Maryland
By ANDREW MASON
February 3, 2010
andrewm@herald-mail.com
Pictures
Monica
Hovermale (103), Chase Scott (130), Nieko Akers (171) and Dylan Sharon
(189) all scored pins for the Leopards (10-2, 4-1).
“It’s
just like any other game. The chips fall the way they’re
going to fall,” Smithsburg coach Joe Dietrich said.
“That’s why you play the game. Tonight they fell
the wrong way. You’ve got to go back to the
grindstone.”
Williamsport 46, Smithsburg 24
285 — Matt Cody (W) p. Ed Waltz, 1:33; 103 — Monica
Hovermale (S) p. Austin Loar, :28; 112 — Josh Weyant (W) d.
Kian Roberts, 8-7; 119 — Killian Baker (W) p. Michael
Creamer, 3:21; 125 — George Ardinger (W) d. Dillon Harbaugh,
15-11; 130 — Chase Scott (S) p. Bobby Ardinger, 5:44; 135
— Kemper Baker (W) d. Nick Dilandro, 8-4; 140 —
Nate Tyson (W) p. Chris Severt, 1:52; 145 — Joey Sutch (W) p.
David Crown, 1:36; 152 — Zach Shoemaker (W) d. Dean White,
6-0; 160 — Reggie Russ (W) p. Sean McAuley, 5:09; 171
— Nieko Akers (S) p. Jacob Cody, :59; 189 — Dylan
Sharon (S) p. Sam Socks, 1:13; 215 — Zach Nalley (W) m.d.
Caleb Rodgers, 19-10.
Records:
Williamsport 17-3 (6-0); Smithsburg 10-2 (4-1).
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By
Ken Bosserman • Sports Writer • February 5, 2010
“The kids wrestled
well today,” Lee coach Tom Roes said. “I was
impressed the way they wrestled.”
The host Stuarts Draft Cougars
claimed four individual titles.
The first came at 103 pounds
where senior Savannah Fitzgerald used an ankle pick and half-nelson to
pin Rockbridge County’s Jake Ailstock in 2:25.
“He had beaten me
twice before,” said Fitzgerald, who is now 16-6. “I
was just trying to do my best.”
SOUTHERN VALLEY DISTRICT
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
CHAMPIONSHIPS
103 — Savannah Fitzgerald (SD) p. Jake Ailstock (RC), 2:25
112 — Adam Davis (SD) p. Scott Lafferty (W), n/a
119 — Dwayne Roes (L) tf. Tyler Colvin (FD) 18-1
125 — Brett Talley (SD) d. Brandon Adams (W), 3-0
130 — Blake Wilkerson (L) p. Kyle Meadows (FD), 0:39
135 — Matt Hoofnagle (RC) d. James Huffman (L), 10-3
140 — Tyler Desper (L) p. Bobby Strecker (RC), 1:58
145 — Shawn Meadows (FD) d. Brandon Harvey (L), 3-2
152 — Tyler Bendler (L) p. Corey Miller (WM), 3:41
160 — Doug Williams (W) p. Quentin Youngblood (RC), 0:30
171 — Gary Clifton (L) d. Cesar Avina (W), 5-1
189 — Aaron McMillion (FD) p. Add Siler (RC), 1:11
215 — Chris Henkel (SD) p. Angel Harris (RC), 0:28
285 — Ethan Callison (FD) d. Allen Chappell (RC), 1-0
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New York
By PETE
TOBEY -- tobey@poststar.com | Posted: Sunday, February 7, 2010 12:05 am
|
GRANVILLE -- On a big
day for favorites, the deepest team in the tournament flexed its muscle
as Corinth captured its second Section II Class C wrestling
championship in three years Saturday at Granville High School.
Thirteen No. 1 seeds won
weight-class titles, including the Tomahawks' Tyler Nicholson and Zach
Marcel, as Corinth piled up 215 team points.
Host Granville finished second
with 163, with top seeds Karl Palmer and Eric Hastings pinning in the
finals for the Golden Horde.
And Schuylerville's No.
