Harkless and Maby Earn SUNYAC Men's Wrestling Weekly Accolades
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - RIT's Josh Harkless and Oneonta's Jackson Maby have been chosen as the SUNYAC Men's Wrestler of the Week and Men's Wrestling Rookie of the Week respectively.
Harkless won the 285 lb. Division to help RIT to a third-place finish at the RIT Invitational. Harkless defeated William VanVleet (Wesleyan) with a fall 19 seconds into his opening match. He pinned Zach Sulkis (Norwich) 29 seconds into his second bout, before pinning Abraham Keep (Norwich) at 3:16 into his quarterfinal match. Harkless was a 15-1 winner over Jackson Burns (St. John Fisher) in the semifinals and pinned Mason Sprinkel (Norwich) at 3:40 in the championship bout.
Maby three-peats as the Rookie of the week after he finished 4-1 with two pins and two major decisions for his second-place finish in 141 lbs. at the RIT Invitational. He started the day with two first round falls over Vananthony Trunzo (John Carroll) in 33 seconds and Donnie Morton (Williams College) at 2:06. The freshman scored two majors in the quarterfinal and semifinal to advance to the first-place match, beating Trevor Bishop (St. John Fisher) 11-0 then Hayden Myers (Wesleyan (CT)) 16-0. In the first-place match, Maby dropped a 3-1 decision. His performance gave Oneonta a fifth place finish out of 14 teams at the event.
