Bald Eagles sink Navy at second annual Rumble in the Jungle
By Margaux Rentzel
Red Lion hosted their second Rumble in the Jungle on Friday, Dec. 13 in the Fitzkee Center. Lock Haven and Navy went head to head for an NCAA Division 1 wrestling match.
Lock Haven took the lead in the first half with a score of 12 to 6 at intermission. Before the last match, Navy almost caught up with a score of 16-15 as fans from both teams cheered on their wrestlers.
“The support from this area has been really big,” Scott Moore, the head wrestling coach at Lock Haven University said. “We are excited for the community to embrace wrestling.”
The last match between Casey Cobb and DJ Fehlman finished the score off with 19-15 for Lock Haven.
“To be able to win a match like that,” Coach Moore said, “feels pretty good.”
The crowd was entertained during intermission with the Red Lion coed cheerleaders performing their routine. This was followed by an exhibition freestyle match between junior Tiffani Baublitz from Kennard Dale and junior Seda Tsarni from Watkins Mill High School, Montgomery County, Maryland..
“I was excited they even asked us to wrestle,” Baublitz, an assistant junior high wrestling coach for Red Lion, said. The girls were glad to bring awareness to women’s wrestling.
“A couple years ago,” Seda Tsarni said, “You would’ve never thought that high school girls would be wrestling at a college match.”
Plans for the third annual event are already in the works.
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