1-seeded Sarah Anderson remained undefeated, but injured her shoulder
in the process of winning the 112-pound title.
Wincing in pain, a teary-eyed
Anderson had ice on her shoulder - not the same one she had surgery on
last year - after her 3-2 victory over Corinth's Tim Ross.
"I extended it again right in
the first period and I felt it pop," said Anderson, a senior with a
32-0 record. "At the (Glens Falls) MatMania (on Dec. 5) I popped it,
but it was a quick thing; this time I actually felt it pop and sink
down. It hurts pretty bad."
When asked about her chances of
wrestling in next weekend's Section II state qualifier at the Glens
Falls Civic Center, Anderson said, "I'm going to try to, definitely,
hopefully. I'd hate to miss it. That would suck, to come this far."
Anderson was able keep her lead
by tenaciously controlling the inside and not allowing Ross to shoot on
her legs. Ross scored only a pair of escape points.
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New York
Published:
Saturday, February 6, 2010
At
the start of competition Saturday, there was only one undefeated
wrestler on the premises: Sarah Anderson of Schuylerville. At the end
of the day, the Black Horse senior was still undefeated, using a 3-2
decision over a very tough Tim Ross of Corinth to run her 2009-10
record to 31-0.
It came at a price, however. Anderson, who was out virtually all of
last year, popped a shoulder late in the first period against Ross, but
was still able to hang on for the win.
“An injury like that is very painful,” said Black
Horse coach Paul Zebrowski. “If I’d known she was
hurt as bad as she was, I would have stopped the match. She
didn’t lead us to believe she couldn’t continue.
She did continue and she won the match.
Anderson, Class C champion in 2008 at 103 pounds, was obviously feeling
the effects of the injury afterward.
“I’m going to try to make it,” she said
of next weekend’s Section II championships. “To get
this far and then not be able to continue -- hopefully, I’ll
be okay.”
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Illinois
For The
Southern | Posted: Sunday, February 7, 2010 1:00 am |
MATTOON - Perhaps they are
better referred to as Carbondale's "big three," a trio of wrestlers
with their sights set on some major hardware this postseason.
In most of their matches at the
Mattoon Class 2A wrestling regional Saturday, Prentice Thomas, Zane
Richards and Alli Ragan barely broke a sweat. When you're gunning for
something bigger than a regional crown, that probably shouldn't come as
a surprise.
"Those three are fun,"
Carbondale coach Dennis Ragan said. "They work so hard. They get
frustrated in practice when things don't work out for them. I just
couldn't be happier with the way that they're wrestling right now.
"Dane is ranked No. 1 in the
state, Prentice is No. 2 in state, Alli's an honorable mention. I don't
think it's all about just getting to sectionals and getting to state. I
think they've got their goals set higher than that."
Thomas won the title at 119
pounds, Richards at 125 and Ragan at 130, all of them easing to the
finish line. Ragan's toughest match came during her first one of the
day, a 5-2 victory over Marion's Arthur Grant. For Richards, whose only
loss this season came to one of the top wrestlers in Missouri, two
matches amounted to less than three minutes of mat time. Mattoon's Kory
Culp lasted slightly more than a minute before he was virtually bridged
into a pin.
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Texas
By
Alex Byington
Killeen Daily Herald
Treating wrestling like a year-round sport, Bryan continued its
flat-out dominance of District 25, overwhelming the Central Texas area
once again.
With eight individual champions, and 12 of its 15 wrestlers placing at
least third, the Vikings steamrolled rival A&M Consolidated and
the Killeen-area schools to claim their fourth straight boys title and
third since joining the district.
"Bryan's the team everyone's gunning for," said Shoemaker coach Ken
Soloff. "Ellison, for the boys, is always the best hope out of Killeen.
But Bryan's got a good program, (they) are well-coached and they
wrestle well."
Along with the eight champions, the Bryan boys advanced a
district-leading 10 total wrestlers to the Region IV meet next weekend
in San Antonio, while Consolidated advanced seven to edge reigning
runner-up Ellison for second place by 0.5 points (214 to 213.5).
