Upper Arlington High School Wrestling Program

Your UA wrestling bears are in action all over town this week. Check out a match…

• Wed Jan 25 – Jones Middle School vs. Hastings Middle School. @Hastings. Wrestling begins at 4:30. Watch future high-schoolers in action.
• Thu Jan 26 – Varsity, JV, and Freshman @Westland. JV and Freshman begins at 6pm. Wrestling begins at 7pm.
• Fri Jan 27 – Selected JV will wrestling in a tournament at Hilliard Bradley. Wrestling begins at 4:30.
• Sat Jan 28 – Varsity @Groverport Madison in the Cruiser Invitational. Wrestling begins at 9:30.

Go Bears!

You can help support UA Wrestling by eating at Carsonie’s on Lane Avenue on January 24th, 25th, or 26th. Our wrestling boosters take a cut of any non-alcoholic item on the menu – order in or carry out – lunch or dinner – just mention UAHS Wrestling Team when ordering.

You can pass along the information using this flyer – Carsonies Fundraiser.

I recommend the stromboli!

1) Free T-Shirts to the first 150 UAHS Students in the door
2) Free I-Pad giveaway to one UAHS Student
3) UA Freshman/JV Wrestlers vs. Worthington Kilbourne at 6pm
4) UA Varsity Wrestlers vs. Worthington Kilbourne at 7pm
5) Sumo Wrestling in inflatable Sumo outfits halfway through the varsity match between two UAHS students
6) UA Senior Wrestler Recognition
7) UA Middle School Wrestler Recognition
UA Mat Cubs Wrestler Recognition
9) UAHS Cheerleaders
10) Yes, #5 did say inflatable sumo wrestling outfits

BE THERE!

Congratulations to Senior Captain Skyler Sowry for being named a Dispatch high-school Athlete of the Week. Sowry earned this recognition by winning the Bishop Ready Winter Classic Tournament including 5 of his 6 tournament wins by pin. Read all about it hear. Congratulations Skyler!

The wrestling Bears competed at the Bishop Ready Holiday Classic Tournament this past week and finished 2nd out of 21 teams with 239.5 points. Whitehall won the tournament with 274 pts. Eleven Bears earned team points contributing to this 2nd place finish including three wrestlers in the finals. Blake Reid (160) and Skyler Sowry (170) both won their weight classes and Vito DiBenedetto (145) finished second.

All of the Bear placings are below including their overall season record…

106 – Thomas Cooper – 3rd; 5-2 overall (Season Record: 11-8)
113 – Luke Fetch – DNP; 0-3 overall (0-5)
120 – Andrew Steedman – 3rd; 5-2 overall (7-10)
126 – Peter Devillebichot – DNP; 1-2 overall (2-5)
132 – Keith Neely – DNP; 2-2 overall (10-6)
138 – Andrew Hennessey – DNP; 2-2 overall (4-8)
145 – Vito DiBenedetto – 2nd; 6-1 overall (16-3)
152 – Danny Watson – 5th; 4-3 overall (4-3)
160 – Blake Reid – 1st; 5-0 overall (14-2)
170 – Skyler Sowry – 1st; 6-0 overall (16-2)
182 – Nick Pavoni – 4th; 5-2 overall (8-10)
195 – Jared Drake – 3rd; 5-1 overall (12-4)

Watch for photos in a few days.

The UA wrestling team competed in the Kettering Fairmont Firebird Wrestling Tournament on December 10th 2011. It was generally a tough day for the UA team finishing 8th out of 10 teams. However, Vito DiBenedetto, wrestling at 145 pounds, was the highlight for the team earning first place in his weight class by PINNING ALL FIVE of his opponents.

Results for all other UA wrestlers 106: Jr. Kenji Gerhardt did not wrestle due to injury; 113: Fr. Thomas Cooper 4th; 126: Sr. Andrew Steedman dnp; 132: Fr. Keith Neely 5th; 138: Sr. Andrew Hennessey 8th; 145: Jr. Vito DiBenedetto 1st; 152: So. Taylor Neely 3rd; 160 So. Blake Reid 5th; 170: Sr. Skyler Sowry 6th; 182: Fr. Nick Pavoni 8th; 195: So. Jared Drake 4th; 215: forfeit; 285: forfeit.

Tournament team scores and individual weight class bracket results are posted here.

The varsity, junior-varsity, Jones Middle School, and Mat Cub wrestling Bears are ALL in action next on Wednesday December 21th at New Albany. Wrestling begins at 5pm.

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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