This Week Newspapers published a nice spread on our wrestling team this week…
Click here to read all about it.
And not to be outdone, UA News wrote about the UA wrestling team as well. Click here for their article.
The Lee Spitzer Golden Bear Invitational took place December 3, 2011. Participating teams were: Brookhaven, Columbus East, Columbus South, New Albany, Olentangy Orange, Upper Arlington, Westerville South, Worthington Kilbourne. Olentangy Orange finished 1st in team scoring with 250 points, Worthington Kilbourne was 2nd with 215, and host UA was third with 176.5 points.
1st place matches at individual weight classes were:
106 Gerhardt (UA) pin Bridges (Brookhaven) 1:08
113 Borton (OO) dec Fluty (NA) 14-0
120 Badosi (WK) pin Pivetz(WS) 1:16
126 Timchenko (OO) dec Shaut (WK) 11-2
132 Fath (OO) dec McDonald (WS) 10-0
138 K. Neely (UA) tech fall Darby (WK) 10-4
145 Gundling (WK) dec DiBenedetto (UA) 14-10
152 Dietz (WS) pin Meloon (WK) 1:14
160 Reid (UA) dec Williams (Brookhaven) 14-10
170 Heilman (OO) pin Pavoni (UA) 2:55
182 Sowry (UA) dec Taylor (OO) 12-6
195 Mayberry (WK) dec Kamba (OO) 8-2
220 Meehan (WK)) dec Hall (OO) 8-6
285 Kang (OO) pin Junie (Columbus East) 4:34
Also seeing action in their first varsity meet on Saturday were: Matthew Blossom (106) 0-3; Collin Burt (106) 2-2; Thomas Cooper (113) 0-3; Stuart Geiser (120) 0-4; Paul Verdier (120) 1-3; Cole Veri (195) 1-2
Senior Andrew Steedman (126) placed 4th (1-3)
Junior Peter Devillebichot (132) went 1-3
Sophomore Taylor Neely (152) went 2-2
Senior Andrew Hennessey (138) did not wrestle due to illness
Stay tuned for photos!
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