Conference... Atlantic Coast (ACC) President... Vincent Price (Santa Clara 79) Vice President & Athletic Director... Kevin White Athletics Web Site...www. GoDuke.com DUKE WRESTLING STAFF Head Coach... Glen Lanham (Oklahoma State 88) ... glen.lanham@duke.edu NCAA Qualifiers...16 NCAA All-Americans...5 Assistant Coach...Brandon Nelsen (Purdue 14) Assistant Coach...Jacob Kasper (Duke 18) DUKE BLUE DEVILS vs. NAVY MIDSHIPMEN Sunday, Jan. 20 ACC Network Extra Alumni Hall Annapolis, Md. DUKE BLUE DEVILS record (ACC) 2-1 (0-0) USA Today/NWCA Coaches Poll NR Head Coach Glen Lanham (Oklahoma State 88) Career Record/Season 45-58/7th season DUKE LINEUP Wt. Rk. Name Yr. Record Harrison Campbell R-Fr Open Josh Finesilver So Mitch Finesilver R-Sr Benjamin Anderson R-Fr. 4-3 or Brandon Leynaud Sr Zach Finesilver R-Sr Matt Finesilver So Kaden Russell So Alec Schenk R-Sr Araad Fisher Sr. 1-4 * Rankings are InterMat (1/15) NAVY MIDSHIPMEN record 3-1 USA Today/NWCA Coaches Poll NR Head Coach Joel Sharratt (Nebraska 01) Season Fifth NAVY LINEUP Wt. Rk. Name Yr. Record 125 Jacob Allen Fr. 9-9 or Logan Treaster So. 7-4 or Aslan Kilic So Casey Cobb So or Cody Trybus So Nicholas Gil Sr or Jonathan Gabriel So Jared Prince Jr or Adam Davis Fr. 1-4 or Chris Hisey Fr Quentin Hovis So. 5-5 or Scout Skidgel So Tanner Skidgel So. 9-6 or Jonathan Carrera Sr Spencer Cary Jr or Andrew Buckley So Anthony Cable Sr or Alex Benoit Jr Joshua Roetman Jr Thomas Ott Sr. 7-7 or Riley Smith Fr. 6-5 * Rankings are InterMat (1/15) USA Today/NWCA Coaches Poll (Jan. 15) Rank School Record Points Previous 1. Penn State (16) Ohio State Oklahoma State Iowa Missouri Michigan Minnesota NC State Nebraska Cornell Wisconsin Wyoming Virginia Tech Pittsburgh Northern Iowa Iowa State North Carolina Purdue Illinois Rutgers Arizona State Princeton Utah Valley Lock Haven Stanford NR DUKE BY THE NUMBERS 81 Career wins for Mitch Finesilver, nine shy of becoming the 11th Blue Devil to record 90 victories 3 Consecutive road matches in the next seven days for the Blue Devils 13 Dual points for Josh Finesilver, Matt Finesilver and Mitch Finesilver 10 Ranked opponents Mitch Finesilver will have faced this season after he wrestles No. 20 Jared Prince of Navy 2 Top 20 bouts between Duke and Navy Sunday - at 149 and More wins needed for Mitch Finesilver to move into a tie for 13th on Duke s career wins list 6 Opponents for Duke that are currently ranked in the top 25 or receiving votes, four of which are ACC foes 21 NCAA qualifiers under head coach Glen Lanham since he took over the reins in Blue Devil NCAA qualifiers from

2 NAVY SERIES HISTORY Overall: Navy leads 11-2 Under Lanham: Series tied 1-1 In Annapolis: Navy leads W, L, L, /11/1941 L, 5-31 Annapolis, Md. 1/12/1952 L, 5-26 Durham, N.C. 2/14/1953 L, 0-30 Annapolis, Md. 1/8/1955 L, 0-40 Annapolis, Md. 1/8/1960 L, 0-34 Annapolis, Md. 1/10/1979 L, Durham, N.C. 2/18/1990 L, 8-29 Durham, N.C. 2/13/2000 L, Durham, N.C. 1/22/2017 L, * Annapolis, Md. 1/21/2018 W, 22-22^ Durham, N.C. * lost by criteria, ^ won by criteria TOURNAMENT FINISHES The Hokie Open Mitch Finesilver 149 1st Matt Finesilver 174 1st Josh Finesilver 141 5th The Keystone Classic Mitch Finesilver 149 1st Matt Finesilver 174 2nd Josh Finesilver 141 2nd Kaden Russell 184 3rd Cleveland State Open Zach Finesilver * 165 1st Alec Schenk* 197 2nd Cliff Keen Invitational Mitch Finesilver 149 5th Southern Scuffle Mitch Finesilver 149 2nd Matt Finesilver 174 5th Zach Finesilver 165 5th Ben Anderson 157 8th * wrestled unattached 2 SERIES HISTORY Duke and Navy are meeting for the third consecutive season and for the 14th time overall. The Midshipmen lead the series, which