Marsteller and Black win Cadet Freestyle
Chance Marsteller(145) and Brooks Black(285) won their weight classes and were Gold Medalists in the Cadet Freestyle Competition. Darien Cruz((112) and Eric Morris(152) each took 2nd place. Dakota DesLauries(171) took 5th place. Vito Pasone(119), Corey Keener(145) and Ryan Soloman(215) took 8th place. The Pennsylvania Freestyle Team placed 6th overfall. Brooks Black is our only Dual Champion this year, winning both the Greco and Freestyle competitions.
Junior Freestyle has 4 All-Americans
Zachary Horan(125) took 2nd Place in the Freestyle competition.. Matthew Cimato(140) placed 6th, Ronnie Garbinsky(130) and Colin Shober(145) plcaed 8th place.
Womens Freestyle has 2 Champions
In the Womens Freestyle we have 8 All-Americans. Kayla Brendlinger(116) and Kim Spiegel(153) took home the Gold. Tonya Keegen(153) placed 2nd. Cassidy Ferrell(95) placed 4th. Samantha Klingel(109), Shadiya Howell((116) and Kasey Krusczek(139) all placed 7th.
Congratulations to our Pennsylvania All-Americans!
Patrick Coover(140) and Brooks Black(285) win the GOLD in Cadet Greco
Patrick Coover, wrestling at 140 lb, defeated Tim Fox of Ohio 3-0, 1-0 to gain his first Greco Championship. Brooks Black won his second Cadet Greco Title at 285 lb defeating Doug Vallaro of Florida 1-0, 0-1, 1-0 for the Gold.
PA has 14 Cadet Greco All_Americans
At 119 lb, Corey Keener took 4th and Josh DiSanto took 8th place.
Corey Keener
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Tyson Dippery place 6th at 125. Ben Rager was 4th, Forest Touchberry was 7th and Zach Ross took 8th, all were wrestling at 130.
Zach Ross
At 135, Casey Kent lost in the Finals to Isiah Martinez of California, 0-4, 1-0, 0-6 and placed 2nd. Laike Gardner placed 5th at 135.
Laike Gardner
Patrick Coover was 1st at 140, Chance Marsteller took 4th at 145. Raymond O'Donnell placed 7th at 160. Cam Cyphert wrestling at 189, took 7th. Dawson Peck placed 6th at 215. Brooks Black placed 1st at 285 and was our sole repeating Champion.
Eric Hess makes PAWF Coaching Debut
photos by Kim Weiler
Although he is not wrestling he is winning the most important battle of his life and in the middle of that battle he is taking the time to give back to the sport he loves. Eric will be working with our Benton boys this year while taking some classes. We then look forward to seeing him back on the mat proudly wearing the white and brown singlet of Lehigh in 2011/2012.
Pennsylvania Cadets win Greco Team Title
photos by Kim Weiler
Pennsylvania scored 60 team points to win over second place Illinois by 4 points. Pennsylvania brought 39 wrestlers to the competition while Illinois had 56. The larger number of wrestlers kept Illinois in the hunt for the title, but the quality of Pennsylvania wrestling gave them the 1st place finish. Team Florida placed 3rd with 42 points.
Juniors add 3 more All-Americans
Ronnie Garbinsky(130) was our only finalist in the Junior Greco competition. He lost 0-5, 0-1 in the finals and placed 2nd overall. John Staudenmyer(160) won by Fall to place 7th. Nathaniel Brown(171) won by decision 1-0, 5-3 to claim 5th place overall. All the action can be viewed by checking the Track Wrestling link in the next article.
Fargo July 18th -24th
Cadet, Junior and Womens National Championships continue through the 24th. There will be free live Webcasts direct from Fargo. Check the link for more details.
Also, check Track Wrestling for individual and team scores
Fargo Reporter
by Kim Weiler
Fargo 7/21/10 6:30 PM CST:
Today we started Cadet Freestyle competition. Pennsylvania started with 48 wrestles. By the end of the 4th round for most weight classes we have 25 cadets left competing. Out of the 25 cadets 11 are undefeated. Darian Cruz, Corey Keener, Laike Gardner, Chance Marsteller, Eric Morris, Mitchell Bain, Dakota DesLauriers are all undefeated after round 4. Matthew Hoare, Ryan Solomon, Dawson Peck, and Brooks Black are all undefeated after round two. Our Juniors start their competition tomorrow. Cody Wheeler, Randy Cruz, Colin Shober are returning Junior Freestyle All Americans Patrick myers is a double Junior National All American Lorenzo Thomas is ranked 67th and Nathaniel Brown is ranked 53rd in the class of 2011 Brian Brill is a Cadet Freestyle runner up Spencer Myers is ranked in the top ten of his class and was a Junior All American last summer Our Women will also begin competing tomorrow. We have 10 women competing in Fargo. This is our largest group of women competing in 7 years. Kayla Bredlinger was a champion at the Canada Cup in 2010. She pinned her way to the championship. She also placed 3rd at the Body Bar Kim Spiegal is a returning 2 time all American and placed 6th at the Body Bar competition this year. Brittany Faust is a returning all American as well.