Month: January 2022

JACKSONVILLE — Over the past few years particularly, some things haven’t changed too much.

For example, most of the weight-class champions won for the first time. De’Quon King won for the fourth time. And Fletcher rode a powerful second day to sweep to the team championship.

Those all happened Saturday at Sandalwood, as the Senators surged into the second-day lead early on, finishing the day with 190 points and five individual champions in a tournament with 11 first-time bracket winners.

Mandarin edged first-day leader Westside by a half-point, 147-146.5, for second, with the host Saints (110) and Ed White (82) rounding out the top five.

First Coast, with 77 points, was sixth followed by Raines (71.5), Englewood (67), Terry Parker (64.5), Paxon (60), Riverside (59), Wolfson (55), Stanton (48), Atlantic Coast (37) and Ribault (15).

Below follows a summary of the weekend —

106: Wolfson’s Tristian Martinez won his first Gateway title, bonus-pointing to the championship with a Friday pin (1:12) over Ed White’s Larissa Jones in the quarters and Saturday majors over Fletcher’s Landon Locantora (11-2) in the semis and over Westside’s Jacob Jackson, 15-7, for the championship. Jackson scored first, with a quick turn, and led through the first two periods, but Martinez rang up 10 points in the third to rally back for the win. Jackson had a bye into the semis, where he pinned Paxon’s Louis Eckels (1:28). Locantora (front-side pin) added two more falls in the consis for third, pinning Raines’ Shanise West (3rd last year) in 1:36 in the match for third and fourth. Other than West, all three placers medaled in conference for the first time.

113: Fletcher’s Jimi Baur won his first title, pinning through two rounds Saturday after a bye into the semis. Baur pinned Atlantic Coast’s ArJun Lamba (1:19) in that round, then came back with a 53-second fall over Stanton’s Nathaniel Burns for the title. Although Burns scored first and did get a quick turn, Baur reversed out from that, going on to secure the fall. Burns reached the final with an 18-second semifinal pin over Sandalwood’s Adam Goodman, who came back for third with a pin (2:10) over Lamba. All four placers medaled in conference for the first time.

120: King completed his Gateway career with a 12-0 record and 11 bonus-point wins, with two pins and an 11-3 major over Fletcher’s Ryden Ashmore, last year’s champion (at 126) in the final this year. King, as he so often does, won the match on his feet, recording five takedowns in the match, including two in both the second and third periods. Combined with earlier pins in the quarters over Ed White’s Aaron Jones (1:14) and semis over Sandalwood’s Justin Robinson (1:59), the finals win marked him as the first four-time Gateway winner in our website’s history and first in Raines wrestling history. Ashmore reached the final with a quarterfinal TF (19-4 in 3:15) over Riverside’s King Taylor and a semifinal pin (5:20) over Stanton’s Elias Spurlin. Spurlin came back for third with an injury-default win and pin for third place (3:38) over Robinson. It was Spurlin’s and Robinson’s first Gateway medals.

126: After finishing third in the weight class last year, Fletcher’s Cole O’Brien pinned his way through the bracket to win the title, with pins over Ed White’s Dawain Mobley (1:23, quarters), Terry Parker’s Chris Wright (1:53, semis) and Westside’s Jacare Johnson (2:14) in the championship. O’Brien scored first takedown in the first period, reversing out from bottom and securing Johnson in a turn and fall for the title. Johnson, a three-time placer (2nd at 113 in 2019, 3rd at 120 in 2020) reached the final behind a quarterfinal TF over Stanton’s Jose Toledo (16-0 in 6 minutes) and a 39-second semifinal pin over Sandalwood’s Ricky Hicks. Mandarin’s Devin Foster (runnerup at 120 last year) was third after a quarterfinal loss to Wright, won three times in the consis to wrestle back to third, with a pin over Wright (first-time Gateway medalist) in 2:51.

132: After not getting to wrestle in last year’s Gateway (due to team-wide Covid issues), Sandalwood’s Ben Peterson placed for the second time, winning his first title by pinning through the bracket. Peterson had falls over Terry Parker’s Cunard Juluke (:41, quarters) and over Fletcher’s Fred Saporita (4:16, semis) before falling Paxon’s David Kang in 3:51 for the title. Kang had the first takedown, but Peterson (runnerup at 132 in 2020) assumed control shortly thereafter, with a 9-4 lead when he gained the fall. Kang won by forfeit in the quarters, and then pinned First Coast’s Haley Gennette (1:45) in the semis to get to Peterson. Saporita placed for the second time (3rd at 120 last year) with two pins in the consis, falling Gennette (first-time Gateway medalist) in 48 seconds for third.

138: Mandarin’s Jameel Smith won his second conference title, pinning his way through the bracket with falls over Wolfson’s Max Lewallen (3:56, quarters), Terry Parker’s Daniel Mays (2:59, semis) and over Westside’s Olleon Hickmon (1:44) for the title. Smith scored first, but Hickmon answered immediately with a reversal. After escaping, Smith made sure the second takedown would be the decisive one, and it eventually was later in the period. Hickmon reached the final with a 13-second pin over Atlantic Coast’s Corey Layfield in the quarters, taking a 14-10 semifinal win over First Coast’s Jace Austin. Austin came back for third with two consi-side wins, pinning Mays in 4:13 for the bronze. Hickmon, Austin and Mays are all first-time Gateway medalists.

