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| December 9th-10th Recap |
| December 11th, 2022| Written by: Staff writer |
| Duplessis Invitational | David Beeson Memorial | Rebel Duals | Mid-American Nationals, OK | Blackwell Invitational, FL |
St. Paul 37-Holy Cross
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In September, the Louisiana Wrestling News had
Holy Cross as a “wild card” to give East Ascension and/or St. Paul a run for
fourth-place in Division I. That
was before the possibilities loomed that Jesuit may be a lot better than some
people realized, that the Crusaders may be vulnerable at the state championships
and that Teurlings Catholic may be the best team in the state.
And it was before Holy Cross became a force with which to be reckoned.
Come February, while the Tigers are not viable to win or place second,
they could challenge East Ascension and St. Paul for third in Division I.
St. Paul won this match 37-31 and won seven of 13
matches contested, while the Tigers won six.
This match could easily have gone the Tigers’ way, as two of their losses
were very close. Collin Cusimano of
the Wolves defeated Henty Mulvihill 2-0 and Conlan Enk, the Division I runner-up
for St. Paul in 2022, defeated Sebastian Vidacovich 4-3.
Enk defeated Vidacovich 7-1 at the South
Walton Border Wars last week, so should the two meet again, suffice to say Enk
cannot take the Tiger lightly. To
be fair, Holy Cross’ Landon Smith eked out a 7-6 win over Cole Mire (yes, there
are two of them – the other being from Dutchtown).
So, a rematch could go either way.
Another piece that could change the balance of a dual meet like this one,
or tournament point scores, is the fact that Holy Cross forfeited the 285 lbs.
weight class.
Team scores were not kept at the Zachary Big Horse Open,
but they were not needed. There
were enough very interesting results to make it a seed-making, or seed-busting,
event.
Protocol dictates, however, “Ladies first.”
LHSAA dictates “JV Select,” but we know better.
Chevy Coleman of Sam Houston proved dominant once again
in the 106-113 lbs. weight class.
She has run her record to 17-7, and those losses have come from Airline’s
Michael Finders, Lakeshore’s Bryce Latino, Rummel’s Nathan Hester and Liam
Ritchie, Shaw’s Caden Judice, Teurlings Catholic’s Alex Rozas and Brother
Martin’s Seth Oubre, each of whom is expected to place well at the state
championships in February, and two being heavy favorites to win state titles.
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Caitlyn Wynn of Baton Rouge won her first event at 120
lbs., and Ta’ken Alexander of Chalmette won her third event of the season at
126-132 lbs., improving her record to 11-4.
At 138-145 lbs. Rayne Steely of St. Amant won her seventh match and first
title. Lea Leduff of Baton Rouge
won her two matches at 152-160 lbs. in 1:10 to keep her record unblemished at
8-0. Another Bulldog under Coach
Bill Bofinger’s tutelage, Olivia Maxie, won at 182-195 lbs. via three falls to
win her first championship of the season.
Brusly’s Haley Wheeler ran her record at 285 lbs. to 6-0.
The young men made the
varsity brackets very surprising.
Jesuit’s Michael Barnett upset St. Amant’s Johnny Laris
6-4 in the 106 lbs. quarterfinals, but in the finals he fell to Lakeshore
freshman Bryce Latino, who also won the Trygg Memorial last week.
At 113 lbs. Fontainebleau’s Samuel Favaza proved his runner-up finish at
the Spartan Invitational was no fluke as he pinned both of his opponents in the
second period.
The 120 lbs. weight class was something we have seen
before at the Warrior Open. All but
two of the top 120 lbs. favorites were there.
(Missing were Brother Martin’s Jacob Elsensohn and Southside’s Landon
Reaux – this is one tough weight class.)
The results were scarily similar.
In one semifinal Sam Houston’s Tyson Roach defeated Walker’s Kye Karcher
15-7 MD. Roach pinned Karcher in
4:00 at the Warrior. The other
semifinals pitted 2022 Division I runners-up Bodi Harris of Jesuit against Cole
Mire of Dutchtown. At the Warrior
Open Bodi won against Mire 10-5.
