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Basile repeats with ease

April 15th, 2020 | Written by: Editor

After Friday's wrestling the Basile Bearcats held a nine-point lead over a very good Brusly team. Entering the Saturday rounds the Bearcats had nine semifinalists and the Panthers had eight. Six Bearcats advanced to the finals but only four Panthers could say the same, and that ended anyone's hopes of defeating the Bearcats for the team title. In the finals, Basile had five champions and one runner-up. The Panthers had three champions and one runner-up. Not that it mattered, but Basile only entered 13 wrestlers to 14 by Brusly and St. Louis. Basile's state champions were Andre Johnson at 106 lbs., Alex Menier (his third) at 120 lbs., Blake Menier at 132 lbs. (his second), Isaac Cortez and 182 lbs. (his third) and Gabe Duplechin at 220 lbs.

Brusly had three state champions. Calep Balcuns, at 138 lbs. and Andrew Trahan at 152 lbs. won their second titles. Joshua Westly won his first state championship at 160 lbs.

Dohnavan McMichael won at 113 lbs. and Alex Yokubaitis snagged his fourth Division III championship at 126 lbs. for St. Louis. Grayson Pennison of Hannan at 145 lbs., St. Michael's Shad Sheffie won the 170 lbs. title, Chase Spooner of South Beauregard won at 195 lbs. and Datremecious "Trey" White won his second title for Evangel.

Eight Bearcats from their 2020 state championships rosters will return for the 2021 state championships. They should include two defending state champions, two third-place finishers, one fourth-place finisher and one who was a match away from placing.

The Panthers may have an edge over the Bearcats, on paper at least, in 2021. They are returning 12 wrestlers from their 2020 state championships teams, including two state champions, two runners-up and nine other placers in the top-six. But it all comes down to who performs best over one weekend.

Basile	Brusly

Champions - Basile Bearcats	Runners-up - Brusly Panthers

Outstanding Wrestler

Isaac Cortez - 182 lbs.
Basile

Cortez capped his 23-0 season with his third Division III state championship. He needed all of 4:27 to do it, pinning all four of his opponents in the first period.

Final Team Scores

Division III

Division III Brackets in PDF

Place	School	Points	Place	School	Points	Place	School	Points
1	Basile	245	9	St. Michael	87	T-16	Haynes	17
2	Brusly	203	10	Church Point	70	18	Dunham	15
3	St. Louis	176.5	T-11	Kaplan	61	19	Calvary Baptist	12.5
4	Hannan	152	T-11	Bossier	39	T-20	Erath	9
5	De la Salle	143.5	13	Thomas Jefferson	28	T-20	South Plaquemines	9
6	Evangel	139	14	Lakeside	20	22	Episcopal	4
7	John Curtis	124	15	Summerfield	19	23	Einstein CHarter	0
8	South Beauregard	105.5	T-16	DeQuincy	17

Individual Champions and Runners-up

Weight	Winner	School	Runner-up	Schools	Score
106	(1) Andre Johnson	Basile	(3) Henry Oliver	South Beauregard	1:49
113	(2) Dohnavan McMichael	St. Louis	(1) Kataurio Grigsby	Lakeside	8-3
120	(1) Alex Menier	Basile	(3) Kaul Kayser	Brusly	4-3
126	(1) Alex Yokubaitis	St. Louis	(2) David Diecidue	Hannan	15-0 TF
132	(1) Blake Menier	Basile	(3) Keyshawn Jones	St. Louis	5:30
138	(1) Calep Balcuns	Brusly	(2) Zachary Lauland	De la Salle	0:54
145	(2) Grayson Penniston	Hannan	(5) Michael Gilreath	Calvary Baptist	16-15
152	(1) Andrew Trahan	Brusly	(2) Hunter Langley	Basile	15-2 MD
160	(4) Joshua Westly	Brusly	(2) Nathan Sistrunk	Kaplan	7-5 UTB
170	(1) Shad Sheffie	St. Michael	(3) Mark Pennison	Hannan	3:19
182	(1) Isaac Cortez	Basile	(6) Joseph Belcher	St. Louis	1:43
195	(1) Chase Spooner	South Beauregard	Kemal Robertson	St. Louis	5:25
220	(3) Gabe Duplechin	Basile	(1) Brian Amis	Brusly	5-0
285	(1) Datremecious White	Evangel	(2) Tony Gibson	Church Point	5:33


"Back to Back"	Andre Johnson 1st Title	Alex Menier 3rd Title	Blake Menier 2nd Title	Isaac Cortez 3rd Title	Gabe Duplechin 1st Title


Andre Johnson with bracket	Bearcat Finalists	The repeating Menier brothers	The Evangel Eagles - 6th

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