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5:15 p.m.

Vestavia Hills is looking good to repeat as the Border Wars team champion, but Holy Cross is only 15.5 points behind the Rebels.

The Tigers have four finalists trying to cut into that lead: Jacob Spahn at 113 lbs., Cole Clement at 132 lbs., Joey Foret at 152 lbs. and Randel Amos at 285 lbs.  The Blue Jays have two in Nathan Koenig at 138 lbs. and Guy Patron, Jr. at 195 lbs.

In the very talented 126 lbs. weight class neither Jesuit's Joseph Dupre, Holy Cross' Beau Bush nor Arnold's William Pickren advanced to the finals.  Dupre and Pickren lost very close and a little suspect matches in the semifinals.  In the consolation rounds Pickren got past Bush via a last second penalty point, 4-3.

Also tasting defeat for the first time this season was the Tigers' Jake Rando, who fell to Florida state champion Anthony Artalono.  Talk about a tough weight class, Artalono is seeded second behind Union Grove's Justin Ruffin, a Georgia state champion.

The finals matches including New Orleans wrestlers is presented below:

4:45 p.m. Section

Pre-finals report (4:45 p.m.)

Vestavia Hills, AL, Holy Cross and Jesuit led the 2013 team competition at the 2015 South Walton Border Wars after the conclusion of Friday's pool rounds.  

QUARTERFINALS

Last year's champion and Outstanding Wrestler Guy Patron, Jr. takes Union Grove's Cambden Johnson off the mat prior to scoring a quarterfinals fall.

Quarterfinal matches for New Orleans wrestlers and Pickrens, and their semifinals opponent (seed) are listed below.  Finalists are in bold.

2:30 a.m. Section

A good Friday for a lot of Louisiana grapplers at 3rd South Walton Border Wars

The final pool competition results and the brackets for Saturday's championship tournament were not available as of 2 a.m. on Saturday morning, and hence the editor could not publish them.  As such, only that which the editor remembers or has heard is presented here (along with some photographs, of course).  When championship brackets are available, as well as pool rounds results, they will be published here promptly.

The championship tournament is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

According to several Vestavia Hills members, the Alabama school is currently in first place.  The first round of scores had Jesuit in 5th place, but those were made available between pool rounds and when a lot of schools had byes.  As such, they meant very little.

Two t-shirts caught the editor's eye and were worth sharing.

The editor does recall the following pertaining to Jesuit and Holy Cross wrestlers, as well as the brother Pickren of Arnold High School, on Friday (wrestlers not noted below to be undefeated does not mean they necessarily lost a match on Friday):

•  Michael Lundin of Holy Cross, Colby Queyrouze of Jesuit and Ethan Pickren of Arnold are undefeated at 106 lbs.;
• Joseph Dupre of Jesuit, Beau Bush of Holy Cross and William Pickren of Arnold are undefeated at 126 lbs., albeit Dupre and Bush had some difficult matches;
• Eli Larriviere of Jesuit is undefeated at 132 lbs.  Cole Clement of Holy Cross is known to have won two matches at least;
• David Clement of Holy Cross won at least two matches at 138 lbs.;
• Jake Rando of Holy Cross is undefeated at 145 lbs.  William Rosevalley of Jesuit won at least two matches at 145 lbs.;
• Joey Foret of Holy Cross and Griffin Mason of Jesuit are undefeated at 152 lbs.;
• Evan Palmisano of Jesuit won at least two matches on the day at 182 lbs.;
• Guy Patron, Jr. of Jesuit is undefeated at 195 lbs.;
• Michael Benton (HC - 160 lbs.), Matthew Putnam (HC - 182 lbs.), Spencer Rayes (HC - 170 lbs.), Kyler Pisciotta (JES - 170 lbs.) and Caleb Hart (JES - 285 lbs.) won at least one match on the day.

Holy Cross (left) and Jesuit (right) both had scads of parents watching from the stands or at the edges of the mats.

106 Lundin (HC) over Cerillo (NIC) 106 Neace (UG) over Stevens (GB) 106 Queyrouze-(JES) over Munroe (LIN) 120 Graba (TPR) over Ashburn (JES)

126 Bush (HC) over Conrad (TJS) 126 Bush (HC) over Myer (CHC) 126 Dupre (JES) over McCallum (VH) 126 Pickren (ARN) over Knoch (PAC)

132 Estis (VH) over Bigger (FWB) 132 Hunter (WAK) over Smith (CHI) 132 Larriviere (JES) over Ellis (MAR) 138 D. Clement (HC) over Waldon (COL)

145 Rosevalley (JES) over Tuttle (ARN) 152 Foret (HC) over Crum (NIC) 152 Mason (JES) over Finney (LUE) 170 Rayes (HC) over Unknown (NBH)

182 Palmisano (JES) over Delgadillo (SUW) 182 Palmisano (JES) over Williams (LEU) 182 Putnam (HC) over Robinson (FHS) 285 Hart (JES) over Motley (MOS)

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