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Host Raiders dominate the Trygg-Sara Memorial by 48 points

December 2nd, 2023| Written by: Staff writer

The Rummel Raiders had five finalists and won four championships at the Trygg-Sara Memorial tournament Saturday at Rummel. Runner-up Fontainebleau had an opposite finals record, winning one of their five finals matches. Shaw placed third, followed by Brother Martin and De la Salle. (Just a side note to Division II, the Raiders looked really good.)


Champions Rummel Raiders	Runners-up Fontainebleau Bulldogs

Place	Team	Points	Place	Team	Points
1	Rummel	214	14	Holy Cross	39.5
2	Fontainebleau	166	T-15	Covington	35
3	Shaw	160	T-15	Hahnville	35
4	Brother Martin	125	17	John Ehret	32.5
4	De la Salle	123	18	Chalmette	30
6	Jesuit	103	19	Fisher	22
7	Lakeshore	102.5	20	Salmen	15
8	John Curtis	93	21	Haynes	14
9	Belle Chasse	81.5	22	Kenner Discovery	13
10	Walker	72	23	Pearl River	8
11	St. Paul	71	24	Thomas Jefferson	4
12	Destrehan	61.5	25	Bonnabel	3
13	Riverdale	42

Weight Class Champions

106 Pounds	113 Pounds	120 Pounds	126 Pounds

Liam Richie Rummel	Noah Confident Brother Martin	Dylan Duvernay De la Salle	Kaiden Triche Rummel

132 Pounds	138 Pounds	144 Pounds	150 Pounds	157 Pounds

Dylan Stubbs Rummel	Asher Wilson Fontainebleau	Mason Scholl Rummel	Cameron Gandolfi Rummel	Brock Gross Belle Chasse

165 Pounds	175 Pounds	190 Pounds	215 Pounds	285 Pounds

Kaleb Sanders Lakeshore	William Coles St. Paul	Taylor Mahoney Riverdale	James Nero Shaw	Gabriel Millbern Walker

Brother Martin's 113 lbs. champion Noah Confident was recognized as the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler. Confident, a junior, won his first two matches via falls in 3:34 and 1:38. He defeated Jesuit's Grant Carroll (who placed third) 8-0 MD and then outscored Lakeshore's 2023 Division II 3rd-place finisher Bryce Latino 7-6 in the finals, scoring the winning two points late in the third period, despite what the TrackWrestling match summary might say. Confident is 12-2 (Louisiana losses only). His losses were to 2023 Division II runner-up Daniel Daspit of Teurlings Catholic and 2023 Division I runner-up Michael Barnett of Jesuit. Both losses were 2-0 affairs.

Preston and Brandon did not know if I was taking photos of all of the placers or just the champions, and they politely turned and gave me the shots. What was I going to do? Scar them for life by not publishing them?

157 Pounds 3rd Place	190 Pounds 2nd Place

Preston Curtis John Curtis	Brandon Crespo Shaw

The sizes of the first photo on the left are important. When I first looked at the icons of the championship photos in Windows Explorer, I saw the one to the left. With my eyes, which, as most of you know, really psuque, I thought it was somebody's mother accepting some kind of award. To apologize to Walker's Gabriel Millbern, I offer the photo next to it of me in 1972. I had hair of-or-like that until my eighth-grade year. As my mother worked at St. Martin's I often stayed around the St. Martin's Lower School playground until she was done with administrative work at the Upper School. More than once a custodian would yell "You can't go in there!" when I started to enter the boy's bathroom. At the right-extreme end of my lifetime bell-curve is the photo Kim Karcher (oddly, a Walker parent) took of me photographing the finals. That was a kind thought on her behalf, but she did not have to Photoshop so much "distinguished" into my hair.

Notes from a failing memory...

Kaiden Triche of Rummel and Walker's Kye Karcher wrestled an excellent 120 lbs. finals match, won by Triche 6-4. Triche held a 4-0 lead before Karcher came back to tie it with a takedown in the beginning of the final period. Triche managed a reversal shortly thereafter, which was the difference in the match score, but both of them have to respect each other's "game" should they meet again.

At 138 lbs., Fontainebleau senior Asher Wilson earned his 100th victory, which was heralded with balloons and, again, revelry. He met Shaw's Giovanni Malta in the finals and Malta took the lead with a takedown 55 seconds into the first period. I do not recall exactly how, but Wilson started coming out from the bottom and realized, which Malta did not, that he was slowly putting Malta on his back. Sans a reversal, Wilson scored a fall. I do not think either wrestler knew why the match was stopped until the referee told them. Lesson learned by Malta no doubt. He is not alone in that category, though.

In 2014 Jesuit's Ben D'Antonio pinned himself and finished fifth at the Ken Cole. After that he won the first of his two Division I championships, as well as the 2015 Ken Cole. Note the shirt and take heart.

Riverdale's Taylor Mahoney is 12-1 with his only loss coming from possible Division I favorite Jacobi Clement of East Ascension. Mahoney won the Bulldog Brawl and placed third at the Spartan Invitational before winning this event.

Shaw's James Nero is 11-0 and won the Spartan Invitational before this event.

Walker's Gabriel Millbern is 17-1 with his only loss coming from Live Oak's 2023 Division I state runner-up Gage Kelly. After placing second at the Warrior Open due to the loss to Kelly, Millbern has won the Lakeshore Open, the Griffen Open, he Spartan Invitational and this event.

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