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| Thirty-seven
seconds over Carencro - 5th-seed Vanveckhoven of Haughton wastes no time
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| LHSAA State
Wrestling Tournament |
| Division II, 285
Pounds |
| May 12th, 2017 | Written by:
Editor |
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| Fifth-seeded Johnny
Vanveckhoven of Haughton pins Rayne's Torin Benoit in a quarterfinals
match, two matches before his championship win over Carencro's Gabe
Duplechain by a fall in 0:37. |
The state championships seeding committee spends several days determining the
proper seeding individuals have earned during the regular season.
Haughton's Johnnie Vanveckhoven's season positioned himself to be seeded fifth,
but that did not mean he would capitulate to that fate. Instead, in
treating his seeding, Vanveckhoven
followed the wisdom of Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe who, while surrounded
by German soldiers asking for his surrender at Bastogne, replied, "Nuts!" While the bottom half of
the bracket was flowing nice and smooth, the upper half was chaos as Vanveckhoven
scored a 24-4 Technical Fall in 5:13 in his fourth match, beat fourth-seeded Torin Benoit of Rayne in 5:18, and then upset top-seeded Miles Santiago of
Teurlings Catholic in the semifinals with another fall (time unknown).
During the regular season Vanveckhoven compiled a record of 13-4, which included
a 14-6 drubbing by Santiago for fifth-place at the Ken Cole. His other
losses were to a Division III opponent and to two Division I opponents.
Gabe Duplechain, a Carencro senior, was 15-9 prior to the tournament. He
competed in the Louisiana Classic and the Ken Cole, but did not place in either
event. Duplechain had defeated the fourth seed, Torin Benoit of Rayne, and
lost to Santiago.
Oddly, Duplechain was seeded over Sam Houston's Nicholas Breaux. In a
31-15 season, Breaux, placed third in the TCS Rebel Open, the Eagle Open, placed
fourth in the Lone Survivor and won the Rayne Invitational. That worked,
though, as Duplechain at first scored falls in 1:11 and 0:45 before narrowly
defeating Breaux 5-3.
Vanveckhoven, who won the championship with a fall in 0:37, scored not only the
fastest fall in the finals of all three divisions, and was also the lowest seed
to win a state championship in all three divisions.
| 1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
5th |
6th |
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| Johnny VanVeckhoven |
Gabe Duplechain |
Torin Benoit |
Miles Santiago |
Terrell Ford |
Nicholas Breaux |
| Haughton |
Carencro |
Rayne |
Teurlings Catholic |
Northwood |
Sam Houston |
| #5 Seed |
#2 Seed |
#4 Seed |
#1 Seed |
Not-seeded |
#3 Seed |
| Senior |
Senior |
Senior |
Sophomore |
Junior |
Senior |
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Early Championship Rounds
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#5 Johnny Vanveckhoven (HAU) defeated Braden Parker (STMO) via a 21-4
Technical Fall @ 5:13. |
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#4 Torin Benoit (RAY) pinned Colby Cagle (LSH) in 0:45. |
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Quarterfinals
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| #1 Miles Santiago (TC) pinned #8 Brandon Nelson
(PKY) in 3:48. |
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#5 Johnny Vanveckhoven (HAU) pinned #4 Torin Benoit (RAY) in 5:16. |
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#3 Nicholas Breaux (SH) defeated #6 Gabriel Philpot (LO) 4-1. |
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#2 Gabe Duplechain (CAR) pinned Terrell Ford (NW) in 0:45. |
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Semifinals
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| #5 Johnny Vanveckhoven (HAU) pinned #4 Torin
Benoit (RAY) in an unspecified time. |
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#2 Gabe Duplechain (CAR) defeated #3 Nicholas Breaux (SH) 5-3. |
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Championship Consolation Rounds
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#4 Torin Benoit (RAY) defeated #1 Miles Santiago (TC) 7-0
to place 3rd. |
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Terrell Ford (NW) pinned #3 Nicholas Breaux (SH) in 3:23
to place 5th. |
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Finals
| #5 Johnny Vanveckhoven of Haughton pinned #2
Gabe Duplechain of Carencro in 0:37. |
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