Saturday, Nov. 3, Elizabethtown College’s wrestling team kicked off their season at the Messiah Invitational against eight other teams.

Senior Cole Cameron earned a top-three finish for the Jays at the meet, finishing third in the 149-pound weight class.

Cameron had two pins for the day and made it to the semifinals on back-to-back decisions, but lost to Gettysburg College junior Colin Devlin.

Cameron was back in the consolation semifinals against Ursinus College junior Alfred Corradetti. He pinned Corradetti at 4:42 to win the match and take on Gettysburg College junior Philip Angelo in the third-place match. A pin by Cameron at 3:32 earned him the win, finishing 4-1 for the day.

Junior Dayne Ross also had a successful day, finishing fourth in the 184-pound weight class. Ross had two pins in his first two consolation matches, then defeated Liberty University senior Josh McIllhenny 9-2 in the consolation quarterfinal match.

Messiah College sophomore Brian Shermeyer pinned Ross in the third-place match, giving Ross the fourth-place spot in the weight class.

Sophomore Josh McLaughlin reached the consolation semifinals in the 133-pound weight class.

Juniors Josh Paisley and Colton Rex competed in the consolation semifinals in the 141-pound weight class and sophomore Kyle Bythell reached the 157-pound weight class consolation semifinals.

Sophomore Austin Jones and junior Max Rhoden both made it to the consolation quarterfinal match in the 125-pound weight class and 285-pound weight class, respectively.

The Jays finished seventh out of nine teams with 47.5 points. Gettysburg College won the meet with 110.5 points and meet host Messiah College followed close behind with 97 points.

Etown’s next meet is the Ursinus Fall Brawl this Saturday, Nov. 10 at 9:30 a.m. at Ursinus.