BELMONT, N.C. – The Belmont Abbey wrestling team opened up their season against King University Saturday afternoon inside the Wheeler Center. The match was extremely close as both teams won five bouts and the dual had to be determined by a tie breaker.

Highlights
Logan Branham earned the only pin of The Abbey. Tyler Pepe recorded a decision, Andrew Pegram and Mitch Dean both earned major decisions and Christos Avgeros produced a tech. fall.  

Results
125:        Elijah Hicks (King) over Brandon Crowder (Belmont Abbey) (Dec 6-5)
133:        Rylee Billings (King) over Ben Fielding (Belmont Abbey) (Dec 8-3)
141:        Tyler Pepe (Belmont Abbey) over Christian Small (King) (Dec 1-0)
149:        Trent Mahoney (King) over Matt Daner (Belmont Abbey) (Fall 1:29)
157:        Dallas Boone (King) over Jacob Dodson (Belmont Abbey) (Dec 7-0)
165:        John Dean (Belmont Abbey) over Dalton Pearl (King) (MD 16-5)
174:        Logan Branham (Belmont Abbey) over Austin Dohl-Pantaleo (King) (Fall 1:27)
184:        Christos Avgeros (Belmont Abbey) over Jeremiah Good (King) (TF 16-0 1:36)
197:        Andrew Pegram (Belmont Abbey) over Charles Swiggett (King) (MD 12-3)
285:        Cade Ridley (King) over Jordan Hawthorne (Belmont Abbey) (Fall 1:32)
Extra
133:        David Medina (King) over Isaac Toe (Belmont Abbey) (Fall 4:52)
141:        John Carayiannis (Belmont Abbey) over Demetri Teddlie (King) (MD 18-6)
165:        Connor Weeks (Belmont Abbey) over Josh Wynn (King) (Fall 2:49)
185:        Christopher Jones (Belmont Abbey) over Samari Suddeath (King) (MD 11-1)

Up Next
The Crusaders will compete at Queens on Wenesday. The match us moved up in the schedule from a later date.