No. 17 LHU Women’s Wrestling opens the 2024-25 season at Princeton Open; Moore and Favara claim individual titles
PRINCETON, N.J. – The No. 17 Lock Haven women’s wrestling team opened the 2024-25 season at the Princeton Open on Sunday, Nov. 3. Azariah Moore and Alyssa Favara claimed top honors at 180 and 207, respectively.
Moore claimed the top spot at 180 after a perfect 2-0 day racking up a pin and tech fall.
Moore opened up the day with a semifinal pin in 4:42 before downing Cornell’s Eliana Eats by tech fall, 13-0 (2:37).
Freshman Alyssa Favara went 4-0 to claim gold at 207 recording three tech falls and a pin.
Favara opened the day with a pin in 51 seconds before recording two tech fall victories to push herself to the finals. Favara defeated Presbyterian’s Ella Beam in the finals by a 10-0 tech fall in 3:21.
Nationally ranked – No. 9 – Lily Sherer finished second at 131. She went 3-1 on the day with two techs and a pin. Sherer fell to Presbyterian’s Cassia Zammit in the finals.
Summer Batts and Avry Ryhal both finished third. Batts went 3-1 with two pins and a tech at 103. Batts won by tech fall, 15-4 (4:15), in the third-place bout. Ryhal went 5-1 with two techs and a pin. Ryhal defeated Kiki Tuttle in the third-place bout by a 14-4
tech fall in 5:33 at 160
Jayleah Pletz and Trinity Monaghan both finished fifth. Pletz went 4-2 with two pins and a tech to place fifth at 124. Monaghan went 3-2 with two techs and a pin at 207.
Paige Jackson finished sixth with a pin and tech fall.
Isabella Devito, Lucy Maris, and Lindsay Laws all placed eighth. Devito went 3-2 at 131 with two pins and a tech. Maris went 2-2 at 131. Laws finished 2-2 with a pin and a tech.
Up Next:
The Bald Eagles will travel to Adrian College on Sunday, Nov. 10 for the Adrian Open. Action starts at 10 a.m.