This time Bodi prevailed 5-0. In
the finals, Roach defeated Harris 8-3.
At the Warrior he did so 9-5.
Mire and Karcher met again for third place.
At the Warrior Mire forfeited due to an illness.
This time the two wrestled and Mire won 8-2.
At 126 lbs. Catholic’s Kristian Scott defeated Pollex
Coleman of Sam Houston 16-0 TF. Scott
can go 126 lbs. or 132 lbs., depending upon what Catholic Coach Tommy Prochaska
deems is better for the Bears. The
weight class Scott does not fill will be available to defending Division I state
champion Watts Goodson.
At 132 lbs. East Ascension’s Lucas Maneckshaw met St.
Amant’s Ephram Craddock for the second time this season, winning 6-0.
In the Griffin Open finals Maneckshaw defeated Craddock 5-2.
Dutchtown sophomore Cole Gros had a very good
tournament. At 138 lbs. he avenged
a December 3rd 5-3 SV loss to Catholic’s Reese Knight by winning
their semifinals match 3-2. Gros
was expected to meet, probability-wise, Jesuit’s Grant Herbert or Belle Chasse’s
Caleb Andrews, in the finals.
Zachary’s Ethan White got the best of both of those opponents to reach his first
finals match of the season, albeit Gros prevailed 3-2 to win his second event of
2022-23. (Gros defeated Andrews 8-2
in the Lakeshore Open finals.)
Seth Lewis of Hahnville did not surprise many by winning
the 145 lbs. weight class, nor did Dutchtown’s Foster Shank at 152 lbs.
Shank is undefeated at 15-0 with, now, four titles to his credit.
Also, to nobody’s surprise, except, perhaps, Zachary’s Sergio Houston,
Fontainebleau’s Aiden Lindsey won at 160 lbs.
Lindsey is 8-0 since the beginning of the Spartan Invitational on
November 23rd. Before
that he was 8-4 with a 17-10 SV loss to Houston.
Yep, 17-10 SV. The
TrackWrestling match score has Houston ahead 14-10 after the first six minutes.
Then he scored three points in the Sudden Victory period.
Mayhaps it is me, but something is a tad iffy there.
Lindsey won his finals match with a fall in 3:14 over Houston.
Covington senior Landon Carroll may not have started the
season quite the way he wanted. In
his first big test, the Gulf Clast Clash, he lost his last three matches to
place sixth. Then, in the finals of
the Spartan Invitational, he lost to a then still pretty much unknown William
Mathis of Dutchtown. This
tournament should provide him with some renewed confidence.
He won his first two matches via falls in less than a minute.
In the finals he pinned East Ascension senior Gabriel Bonin in 1:35.
The 182 lbs. weight class did not feature a lot of what
some might call “top guns,” but one wrestles who shows up.
In this case it was Baton Rouge junior Schaeffer Moran who came out
unscathed after an 11-6 decision, a fall in 1:44 and a 12-8 finals win over
Catholic’s Brennan Sonnier.
At 195 lbs. Baton Rouge senior Adam Landry lost his
first match of the season, 7-5, to East Ascension’s Jacob Schexnaidre.
This was Landry’s first tournament at 195 lbs.
Landry moving down from 220 lbs. allowed the Bulldogs’ Eli Latitois to
move from 285 lbs. to 220 lbs. Eliminating
a potential 65 lbs. weight disadvantage worked well for Latitois.
He pinned Jesuit’s Griffin Ellis in 4:36.
That move left Walker’s Gabriel Milbern as one of the Division I
favorites at 285 lbs. He showed it
at this event, never using more than the first period to score three falls,
including a 1:41 pin over Zachary’s Ryan Dennis in the finals.
