Jakub Gloc headed into Sunday’s Colonial League Wrestling Championships knowing two of the three wrestlers seeded ahead of him had beaten him in the last 12 months. He also knew if he wrestled well he could turn the tables on both of them.

The senior was seeded fourth at 215 pounds. Not only did he get revenge for those previous losses, but he did it by pinning both opponents to take first place at the event.

“I feel like I started a little bit slow,” Gloc said. “First match was a struggle. I got through and as the day progressed I kept wrestling better and better. I kept pinning the kids.”

Gloc, who goes to Central Catholic and wrestles at Salisbury through a co-op agreement, beat Northern Lehigh’s Jack Tosh by a 4-3 decision in the first round.

He took down top seed Noah Schlofer (Northwestern Lehigh) in the second round with a second-period pin. Schlofer had beaten Gloc in a dual meet earlier this season.

In the 215-pound final, Gloc beat Catasauqua’s Chad Beller with another second-period pin nearly halfway through the bout. Beller had beat Gloc in overtime at last year’s league tournament.

“I’m not known for shooting, but today I got to my shots,” he said. “I took down both of my last two opponents and I managed to turn them.”

Gloc improves to 14-3 this season and has 72 career wins. He’s looking to make his first trip to the state championships this March after coming one regional tournament win away from getting there in 2023.

“He’s never not in a match because of the way he wrestles,” said Salisbury head coach Eric Snyder. “He loves to roll around and catch kids. But he does it all the time so it hard to really say he’s catching them every time he wrestles. It doesn’t matter what the score is or who he’s wrestling, he has the ability to do what he did today (at the league tournament).”

One other Falcon came away with a medal Sunday at the second edition of what will be an annual league tournament, which was held at Catasauqua High School. Salisbury sophomore Sam Krauss took third place at 285.

Krauss won his opening bout before falling in the semifinals to eventual 285-pound champ Sam Frame (Northern Lehigh). The Falcon bounced back with two straight wins, including a pin of Palisades’ Gavin Lee in the third-place match.

Krauss, who attends Salisbury High School, and Gloc are practice partners. If not for the co-op between the two schools, they would not be able to square off nearly every day and make one another better wrestlers.

“It’s great,” Gloc said of the co-op. “I have a good wrestling partner, Sam Krauss. We push each other. We’ve been making it to day two and medaling rounds in every tournament. We work well together.”

Five other Falcon wrestlers won at least one match in the league tournament, with Alex Tripoli picking up three wins but falling just short of placing.

Wrestling in a 152-pound bracket that had 11 entries, Tripoli won his first match before falling to eventual champ Sean Steckert (Southern Lehigh) in the quarterfinals. The freshman won two matches in the consolation bracket before falling by 6-2 decision to third-place finisher Josh Ludlow in the consolation semifinals.

Salisbury finished 10th in the team standings at the tournament. Southern Lehigh took first place with 123.5 points, while the league’s two unbeaten teams finished in the bottom two spots as 6-0 Saucon Valley and 5-0 Notre Dame (Green Pond) didn’t send their best line ups to the event.

Salisbury is in the midst of its best season in over a decade. The team started 5-0 in dual meets and is 5-2 overall and 3-2 in the Colonial League with three weeks left in the dual-meet season.

“We knew all our all of our matches before Christmas were going to be relatively close,” said Snyder. “I don’t know if I would have said we’d go 5-0 but I knew there was a chance we could.”

Gloc is happy that the program is in a better place now than when he joined it. He said Snyder and assistant coach Ricky Williams have the team headed in the right direction.

“All the new wrestlers are getting better so I feel like the program is moving in a good direction,” Gloc said.

Colonial League Wrestling

Championships

Team Standings

1. Southern Lehigh 123.5, 2. Wilson 118.5, 3. Pen Argyl 114, 4. Bangor 113, 6. Northwestern 102, 7. Palmerton 97.5, 7. Catasauqua 94.5, Northern Lehigh 76, 9. Palisades 69, 10. Salisbury 68.5, 11. Notre Dame (Green Pond) 40, 12. Saucon Valley 38

Salisbury Individual Results

Jackson McGuckin (114, No. 7 seed)

McGuckin pinned Gabriel Baer (Saucon Valley) in 1:46

Brock Schneiderwind (Palisades) pinned McGuckin in 1:56

Gavin Hacker (Catasauqua) pinned McGuckin in 2:13

Zeke Rodas (121, No. 10 seed)

Matthew Gombert (Palmerton) tech. fall Roda, 16-0

Mason Wenhold (Saucon Valley) pinned Rodas in 1:50

Royce Wininger (127, No. 7 seed)

Carter Smith (Notre Dame) pinned Wininger in 1:47

Colton Alder (So. Lehigh) pinned Wininger in 4:09

Edwin Serrano (133, No. 6 seed)

Aidan Ortiz (Palmerton) dec. Serrano, 7-5

Scotty Stephens (So. Lehigh) dec. Serrano, 6-2

Michael Segata139, No. 3 seed)

Segata major dec. William Turner (Northwester), 14-1

Collin Ramsey (Pen Argyl) tech. fall Segata, 15-0

Jonathan Cordon-Pinto (Catasauqua) pinned Segata, 2-1

Jordan Tocci (145, No. 6 seed)

Derek King (Palmerton) pinned Tocci in 3:40

Tocci tech. fall Katie Brensinger (Northwestern), 18-3

David Spigley (Bangor) pinned Tocci in 4:58

Alex Tripoli (152, No. 7 seed)

Tripoli dec. Justice Weaver (Northwestern), 2-0

Sean Steckert (So. Lehigh) pinned Tripoli in 1:58

Tripoli pinned Teddy Musselman (Palisades) in 2:15

Tripoli dec. Conner Miller (Wilson), 6-2

Josh Ludlow (Notre Dame) pinned Tripoli in 5:53

Nathaniel Tone (160, No. 2 seed)

Tone dec. Dillon Anthony (Palmerton), 5-3

Jackson Millen dec. Tone, (Wilson), 7-0

Landen Smith (Bangor) pinned Tone in 1:32

Colton Tone (172, No. 7 seed)

Chase Moffit (No. Lehigh) pinned Tone in 1:12

Lane Frankenfield tech. fall Tone, 16-1

Jakub Gloc (215, No. 4 seed)

Gloc dec. Jack Tosh (No. Lehigh), 4-3

Gloc pinned Noah Schlofer (Northwestern) in 3:10

Championship match: Gloc pinned Chad Beller (Catasauqua) in 3:10

Sam Krauss (285, No. 1 seed)

Krauss dec. Jackson Huber (Northwestern), 2-0

Sam Frame (No. Lehigh) dec. Krauss, 5-2

Krauss pinned Gavin Lee (Palisades) in 2:14

Third-place match: Krauss pinned Huber in :27