Shoemaker, which hosted the tournament, finished fourth with one
wrestler advancing. Killeen, who entered the tournament with only nine
wrestlers, will be taking five to the region meet next Friday and
Saturday.
Harker Heights and Copperas Cove finished sixth and seventh,
respectively.
"I thought knocking (Bryan) off would take a lot of luck and some hard
work, but while the hard work paid off, the luck was never there," said
Ellison coach Dean Schaub, who's Eagles have finished second to Bryan
each of the past two seasons.
On the girls side, the Shoemaker Lady Grey Wolves finished first to
knock off defending district champion Ellison by six points (143 to
137), after a single point separated the two last season. Despite the
Lady Eagles claiming six individual champions, the Lady Grey Wolves won
thanks to four second-place finishers to go with their four champions.
The third-place Lady Knights advanced three wrestlers to the regional
meet after one competitor finished third but moved on after winning a
wrestle-back challenge. Consolidated and Bryan each had one female
wrestler advance.
"For the last five or six years, Ellison's been our stiffest
competition, but Shoemaker's kind of taken over the girls program, and
not just the area but Region IV as well," Soloff said.
Championship matches
Leading the Vikings' charge were lightweights Fabian Diaz (103) and
Logan Meekma (112), who pinned Heights wrestlers Royce Carpenter and
Nate Tuthill, respectively, as Bryan swept through the first four
championship bouts before A&M grappler Jon Shugart pinned
Ellison's Aaron Gilbert at 130 pounds to break the early run.
But the Vikings picked up one match later as the state-ranked Victor
Thomas (135) and Kevin White (140) pinned Shoemaker's Troy Felder and
Ellison's Kevin Caba, respectively. Consolidated then won back-to-back
matches as Jacob Wilson upset top-seeded Tracey Hodges of Bryan at 145
and Garrett Goodman pinned Killeen 152-pounder Anthony Solomon.
The Killeen-area schools finally got on the map when Ellison
160-pounder Darius Branch stuck A&M's Frank Cheng with 57
seconds left in the second period after already leading 11-2 in points
when the pin occurred. Eagle teammate Luke Mayo followed that up with a
pin of his own, overpowering Killeen's John Chivers with 1:20 into the
match.
"This year coming in seeded first, there was a lot on my shoulders
because last year I was an underdog, so I had everything to gain and
nothing to lose," said Branch, who has won back-to-back district
championships. "... I only know a certain couple of moves, but with my
strength, it really helps me over all of my opponents."
With five wrestlers in the finals, the Roos finally got the taste of
gold when 189-pounder Lawrence Lavan shutout Bryan's Denzel Brown with
a 10-0 decision.
Along with Solomon and Chivers, Killeen's Demorris Turner (180) and
Chris Sarder (heavyweight) also finished in second after losses to
Jericho Farmer of A&M and state-ranked Kendall Gilbert of
Bryan, respectively. Vikings 215-pounder David Jones pulled off one of
the few upsets of the tournament with a technical fall over
A&M's Erickson Caldwell.
After coming up short to Ellison last year, the host Lady Grey Wolves
took home top honors with four individual champions, including sweeping
the first three weight classes – Adrianna Garcia (95), Katie
Soloff (102) and Mariah Gary (110) – before Ellison hit its
stride winning six of the next seven championship bouts. Shoemaker's
other champion was Zana West (165).
Despite the second-place team finish, the Lady Eagles were led by one
of the biggest surprises of the tournament – freshman Fallon
Chrisitain, who beat top-seeded Arielle McLean of Shoemaker 10-8 in the
128-pound final, just two weeks after earning her way onto varsity by
beating an experienced Ellison senior in a wrestle-off.
Christian is now 5-0 on the season.
"I've been searching for that one thing that I'm really good at, and I
finally found it," Christian said. "To be a freshman on varsity is the
best thing that could happen to me this year."
Also winning for the Lady Eagles were Caila Robledo (119), Nalani Brown
(138), Caila Sims (148), Ashley Cumba (185) and Chelsea Drisdale (215).
