KUTZTOWN, Pa. – Newcomer Nick Kee walked away victorious on all four trips to the mat to help the UNC Pembroke wrestling team register three team victories and give head coach Othello "O.T." Johnson a milestone win at the Kutztown Duals on Saturday.
 
The Braves opened the day with a 30-7 rout of Millersville, but had their momentum stunted with a 30-9 setback at the hands of second-ranked Pitt-Johnstown. UNCP would recover, however, with a 27-13 upset victory over 19^th-ranked Kutztown before handing Johnson his 100^th career dual meet victory with a 35-15 rout of Shippensburg.
 
Nick Daggett (125 pounds), Tyler Makosy (149) and Kee (197) all posted bonus-point victories in the win over Millersville (2-7), but the Black & Gold would post five other wins in the rout as well. Daggett got the day going with a 19-4 win in his matchup with Travis Kotelnicki, but UNCP inevitably closed out the team win by capturing the last five individual matches of the dual.
 
Jonathan Miller got the Braves on the board with an 8-3 decision over eighth-ranked Jacob Ealy in the matchup with second-ranked Pitt-Johnstown (16-3), but the Mountain Cats raked in wins in eight of the nine other individual bouts to fuel the outcome. Fourth-ranked Craig Connor's 6-0 decision at 184 pounds marked the bookend of five-straight individual victories by UPJ before Kee posted a second-period pin (2:30) of Tyler Oliver in the 197-pound bout.
 
 Collin Wickremaratna tallied a second-period pin at 133 pounds to give 19^th-ranked Kutztown (6-2) the early edge in its mid-afternoon matchup with the Black & Gold, but UNCP got consecutive wins from Miller and Makosy at 141 and 149 pounds, respectively, to take the lead for good. Mitchell Camp's decision in the 157-pound matchup pulled the Bears to within a point on the team scoreboard, 10-9, but the Braves responded with four-straight individual wins, including three of the bonus point variety, to seal the outcome.
 
UNCP used bonus-point victories by Miller, Warner (165) and Kee, as well as a trio of forfeited weight classes, to key the nightcap win over Shippensburg (7-3). Kutztown's Jacob Downing knotted the dual up at six points apiece with a pin at 133 pounds, but Miller and Makosy delivered consecutive wins again and the Black & Gold never looked back. Warner's first-period pin at 165 pounds marked the first of four individual wins by the Braves who eventually built a 35-12 lead after Kee's major decision in the 197-pound bout.
 
The Braves will now get a two-week hiatus from competition before heading to West Liberty, W.Va., on February 1 for the inaugural Mountain East Conference Championships.