Picture by: Kim North
WHEELING – Barnesville finds itself in a crowded discipline after at some point and three rounds of motion because the 70th annual OVAC Ron Mauck Wrestling Championships kicked off with a modified schedule Thursday night time inside a Cool WesBanco Enviornment.
Attributable to impending climate, two rounds of the championship in addition to a spherical of comfort matches have been accomplished on the primary night. At present’s motion begins at 17.00 with matches from the second spherical of the comfort group and the quarter-finals of the championship. The third and fourth spherical comfort matches will conclude on the second day.
The Class 3A Shamrocks superior 11 wrestlers to tonight’s quarterfinals to build up 89 factors, which was 6.5 higher than second-place College (82.5), which leads Class 5A. Steubenville is third with 71, whereas defending champion Parkersburg South is fourth with 69.5.
“It is a begin,” Barnesville head coach Jayson Stephen mentioned. “The children nonetheless have to come back out and struggle, however we’ll take it. The children battled rather well and we obtained just a few bonus factors, which is all the time good.”
Barnesville’s starters embrace 4 defending champions – Johnathan Huntsman (113), two-time champion Dakota King (138), Reese Stephen (150) and Skyler King (157). Others with two wins embrace Easton Stephen (106), Aydan Andrews (120), Colt Carpenter (126), Karson Milhoan (144), Ayden King (165), Hines Ford (175) and Marshall Meade (285).
“Marshall received by a pin to finish the streak for us,” Stephen mentioned. “The children know it is nonetheless removed from over, nevertheless it feels good to be on prime now.”
College superior 10 wrestlers to the quarters, together with defending champions Luca Felix (165) and Brock Kehler (285).
All 14 seeds reached the quarterfinals, as did all 9 returning champions.
Oak Glen’s Logan Davis (120); Beaver Native’s Robert Buccheit (126) and Wheeling Park’s Jameson Maynard (175) made strides to win one other crown. Maynard, who’s ranked No. 2, had a pair of pins.
The Wooden County Patriots have 9 quarterbacks, together with Gage Wright (175), who’s ranked No. 2 nationally.
Nonetheless, Parkersburg South had its prime seed eradicated when No. three Mackiah Claudio was edged Four-2 by Indian Creek’s Ethan Starr after which ejected from the match for flagrant misconduct. Unseeded Starr then superior to the quarters with a 51-second pin.
Three different unranked wrestlers reached the quarters, two of them coming from Wheeling Park in Nate Hodge (138) and Probability Funari (157). The opposite was Waylon Courtwright (215) of Oak Glen, who eradicated the No. 5 and no. 12.
Steubenville sends eight into the quarters. They’re Cole Harvey (113), Dorian Haddad (126), Charlie Abbott (132), Cal Beadling (138), Cooper Smith (144), Brody Saccoccia (150), Savier Faulks (157) and Landon Crosier (165).
“All people I believed might make it to the quarters did,” Steubenville’s Lucas Huffman mentioned. “The Crosier child has actually come by.”
There have been eight undefeated fighters getting into the match and all eight are nonetheless unscathed. They embrace Oak Glen’s Davis and Wheeling Central’s Braxton Birch at 120; Slaton Pettit of Cameron (138); Aden Strahler of Warren (175); Southern native Gabe Blissenbach (190); Harrison Central’s Lucas Thomas and Wheeling Central’s Isaac Martin at 215; and Kehler (285).
A number of wrestlers have been in a position to obtain particular person milestones as Thomas recorded his 100th profession pin; his brother Landen (285) earned his 100th win, as did Oak Glen’s Michael Heath. Davis notched his 100th pin.
Cameron and Southern Native are tied for Class 1A/2A with 35 factors every. Oak Glen (64) leads Class 4A with 64 factors, a dozen higher than Beaver Native. Indian Creek is a distant third, however nonetheless inside placing distance.
The championship semi-finals start motion on Saturday at 11am, with matches for first, third, fifth and seventh locations beginning at three.30pm.