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Battle of New Orleans

Without a doubt the Battle of News Orleans tournament had trophies every bit as neat as the alligator head ones for the Deep South Bayou Duals.  Individuals got a square piece of marble emblazoned with the tournament's name and the weight class won.  To the editor's knowledge, this is the only metamorphic tournament trophy (and yet he still believes he learned nothing in petrology classes at UT-Austin).  The team and Outstanding Wrestler award consisted of one to two canons and a replica of the Chalmette Battlefield Monument  If one looks closely and sees the threads inside the canon, one can see they are constructed with the end of curtain rods.  The trophies were created by local metal artist Luis Colmenares.

Despite winning six of the first seven finals matches and scoring 201 points, Holy Cross came eight points short of beating the East Ascension Spartans for the team championship at the 2020 Battle of New Orleans.  The Spartans, who scored 209 points, won five of the remaining eight finals matches.  Covington's Christopher Allen, Hahnville's Logan Brimmer and Chalmette's Jaden Ben won the remaining three championship matches.  Fontainebleau and Hahnville took fourth and fifth place.

East Ascension brought 13 scoring wrestlers while Holy Cross brought 12.  That does not guarantee, however, anything would have changed in the team results had each team had 14 members.

Champions - East Ascension Spartans	Runners-up - Holy Cross Tigers

Host Chalmette placed third and had five finalists, although Ben was their sole champion.

Remaining undefeated in Louisiana are the Frost brothers of Holy Cross, Trent Mahoney of East Ascension, Christopher Allen of Covington and Logan Brimmer of Hahnville.

Covington's Christopher Allen was voted the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler.

Trent Mahoney and Jeremiah Good	The Mahoney's (Coach Pat, Brad, Trent, Jamarius and Pat Jr.) and Jamarius Koshko

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Brusly Division III

A close-to-full team (13 wrestlers) makes all the difference Basile needs to go from an eighth-place finish at the Trey Culotta Invitational (nine wrestlers) to dominating the Brusly Division III Tournament.  The Bearcats scored 208 points to win by 46 over runner-up Brusly.  St. Louis, John Curtis and De la Salle placed third through fifth, respectively.

The Bearcats and Panthers each had four champions.  The Bearcats, though, had three runners-up while the Panthers had none.  Each team had two third-place winners.

Brusly Division III Champions - Basile Bearcats	Individual Bearcat champions Blake Menier, Alex Menier, Andrew Johnson and Isaac Cortez

Evangel Placers Michael Gilbreath - 2nd at 145 lbs.	Jax Miller 3rd at 220 lbs.	Thomas Bean (went 3-2) at 138 lbs.	Trey White over Norman Drake (JC) in the semifinals	White pins Tony Gibson (CHP) in the finals

Alex Yokubaitis of St. Louis and Josh Westly of Brusly won the Outstanding Wrestler awards.

Shad Sheffie of St. Michael won his three matches in 15 second, 14 seconds and 13 seconds.  If he keeps up that pace, in 13 more matches he will just receive forfeits.

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Big Cat Brawl

Parkway had seven champions and four runners-up among their 282 points, which were 100 points more than they needed to win the Big Cat Open.  Byrd placed second with 181 points, followed by Airline, Houston Strake Jesuit and Haughton.  Evangel's Trey White remained undefeated at 15-0

Big Cat Champions - Parkway Panthers	Peyton Miller - 1st at 220 lbs. and voted Outstanding Wrestler

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Greg Lavergne Lafayette Parish Duals

Teurlings Catholic won six dual meets to win the Greg Lavergne Lafayette Parish Duals.  Comeaux came in second, followed by Carencro, Acadiana and Southside.

The Rebels victories were 84-0 over Northside, 78-6 over Southside, 56-15 over Comeaux, 80-0 over Lafayette, 75-6 over Acadiana and 64-15 over Carencro.

Worth noting: Carencro junior and defending Division II state champion was 5-0 (with one forfeit) with one of them a 3-2 win over defending Division II state champion David Bernard of Teurlings Catholic.

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