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St. Louis Catholic
freshman Alex Yokubaitis, seeded second, defeated Brusly's top-seeded
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Brusly's David Kent, a junior, established himself on the varsity mats in 2016
when he lost an 8-6 match to Basile's Brennan Langley in the Division III
finals. This season Kent competed at 120 and 113 lbs., only dropping to
106 lbs. for the state championships. At the higher weights, he won 19
matches and lost 10. The 10 losses, however, came from stellar
competition, as all but one placed at the 2017 state championships.
Three were Division I placers, four were Division II placers, and the
other two were from a defending Division III state champion and an as yet
uncrowned Division III state champion and Outstanding Wrestler.
Kent placed 2nd in the Brusly 8 and the Brusly Invitational, and 3rd in the
Greater Baton Rouge Championships. He won matches against Catholic's Luke
Romano, Clayton Hill and Jordan Chenevert of Live Oak and Cameron Witherwax of
St. Louis. With his success at the 2016 state championships, and the
quality of his 2016-17 opponents, Kent earned his #1 seeding.
St. Louis freshman Alexander Yokubaitis was unknown to most people at the start
of the season, but only briefly. Wrestling only at 106 lbs., Yokubaitis
won the Warrior Open via a 6-1 win over Romano. A week later he beat Corey
Brownell of St. Amant 7-1. His first of only three losses came against
Montalbano in the finals of the Rebel Open. After that he won the Eagle
Open over Airline's Dakota Brace 13-7 before losing his second match to Colton
Sonnier of Teurlings Catholic in a 9-8 decision. After winning the Brusly
Invitational and the St. Louis Invitational, Yokubaitis made the finals of the
Ken Cole, losing again to Sonnier by only one point, 3-2.
As one of only two wrestlers with a shot at winning four consecutive state
championships (Gavin Christ of Basile is halfway there), Yokubaitis will not be
overlooked in the upcoming season by anyone in any division.
| 1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
5th |
6th |
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| Alexander Yokubaitis |
David Kent |
Colton Kendrick |
Blake Menier |
#5 Riley Baumgarter |
#6 Caleb Lenard |
| St. Louis |
Brusly |
John Curtis |
Basile |
North Vermillion |
Evangel |
| #2 Seed |
#1 Seed |
#3 Seed |
#4 Seed |
#5 Seed |
#6 Seed |
| Freshman |
Junior |
Freshman |
Freshman |
Freshman |
7th-grade |
Early Championship Rounds
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| Round 1: Michael LeDoux (SC) pinned #7 Jake
Chumly (LKS) in 5:25. |
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Quarterfinals
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#1 David Kent (BRU) pinned #8 Cade Dixon (SBR) in 2:44. |
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#4 Blake Menier (BAS) pinned #5 Riley Baumgardner (NV) in 2:40. |
| #3 Colton Kendrick pinned #6 Caleb Lenard (EVA)
in 1:01. |
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#2 Alex Yokubaitis (StL) pinned Michael LeDoux (SC) in 0:32. |
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Semifinals
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#1 David Kent (BRU) pinned #4 Blake Menier (BAS) in 4:29. |
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| #2 Alex Yokubaitis (StL) defeated #3 Colton
Kendrick (JC) via a 10-0 Major Decision. |
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Consolation Rounds
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| C2: Rex Carroll (HAY) defeated Michael LeDoux
(SC) 9-6. |
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C2: Cade Dixon (SBR) pinned #7 Jake Chumley (LKS) in 1:47. |
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Championship Consolation Rounds
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#3 Colton Kendrick (JC) defeated #4 Blake Menier (BAS) 7-4
to place 3rd. |
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| #5 Riley Baumgardner (NV) pinned #6 Caleb
Lenard (EVA) in 1:17.to place 5th. |
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Finals
| #2 Alexander Yokubaitis of St. Louis defeated
#1 David Kent of Brusly via an 11-2 Major Decision. |
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