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Washington
Peninsula
Daily News 2/7/10
In addition, Sequim female
wrestler Amariah Clift, a freshman, qualified for regionals by taking
third in the girls subregionals at Eatonville on Saturday.
The girls regionals are slated for Emerald Ridge High School.
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Connecticut
Lori Riley
February 7, 2010
DANIELSON
By
now, it's fairly commonplace to see female wrestlers competing against
boys.
But a female wrestling coach? Now, that's different.
"[Sport and Medical Sciences Academy] had three girls wrestling," Ellis
Tech wrestling coach Jennifer Audette said Wednesday. "They were
talking to me [at a meet] and it finally dawned on them —
'Oh, my God, you're the coach! You're a girl!'"
She laughed.
"That blew them away," she said.
Audette, the first female high school wrestling coach in the state, is
used to the double-takes by now. Eric Ducat, an Ellis Tech graduate who
is her assistant, still has people approach him, thinking he is the
head coach.
She may be the lone female coach in a male-dominated sport, but she
said the wrestling community has been nothing but supportive toward her
and her team, which finished 6-17 in dual meets this season.
Windham coach Pat Risley helped out. So did Killingly coach Rich Bowen.
Nobody wanted to see Ellis Tech lose its team.
That's what would have happened if Audette, a special education teacher
at the school, didn't step forward this season to coach a sport she
didn't know much about.
"I didn't get much sleep the first night before practice," said
Audette, 39, who has coached softball and basketball. "I was up all
night long. 'What have got myself into? Is this going to work? Am I
going to be able to do this?'"
Ellis Tech's program is only eight years old. Ducat remembers when they
first got the mats (discounted because they were factory imperfect and
read 'Panthers' instead of 'Eagles') his sophomore year, in 2004. Back
then, Audette was the girls basketball coach. Ducat told her she should
come watch a wrestling match. She went to one at Windham Tech, her alma
mater, and enjoyed it. She followed the team to the conference and
state tournaments that year.
But Audette never thought about coaching until her friend Rafael
Calixto, Ellis Tech director of counseling and admissions, brought it
up. Calixto, who wrestled at Windham, is an assistant coach there and
helped start a youth program in Willimantic.
The Eagles needed a coach. The job was advertised. No one was
interested. Calixto, who runs a wrestling club at the school, was too
busy with his other coaching duties.
Three weeks before the season was supposed to start, it looked more and
more like there would be no season.
One day in November, Calixto asked Audette if she could help with the
wrestling club. While they were trying to find the mats, Calixto
suggested that Audette should coach the team.
"I said, 'I think you're crazy,'" Audette said, laughing. "But those
weren't exactly my words. He said, 'No, I'm serious.'"
She went home, thought about it, about how the kids — many of
whom she knew — wouldn't have a season. Then she said yes.
"I talked to Dylan Benoit, he's a senior captain," she said. "I wanted
to make sure he was going to be OK with it. He said, 'Yeah, well, I'm
not going to have a team.' "
The first day of practice, she told the kids that she needed to learn
the sport and the only way she felt like she could do that was to get
on the mat and wrestle. If anybody had a problem with that, they could
let her know, or if they were uncomfortable, have their parents call
her.
No one called.
"She has been excellent," Ducat said. "She didn't know much about the
sport. We kind of taught her along with the new guys. She's come into
her own."
Jon Petrucci, a junior 135-pounder in his third year of wrestling, said
having a female coach helped him get used to wrestling against girls.
"We teach her stuff, we work with her, help her out," he said. "We're
just helping each other."
In the beginning, Audette got pinned a lot.
"For a while, I was not too bad with some of the new guys but that only
goes so far," she said. "They got better. For some reason, I didn't get
better."
St. Bernard coach Kirk Jenkins grew up playing basketball and football
and baseball with Audette in the same neighborhood in Willimantic. But
he didn't know she was coaching at Ellis until he looked up and saw
here across the mat at a meet.
"Still as competitive as ever," Jenkins said. "If it was more accepted
in the '80s, she would have been all over it. She would have been a
wrestler."
St. Bernard won the close match. But one of Audette's top wrestlers
beat one of Jenkins' top guys that day.
