Robert Melise needed only 29 seconds to get the milestone victory.
Back in his wrestling days, Dave Post recorded his 100th career win with a pin against Warren Hills.
On Wednesday night at the new Phillipsburg High School, the now Stateliners coach got to see one of his wrestlers reach the same milestone with a fall against the Blue Streaks.
Phillipsburg senior Robert Melise needed just 29 seconds to take care of business at 220 pounds in the Stateliners' 37-24 win over Warren Hills.
"It was really neat. I told Robert before the match that my 100th win came against Warren Hills by fall," said Post, who picked up his 100th career coaching win last week. "It was kind of neat. It made a nice touch to it."
Was Post, a 2003 Phillipsburg graduate, able to record his pin that fast for his 100th victory?
"I don't think so. I don't really remember it too well," Post said. "But I do remember it was Warren Hills and it was by fall."
For Melise, it wasn't that big of a deal that his 100th victory came against Warren Hills.
“I’m pretty sure it would’ve been special against no matter what team I wrestled,” Melise said about his 100th win. “Not every day a wrestler gets 100 wins like that, especially at Phillipsburg because we wrestle a really tough schedule. For a wrestler to get 100 wins against the caliber teams we wrestle, it’s quite a feat. This year, we're lucky enough to have two wrestlers, me and Drew (Horun). So I'm real excited about that."
"A lot of times with that stuff, you get yourself so worked up that you just want to make sure the kids focus on their matches, not get too tied up in the thing. You can enjoy it afterwards, but you have to be ready to come out and wrestle," Post said about the 100th win for Melise.
The senior's quick fall against the Blue Streaks' Brody Oberly was a much different story than his 5-1 decision over Oberly in the Pin Cancer match in July.
"That was an opponent that Robert was shut down by over the summer. He won the match, but we couldn't really get to our offense," Post said. "We told Robert to just keep doing what you do and get out to your leg attacks and look for something on top. Once he got to that cement, he knew that 100th win was going to be there and just found a way to force him over and get the fall."
"I was about 20 pounds heavier over the summer and in football shape, which is a completely different mindset," Melise said. "That and we were locked in a gym in the humidity and it was just the sweatiest match I ever wrestled. It was a lot of different factors into the match as far as over the summer to now."
Melise's quick-fall magic followed Drew Horun's pin in 21 seconds at 195 pounds.
The back-to-back pins totaling 50 seconds turned a one-point Phillipsburg lead into a 28-15 cushion.
"That's why wrestle back-to-back," Melise said. "I honestly believe that's what happened because we give the momentum to the guys in the lower weights. They feed off of us. They feed off of our fans that go crazy when we wrestle. That kind of stuff builds and it's like a snowball, it starts small and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger."
After Taylin Zafis picked up a pin in 5:47 at 285 for Warren Hills, Phillipsburg junior Cullen Day won by technical fall at 106 and Stateliners sophomore Travis Jones earned a major decision at 113 to make it 37-21 and seal the victory.
Junior Brian Meyer had a pin in 3:16 at 152, sophomore Cody Harrison earned a 10-0 major decision at 126 against his former team to open the match and junior Shamyr Brodders won 3-1 in overtime at 160 for the Stateliners.
But Melise was the star on the night, becoming the 21st Phillipsburg wrestler to reach the 100-win milestone.
"It was a really good feeling to know that I had my 100th," Melise said. "It's kind of like I'm up in that tier with the guys like Greg Troxell, John Barna, those guys. So it's a good feeling to have."
"I wouldn't want to wrestle for anywhere else," Melise added about Phillipsburg. "I can't imagine having another school's logo on my body."
Josh Folck may be reached at jfolck@lehighvalleylive.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshFolck. Find Lehigh Valley high school sports on Facebook.