Bendinelli gets 100th career win at National Preps

Episcopal Academy’s Alex Bendinelli may have left Lehigh University without a medal from the National Prep wrestling tournament, but he did not leave empty handed.

Bendinelli went 2-2 at 138 pounds and picked up win No. 100 of his career. Bendinelli won by default over Mathew Jun of Mount St. Joseph’s of Maryland in the first round of the tournament Friday. Bendinelli was then pinned by No. 1 seed Travis Mastrogiovanni, who went on to win the title.

Bendinelli bounced back with an 8-5 victory over Rafael Jaquez of St. Benedict’s Prep before being eliminated in a 4-0 loss to eighth-seeded Rich Couch of Archbishop Spalding in Maryland.

Teammate Clay Yang (195) was the only other EA wrestler to win a match. He was 1-2 and lost in the second round of consolations. Flynn Kearney (106), Matthew McHugh (113), Fredericik Green (160) and Paul McLaughlin (285) all went 0-2.

Max Rosenberger of The Haverford School lost a pair of 2-1 decisions at 182 pounds. Teammate Kwaku Adubofour was 0-2 at 285.

In the District 12 Class 3A tournament, Archbishop Carroll’s Jack McQuaid qualified for the North East Regional for the fourth year in a row.

McQuaid went 2-1 at 152 pounds and dropped an 11-8 decision to Central’s Gregory Khochiashvilli in the final. McQuaid picked up win No. 100 of his career last week at the Catholic League championships.