DES MOINES, Iowa. – Three Harper College wrestlers earned All-American honors at the 2015 NJCAA Wrestling National Championship over the weekend. Donte Winfield (/Perry Meridian ), Jacob Belllis, and Chance Shea (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest) each finished as All-Americans for a Harper squad that scored 50.5 points and took 13th place out of 40 teams. The Hawks were the second-best team in the nation among non-scholarship schools.
Iowa
Central Community College won the national meet with 158.5 points,
followed by Clackamas Community College (131.5 points) and North Iowa
Area Community College (113 points).
Results/details provided with assistance from TrackWrestling.com. Click here for Harper results.
Donte Winfield (/Perry Meridian )-All-American, Fourth Place at 285 Pounds
After
a first round bye, Winfield lost a tough 2-1 decision to Highline
Community College's Ben Tynan to send him to the consolation bracket.
Winfield
won his next match in a sudden death victory over Northeast Oklahoma's
John Davison. The freshman then went on to win by fall and won another
sudden death to improve to 3-1 on the tournament.
Winfield
won his next match decisively, 12-2, over Donovan Lozada of Springfield
Tech Community College to reach a consolation semifinals rematch again
Ben Tynan, who he lost to earlier in the tournament. This time, Winfield
got the better of Tynan with a 5-3 victory to reach the third place
match.
In the third place match, Chris Ballard
of Iowa Central CC topped Winfield, 3-1. Winfield finished the national
championship with a 5-2 record and 14.50 points for the Hawks.
Jacob Bellis (/Bloomington)-All-American, Seventh Place at 125 Pounds
For
a second straight year, Bellis finished seventh in the nation at 125
pounds. He received a bye and lost his first match, but the sophomore
went on to win his next three matches handily.
Bellis
lost to North Idaho College's Michael Nguyen, sending him to the
seventh place match. In that match, he made quick work of Colby
Community College's Hunter Price, winning by fall in 1:17.
He finished the national championship with a 4-2 record and 12.00 points for Harper.
Chance Shea (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest)-All-American, Eighth Place at 184 Pounds
Shea's
first round match was a narrow 12-9 victory over Wouvel Chevelon of
Iowa Lakes Community College. He dropped a second round match to Labette
Community College to send him to the consolation bracket.
Shea
reeled off three straight wins, all by fall, in the consolation bracket
to set up a match with LaVonte Perdue of Muskegon College. Perdue
topped Shea 14-6, sending him to the seventh place match.
He
lost a 9-4 decision to Iowa Western Community College's Jhalen
Flanders, but the eighth place finish netted All-American accolades.
Shea finished the tournament with a 4-3 record and earned the Hawks 11.50 points.
Other Notables-Blake Tisza (/Thornton Fractional South), Dusan Bogicevic (/Larkin), Sean Dulom (/Sarasota), Greg Jacquez (/West Aurora), Kerin Ramirez (/Addison Trail) Earn Points
Despite battling illness, Blake Tisza (/Thornton Fractional South) managed to post a 2-2 record and score the team 4.00 points at 157 pounds. Tisza two wins came decisively (17-1 and 14-4).
Dusan Bogicevic (/Larkin)
posted a 1-2 record at 133 pounds and scored 3.00 team points. He won
his first match of the tournament by fall over Pratt Community College's
Zachary Schridde.
Sean Dulom (/Sarasota)
won his first match by fall in 4:01 over John Peeden of Colby Community
College but dropped his next two matches to finish with a 1-2 record
and 3.00 team points at 149 pounds.
Greg Jacquez (/West Aurora) won a pair of 4-2 decisions before losing his final two matches to finish with a 2-2 record and 2.00 points at 165 pounds.
Kerin Ramirez (/Addison Trail) went 1-2 at 141 pounds and scored 0.50 team points. His win was an 11-4 victory over Northland College's Austin Hjelle.
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| Winfield, Bellis, and Shea (from left to right) each earned All-American status at the 2015 NJCAA Wrestling National Championship. (Jim Cummins) |
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