started in 1928, Duke bested Navy last season by criteria after finishing the 10 matches all square at It was the first victory for the Blue Devils over the Mids since the first win in LAST TIME OUT Duke suffered its first setback of the campaign, falling to Brown last Saturday in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Brown picked up wins in two of the final three bouts to ice the victory. Duke, forfeiting at 133 pounds, fell behind 9-0 after the first two matches, before pulling within one at 9-8 after consecutive victories from Josh Finesilver and Mitch Finesilver. Victories from the Bears at 157 and 165 allowed them to pull away en route to the road win. LAST TIMES WE MET Since renewing the rivalry in 2017, the bouts between Duke and Navy have been nothing short of heart-stopping as both were decided by criteria. In 2017, the Midshipmen edged the Blue Devils in criteria as Navy s heavyweight just barely escaped a pin against Jacob Kasper. Last season, Duke won in criteria after Jacob Kapser exacted revenge with a pin with 30 seconds left in the final match of the day. Thayer Atkins also posted a fall allowing Duke to win on criteria based on the two falls. TOP DUAL SCORERS After three duals, the trio of sophomore Josh Finesilver is Matt Finesilver (174) and Mitch Finesilver (149) have scored 13 points to lead the Blue Devils. They are the only three Blue Devils to remain undefeated in dual action. LOOKING AT DUKE Duke opens a three-match road swing at Navy Sunday. The Blue Devils are 2-1 in duals after falling to Brown last weekend. It owns wins over Gardner-Webb and Penn. The Blue Devils unfortunately are without a 133 pounder due to injuries. Sixth-ranked Mitch Finesilver paces the Blue Devils with a 19-3 overall record and was the runner-up at the Southern Scuffle. Matt Finesilver is ranked 17th and posted a fifth-place showing in Chattanooga. Zach Finesilver, after missing the early portion of the campaign to an off-season injury, is 2-1 in his duals and took fifth at the Southern Scuffle. Josh Finesilver (141) remains undefeated in duals and is 15-6 overall. At 157 pounds, Benjamin Anderson made some noise in Chattanooga, placing eighth at the Southern Scuffle. He upset the No. 6 seed to start the tournament and advanced to the quarterfinals before losing to eventual finalist Bo Pipher of Penn State. It was his first tournament in a Duke singlet. He is 4-3 overall on the year. At 184 pounds, Kaden Russell has taken big strides and is 13-8 on the year and took third at the Keystone Classic and just missed placing at the Southern Scuffle. ABOUT NAVY Navy has a busy Sunday as it wrestles EIWA foe Lehigh prior to the Duke match. The Midshipmen, 3-1 on the year, are coming off of a commanding win over Hofstra. Their lone setback was a 28-9 loss to No. 2 Ohio State to start the year. All three of the victories have come by at least 15 points. Four Mids are ranked in the top 20 with 141-pound Nicholas Gil leading the way at No. 17 with a 19-5 overall record. Spencer Carey is 19th at 174 and owns a 17-8 mark, while Jared Prince is 10-7 and ranked 20th at 149. At the Southern Scuffle, Navy took 5th, edging Duke s 70 points with 75.5 points. Gil took third to pace the Mids and Prince finished seventh. Skidgel and 197-pound Joshua Roetman both took eighth. REMATCHES AND MATCHES TO WATCH Sunday s dual will feature a host of exciting matchups, including a rematch between Mitch Finesilver and Jared Prince. Mitch defeated Prince 7-3 at the Cliff Keen Invite and heads into the dual ranked sixth, while Prince is 20th. Josh Finesilver has a big test ahead of him when he takes on No. 17 Nicholas