145: After losing by injury default to him in the consi semis of the 2021 Gateway, Terry Parker’s Jeff Brown got a rematch with Englewood’s DiSean Hires in the final this year, and a back-and-forth match down the stretch went Brown’s way in a 9-7 decision for his first title. Hires (4th at 145 last year) scored first takedown, but Brown gained the upper hand in the second period and made his lead stand up in the final moments despite a flurry of activity from both wrestlers. Brown had a forfeit into the semis, where he teched Westside’s Nathan Williams (20-3 in 5:46), while Hires took bonus-point wins over First Coast’s Fernandez Lassiter (pin in :26, quarters) and over Mandarin’s Ashton White (14-0 major, semis). Williams came back with two pins for third, pinning White (3rd last year at 145) in 4:43 in the bronze-medal match. Brown and Williams are both first-time Gateway medalists.

152: Fletcher’s Christopher Strong (runnerup at 160 last year) reached the final again, this time bonus-pointing through the tournament, including a 10-2 major in the final over Atlantic Coast’s Joel Dudley. Strong had takedowns in each period, leading mostly throughout the match after getting the first takedown. Earlier in the tournament, Strong teched Paxon’s Brendan Lawson (15-0 in 3:08) in the quarters, then came back with a 13-0 semifinal major over Wolfson’s Liam Strange. Dudley (3rd last year at 152) took pins over Westside’s Jamell Robinson (:42, quarters) and Mandarin’s Amari McKinnon (1:37, semis) to reach the final. McKinnon won twice in the consis, with a 5-4 win over Strange in the third-place match. Both McKinnon and Strange are first-time Gateway medalists.

160: Fletcher’s Josh Daltro medaled for the third time in as many years, taking his first title with a 12-3 major over Ed White’s Benny Lewis in a match that had moments that looked closer than the final score indicated. Daltro (3rd last year at 132, 4th at 120 in 2020) had four takedowns in the course of the six minutes, with a big turn for nearfall midway through the second period. Earlier in the tournament, Daltro had pins over Ribault’s Orion Barnhardt (1:47, quarters) and over Mandarin’s Isaiah Diltz (1:41, semis), while Lewis (3rd last year at 152 for Terry Parker) falled Wolfson’s Bryce Frye (3:36, quarters) and Westside’s Preston Davis (2:20, semis). Diltz took two pins for third, falling Terry Parker’s Justin Rangeloff in 23 seconds in the medal match. Both Diltz and Rangeloff are first-time Gateway medalists.

170: Sandalwood’s Malik Wilson earned his first medal and won his first title, taking a wild 13-10 decision in the championship match over First Coast’s Alphonso Parsons. Parsons’ only lead came on a penalty point issued 12 seconds in, but he was never far away from Wilson, who had takedowns in each period, while Parsons scored with either a takedown or reversal in each period. Earlier, Wilson pinned Stanton’s Jack Mullins (:15) in the quarters, shutting out Ed White’s Malakhi Lewis, 8-0, in the semis, while Parsons had a quarterfinal pin (1:24) over Riverside’s Donald Reed and a walkover forfeit in the semis. Lewis won twice by fall in the consis, pinning Westside’s Ponchelo Cadet (who himself won three consi-side matches with max points after a first-round loss) in 1:21 for third. All four placers were first-time Gateway medalists.

182: Like Wilson, Mandarin’s Adrian Rodriguez earned his first conference medal and won the title with a 9-8 decision in the finals over Westside’s Ja’Cory Martin. The match was tight, with both wrestlers scoring within 14 seconds of each other in the first period and then not again until the third, in which Rodriguez had two takedowns and also scored a key stalling point with just a few seconds left to secure the win. Earlier, Rodriguez won by forfeit in the quarters and then pinned Paxon’s Khoi Nguyen in 1:34 in the semis, while Martin took pins over Stanton’s Carter Lemieux (1:02, quarters) and Sandalwood’s Malachi Mista (1:27, semis). Mista won twice in the consis for third, pinning Nguyen in 4:45 for the third-place medal. All four placers were first-time Gateway medalists.

195: Mandarin’s Jaelen Simmons needed three pins in 2:33 to win his first title and medal, falling Englewood’s Melvin Wiggins in just 47 seconds for the championship. Simmons had pins over Ribault’s Chiyone Simmons (:54, quarters) and over Westside’s Caleb Baltazar (:52, semis), while Wiggins pinned Paxon’s Matthew Brunelli in 2:49 in the quarters, and advanced with a bye into the final (per the brackets). Sandalwood’s Duffy Mista, who qualified for the semis, won twice in the consis, with an 8-3 win over Baltazar (4th at 182 in 2021) in the third-place match. Simmons, Wiggins and Mista all were first-time Gateway medalists.

220: Raines’ Jamari Watson won his third Gateway title, bonus-pointing through the tournament, including a fall in 2:28 in the finals over Riverside’s Thomas Jones. Watson had first takedown, adding a 3-point nearfall in the first period, making the second turn count for the fall. Earlier, Watson pinned Ed White’s Jordan Jackson (1:26) in the quarters, coming back Saturday with a tech fall in the semis (18-3 in 2:08) over Atlantic Coast’s Hayden Brodehl. Jones (4th at 285 last year) had pins over Englewood’s Billie Maynard (3:17, quarters) and First Coast’s Jaquan Dennis (4:31, semis) in getting to Watson. Dennis (3rd at 220 last year) had two pins in the consis, falling Brodehl (first-time Gateway medalist) in 1:26 for third place.

285: Fletcher’s Toby Matson reached the final for the second time, earning his first title behind three pins in 2:58, including a 59-second pin in the final over Englewood’s Keith Forbes. Matson had a takedown and a quick 2-point turn before his second nearfall led to the pin. Earlier in the weekend, Matson pinned Mandarin’s Josh Edwards (:54, quarters) and Ed White’s Damarkus Raysor (1:05, semis), while Forbes had falls over Westside’s Terrance Goodman (:27, quarters) and Riverside’s Kamari Perkins (1:04, semis). Perkins rallied for two pins in the wrestlebacks, falling Raysor in 2:39 for third. Forbes, Perkins and Raysor were all first-time Gateway medalists.

