JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – The Pitt-Johnstown men’s wrestling team entered the match ranked eighth nationally, and the hometown crowd got to see why Friday as the Mountain Cats led from start to finish in a 44-3 rout of Shippensburg at the Pitt-Johnstown Sports Center.“I am pleased overall tonight,” Pitt Johnstown coach Tyler Reinhart said. “I think there are little details we still need to clean up, but we wrestled the UPJ system, attacking the entire time and did what we were supposed to do tonight.”The opening match of the night saw Pitt-Johnstown’s top-ranked Trevon Gray square off with Colin Marano at 125 pounds. It was all Gray as he easily won by technical fall at the 4:10 mark to give the Mountain Cats a 5-0 lead.Pitt-Johnstown freshman Brady Baker led Kyle von Schmidt 3-1 after the first period. Baker’s advantage grew to 11-2 in the second, but Schmidt came back in the third. Baker prevailed 12-6 in a decision.Chad Ozias dominated his match for Pitt-Johnstown, winning by a technical fall 23-5 over Cole Coffin putting the Mountain Cats up 13-0.Two-time junior college champion Matt Sarbo was next up on the docket for Pitt-Johnstown against the Raiders’ Mike Trainor.Both men battled hard through the first with Sarbo holding a 6-2 advantage. In the second, Sarbo extended the lead to 10-3 and finished off a major decision with a final score of 20-6.At 157, Richland High School graduate Cooper Warshel wrestled Anthony Lavish. After a very hard-fought first period that went in Warshel’s favor, the Pitt-Johns- town crowd came to its feet when he pinned Lavish 4:14 into the match for a 23-0 lead.“I am happy with the way I competed tonight,” said Warshel. “Being a local guy, I get to have my family come, and tonight my friends, my grandmother all got to see me. I am super-grateful to compete for Pitt-Johnstown.”The closest match of the night followed at 165 with Penn Cambria product Trent Hoover facing off with Shippensburg’s Nick Delp. Delp held a 4-3 advantage after the first and ended the second period deadlocked with Hoover at 5-all.Regulation ended up not being enough as the match went to overtime tied at 6-all.In the extra period, Delp was able to get a takedown of Hoover to win the decision 9-6 and gave Shippensburg its first points of the night at 23-3.Pitt-Johnstown’s Ty Morrison dominated from start to finish at 174, not giving up a point on the way to a 19-0 technical fall over Anthony DeAngelo.Noah Gnibus from Pitt-Johns- town also won by technical fall (20-4) at 184 over the Jyler Everly. That was followed up by Brad Morrison scoring a technical fall of his own over Diesel Koser by a 15-0 score, putting Pitt-Johnstown up 38-3.Pitt-Johnstown All-American Isaiah Vance squared off at 285 with Shippensburg’s Matt Jones in the final match of the night, and this one was over quickly with Vance pinning Jones 2:17 into the contest to set the final.For Vance, these earlier season matches are no different than competing in big national tournaments he will see in the coming months.“I go out the same way I go out every time,” Vance said. “If I am feeling good, my heart will tell that to me, and if it tells me that, I know I will have a good match. I am going to just keep what I am doing as we head to Indianapolis next week for one of the biggest tournaments around.”