This past Saturday, the Wrestling team competed in their 1st duals of the season competing at the Travis Manion Duals at LaSalle HS. The team opened the day with an extremely lackluster effort against District 2’s Dallas HS dropping 7 of 11 bouts by rolling over & getting pinned. Round 2 fared little better as the Titans again giving up bonus points in all 6 losing bouts cost the team a win falling by 2pts to fell to Warwick HS (Dist.3).
It seemed the team had righted the ship taking an early lead 30-12 lead against Northeast High, however the NE Vikings rattled off 4 straight pinfall victories to take a 35-30 lead with one individual bout remaining. Luckily for the CB South, Freshman Brayden Masten (114lb) was able to step in and step up to secure a 2nd period Fall for his 1st high school win and earning the Titans 1st Dual win of the season. Round 4 was a fun and unique experience getting to wrestle on a mat placed in LaSalle’s Auditorium decorated with numerous lit Christmas trees and other festive decorations. Even better was the blowout win over Philly’s George Washington and the sound of the referee’s hand slapping the mat for 6 CBS pins.
In the final dual of the day against SOL member William Tennent, the team clawed back from an early 12-27 deficit. Sr. Kieran Padgett who bumped up to Heavyweight and earned a lightning quick 29second pin got the rally started. Next came freshman Nolan Traczykiewicz (107lb) getting a pin in his 1st ever varsity match. The Pin-fest continued as B.Masten (Fr./121lb), JP Kervatt-Dawson (Sr./127lb) & John Shields (So./133lb) all dominated their opponents.
- Rd.1: Dallas 54 – C.B.South 15
- Rd.2: Warwick 38 – C.B.South 36
- Rd.3: C.B.South 36 – Northeast 35
- Rd.4: C.B.South 57 – George Washington 17
- Rd.5: C.B.South 42 – William Tennent 33
The OW (Outstanding Wrestler) of the day goes to John Shields (So./133lb). John went 5-0 with 5 pins to up his season individual record to 8-1. Other solid individual performers were on the day were Jake Neill (Sr./139lb) going 4-1 (4pins) while Peter Carmody (Sr./160), JP Kervatt-Dawson (Sr./127lb), and B.Masten (Fr./114lb) ended with 3 wins.
Next competition: T–he team travels to the highly competitive Trojan Wars at Chambersburg HS on Dec.29th & 30th where they will battle 49 teams from 6 different states.