Gil. It will be Josh s third ranked opponent of the year, going 0-2 in the previous pair. At 174 pounds, No. 17 Matt Finesilver will wrestle No. 19 Spencer Carey as he goes for his first top 20 win of the season. DUKE S TREND UNDER LANHAM The Blue Devils have steadily improved in the six-plus years under head coach Glen Lanham. Duke has sent multiple qualifiers to the NCAA Championships for six straight seasons and had a program-record five in Prior to the 2016 season, Duke had never sent more than two wrestlers to NCAA Championships in consecutive seasons. This year was the first time in program history Duke wrestling opened a campaign ranked in the top 25 by the National Wrestling Coaches Association. The Blue Devils were voted 24th in the poll. Duke finished 22nd last season at the NCAA Championships, the highest finish in program history. The Blue Devils have finished in the top 32 in the NCAA each of the past five seasons. Prior to the team s 29th-place finish in 2014, Duke had never finished higher than 35th and had never put together three consecutive top 35 finishes. Most recently Duke garnered its second consecutive top 10 finish at the Southern Scuffle with a seventh-place showing. The Blue Devils, after taking fifth last year, had never finished in the top 10 prior to Lanham. RUSSELL S SOPHOMORE SPIKE Sophomore 184-pounder Kaden Russell is poised for a breakout season for the Blue Devils. He already has 13 wins on the year after posting just seven last season. The Medina, Ohio native took third at the Keystone Classic and turned in a solid showing at the Cliff Keen Invitational. He most recently came up one win shy of placing at the Southern Scuffle. Three of his wins are by fall. JOSH FINESILVER FALLS Sophomore Josh Finesilver has taken his offense to a new level this season, recording six pins in his 21 matches. He only had one last season and five of the six this season have come in the first two periods. OH CAPTAINS MY CAPTAINS Seniors Mitch Finesilver, Zach Finesilver and Alec Schenk will lead the Blue Devils this season as captains. The trio are indisputed leaders both on and off the mat and their work ethic is second to none. Both Finesilvers are multiple-time NCAA qualifiers, while Schenk aims to garner a bid in his final season. FINESILVER FOUR Duke features an NCAA first with four brothers in the starting lineup. The quartet of Finesilver brothers, all of whom qualified for the NCAA Championships in 2018, wrestle for the Blue Devils, ranging from 141 to 174 pounds. Last season marked the first time in NCAA history one school has four brothers advance to the NCAA Championships. Josh and Matt Finesilver are twin brothers and earned the starting nod as rookies at 141 and 174, respectively. The older set of twins, Mitch and Zach, are redshirt seniors and wrestle at the respective 149 and 165 weights. Mitch is a threetime NCAA qualifier, while Zach has advanced twice DUKE WRESTLING

3 All four were stellar high school wrestlers for Cherry Creek High School, combining for 14 State Championship tournament appearances and four state titles. FINESILVER BIRTH STATS All four brothers were born on the third Wednesday of the month in the 20th hour. Both sets of twins were born within at least two minutes of each other. The official stats are below. Zach Finesilver March 20, 1996 at 8:50 pm 5lbs Duke Rookie Weight Class 141 Mitch Finesilver March 20, 1996 at 8:52 pm 5lbs 4 oz Duke Rookie Weight Class 133 Matt Finesilver April 15, 1998 at 8:33 pm 5lbs 15 oz High School Senior Weight Class 152 Josh Finesilver April 15, 1998 at 8:34 pm 3 lbs 12 oz High School Senior Weight Class 126 UP NEXT Duke will make the short trip to Raleigh next to take on No. 8 NC State Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. The Blue Devils then travel to Old Dominion Jan DUKE WRESTLING 3

