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2022 LHSAA
State Wrestling Championships February 11th-12th 2022 Raising Cane's River Center Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
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Lanosga ensures Jesuit's sole runner-up status |
LHSAA State Wrestling Championships |
Division I, 285 Pounds |
March 153rd, 2022 | Written by: CAT |
Seeding Synopsis | Early Championship Rounds | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Consolation Rounds | 3rd and 5th | Finals |
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* Records include all wins but only losses to Louisiana wrestlers. Forfeits and defaults are not counted.
Spencer Lanosga should not
have been seeded first at the LACL for the simple fact that he really had not
wrestled anyone all season.
Literally - HE REALLY HAD NOT WRESTLED ANYONE ALL SEASON.
By the time the state champions came by, though, Lanosga was 12-0, and an
obvious top seed.
After 1,200
matches over the weekend, it came down to his last match to give the Blue Jays
sole possession of the Division I runner-up team plaque.
The sophomore delivered.
After winning the LACL, the
Ken Cole and the 9-5A championships, pinning 10 of his 12 opponents and
defeating defending state champion Ashton Freeman (D1 2nd) twice, one can see why
Jesuit sophomore Spencer Lanosga was seeded first at the state
championships. During those 12
matches, aside from Freeman, he pinned #3 seed
Donovan Kimble of Chalmette (D1 6th), Catholic’s #4 seed David
Russell (D1 5th), Rummel’s Davell Dixon (D2 1st), Shaw’s
Raymond Howard (D2 2nd) and Anphrony Guillory (D3 1st) of
Basile.
Twenty-five percent of his
wins were against defending or soon to be state champions.
Zachary senior Ashton
Freeman was the only choice for the second seed spot.
His two losses were to Lanosga in 6-1 and 2-2 UTB matches.
Before the state championships he had defeated #5 Brant Breksa of
Chalmette (D1 3rd), #4 Russell (D1 5th), Division II #1
seed Tre`Von Williams, Rummel’s Dixon (D2 1st) and Erath’s Ryan Fobbs
(D3 5th).
He pinned 11
opponents in his 13 matches before the state championships.
While he was a runner-up at the LACL and the Ken Cole, he did win the
Greater Baton Rouge Championships.
Seeded third was
Destrehan
senior Donovan Kimble, with a 16-7 record.
Kimble won the District 7-8-5A and the Titan Invitational championships,
was a runner-up at the Battle of New Orleans and placed fifth at the LACL.
That match was over Catholic’s Russell, giving Kimble the #3 spot.
Kimble was 2-3 against #5 Bryant Breksa of
Chalmette, but was 1-0 against Russell, who
was seeded fourth to Breksa’s fifth.
Russell was 1-0 against Breksa.
Junior David Russell of
Catholic was seeded fourth.
He had
runner-up finishes at the Brusly 8, the Zachary Big Horse, and the GBRs, and he
placed sixth at the LACL.
(Kimble, Russell and Breksa
– there was certainly a method to the seeding, but not one to be investigated on
the 42nd of 42 weight class pages.
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R2: (1) Spencer Lanosga (JES) pinned Ethan Perron (SS) in 0:19 |
In their first match, on
December 11th, Catholic's David
Russell spent less than 30 seconds to pin Chalmette's Bryant Breksa.
The Owl from Chalmette did not forget that in the state quarterfinals.
For two rounds he just abused the Bear junior while taking a 6-0 lead (see the photographs and understand why the replay had to be viewed).
One might expect that lead to increase as Breksa started the third period
on the bottom, and he stood up as if he meant business.
But then something happened the Owl did not intend.
As Russell returned Breksa forward to the mat, Breksa turned into Russell and
ended up on his back.
Not one to
look a gift Owl in the beak, Russell pounced on the opportunity and recorded a
fall in 4:18.
(It is the last of the
semifinal matches, and I am photographing them over the Division II matches from the
press table with nine pounds of camera and f/2.8 120-300mm lens.
Be happy you get one photo for a 21-second pin, Spencer!)
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(1) Spencer Lanosga (JES) pinned (4) David Russell (CAT) in 0:21 | |||||
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(2) Ashton Freeman (ZAC) pinned (3) Donovan Kimble (DST) in 1:53 |
Championship Consolation Rounds
It is a crying shame that
the only photographs of Airline’s Tayvon Patterson are ones in which he is
getting beaten by Breksa. Both had tough
roads to the consolation finals. Breksa had to regroup his faculties after
his stunning quarterfinals loss to Russell. He did that via falls in 1:52,
1:41 and 3:31 in his fourth win over #3 Kimble.
Patterson’s path was a
little longer.
He initially had the 44 second
pleasure of Freeman in Round One.
Staring
in the C2 round he advanced with falls in 3:54 and 0:39 prior to what must have
been a blissful forfeit.
He then
defeated Parkway’s Jake Morton for the third time this season and then pinned #4
Russell in 1:54.
Sure, Breska won
handily, but the Panther senior deserves a lot of praise for just getting to that
match.
Russell got the best of
Kimble in a match in which a reversal, with 36 seconds remaining, gave the junior
from Catholic a 4-2 win.
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(5) Bryant Breska (CHL) pinned Tayvon Patterson (AIR) in 2:15 to place 3rd | |||||
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(3) Donovan Kimble (DST) defeated (4) David Russell (CAT) 4-2 to place 5th |
In the LACL finals Lanosga
rather schooled Freeman using two unexpected and very fast knee snatches, from which he
scored takedowns.
Any thoughts that
Lanosga would continue to dominate Freeman vanished in a 2-2 UTB Ken Cole finals match, in which
Lanosga had to ride Freeman for the last 30 of 510 seconds.
The state finals match was not comfortable for Lanosga at all.
After a scoreless first period and escapes by each wrestler early in the
second and third rounds, all anyone knew was that another UTB match was unlikely
when Lanosga was awarded a penalty point near the end of the second period.
Hence, after Freeman’s third-period escape it was a 2-1 match, and
Freeman needed a takedown to win. That
did not happen,
though. Instead, Lanosga scored a takedown with 49 seconds
remaining, and was able to ride Freeman out for his first Division I state title.
(1) Spencer Lanosga (JES) defeated (2) Ashton Freeman (ZAC) 4-1 | |||||||||||
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