La CROSSE, WIS. – Cortland senior Dave Colagiovanni (Mahopac) finished fifth at 125 pounds and senior Aljamain Sterling (Uniondale) placed sixth at 141 pounds to earn All-America honors during the final day of competition at the NCAA Div. III Championships at The La Crosse Center.

Cortland finished 14th in the final team standings with 23 points. The Red Dragons have now finished in the top 15 nationally 15 times overall and five times in the last 10 years. Wartburg College (Iowa) won its eight national title and third in four years, followed by defending champion Augsburg College (Minn.) in second place.

Colagiovanni earned All-America honors for the first time with his fifth-place finish. He went 4-2 during the tournament, including a 2-1 record on Saturday. He won 6-1 in sudden-victory overtime versus Brandon Gauthier of Rhode Island College with a takedown and a near fall in the extra session. He lost to second-seeded Mark Kist of Wartburg, 8-0, but pinned fifth-seeded Riki Reynolds of Mount Union in the fifth-place match. Colagiovanni's only two losses in the tournament came to the top two seeds.

Colagiovanni finishes the season with a 15-6 record. He concludes his collegiate career with a 90-39 record and is the ninth Red Dragon to reach the 90-win mark.

Sterling was an All-American for the second straight year with his sixth-place showing. He finished fourth at 133 pounds in 2010. After going 3-1 on Friday, Sterling opened Saturday's action by defeating fifth-seeded Ryan Bridge of Stevens Institute, 4-2, with a takedown in the second sudden-victory overtime session. Sterling then lost 5-2 to sixth-seeded Kevin Donahue of Cornell College (Iowa) and dropped a 6-4 decision to fourth-seeded Chris Albright of York College (Pa.) in the fifth-place match.

Sterling completes the season with a 28-8 record. His career record of 87-27 places him 11th all-time on Cortland's win chart.

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