4 WRESTLING ROSTER NAME WT. CL. HOMETOWN (PREVIOUS SCHOOL) Benjamin Anderson 157 So. Mapleton, Utah (Pleasant Grove) Harrison Campbell 125 So. Calabash, N.C. (West Brunswick) Eric Carter 149 So. Vernon Hills, Ill. (Stevenson) Louis Castellano 197 So. Roseland, N.J. (Delbarton School) Anthony DeMartino 149 So Blairstown, N.J. (Blair) Mason Eaglin 165 Fr. Tacoma, Wash. (South Kitsap) Josh Finesilver 141 So. Greenwood Village, Colo. (Cherry Creek) Matt Finesilver 174 So. Greenwood Village, Colo. (Cherry Creek) Mitch Finesilver 149 R-Sr. Greenwood Village, Colo. (Cherry Creek) Zach Finesilver 165 R-Sr. Greenwood Village, Colo. (Cherry Creek) Araad Fisher HWT Sr. Durham, N.C. (Riverside) Ethan Krause 149 So. Brookeville, Md. (Georgetown Prep) Arien Leigh 125 Fr. Powells Point, N.C. (First Flight) Brandon Leynaud 157 R-Jr. Lexington, Ohio (Lexington) Maliik Marcin 165 So. Durham, N.C. (Jordan) Ty Mills 133 Fr. Brownsburg, Ind. (Brownsburg) Jeremiah Reitz 133 So. Griffith, Ind. (Griffith) Kaden Russell 184 So. Medina, Ohio (St. Ignatius) Alec Schenk 197 R-Sr. Perry, Ohio (Perry) Parker Walton 149 Jr. Weddington, N.C. (Weddington) Head Coach: Glen Lanham (Oklahoma State 88) Assistant Coach: Brandon Nelsen (Purdue 15) Assistant Coach: Jacob Kasper (Duke 18) PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Louis Castellano Arrad Fisher Leynaud Maliik Marcin Jeremiah Reitz Kaden Russell Alec Schenk cast-tell-lano uh-rod lay-nod Muh-LEAK MAR-sin reetz kay-din shank DUKE WRESTLING

5 NCAA ALL-AMERICA Name Year Weight Konrad Dudziak 2009,2010 HWT Conner Hartmann 2014, 2015, Jacob Kasper 2017, 2018 HWT NCAA QUALIFIERS Name Year Weight Jerry Chadwick Luke Sharpe 1964 HWT Mike Jordan Ed Newman 1970, 71 HWT Steve Willis Greg Penny 1973, Joel Puleo 1973, 74, 75 HWT Brian Davis Doug Sumner Jake Cecere Seann Henry Tom Nugent Ted Sliwinski Bradd Weber 1989, Keith Girvan Mike Darlington Dan Covatta 1994, Matt Eckerman 1995 HWT Chris Heckel 1995, 97, Scott Frinzi Matt Mapes 1998, /165 Tom Cass Michael Mitchell Tommy Hoang 2001, 02, Adam Benitez Frank Cornely 2004, Levi Craig Christian Smith John Barone Dan Tulley Konrad Dudziak 2009, 10 HWT Diego Bencomo Tanner Hough Brandon Gambucci Conner Hartmann 2013, 14, 15, Immanuel Kerr-Brown 2014, Marcus Cain Mitch Finesilver 2015, 16, , 149, 157 Jacob Kasper 2015, 2017, /HWT Jake Faust 2016, Zach Finesilver 2016, , 165 Connor Bass Josh Finesilver Matt Finesilver ACC TOURNAMENT MOST VALUABLE WRESTLER Greg Penny 1973 Mike Darlington 1992 ALL-ACC WRESTLERS 1987: Ted Sliwinski, Tom Nugent, Bradd Weber 1990: Bradd Weber 1992: Mike Darlington 1995: Matt Eckerman, Chris Heckel 1996: Scott Frinzi 1997: Dan Covatta 1998: Chris Heckel, Matt Mapes 1999: Matt Mapes 2001: Tommy Hoang, Tim Marcantonio 2002: Mike Mitchell, Daegan Smith 2004: Adam Benitez, Frank Cornely, Levi Craig, Christian Smith 2005: Frank Cornely, Venroy July, Mark Thompson 2009: Konrad Dudziak 2010: Konrad Dudziak 2011: Diego Bencomo 2013: Brandon Gambucci 2015: Conner Hartmann, Mitch Finesilver, Jacob Kasper 2016: Conner Hartmann, Mitch Finesilver 2017: Jacob Kasper 2018: Jacob Kasper, Mitch Finesilver, Zach Finesilver ALL-TIME ALL-ACC SELECTIONS North Carolina 155 N.C. State 137 Virginia 112 Maryland 96 Virginia Tech 61 Duke 33 Clemson 28 Pittsburgh 13 DUKE IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT Year Place Score 1973 T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T-63rd th of th of st of nd of T-22nd of DUKE WRESTLING 5