Jesuit’s second string won the 5th Annual
Billy Duplessis Invitational, outdistancing Brother Martin’s second string by 48
points, 235 to 187. Chalmette
placed third, 22 points behind the Crusaders with 165 points.
Robert Morse, James Nolan, Aiden Nash and Cam Himal won
championships for the Blue Jays.
The Crusaders also had four champions: Logan Dacuyan, Trey Trainor, Salvatore
Caserta and Kyle Chauvin.
The other titles went to
Destrehan’s Jacob Britt (the freshman Fighting Wildcat’s second championship in
as many weeks), Chalmette’s Mohammed Gaber, Hahnville’s Jayden Boyle and Cameron
Sumrall, Shaw’s Jason Brown and host school John Ehret’s Ellis Hughes.
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Former Riverdale head coach Mike Savage’s
Kenner Discovery Health Science team participated in the newly founded
school’s first event ever.
The Swamp Owls entered 13 wrestlers.
Three were juniors, two were sophomores, six were freshmen and
two more were eighth—graders.
Two Swamp Owls made it to the 1st-4th
medals matches. At 220 lbs.
freshman Kevine Green placed second, losing to veteran Ehret wrestler
Ellis Hughes. At 106 lbs.
eighth-grader Aaron Kadinger placed fourth, falling to Jesuit’s Dom
Carollo in the Consolation finals. |
Parkway won the David Beeson Memorial at Bossier High
School on Saturday by 26.5 points over Benton.
The Panthers scored 188 points with two champions, three runners-up and
four third-place finishers. Devin
Viers and Christopher Bacot won championships for Parkway.
Matthew Gallman, Cooper Reagan and Kenneth Flores won for the Tigers of
Benton, who placed 2nd, 26.5 points behind Parkway.
Haughton placed third with 127 points.
North Desoto’s Michael Washington, Evangel’s Jeremiah
Yearby and Tristan Santoro, Haughton’s Tyler Villareal, Byrd’s Kin Scott,
Bossier’s Christian Serrano, Caddo Magnate’s Isaac Dees and Luke Brunson, Bishop
Gorman’s Joshua Hayes won the remaining titles.
Teurlings Catholic invited nine other teams to their
Rebel Duals and then treated them as Edward “Longshanks” did the Scottish lairds
in the beginning of Braveheart.
The Rebels won the five dual meets in which they participated as follows:
59-9 over Basile, 71-12 over North Vermillion, 72-12 over Lafayette, 70-7 over
Terrebonne and, in the finals, 77-6 over Rayne.
Terrebonne placed third.
The Rebels lost only nine
matches against the five opponents they faced.
It took a two-time Texas state champion and an Oklahoma
state champion to make Airline’s Ernie Perry, III, place only fourth at 126 lbs.
at the Mid-American Nationals in Enid, Oklahoma.
“Only fourth,” though, is a really good place to be at that event.
And even the father of the young man who defeated Perry 5-3 in the
consolation finals said Perry should have been awarded three nearfall points in
the third period, rather than having the wrestling stopped for “choking” claimed
by his son.
The Vikings came in 24th of 35 teams with
only seven Vikings entered. Danon
Walker placed ninth at 190 lbs. while Michael Finders, at 106 lbs. and Ty
Parker, at 165 lbs., placed 10th.
Logan Olsen placed 13th at 113 lbs.
The Rummel Raiders took third at the Ryan Blackwell
Invitational in Pensacola, Florida.
Gulf Shores, Alabama won the event with 239.5 points, 11.5 points ahead of
runner-up Gulf Breeze, Florida. The
Raiders were 30 points behind Gulf Breeze but were 81.5 points ahead of the
fourth-place team from Mosley, Florida.
Winning titles for the
Raiders were Kaiden Triche at 113 lbs. and Jake Brandstetter at 126 lbs., Austen
Shook (145 lbs.) and Cameron Gandolfi (152 lbs.) placed second while Liam
Ritchie (106 lbs.), Mason Scholl (132 lbs.) and Marcus Vasquez (182 lbs.) placed
third.
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