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Fini

Brother Martin takes a 20 point lead into Saturday's matches at the Louisiana Classic

January 17th, 2020| Written by: Editor

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LOUISIANA WRESTLING NEWS

Mahoney does a correct cradle!

In his quarterfinals mat against John Encardes of Fontainebleau, East Ascension, after rolling over his back as he is apt to do but this time not "sticking" his opponent, Mahoney stepped down from Olympus and did the cross-face cradle we taught, or were taught, or both, without exposing his back.

The defending champion Crusaders have a 20 point lead over St. Paul after Friday's competition. Holy Cross is third, about 10 or so points below St. Paul and above East Ascension and Catholic, which are separated by only one-half of one point.

The Crusaders have the most semifinalists at nine, followed by Holy Cross with six and St. Paul and East Ascension with four apiece.

Team Scores after Day One

Place	Team	Points	Semifinalists
1	Brother Martin	134	7
2	St. Paul	114	4
3	Holy Cross	105.5	6
4	East Ascension	93	4
5	Catholic	92.5	3
6	Live Oak	79.5	2
7	North Desoto	79	2
8	Parkway	78	2
9	Teurlings Catholic	74.5	2
10	Shaw	74	3

Of the 21 semifinalists the top-four teams have, the representatives of those teams are favored to win only 10 times. The top-four schools and the weight classes in which they have a higher seed than their opponent in the semifinals match. This bodes rather well for St. Paul's re making up the team point differential versus the Crusaders.

Brother Martin:	145, 152
St. Paul's:	106, 152, 160, 220
Holy Cross:	113, 120
East Ascension:	170, 285

Re head-to-head semifinals, 106 lbs. has Jacob Houser (StP) against Mason Elsensohn (BM) for their third match of the season. They have had a 3-0 match and a 4-4 UTB match, both won by Houser. At 145 lbs. Alex Duncan (BM) will face Cameron Doyle (HC). In their last meeting Duncan pinned Doyle in the third period. At 152 lbs. Payton Ward (StP) faces off against Brad Mahoney (EA). These two have not met this season. Hence, head-to-head semifinals matches may not have much of an impact on the final team scores.

UPSETS

There were some upsets, mainly of the #5 defeats #4 variety, but one #2 seed also fell early.

Weight	#(Seed) Wrestler	School	Lost to	#(Seed) Wrestler	School	Score
106	#4 Viers	PKY	Lost to	#5 Gainey	HC	3-1 SV
120	#4 Keeler	PKY	Lost to	#5 Sarpy	ND	17-2 TF
132	#4 Logan Smith	TC	Lost to	#5 Anthony Krass	EA	4:59
138	#3 Hoffman	BM	Lost to	#6 Signorelli	HC	3-1
138	#4 Nastasi	StP	Lost to	#5 Balcuns	BRU	7-1
152	#4 Travasos	TC	Lost to	#5 Mahoney	EA	14-9
170	#2 Cascio	StP	Lost to	#7 Romero	TC	5-3 SV
170	#4 Hunt	CAT	Lost to	#5 Sheffie	StM	7-5
182	34 Singh	LO	Lost to	#5 Garcia	PKY	3:31
220	#3 Clark	WSID	Lost to	#6 Freeman	ZAC	4:09

A few Friday photos


#1 Jarin Meyer (BR) over # 8 Josh Sabadie (StP) 4-3	#7 Carradine (AIR) over Curry (IST) 14-2


#5 Gainey over #4 Viers 3-1 SV	Seal (SHW) over #7 Anderson (JES) 6-0	#1 Ward (StP) over #8 Broussard (StL) 0:48

Wrestling starts at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday with three rounds of consolation matches and then the semifinals.

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