"That impressed me right there," he said. "Wow."
Audette has participated in sprint triathlons and half- marathons. She
played basketball and ran track in high school.
The team is going to the CSC conference meet next weekend and Audette
vowed the Eagles will not finish last. They're going to the Class M
meet, too, something they didn't do last year.
"She is a diamond in the rough, because she can relate to these kids in
a physical sport," Calixto said. "I believe she is doing a good job.
Hopefully, they won't get too good and beat us."
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Texas
The
Woodlands’ Adriana Flores attempts to maneuver out of Oak
Ridge’s Roshelle Zapiain’s hold during
Saturday’s girls 128-pound division championship match at the
District 20 Meet at Kingwood Park High School. Flores won the match to
take the title and earn her spot at regionals. Zapiain then beat
another wrestler to earn second place in the division and punch her
ticket to the regional meet.
|
By Mike Jones
Updated: 02.06.10
Eighteen
Montgomery County high school wrestlers advanced to regionals Saturday
by placing either first or second in their weight classes at the
District 20 Meet at Kingwood Park.
The Woodlands and Oak Ridge will be sending six athletes apiece to the
regional, which will take place Friday and Saturday at Allen High
School. Conroe advanced five past district, while College Park will be
sending one competitor to the event.
The county boasted seven district champions Saturday, with defending
state champion Cody Davis (TWHS, boys, 215-pound division), Adriana
Flores (TWHS, girls, 128-pound division), Joseph Garcia (Oak Ridge,
boys, 112-pound division), Trevor Quick (Oak Ridge, boys, 160-pound
division), Brittany Sawyers (Conroe, girls, 102-pound division), Lance
Jefferson (Conroe, boys, 180-pound division) and Joseph Hughes (College
Park, boys, 125-pound division) taking titles.
Other Conroe regional qualifiers are Alex Powell and Jennifer Sowell in
the girls division and Patrick Webber.
The
Woodlands will also be sending Brenda Garcia to the girls competition,
while Ryan Sweat, Cooper Riggs and Omar Enan also advanced.
Oak Ridge’s Brittany Page and Roshelle Zapiain advanced by
taking second place in their divisions in the girls competition, while
Shawn Levy and Andy Rowan also have advanced.
Conroe High School coach Jeremy Horan was pleased with his
team’s performance.
“Our kids did well,” he said. “Our girls
finished third overall behind Klein and Klein Collins. We’re
proud of them. They wrestled well. We didn’t fill as many
weight classes as other teams in the boys division so our team score
wasn’t as high.”
Horan thinks the Tigers will compete well at the regional.
“Our last two tournaments have been strong,” he
said. “They’re going to compete and give it
everything they’ve got. They’ve done that all
season. The effort is great. We had some kids step up and finish better
than expected.”
The Woodlands coach Michael Harris was proud of the Highlander boys,
who finished third as a team behind Klein and Klein Collins.
“They did really well,” he said. “If we
had a full team we would have done really well. I think Cody should win
the region and hopefully the other boys will place in the top four
(which would advance them to state).”
Oak Ridge coach Mike Morgan was also happy with his squad.
“We had a great day,” he said. “I have a
couple boys who should do well at the regional. Joseph Garcia should be
in the top four if he wrestles the way he has been wrestling.”
College Park coach David Barrett was pleased with the way Hughes
competed.
“Joe did well,” he said. “There was a kid
from Kingwood Park who had wrestled at 119 all year and bumped up to
125. It was a little challenge for Joe in the semifinals. He beat him
on points then beat a kid from Klein Collins by pinning him in the
final.”
Oak Ridge’s
Ashleeann Jones holds Klein Collins’ Monica Flores in a choke
hold as an official counts down the seconds during the girl’s
102-pound division match at the District 20 Tournament at Kingwood Park
High School Saturday.
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Washington
More Pictures
ELLINGHAM
- Mount Baker's Shanli Dillard knows it sounds cliché, but she
really does prefer to take her wrestling matches one at a time and stay
away from thinking about what the future might hold.