Complete brackets from the tournament can be found HERE.

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PALM COAST — One of the unintended benefits of being reclassified into 2A for Fleming Island might have been the chance a couple of times a year to rekindle an old rivalry with Winter Springs.

This past weekend at the 36th annual Flagler Rotary, the Golden Eagles got into it with the Bears and, this time, the Bears had the upper hand, winning the team title with 225.5 points, with Fleming Island third at 201.5. 3A teams Ft Pierce Central (207), Harmony (167.5) and host Flagler Palm Coast (158) rounded out the top five teams.

The second five were all within the coverage area, with Hagerty 6th at 136 points, followed by Oakleaf (128), Suwannee (125), DeLand (113.5) and Apopka (112.5).

The remaining teams from the coverage area within the 33-team field were Matanzas (13th, 92 points), Bartram Trail (14th, 83.5), Creekside (15th, 76), Columbia (16th, 72.5), Mosley (17th, 66), St Augustine (19th, 53), Nease (21st, 45.5), Forest (22nd, 41.5), Deltona (23rd, 36), University (Orange City) (24th, 27), Palatka & Pedro Menendez (T-25th, 26), Bay (27th, 16), Lyman (28th, 13.5), Bolles (30th, 9.5), Mainland (31st, eight), Lake Howell (32nd, seven) and Ponte Vedra (33rd, four).

Below follows a summary of the tournament —

106: An all-coverage area final took place with 3 seed Derrick Williams (Mosley) take down top seed Shane Duhaylungsod of Fleming Island, 4-1. Williams picked up a mid-first period takedown, rode throughout the second period, and was able to get a reversal and ride for the final 1:14 of the match. Earlier, Williams had Friday pins over Oakleaf’s Adrianna Barrientos (:10, rd of 16) and Forest’s Ayden Ruano (4:34, quarters), adding a 4-2 semifinal decision over Suwannee’s Topher Pearson. Duhaylungsod bonus-pointed into the final, with Friday pins over Ponte Vedra’s Poulo Milea (1:07, rd of 32), UOC’s Anthony Rosamonda (1:18, rd of 16) and Deltona’s Dianna Pineda (3:32, quarters), with a 15-2 major in the semis over Suwannee’s Eli Jolicoeur. Pearson won twice in the consis to take third, with a 9-3 decision over Ruano, while Creekside’s Andrew Feeks (4 consi-side pins to make podium) added a fifth for fifth, falling Jolicoeur in 1:46.

113: Fleming Island top seed Jayce Paridon pinned or teched through the weekend, with a first-period fall (1:40) in the finals over 3 seed Grady Bryant of DeLand. Paridon’s first takedown in the final would be the only one he’d need in taking the fall. Friday saw Paridon bag pins over Deltona’s Austin Riis (1:32, rd of 32) and Nease’s Jason Choi (:38, quarters), with a 20-5 tech fall (2:34) over Bradenton Christian in the round of 16. On Saturday, Paridon falled Hagerty’s Lochlann Higgins in 5:38 to reach the final. Bryant had three max-point wins Friday, with pins over Creekside’s Alexavier Panganiban (1:35, rd of 32) and Newsome (1:09, rd of 16), with a forfeit win in the quarters. Bryant then knocked off 2 seed Carter Wilder of Matanzas, 9-4, in the semis. Wilder earned two falls in the consis, pinning county rival Carson Baert of FPC in 2:26 to take third, while Higgins won by fall over Ft Pierce Central (1:00) for fifth.

120: Bartram Trail top seed Ethan Vugman max-pointed through the tournament, winning by forfeit in the finals over Winter Springs’ Ryan Phillips. In Friday’s early rounds, Vugman took pins over Columbia’s Kevin Fink (2:28, rd of 32) and DeLand’s Phoenix Krauth (3:16, quarters), with a bye in the round of 16. On Saturday, Vugman had his third pin of the weekend in the semis against Citrus in order to reach the title round. Flagler’s Kole Hannant, who fell in the semis to Phillips, won twice to place third, falling Mosley’s Calvin Williams in 2:15 for third in a rematch of their quarterfinal meetup (which Hannant also won). Fleming’s Laird Duhaylungsod (3 consi-side pins to make podium) took fifth with a fall (4:38) over Citrus.

126: The hosts’ John Hald, the fourth seed, reached the final, where he lost by fall (3:19) to third seed Rey Ortiz of Harmony. Hald had battled Ortiz to a 4-4 first period, but Ortiz’s third takedown of the match proved decisive. After a bye into the round of 16, Hald had Friday wins over Matanzas’ Braden Hawley (fall in 2:17 in that round) and over Suwannee’s Brody Boehm (6-4, quarters), downing the top seed from Ft Pierce Central, 12-6, in the semis. Apopka’s Jalen Moliere was fourth, but only after winning six consi-side matches to get to the bronze-medal match, losing by fall (2:54) to Ft Pierce Central. Oakleaf’s Keon Barrientos was fifth, with a 7-0 win over Winter Springs.

132: Second seed Marcus McGee reached the final, but had no answers against top seed Russell Raabe of Ft Pierce Central, who took an 11-0 major in the championship match. Raabe had takedowns in the first and third periods, picking up 3-point nearfall turns in both of those periods, to build the double-digit victory. On Friday, McGee sandwiched a 5-0 rd-of-16 decision over Master’s Academy with pins over Bartram’s Eriq Beliard (:50, rd of 32) and Matanzas’ Dylan Parkinson (2:31, quarters). The semis on Saturday saw McGee take an 8-3 win over Harmony to get to Raabe. Suwannee’s Austin McKinney, who lost to Raabe in a pigtail match, won six times in the consis to get all the way back to third, pinning Deltona’s Kevin Kerns (a semifinalist who lost to Raabe) in 3:51 for third, while Hagerty’s David Mejia was sixth after a 5-0 place-match loss to Harmony.

