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Bulldogs drop region dual to Erie 34-33

January 15, 2026

Story byThe Meadville Tribune, Pa. Alex Topor, The Meadville Tribune, Pa. Thu, January 15, 2026 at 2:49 PM UTC·4 min readThe Meadville wrestling team couldn’t recover from an early deficit and lost its home-opening dual 34-33 at The House of Thrills on Wednesday. The Bulldogs dug themselves an 18-0 hole and never crawled out, despite a couple of convincing wins from their big dogs. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“There were some situations where we thought we were going to get a win and didn’t. Some kids gave up bonus points when they didn’t need to, and we had a couple kids not get bonus points, which we needed,” Meadville head coach Barry Anderson said. “That’s how a dual meet ends up like this.

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If you give away points at the end or you don’t get points at the end, you lose.
We put ourselves in a bad spot where we thought we should have won a match, another match we didn’t think we should get majored then in another one we were up seven and didn’t get the major.“Kudos to Erie.
They came out and fought us the whole entire time.”It was Erie’s first region win since the 2017-18 season.
The match opened at 189 pounds and after two falls and a pin, Meadville went to work at 107. Jaxsen Brabender quickly strung together a couple near falls before a pin in less 70 seconds.
At 114, Max Morley followed suit.

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Bulldogs drop region dual to Erie 34-33

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