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Chris Rodrigues Advances At NCAA Wrestling Tournament
March 22, 2002 | Wrestling
March 22, 2002
UNC's Chris Rodrigues advanced to the seventh-place match by winning four bouts, including three over seeded opponents, Friday at the 2002 NCAA Wrestling Championships in Albany, N.Y.
Rodrigues, wrestling at 125 pounds, will face Cornell's Travis Lee for seventh place Saturday morning.
Rodrigues defeated Drexel's Rob Rebman 5-3 in his first bout of the day and beat 10th-seeded A.J. Grant of Michigan in the second wrestleback. Rodrigues then upset Minnesota's three-time All-America Leroy Vega, who was seeded No. 2 in the tournament, by a 3-2 decision.
Rodrigues advanced to pin 8th-seeded Shawn Williams of Oregon in 6:59, before suffering a 2-5 loss to 5th-seeded Ben VomBaur of Boise State in the fifth wrestleback.
Carolina's Matt Kenny (Hwt.) won his first wrestleback by decisioning UNC Greensboro's Greg Forbes 8-3 before falling to Illinois State's John Lockhart, 2-4.
Brad Byers (141 pounds) lost to Wisconsin's Grant Hoerr 6-3 in his second match of the tournament, while Evan Sola (133 pounds) lost a close 6-8 in overtime to Ohio's Anthony Carrizales.
Mark Canty (174 pounds) lost by pinfall in 5:52 to Cornell's Jim Stanec in his final match of the tournament.