138: Apopka’s Rocco Vargas was the top placewinner from the coverage area, taking fourth after a quarterfinal loss by 11-3 major to the eventual champion from Harmony. Vargas had three consi-side wins to get to the bronze-medal match, falling, 4-0, to Winter Springs. Palatka’s Brandon Lewis, a semifinalist who took a 7-5 loss to the eventual runnerup from Ft Pierce Central, had a second loss (6-3) to Vargas in the consi semis, but came back for fifth with a fall (3:54) over Newsome in the medals round.

145: Bartram Trail’s Preston Pena was the coverage area’s highest placewinner, taking third after a loss by fall in a rd-of-32 match against eventual semifinalist Matthew Kotler of Fleming Island. In rallying back, Pena won six times to place third, with a measure of revenge in the sixth win, which was a 7-6 decision over Kotler in the third-place match. Another area semifinalist, DeLand’s Lane Wishart (who fell 10-4 to Pena in the consi semis), took fifth with an injury-default win over Newsome.

152: After taking a 5-4 loss in the round of 32 to fellow placer Tyson Musgrove of Suwannee, Hagerty’s Blake Watts fought through seven rounds of consis to rally back to third, the highest finish among coverage-area competitors. Watts would turn back Matanzas’ Tyson Mills, himself a winner of three consi-side miatches after a quarterfinal loss to fellow placer Nick Hejke of Mosley, by an 11-4 decision in the third-place match. Hejke found a takedown for a 6-4 sudden-victory win over Musgrove for fifth and sixth, respectively.

160: Second seed Kamdon Harrison of Hagerty pinned his way into the final, but found himself on the losing end of a fall against top seed Elijah Penton of Winter Springs, who gained the pin in 4:58. Penton had takedowns in the first and third periods, and was up, 5-1, at the time of the fall. Earlier in the tournament, Harrison had pins over Deltona’s Noah Hancock (:24, rd of 32), Ft Pierce Central (:32, rd of 16), Suwannee’s Austin Howard (1:45, quarters) and St Augustine’s Clint Griffin (1:52, semis). Apopka’s Ransom Randolph, who lost by a 7-5 count to Penton in the semis, had two wins in the consis to take third, with a 1-0 win over Villages in the medal match. Howard took fifth, with an 8-2 win over Griffin in the place rounds.

170: Second seed Joshua Sandoval of Fleming Island reached the final, battling through a full bottom half of the bracket, but couldn’t slow down Ft Pierce Central’s Riley Orr, who took a 13-1 major in the final. Orr had first takedown in the first period, but cranked things up in the second and third, with scoring moves and a pair of 3-point nearfalls to get the major. Earlier, Sandoval took Friday pins over Bay’s Joshua Fine (:18, rd of 32), Villages’ Jake Phillips (:43, rd of 16) and DeLand’s Paul Derosby (4:43, quarters), edging Columbia’s Joseph Rice, 5-4, in the semis. Rice won twice in the consis for third, taking a 5-2 win in the bronze match over the hosts’ Blane DeFord, duplicating the 6-4 quarterfinal win Rice had on Friday. For fifth, Matanzas’ Jordan Mills — who’d lost 12-10 to Winter Springs in the quarters — flipped the script in the place round, decisioning Winter Springs by a 7-6 count.

182: Fleming Island top seed Jhoel Robinson bonus-pointed through to the final, where he decisioned Winter Springs 3 seed Edwardo Brugal, 9-2, for the title. After a scoreless first period, Robinson had a takedown and turn for five points in the second period, with a reversal and quick turn to grab the decision. Robinson had Friday pins over Harmony (3:13, rd of 32), Creekside’s Nathan Manning (3:14, rd of 16) and Suwannee’s Dustin Wood (2:58, quarters), with a 13-4 major in the semis over Villages. Oakleaf’s Onjel Caraballo, who reached the semis, finished fourth after a 16-7 major over Wood in the consi semis and an 8-4 loss to Villages for 3rd and 4th. Wood took sixth, forfeiting to Newsome in the place round.

195: Top seed Hunter Tate of Hagerty reached the final, but couldn’t overcome Villages 2 seed Izaiah Jauma, who won by a 6-4 count for the championship. Jauma never trailed and set the pace for most of the match, with two first-period takedowns and a key reversal early in the third. Tate forced a stalling penalty point, but it would not be enough. Tate decisioned Fleming’s Walter Poe (11-5, rd of 32) and had a pin (3:33) over Creekside’s Eli Pagan in the quarters, coming back for a 4-2 semifinal win over Winter Springs on Saturday. The hosts’ Garrick Schwartz won four times in the consis to take third, avenging a quarterfinal loss to Columbia’s Shawn Raggins with an 8-4 win over Raggins in the medal match. DeLand’s Andrew Knowles was sixth, with a 5-1 loss to Winter Springs in the place match.

220: Apopka top seed Ralph Sanchez pinned his way into the final, where he finally had to go six minutes to take a win, a 4-3 decision over Harmony 2 seed Nelson Toro in the finals. Sanchez opened the scoring with an escape and takedown in the second period, but Toro duplicated those points in the third to tie it at 3, but Sanchez was able to get out with 1:22 to go and made that escape stand up. Earlier in the tournament, Sanchez had first-period falls over UOC’s Rubens Joseph (1:40, rd of 32), Oakleaf’s Ben Gaddis (1:36, rd of 16), St Augustine’s Nate Bumbalough (1:35, quarters) and the hosts’ Dalton Schell (1:46, semis). Creekside’s Vincent Approbato, who’d lost by decision to Toro in the semis, won twice in the consis, with a third-place pin (3:59) over Gaddis (4 consi-side pins to get to the bronze match). Schell wound up sixth after a loss by fall (3:53) to Winter Springs in the place match.