Not to look into the crystal ball, but if she keeps wrestling the
way she has been lately there might be a top state finish waiting for
her at the end of the season.
Dillard picked up a 16-0 technical fall win over Burlington-Edison's
Niki Stillwell to take a Sub Regional title at 130 pounds on Saturday,
Feb. 6 at the girls' tournament at Squalicum High School.
"I went in thinking what ever happens, happens," Dillard said. "It was
good."
Dillard was one of three Mountaineers to take titles at the
tournament. She was joined by teammates Katie Weide (152) and Jessica
Taranenko (171).
Mount Baker finished third in the team standings with 155.5 points.
Sedro-Woolley was first with 309 and Burlington-Edison was second at
264. Lynden was fourth at 58 points.
The top four finishers in each weight class advance to the girls'
Region One Tournament at Sedro-Woolley on Saturday, Feb. 13.
Mount Baker sent six girls to the championship round at the
Sub-Regional and could get stronger as the postseason goes on.
"I was pleased with how the girls did," Mount Baker coach Ron Lepper
said. "We were third by a ways, but we have some quality girls. We had
three champions and six in the finals. As the tournaments get bigger
our girls will do better."
As it stands the girls' wrestlers from the area did very well on
Saturday. Lynden's Elena Gallegos (103) finished second as did Mount
Baker's Ella Salkeld (112), Roxanne Rosas (119) and Raney Lepper (140).
"We'll probably take our lumps and we might not score high overall
next week, but I think we could do well at state," Lepper said. "If our
girls stay healthy, state wise, I think we have a chance to finish in
the top 10 and maybe even higher."
Girls' wrestling Sub-Regional Tournament
Feb. 6 at Squalicum High School
Team Results
1. Sedro-Woolley 309; 2. Burlington-Edison 264; 3. Mount Baker
155.5; 4. Lynden 58; 5. Mount Vernon 24; 6. Squalicum 21; 7. Oak Harbor
17.5; 8. Anacortes 16; 9. LaConner 12; 10. Friday Harbor 3.
Championships
103: Taylor Graham (BE) dec. Elena Gallegos (Lyn) 14-11. 112: Andrea
Iverson (SW) p. Ella Salkeld (MB). 119: Ricarda Garcia (MV) p. Roxanne
Rosas (MB) . 125: Jalysse Garcia (SW) forfeit Jessie Kaech (SW). 130:
Shanli Dillard (MB) tech. fall Niki Stillwell (BE) 16-0. 135: Haylee
Rabenstein (SW) forfeit Katie Allen (SW). 140: Sarah Moquin (SW) p.
Raney Lepper (MB).145: Alysia Pohren (SW) p. Marree Reed (SW) 152:
Katie Weide (MB) p. Jennifer Fremd (OH). 160: Jessica O'dell (BE) p.
Julia Gonzalez. 171: Jessica Taranenko (MB) p. Alysha Gash (BE). 285:
Emily Holboy (BE) p. Makenzi Clark (SW).
Third place
103: Emily Iverson (SW) p. Dani Mata (MB). 112: Justine Allen (SW)
dec. Melissa Solano (BE) 11-6. 119: Hailey Parker (SW) p. Maria Hurtado
(BE) 125: Jasmin Mendoza (Lyn) dec. Kara Ebergson (SQ) 12-9. 130:
Chelsea Seidel (SW) p. Katerina Long (BE). 135: Caroline Crawford (Ana)
p. Kristen Annese (BE) . 140: Jamie Randall (SW) p. Catlyn Pell (BE).
145: Marissa Veliz (Lyn) dec. Brooke Cooper (BE) 152: Emma Foss (BE) p.
Melissa Starheim (BE). 160: None. 171: Rachel Weide (SW) p. Brianna
Ishikawa (BE). 285: Rachel Pederson (BE) inj. default Chloe Grafwallner
(MB)
Mount Baker's Shani Dillard, top, holds down Burlington-Edison's Niki
Stillwell to win her weight class at the Girls
Sub Regional wrestling
tournament Saturday February 6, 2010 in Bellingham.–ANDY
BRONSON|THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
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