Notes
1/18/10
NW Region Notes: Things were pretty quiet on the District 6 front over the weekend, with only a few teams in action. Central Mountain dominated the Jersey Shore Duals, beating a strong District 10 AA Greenville team in the finals. A few regional wrestlers made dropped weight classes with the 2lb growth allowance kicking in on Friday. The most notable was Colton Spade, Lewistown sliding down to 152. That makes the top 3 at that weight class pretty stout with Alton, Spade, and Towers holding those top 3 spots. That said, I look for some movement from some of the lower ranked wrestlers in that weight class. With 160 looking wide open once you get past Haver, Bradford and 145 looking much the same after you get past Alton. District 10 had their annual region dual meet event at Corry High School. All 11 District 10 AAA schools were in action. McDowell and Erie Prep finished the 2 day event with 8-0 records. Erie Prep's Jon Agnello returned to action this weekend at 119, but suffered 2 losses in his return. The most significant coming at the hands of Trevor Graham, Franklin by fall. Amani Bosko, Warren made the drop to 125 and looked good in his debut there knocking off Dylan Matz, McDowell and going undefeated at the Corry Duals. As was noted last week Nick Gibson, McDowell continues to turn heads, he finished to weekend with an 8-0 record and had a very impressive win over AA state qualifier Tyler Pier of Harbor Creek. He will be headed for a head to head show down with Tim Wheeling, General McLane on Jan. 27. Scott Bosak's return to State College is confirmed and he has been certified at 130lbs. That makes the scenarios very interesting in the region at 125, 130, and 135 when you consider there are 9 PIAA State Qualifying slots and you also consider that Steve Spearman, McDowell, Jordan Rich, Central Mt., Mitchell Port, Bellefonte, Kody Young, Punxy, Erik Galloway, State College, Scott Bosak, State College, Dylan Matz, McDowell, Kasey Davis, Meadville, Nick Gurol, P-O, Brian Brill, Central Mt., Tyler Parsons, Erie Prep, and Dan Dreibelbis, Bellefonte could all potentially pack into those 3 weight classes. Londell Cox of Peabody suffered a loss in the semifinals of the Allegheny County Wrestling Championships to Hampton freshman Jake Hart. Finally, JR Wert, Bellefonte is no longer a member of the Bellefonte wrestling team, his family has moved out of the area.
1/11/10
NW Region Notes: The Tool City and Escape the Rock tournaments shed some light on the region landscape, most notably at 215 where previously #3 ranked Cody Dolan of Central Mountain pinned returning state 4th placer Jon Gingrich, Bald Eagle Area. That gives Dolan wins over Kevin Thompson, Meadville and Gingrich. 145lbs we saw Geno Morelli knock-off a pair of regionally ranked wrestlers at Tool City (Jay Stockhausen, General McLane and Nick Limano, Meadville) on his way to a 3rd place finish. 112 pounds had some nice Regional match-ups over the last week, the most notable being T.J. Stanton, DuBois, loss to Christian Stone, Clearfield in their dual meet on Wednesday, but Stanton rebounded winning the Tool City title at 112 over Tim Wheeling, General McLane, who beat Stone in the semi-finals by a 4-1 score. McDowell freshman Nick Gibson put himself on the map with a solid 7-1 win over Bob Juracko, Conneaut Lake who was 4th at Tool City. Rumor has it that 2009 State Qualifier Scott Bosak has returned to State College High School. If this is true that will add some solid depth to the 140lb weight class. 215lbs looks to be one of the deepest weight classes in the Region, that said I look for some movement either upward or downward from a couple of the current wrestlers in the weight class. Look for Tyson Searer,Lewistown and possibly KJ Walters, Altoona to move down to 189. Kasey Davis, Meadville and Kody Young, Punxy made their moves down to 130lbs, and look for Steve Spearman, McDowell to be there soon.
Schools
District 6
Altoona
Bald Eagle Area
Bellefonte
Central Mountain
Greater Johnstown
Hollidaysburg
Indian Valley
Lewistown
Philipsburg-Oceola
State College
District 8
Allerdice
Brashear
Carrick
Langley
Oliver
Peabody
Perry
Schenley
Westinghouse
District 9
Bradford
Clearfield
DuBois
Punxsutawney
Saint Marys
District 10
Cathedral Prep
Conneaut Lake
Corry
Franklin
General McLane
McDowell
Meadville
Strong Vincent
Titusville
Warren
Top Teams
1. Central Mountain 6 Doug Buckwalter (18-1)
2. Clearfield 9 Jeff Aveni (14-1)
3. Cathedral Prep 10 Mark Sallot (13-3)
4. McDowell 10 Shane McChesney (11-4)
5. DuBois 9 Luke Bundy (10-3)
6. General McLane 10 Ryan Cook (12-6)