285: Oakleaf 2 seed Jordan Mitchell reached the final, where he took his first loss of the season in a loss by fall to Ft Pierce Central top seed Gabriel Jacas (3:47). Jacas had built a 10-0 lead at the time of the fall, with two takedowns and a pair of nearfalls before securing the pin. Earlier, Mitchell had Friday pins over Apopka’s Tanner Reynolds (1:20, rd of 32), Newsome (:17, rd of 16) and St Augustine’s Jaquan Whitty (1:46, quarters), with a 5-3 win in the semis over Fleming’s Ethan Hoffstetter. Hoffstetter came back to take third, with an escape in the ultimate tiebreaker for a 2-1 win over Harmony, while DeLand’s Marco Selph decisioned Flagler’s Seth Davis, 3-0, for fifth.

Complete brackets from the tournament can be found HERE.

MISSING: We have a lot of missing results, from several teams around the coverage area, and we need YOUR help to clean that up. Please check out our SCHEDULE PAGE; if your school is listed as pending, or an event in which you took part is pending, see if your coach can send in your team’s part of that event. We will post results at any time of year, no matter how late they are when they are sent.

CRAWFORDVILLE — No matter the format, the Big Bend Invitational — even with the number of teams in it this year — is one that Wakulla has controlled for the past several years.

This year, with the tournament back to an IBT format, two days, and more teams, the War Eagles still did everything needed to stay on top, outlasting Yulee, 232.5-209, to win this year’s event.

Chiles (186), Ft Walton Beach (179) and Gulf Breeze (141) rounded out the top-five tems in the field. Bishop Kenny, with 129.5 points, was sixth, while Florida High and Middleburg tied for seventh at 107.5.

South Walton was ninth with 96 points in the 18-team field, followed by North Bay Haven (84.5), Episcopal (84), Rutherford (63.5), Wewahitchka (59), Crestview (56.5), Liberty County (51), Leon (24), Marianna (17) and Gainesville (13).

Below follows a summary of the tournament:

106 — The War Eagles’ Conner Brown racked up a pin and three decisions for the title, with Friday wins over Bishop Kenny’s Jordan Hampton (pin in :28, rd of 16) and South Walton’s Brett Canut (8-1, quarters), coming back Saturday to push past Rutherford’s Dylan Malott, 9-4, in the semis, before defeating Episcopal’s Turner Glenn, 5-2, for the championship. Brown had a takedown and 3-point nearfall early, and made them stand up, as Glenn didn’t get on the board until the third. Glenn had three bonus-point wins, sandwiching a 10-1 quarterfinal major over FWB’s Landon Burbidge with pins over NBH’s Gavin Rocca (:54, rd of 16) and Liberty’s Keaton Ellis (5:04, semis). Wewahitchka’s Jake Parker won four times in the consis after losing by pin to Malott in the consis, with a 15-8 consi-semi win over Ellis and a 16-6 revenge win over Malott for third. Ellis downed Burbidge, 9-3, for fifth and sixth, respectively.

113 — Liberty County’s Jay Brown bonus-pointed into the final, where he held down Middleburg’s Grady Woodard by a 2-0 count. Brown’s takedown 41 seconds into the second period was all the points the match would see, as he rode out Woodard for the rest of the second period and all of the third. Brown had Friday pins over Crestview’s Logan Sims (:17, rd of 16) and Wakulla’s Brady WIlson (3:21, quarters), with a 16-3 major in the semis over Wakulla’s Anthony Fondo. Woodard also had two Friday pins (:57 over South Walton’s Bianca Nunez, :59 over NBH’s Caleb Fuster), reaching the final with a 5-3 win over FWB’s Zak Vosburgh. Vosburgh won twice in the consis, downing Bishop Kenny’s Jacob Harless, 6-2, in the semis and then pinning Yulee’s Lewis Duhan in 1:56 for third. Harless, who lost by fall in the quarters to Fondo on Friday, came back for fifth with a 5-2 win over Fondo.

120 — Like Brown at 113, South Walton’s Max Brewster bonus-pointed through each round before the finals, in which he also turned back a Middleburg wrestler, this time Wyatt Leduc, by a 6-2 count. Brewster opened with a takedown and brief turn in the first period, opening the third with a reversal to extend to a 6-1 lead at the time. Before the final, Brewster took Friday pins over Bishop Kenny’s Noah Ossi (3 minutes, rd of 16) and Rutherford’s Cyrus Nichols (1:47, quarters), opening Saturday with a 15-5 major over Chiles’ Sam Tolomeo in the semi. Leduc falled Liberty’s Hunter Brown (2 minutes) after a bye into the quarters, coming back to pitch a 5-0 shutout over Gulf Breeze’s Coby Shields in the semis. Tolomeo won twice in the consis for third, pinning Brown (1:49) in the semis, and edging region rival Shields, 8-7, for third. Wakulla’s Caleb Orr, who lost 4-2 to Tolomeo in the quarters, was fifth, edging Brown, 4-3.

