NEW LONDON, Conn. –

With the first day of Northeast Regionals in the books, Coast Guard currently sits in fourth place with 93 points. Springfield College sits in first place with 104.5 points, with Williams College and Castleton just behind in second and third. 

Despite sitting in fourth in the standings, Coast Guard has the most unbeaten wrestlers remaining with seven. The lone Bear who will have to make his way through the consolation round tomorrow is 174 pounder Mason Gourley(Clarion, PA). Gourley stayed alive with an 8-3 decision win in one of the final bouts of the afternoon. Gourley and the seven other Bears competing tomorrow have all secured All-Region status with their performances. The men set to compete in the champ round side of the bracket are 125 Nikko Beato(San Diego, CA), 133 Marvin Armistead(Reading, PA), 165 Landon Kearns(East Brunswick, NJ), 184 Caden Stout(St. Clairsville, OH), 197 Gabriel Monroe(Kirkwood, NY), and 285 Carl DiGiorgio(Doylestown, PA). 

Beato swept his way into the semifinals with a 15-0 tech fall in his first match before embarking upon an odyssey of a bout in the quarterfinal. Beato finally came out victorious in the multiple overtime instant classic by holding a sliver of a lead in riding time.

While Beato took the dramatic route into the semis, teammates Marvin Armistead and Nathan Fitt cruised there with two dominant wins. Armistead pinned his first opponent in just 30 seconds before an 18-0 tech fall. Fitt followed a similar path with a quick pin to take his first bout and tech fall in the second(17-2). 

165 pounder Landon Kearns took a 19-3 tech fall into the quarterfinals where he looked poised to win by decision before flipping the script and pinning his opponent in the third. Caden Stout took the 184 bracket by storm with back to back tech falls to start his day. In the quarterfinal, Stout had one of the closest battles of the day in a 5-3 decision win over a strong Roger Williams wrestler. In the 197 bracket, Gabriel Monroe accrued 32 points across his three bouts, allowing just three with two major decisions and a decision.

Number one seed and reigning All-American Carl DiGiorgio stormed his way into the semifinals in historic fashion. The tech fall and major decisions won by DiGiorgio gave him 100 career wins, just the fourth wrestler in CGA history to do so, and first since Chris Sullivan('18) did so in 2017. 

The Bears will compete for the Northeast Regional Championship tomorrow at home with the early session in the Hallie Gregory Fieldhouse before shifting down to Alumni Gymnasium for the finals in the afternoon.