LEWISBURG, Pa. — When the dust settled at Sojka Pavilion on the campus of Bucknell University, the 107th EIWA Championships provided a fair share of upsets, dominating performances, and all around great matchups. While the nation’s best team proved why they are the best, a handful of teams left Lewisburg, Pa., with plenty to cheer [...]

While a 40-9 win over Harvard may seem like just another day at work for Cornell, the season-ending dual victory marked the ninth-straight year in which the Big Red claim the Ivy League crown.

It all came down to bonus points Wednesday night in New Brunswick in a conference against two of the EIWA’s top programs in Rutgers and American. Both the Scarlet Knights and the Eagles claimed five bouts apiece, but in the end a major decision from Alex Caruso (174) and a pin from Dan Rinaldi (184) gave Rutgers the 19-15 victory.

Ivy League competition dominated this weekend’s slate of EIWA matchups as all of the Ivy Leaguer’s in the conference stepped into the circle. No team put itself in better position to challenge Cornell for the Ivy League title than Penn, who went 3-0 on the weekend.

With the Ivy League schedule less than a week away, Columbia heads in with as much momentum as possible. The Lions hosted three duals yesterday at the University Gymnasium and bested all three opponents in Millersville, Rider, and Franklin & Marshall. The wins bumped Columbia’s record to 6-4, as they are now halfway through a six-match homestand.

With less than two months to go before the EIWA Tournament on the campus of Bucknell University, arguably the most heated rivalry in the conference took place as No. 1 Cornell traveled to No. 17 Lehigh.

We are halfway through the 2010-11 season and the EIWA has seen its ups and downs. Some schools sputtered out of the gates while others soared. And that one Ivy League program in upstate New York just continues to go about its business, despite the target marked “No. 1” on its back. It is time to break down the conference school by school to see how each team fared in the early going.

[midlandslogo] On the campus of Northwestern University, the EIWA put together an admirable performance at the 2010 Midlands Championships. The conference placed a total of 13 wrestlers, including tournament champions at 149 pounds and heavyweight.

Just two weeks after fellow EIWA school Cornell took first at the Las Vegas Invitational, Navy headed to the state of Nevada on Dec. 19 with similar aspirations at the Reno Tournament of Champions. When the dust settled out West, the Midshipmen came away with a solid seventh-place finish out of a total of 30 programs.

Over half of the EIWA was in action this past weekend and while six of the seven schools won at least one dual in that span, none were more impressive than No. 11 Lehigh’s 23-9 trouncing of visiting No. 19 Central Michigan on Dec. 12.

The holiday season is upon us and for many that means shoveling sideways and checking snow tires, but for the EIWA it means getting in a final tuneup before the winter break and the grueling spring semester.

Six EIWA schools headed to Albany, N.Y., this past weekend for the Northeast Duals and none made a larger splash than Rutgers. The No. 18 Scarlet Knights were the only team at the Duals that went undefeated, going 3-0 behind wins over Stanford, Columbia, and arguably the biggest win in the team’s recent history in a 19-16 victory over No. 16 Missouri.

For the first time this season, all 13 EIWA programs hit the mat in competition this past weekend highlighted by four teams who headed to Philadelphia for the Keystone Classic. Home cooking was in true order as Penn took the tournament behind five, first place finishes and one “Outstanding” performance.
At 197 pounds, Micah Burak breezed [...]

A total of nine schools from the EIWA traveled to upstate New York this past week to partake in either the Binghamton Open or the Oklahoma Gold Tournament in Brockport.

American, Army, and Franklin & Marshall all kicked of their seasons by facing each other at the Pentagon Duals this past weekend, with the Eagles launching the best offensive, sweeping the other two EIWA schools.

After weeks of sitting back and watching as their neighbors stock-piled blue-chipper upon blue-chipper, New Jersey struck back hard on Tuesday night, landing one of the top unsigned talents in the Empire State when 2009 NYS DI runner-up, Steven Rodrigues of Fox Lane High School in Section I, announced on his facebook that he had [...]

The EIWA season is upon us and it’s time to take a look at the teams and wrestlers looking to make a splash when the NCAA Tournament invades Philadelphia this March. Lighthouse Wrestling brings you a breakdown of the top-five squads in the conference as selected in the coaches’ poll along with some big-time duals and other wrestlers to note this season.

It is a date that has been circled on Scott Goodale’s calendar since he arrived at Rutgers University to head the wrestling program: Nov. 7, 2010.  The day not only marks the start of Goodale’s fourth season at the helm of the Scarlet Knights’ program, but also the year that Rutgers rises to national prominence.
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