126 — Middleburg’s Riley Girgis had two Friday pins and a pair of Saturday decisions, including a 2-1 finals win over region rival Garrett Marschka of Chiles. Girgis secured a takedown 42 seconds into the match and it held up, as Marschka’s only point came on a second stall warning in the third. Girgis took Friday pins over South Walton’s Jordan Skates (1:41, rd of 16) and Yulee’s Logan Pugh (1:10, quarters), with a 6-4 semifinal win over Wakulla’s Juan Jimenez. Marschka, in turn, had three pins over Florida High’s Hunter Stanley (:43, rd of 16), NBH’s Tristan Le’ (1:30, quarters) and Gulf Breeze’s Michael Mancuso (:26, semis) to get to Girgis. Jimenez rallied for two consi-side pins for third, falling Le’ in 1:56 in the semis, then pinning Mancuso (2:05) for third. Pugh decisioned Le’, 6-1, for fifth and sixth, respectively.

132 — Chiles’ Hunter Brown bonus-pointed her way into the final, where he overcame the hosts’ Isaiah Wilson, 4-2. Wilson scored first on a takedown with 47 seconds left n the first, but three stall warnings (two in the second) tied the match, and Brown was able to grab a takedown of his own with 35 seconds left, making it hold up. Brown had Friday pins over NBH’s Will Lundgren (1:09, rd of 16) and Marianna’s Josh Mercer (1:49, quarters), shutting out the War Eagles’ Nate Jacobs, 11-0, in the semis. Wilson also bonus-pointed to the final, with a quarterfinal pin (2:59) over Crestview’s Landon Brown sandwiched in between major-decision shutouts (8-0 over Bishop Kenny’s Christopher Hampton, 11-0 in semis over Middleburg’s Dylan Johns). Jacobs took a pair of decisions to come back to third, downing South Walton’s Logan Moore (7-1) in the semis and over Johns, 7-5, for third. Florida High’s Troy Carroll was fifth, decisioning Moore, 8-3, in that match.

138 — Yulee’s Austin Adamson emerged from an unseeded position to win the title, with Friday wins over Florida High’s Isaiah Ridlen (16-0 TF in 3:38, rd of 16) and Rutherford’s Romero Black (5-2, quarters), advancing with a forfeit in the semis and then powering past Wakulla’s Wyatt Welch, 4-3, for the title. After both wrestlers had scoring moves in the first period, Adamson’s third-period reversal with 42 seconds left was enough to secure the win. Welch had a bye into the quarters, majoring South Walton’s Ryan Kurfirst (10-2) there; he then decisioned Episcopal’s Baylor Maurer, 4-1, in the semis. After the loss to Adamson, Black won four times in the consis to claim third, with an 11-4 consi-semi win over Maurer and a 20-4 TF (5 minutes) over Chiles’ Jacob Johnston, who’d won three max-point victories in the consis to get there. Maurer won by walkover forfeit for fifth.

145 — The Hornets’ Dylan Johns pinned his way into the final, where he decisioned the hosts’ Hayden Reeves, 6-1, for the championship. Johns scored first takedown close to 45 seconds into the match, picking up two more in the third period to pull away for the title. Prior to the final, Johns had pins over Florida High’s Cole Stephens (2:16, rd of 16), South Walton’s Frank Bonjean (1:16, quarters) and Gulf Breeze’s Garret Rudick (5:31, semis). For his part, Reeves had Friday pins over Crestview’s Marc Beaurivage (1:12, rd of 16) and Bishop Kenny’s Paul Barakat (2:36, quarters), with a 10-2 semifinal major over Leon’s Nolan Zirgibel. Zirgibel won twice in the consis for third, with a 12-5 semifinal win over region rival Steven Banfield of Ft Walton Beach, followed by a pin (4:57) over another one in Rudick. Banfield decisioned Barakat, 3-1, for fifth.

152 — Bishop Kenny’s Roberto Cuartero bonus-pointed to the title, making the Crusaders the seventh different team to win brackets. On Friday, Cuartero falled Episcopal’s Chance Wolffe (1:47, rd of 16) and teched Florida High’s Nicholas Roeder (15-0 in 2:18, quarters). On Saturday, Cuartero pinned Florida High’s Dean Wright (1:24) before facing off with Wakulla’s Jae T Thaxton in the final. Cuartero scored in each period, with a 3-point nearfall in the third before giving up a reversal late in a 10-2 major decision victory. In reaching the final, Thaxton pinned Yulee’s Michael McNair (1:19, rd of 16) and teched South Walton’s Chase Maas (16-1 in 5:10), with a semifinal decision over FWB’s Alexander Davidson, 7-5. Chiles’ Andrew Mullins, who fell to Wright, 5-2, in the quarters, took four consi-side victories to rally back to third, with a 2-1 semis win over Davidson, followed by a medical forfeit over Wewahitchka’s Conner Roberts. Davidson downed Wright, 3-1, for fifth.

160 — Aside from a 12-8 semifinal win over Florida High’s Liam Hawkes, Bishop Kenny’s Collin Hearn max-pointed through the tournament, with Friday wins over Wakulla’s Hayden Fringer (1:03, rd of 16) and a forfeit in the quarters. In the finals, Hearn falled Yulee’s Jesse Johnson in 3:15 to win the title, in a match where he was up, 7-1, with three takedowns to his credit before securing the pin. Johnson got to the final behind pins over Wewahitchka’s Brody Speegle (:29, rd of 16) and Chiles’ Luke Pickels (1:39, quarters), followed by a wild 22-15 semifinal win over FWB’s Marquis Muniz. Hawkes won twice in the consis to claim third, majoring Episcopal’s John Fernandez (10-2) and then overcoming Muniz, 4-2, in the bronze-medal match. Fernandez decisioned Rutherford’s Keaton Schirmer, 3-1, to take fifth.

