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Fehlman, Williams, Hahn excelling in college ranks

After dropping down to a lower weight class, Warren Area High School graduate D.J. Fehlman is beginning to hit his stride for the Lock Haven University wrestling team.

Fehlman went 6-1 en route to a third-place finish for the Bald Eagles at this past weekend’s Franklin & Marshall Open. Competing at 133 pounds, the redshirt freshman opened with a 2-0 decision over Brett Kulp then pinned Millersville’s Keegan Worley in the second period. That moved Fehlman into the quarterfinals, where he dropped a 9-4 decision to Tariq Wilson of NC State.

In the consolation bracket, Fehlman won a 9-1 major decision over West Point Prep’s Lane Peters, defeated Brown’s Nick Lattanze in a 3-1 decision and pinned Harvard’s Jeffrey Ott in the first period to move into the third-place match. There, he took his revenge on Wilson with a 13-4 major decision. Lock Haven finished the tournament with two champions — Kyle Shoop at 149 pounds and Tristan Sponseller at 197 — along with Fehlman’s third-place finish and a fourth from 174-pounder Adam Mackie.

Fehlman is now 11-1 since dropping from 141 to 133 for the Lock Haven Classic, in which he took first with a 5-0 record in addition to being named the tournament’s most outstanding wrestler.

Fehlman is projected to be in the starting lineup when Lock Haven travels to the 37th annual Virginia Duals this Friday and Saturday. The Bald Eagles are slated to face Kent State and No. 6-ranked Virginia Tech in the Hampton River Pool.

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Basketball

The Penn State DuBois women’s basketball team is off to a 3-0 start in 2017 thanks in part to the performance of Eisenhower High School’s Kristen Williams.

The Lady Lions began the second half of their season with a 63-52 win over Westmoreland County Community College in which Williams finished with 13 points and five assists. She then scored 12 points in a 64-35 victory over Central Penn and chipped in 12 points, five rebounds and four assists in a 94-60 win over Pitt-Titusville.

Penn State DuBois (10-3 overall) has back-to-back road games this weekend at Penn State Brandywine on Friday and Penn State Lehigh Valley on Saturday.

In the NCAA Division II ranks, Warren’s D.J. Hahn has helped Cal U (Pa.) begin the season with a record of 15-1. Hahn hit season highs in minutes played (14) and points scored (8) in a win over Bloomsburg on December 18. Through 16 games, the freshman guard is averaging 9.2 minutes per game and 2.6 points per game off the bench for the Lady Vulcans.

Cal U is ranked No. 8 in the country and host Seton Hill this Saturday.

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