February 5, 1999

RALEIGH, N.C. - Led Pierre Pryor's pin at 157 pounds and Kevin Boross's technical fall at 174, NC State defeated Campbell 30-9 in a college wrestling match Friday night at Reynolds Coliseum. The win evened the Wolfpack's season record in dual matches at 6-6, while Campbell dropped to 4-6-1.

Junior Lee Carroll (Tarboro, N.C.) got the Wolfpack started with an 8-4 win over Joey Bricker at 125 pounds, improving to 10-8 on the season. Campbell forfeited at 133, giving NC State a 9-0 team lead, and senior Greg Bauer (Southampton, N.J.) moved up from 133 to 141 pounds and defeated Campbell's Abner Suarez 4-0 with an escape and a takedown in the third period to give the Wolfpack a 12-0 team lead.

Sophomore Tommy Davis (Newark, Del.), ranked No. 15 nationally at 141, moved up to 149 and won a major decision over Campbell's Gary Hughes, 11-2, to improve to 15-4 on the season and extend NC State's team lead to 16-0. At 157, 19th-ranked Pryor (Virginia Beach, Va.), a sophomore, pinned Camel freshman Adam Deputy in just 42 seconds, the Wolfpack's fastest fall of the season, to give the Pack an insurmountable team lead of 22-0. The pin was Pryor's fifth of the season, his fourth in the first period, and upped his record to 14-6.

Campbell broke into the scoring column at 165 when junior Billy Greene handed John Grochowski (Wilmington, N.C.) a 5-4 defeat. Greene recorded the Camels' first takedown of the match, and also got a point on an escape and a stalling point.

Boross (Solon, Ohio), a redshirt-sophomore, recorded a technical fall over Dallas Hicks, racking up a 22-5 lead after 6:00 to give the Wolfpack a 27-3 lead. Boross improved to 16-5 on the season. Sophomore Zach Breitenbach (Cary, N.C.) then defeated John Christian 5-1 at 184 to give the Wolfpack a 30-3 lead.

The Camels rallied in the final two bouts of the evening. Sean Wheeler defeated sophomore Josh McClure (Charlotte, N.C.) by a 3-1 score with a takedown in overtime, and Camel heavyweight John Black won his ninth match in a row with a 6-3 win over Wolfpack freshman Billy Noble (Shallotte, N.C.). Black scored third-period points with an escape, a stall point and a takedown to improve to 14-5 on the season.

NC State 30, Campbell 9

125 -- Lee Carroll (NCS) dec. Joey Bricker, 8-4
133 -- Damon Blackley (NCS) won by forfeit
141 -- Greg Bauer (NCS) dec. Abner Suarez, 4-0
149 -- Tommy Davis (NCS) major dec. Gary Hughes, 11-2
157 -- Pierre Pryor pinned Adam Deputy at 0:42
165 -- Billy Greene (CU) dec. John Grochowski, 5-4
174 -- Kevin Boross (NCS) tech fall Dallas Hicks, 22-5 at 6:00
184 -- Zach Breitenbach (NCS) dec. John Christian, 5-1
197 -- Sean Wheeler (CU) dec. Josh McClure, 3-1, ot
Hwt -- John Black (CU) dec. Billy Noble, 6-3