170 — Florida High became the eighth team to win a bracket, as Xander Hawkes won the title behind two pins and a 3-1 finals decision over Ft Walton Beach’s Darius Brundidge. Hawkes hit a big turn 29 seconds into the second period for three backpoints and made them hold up for the title win. Earlier, Hawkes had a bye into the quarters, with subsequent pins over Bishop Kenny’s Luke Ghannam (2:50, quarters) and over Rutherford’s Chad Allgood (3:40, semis). Brundidge reached the final, after a bye into the quarters, with a 6-4 win over Chiles’ Kadis Nafal and an 11-2 major over Crestview’s Layne Franks in the semi. Gulf Breeze’s Micah Barker, who lost by pin to Allgood in the quarters, won four times on the back for third, with an injury-default win over Franks in the semis and a 6-2 decision over Nafal for third; Franks won by forfeit in taking fifth.

182 — Gulf Breeze became the ninth team with a title, as Blake Fluck bonus-pointed through the event. After a bye, Fluck falled Yulee’s Rex Graff (1:37) in the quarters on Friday. His only six-minute match came in a 12-1 major over Chiles’ Cody Elliott in the semis, with a pin (3:11) in the final over Yulee’s Alex Smith. Smith scored first takedown, but it was Fluck who reversed from bottom to take a 3-2 lead, turning his ride into a turn and eventual fall. For his part, Smith won three times, teching Episcopal’s Hunter Luzar (17-2 in 2:35) and pinning Rutherford’s Bryson Schirmer (:32, quarters) on Friday. On Saturday, Smith added a second pin over the hosts’ Tyler Edenfield (5:11) in the semis. Edenfield ralied for third, pinning FWB’s Connor Roberts (4 minutes) in the consi semis, then shutting out Elliott, 1-0, in the place match. Roberts pinned Crestview’s Salvador Gallegos in 2:18 for fifth.

195 — Team #10 with a title came up here, as North Bay Haven’s David Mercado bonus-pointed through the tournament. Mercado had a forfeit win to get to the quarters, where he pinned Crestview’s Chris Greene in 1:27. On Saturday, Mercado teched FWB’s Carter Tobik in the third period (18-3 in 5:16) to reach Yulee’s Christopher Aud in the final. Mercado’s first takedown would be the only one he needed, as he falled Aud in 1:38 for the bracket win. Aud had three wins to get to the title round, with a round-of-16 pin over Gulf Breeze’s Isaac Land (4:46) and decisions over Chiles’ Dillon Elliott (5-4, quarters) and Gainesville’s Aiden Kittelson (7-0, semis). Tobik had a pair of wins to rally back for third, with decisions over Elliott (2-1, consi semis) and over Bishop Kenny’s Michael Bagan (9-2) for third (Tobik had pinned Bagan in the quarters). Kittelson took fifth with a 13-8 decision over Elliott.

220 — Ft Walton Beach’s Cedric Fairrow made it 11 different teams with titles, with three pins preceding a 6-0 title victory over Yulee’s Braylen Ricks. Fairrow scored takedowns in each period, riding Ricks out in each period for a little over a minute each time for the win. Earlier, Fairrow had Friday pins over Episcopal’s Maddox Davidson (:50, rd of 16) and Crestview’s Caleb Sims (:40, quarters), with a semifinal pin in 5:43 over Florida High’s Collin Bishop. Ricks, in turn, had pins over Wewahitchka’s James Hardy (:53) and Chiles’ Nicholas Groves (:38), finding a takedown in sudden victory for a 6-4 win over Wakulla’s Kohl Pippen. Bishop won twice for third, with an 11-2 major over North Bay Haven’s Logan McAlister in the consi semis and a 3-1 decision over Pippen for third. McAlister falled Sims in 1:55 for fifth.

285 — South Walton joined Yulee and Bishop Kenny as the only teams with more than one champion, as the Seahawks’ Nick Lee sandwiched a 5-1 semifinal win over Bishop Kenny’s Kevin Thallemer with pins over Yulee’s Marcel Reeves (1:24, quarters) and Gulf Breeze’s Phillip Dillard (1:22) in the final. Lee got two takedowns in the first period, with the second one the decisive one toward getting the fall. Dillard won three times by fall, with Friday pins over Yulee’s Austin Hoyle (1:06, rd of 16) and Wakulla’s Adleigh Caquimbo (:18, quarters), plus a semifinal pin over Ft Walton Beach’s Spencer Mackenzie in 5:23. Thallemer took third with a consi-semi pin (2:18) over NBH’s Kam D’Niroux and a 6-4 third-place win over Hoyle, while Mackenzie pinned D’Niroux in 4:17 for fifth.

Complete brackets from the tournament can be found HERE.

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KISSIMMEE — There’s never a bad time in January to build momentum for the post-season looming large in the following month.

And Seminole should certainly get a boost after holding off Gateway and the rest of an eight-team field to win Saturday’s War Eagle Classic, a one-day IBT, with 181.5 points to Gateway’s 175.

Auburndale (142.5 points), host Poinciana (93) and Liberty (74) rounded out the top five teams. Seminole was the only team from the coverage area in the field.

Below follows a summary of the Noles’ placers in the event —

113 (no Seminole wrestlers at 106): Joseph Powell was third, going 1-2 in a four-person round-robin. Powell got his one win with a second-period fall (2:47) over Poinciana to claim effective third.

126 (no competing Noles at 120): Jeremiah Isaak placed third, with his only loss a 6-3 semifinal loss to Poinciana. Isaak had a bye in the consi-semis, falling Gateway in 4:11 to claim third.

132: Ryan Culbertson (22-8) won the title, pinning his way through after a bye into the semis. Culbertson falled Gateway (3:01) and then pinned Auburndale’s Colby McColley in 4:56 for the title.

