Conway Pin, Leiphart Tech Fall Power Franklin & Marshall Past Hofstra, 23-15
Three bonus-point finishes — including a fall from No. 5 James Conway — supplied the separation as Franklin & Marshall snapped a long series skid with a 23-15 EIWA matinee win.
Franklin & Marshall beat Hofstra 23-15 at the Mayser Center in Lancaster in an EIWA dual that was decided by a handful of high-value finishes rather than a steady run of decisions. The Diplomats collected three bonus-point results that created the margin and ultimately closed out the meet on their home mats.
The Diplomats opened the scoring with a pin at 125, as James Garcia finished Teague Strobel by fall. At 133 Mason Leiphart followed with a 16-0 technical fall; Leiphart piled up near-fall points in the opening period (a two-point near-fall, a one-point riding-plus, then a four-point near-fall) that pushed the match to an early technical.
Hofstra stayed in the match through a string of middle-weight decisions. No. 33 Jake Slotnick’s 9-6 win at 165 and other decision victories for the Pride trimmed Franklin & Marshall’s lead and kept the dual competitive heading into the late matches.
The decisive swing came at 184, where No. 5 James Conway converted control into a fall. Conway opened with a first-period takedown, Josh Jorgge escaped in the second period, and Conway added a second-period takedown before securing the pin to deliver a six-point team boost that sealed the outcome.
Beyond the bout-level detail, the result carried local significance. Franklin & Marshall’s three bonus wins powered the team to the victory and snapped a long losing run against Hofstra, while the Pride will head back to the mat needing to limit bonus-point concessions if they want to avoid similar deficits in upcoming conference matches.