BROOKVILLE, N.Y. — LIU wrestler Blake Bahna spent last week reviewing film with assistant coach Jesse Dellavecchia, identifying and correcting flaws that surfaced in a loss to Army West Point's Dillon Sheehy and in two other matches at the season-opening Black Knight Scramble in West Point 10 days ago.

Mission achieved.

In the rematch on Sunday, Bahna turned the tables and pinned Sheehy in the finals to win their 174-pound pool at the Journeymen Classic in Bethlehem, Pa.

"I felt like I was wrestling a little sloppy at Army — reaching a lot," said Bahna, a sophomore business management major from Watchung, N.J. "I took those losses and built on them. I met with Jesse and went over some film and the things I was doing wrong, and made sure I was focusing on a lot of that going into last weekend.

"I feel like I changed a lot of those things — starting to block shots to my head, not reaching, and fighting a little more when guys were on my legs."

En route to Sunday's finals, Bahna also defeated Arizona State redshirt freshman Cael Valencia.

Valencia was a highly recruited wrestler and is the younger brother of former Pac-12 Wrestler of the Year Zahid Valencia and first-team All-American Anthony Valencia, both of whom also wrestled for the Sun Devils.

"That was a big one for me," Bahna said. "I try to push away my nerves before my matches and wrestle my best and stick to my game and the things that I'm good at. It ended up working out against him."

It was a big weekend overall for Bahna. A day earlier, he defeated Buffalo's Marcus Petite in overtime, 6-4, during a dual match between the teams in Bethlehem.

The previous weekend, Bahna had fallen to Sheehy, 11-6, at the Black Knight Scramble and also to Oregon State's Mason Christiansen and Sheehy's Army West Point teammate, Benjamin Pasiuk.

Bahna actually weighed in at 170 pounds this past weekend. He's transitioning back to 165 pounds, the weight at which he wrestled as a freshman last season. That's because teammate James Johnston was injured in his opening match at 165 pounds at the Black Knight Scramble, while facing Army West Point's Christian Hunt.

The plan is for Bahna to wrestle one more time in a 174-pound pool this Saturday at the Shorty Hitchcock Open hosted by Millersville University in Lancaster, Pa.

Then, Bahna will return to 165 pounds when he faces elite competition at the Cliff Keen Open in Las Vegas Dec. 2-3.

"I still have a lot of things I need to work on," Bahna said. "I'm trying to get to some of that stuff on the mat this weekend and get tuned up for Vegas. There are going to be a lot of big matches there. I'm going to try to upset some more people."

Said head coach Joe Patrovich: "He competes really, really well. And he loves the scramble. He's gotten better and better. He listens. He's coachable. All the things that you need, he can be that guy."