138: In the fullest bracket of the six presented thus far (with pigtails even), Abdelkrin Salomon (20-6) bonus-pointed through the field for back-to-back Noles titles. After a quarterfinal injury-default win over Gateway, Salomon falled Lake Buena Vista (1:43) in the semis and hammered Auburndale’s Victor Turner, 19-5, in the championship.

145: After a quarterfinal loss by TF (21-6 in 5:38) to the eventual champion from Gateway, Robert Markey rallied back for third. After a bye into the consi semis, Markey majored Lake Buena Vista (13-3) and then pinned Liberty in 3:44 to grab the bronze.

152: Benjamin Buhring (33-4) gave the Noles their third weight-class win of the day, teching or pinning through the tournament. After opening with a tech (17-1 in 3:06) over Edgewater in the quarters, Buhring took pins over Gateway (3:16) in the semis and over Auburndale’s Jerimah Austin (4:26) for the championship.

160: For the second time Saturday, the Noles had back-to-back bracket wins, as William James (24-4) needed 5:51 of mat time to fall three opponents. After a quarterfinal pin over Edgewater (1:53), James took falls over Auburndale (2:56, semis) and over Lake Buena Vista’s Michael Youssef in 1:02 in the finals

170: For the first time, there would be a Seminole three-peat, with Wordner Edoward (23-9) powering through three opponents in just 1:58. Edwards had pins over Poinciana (:52), Lake Buena Vista (:30) and over Auburndale’s James Maldonado (:36) for the title.

195 (no competing Noles at 182): After a 15-8 semifinal loss to the eventual champion from Gateway, Ricci Todd came back for third, with a bye in the consi semis and then fall over Liberty (1:22) in the place match. Todd also had a front-side pin (1:02) over the same Liberty competitor in the quarters.

220: Desmond Harris reached the final, where he would up losing by fall (5:55) to Liberty’s Daniel King. Prior to the final, Harris took pins over Poinciana (2:34) and Lake Buena Vista (3:30)

285: No Seminole placers.

Complete brackets from Saturday’s event can be found HERE.

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PALM COAST — During Friday’s wrestling at the 36th Annual Flagler Rotary, a new tradition kicked off.

The inaugural Flagler Rotary girls’ tournament took place that same day. No team scores were kept in the one-day event, which took place, with one exception, in roundrobin fashion. Every weight class was won by a wrestler from the coverage area.

Below follows a summary of each weight class —

100-105-110: Ponte Vedra’s Cynthia Kowitski took first place, pinning her way through the five-person draw, with only one match — her fall in 3:49 over Mainland’s Abby Couillard, in round 3 and the group’s effective championship match — going past the first period. She also falled UOC’s Jaelyn Sunseri (1:10) and Zania Owen (:22) as well as teammate Chandler Wildrick (1:03). Couillard had three pins for second, pinning Sunseri in (5:49) for the second-place spot, while Sunseri (2 pins) falled Wildrick in 1:17 in round 4 for third. Wildrick pinned Owen in 3:26 in round 1, taking fourth.

115-120: The Lady Sharks’ Erin Rizzuto won by fall three times for the title, pinning — in order — UOC’s Katy Roche (1:39), teammate Sophia Mallon (5 minutes) and Forest’s Leeana Vazquez in 4:10 to win the group. Vazquez pinned Roche in 1:04 in round 2 to clinch second, while Roche falled Mallon in 3:16 in the final round to claim third.

125: Natalia Choquegonza made it back-to-back-to-back title wins, going 4-0 with four pins and never having to go past the second period. Choquegonza pinned the hosts’ Ana Vilar (:49) in round 1 in a match that would effectively sort out the title chase, with subsequent pins over UOC’s Lila Melendez (1:04) and Alex Roche (3:40), plus Forest’s Domenica Giler (2:50). Vilar had three pins, with her round-2 fall over Giler (1:28) clinching second, while Giler (two pins) falled Roche in 2 minutes for third. Roche took her only pin over teammate Melendez in round 4 (:59) for fourth.

130: In a three-person bracket, the Lady Titans’ Bryanne Kaminsky pinned a pair of Nease wrestlers for the weight-class win, her team’s only one of the day, falling runnerup Olivia Drayton (1:20) and third-place Alexandra Ivan (2:40). Drayton pinned her teammate in 1:39 to claim second.

135-140-145: Hagerty’s Jada Llamido sandwiched the effective championship match of the group, an 8-2 decision over Ponte Vedra’s Olivia Richie (one of just two matches in the entire day not decided by pin, forfeit or tech), with pins over Nease’s Olivia Carr (:32) and Lady Huskies teammate Megan Dathe (:29). In taking second, Richie also had two pins, with her fall over Carr (:45) the decisive match. Carr falled Dathe in 2:58 to take third.

155-170: In a three-person bracket, Mainland’s Jah’Mya Hill got her team on the title board with a 20-3 TF over teammate Trinya Tillman in round 1, followed by a first-period fall (1:49) over Oakleaf’s Jazzmine Moore. Moore took second with a 38-second fall over Tillman in round 2.

190-235: The Lady Buccaneers’ Cheyenne Wigley made it back-to-back Mainland titles to close out, pinning her way through the full bracket. Wigley pinned teammate Katherine Meza-Perez (2:00) in the quarters, followed by a fall over another teammate, Summer Snow (4:52), in the semis. In the final, against her third teammate of the tournament, Wigley pinned Eva Rojas in 1:49. Rojas had a bye into the semis, where she falled yet another Mainland wrestler, Kevarrionn Sloan, in 4:44. Meza-Perez came back for third with two pins and a 10-3 win over Snow (front-side pin, forfeit in consi semis) to grab third.

You can find results from the tournament HERE.

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