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Koll got himself a great one. I have been a huge fan of Luke for years. Should easily win another state title this year.
Simcox could repeat, but he's hardly a lock with Parkins also at 139. Plus it assumes none of Manville, Shaw, and Weiss drop from 145.
BTW, those 3 plus Perry at 145 ... that's a brutal weight (and an absolutely ridiculous NW Regional with all but Shaw). And nobody is gonna bump up with Rath and Gaj at 152.
Doubt it, but if so, maybe to 145, definitely not all the way to 139 where Simcox is. Not sure why Rath would drop any weight when he has already beaten Gaj.
If either does, 145 just got that much harder.
They are old friends and have been training partners since they were little kids. This is from the Morning Call article after Beast finals:
There is a chance the two could meet up twice more this season — at the Escape the Rock tournament in January at Council Rock South, where both are returning champions, and at the PIAA Wrestling Championships in March in Hershey.
It would be a treat for the fans. Rath and Gaj have discussed, but after both felt like they were going to be sick after facing each other Sunday, perhaps one changes weight classes to avoid such painful excitement the rest of this season.
“I don’t want to do this again,” Rath said. “It’s too hard.”
They are both still at 152 for ETR.
The returning champions at 139 (Rath), 145 (Gaj), and 152 (Henrich) are all registered at 152 for ETR this year.
Easton has now beaten both Nazareth and Beca this year.
Here’s the box score
145: Shane McFillin, BC fall Jaron Trimmer, Easton, 3:23
152: Kollin Rath, BC tech Quentin Hammerstone, Easton 25-10, 4:00
160: Charlie Scanlan decision James Geiger, Easton, 7-2
172: Justin Cosover, Easton fall Dario Cruz, BC, 3:25
189: Shae Linegar, Easton tech James Bozzi, BC, 22-7; 4:23
215: James DeLuise, BC decision LD Conyers, Easton 9-4
285: Kurtis Crossman, Easton decision Jacob Lance, BC 5-2
107: Noah Fenner, Easton fall Louden Hower, BC , 1:34
114: Nick Salamone, Easton decision Reef Dillard, BC 7-6
121: Keanu Dillard, BC tech Ethan Krazer, Easton , 22-6; 5:02
127: Ryder Campbell, BC major Ben Riehl, Easton 14-4
133: Chris Kelly, Easton major Mason Thomas, BC, 11-3
139: Ben Fanelli, Easton decision Marco Frinzi, BC 6-1
Limited bonus, Cosover was up 2-1 and got a huge fall in a scramble, then the toss up wins from Salamone and Fanelli won it.
Congrats to Easton, lots of work has been put into this group. This program has been through a lot over the last few years. Now it’s time to bring in some NJ flavor and get that D11 title back
Great for Easton. Karam doing good job even with some behind the scenes issues. You wonder if BECA would of given the head coaching job to to Desmond's father if things would be a little different down at BECA???
It’s my understanding they’ve got a strong group in junior high that they’re expected to hang onto. This team is nice and balanced, without a kid who is really a star. Good dual team, not there yet in tournaments. That might shift in the next couple years. Not many seniors in this group, only one who won last night. This is more of a start than a culmination.
Easton would not be Easton without a little me. But it’s cleaned up dramatically.
Beca definitely would be different this year - you’d have Nate Desmond, Jake Dailey, and Matt Dailey in the lineup. The more interesting thing is around Becahi’s talent acquisition generally.
Their freshman and sophomore class is essentially the Dillard brothers. Keanu literally their only sophomore, and they’ve got a couple freshman who could be contributors, but for high impact guys it’s just Reef. You look around and Caciolo stayed at Emmaus, Steckert and Frable are at Southern Lehigh still, the two big kids Heckert and Hopkins stayed at Whitehall, Lyden at Freedom, before you get to Fenner at Easton. All of those kids being at their home schools rather than Becahi is kind of unthinkable 3-5 years ago, particularly when so many have Red Hawk youth experience. Cael Muller transferred into their junior high program from Catasauqua this year, and he’s walk right in and be good, but they don’t have a robust junior high feeder of their own, it’s six kids and two of them are sets of brothers. I know the joke is Becahi’s talent acquisition, but at some point if they’re going to be good, they need to acquire their talent. And I don’t know if they’ve got the infrastructure to develop their own without Red Hawk (or Weaver before it when Veres ran it) and I don’t know if they have the relationships in the Valley under the new regime to coax in kids that they’re not developing themselves.
Mike Cole is a great wrestling guys and he’s got big name assistants, so I think they’ll figure it out. By no means do I think Bethlehem Catholic is going away. But the path is changing, and times of change are inherently interesting. And I think you’ll see some teams bite back in the meantime.
Wouldn’t surprise me. I think that job has gotten really hard, particularly with Lost Boys not running as a youth program so there aren’t established relationships to bring kids in, and due to some relationship fracturing they’ve had to go farther and farther out to land kids. They’ve only got seven kids in their junior high programs and three are high school freshmen.
You can do really well at those schools, it had a higher ceiling than everywhere. But you have to work really hard at maintaining what you have coming in. And Veres hasn’t always made that easy on himself.
Not sure where this best belongs, so I posted it in the Recruiting News thread too. A mod might want to delete one of them.
Recruits in bold:
120: #1 Leo DeLuca DEC #3 Nathan Desmond 6-3
132: #1 Luke Lilledahl DEC #13 Matt Lopes 3-1 SV
165: #5 William Henckel DEC Chris Crawford 3-0
175: #2 Joe Sealy DEC Pete Snyder 5-2
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Its insane the talent these 2 teams have between them. Stud after stud after stud.
For the first time: Girls wrestling individual rankings in the Mid-Penn
An at-a-glance look at the top three ranked girls wrestlers in each weight class, Jan. 24 edition.
Familiar last name at 142. We really need a women’s program.
BECA beat Notre Dame GP 26-25. Key to the match was Beca bumped Rath to 160 for first time in his career. He majored Sumpolec who is a very good sophomore.
This post will only interest the local District 11 guys. Bangor who fielded 2 Varsity youth teams just won the Lehigh Valley wrestling league, they beat Nazareth and Northampton on Sunday. Bangor has lost their top talent in recent years to ND. I've heard that the youth coaches are going to try to bring in a new coach ( it would be a good hire)if possible.
Bangor has never had a State Champion.
Bangor has never had a State Champion.
Forgive my ignorance, what age/grade level is "Varsity youth"? I wrestled with a guy from Bangor in college and one of my roommates was from there also.
They’ve had a steady stream of good kids coming out, and they held on to the Kreider kid this year who has a shot to be quite good. The Mintz kid in junior high also seems like a day one impact kid when he gets to high school. They’ve really ramped up at the youth levels, do you know what’s driving that? And I know Richie Smith isn’t super organized, but he’s a former state champ who seems like he at least has the wrestling side of coaching down, is he getting forced out?
Varsity youth goes up to sixth grade. It’s the last year kids compete for community programs before they can compete in school programs.
Thanks. In NJ, there are no junior high programs (at least in the area I am). I started coaching 6th-8th graders and the program was run through the town recreation department. I was able to get the numbers up sufficiently that we were able to get the town to add a second program for 4th and 5th graders within a couple years. Some counties have rec dept. programs, others PAL junior high programs, others have independent clubs, who knows what other formats, but not schools until 9th grade.
I used to work at Bangor Glass in the summers of 1981 and 1982. Long drive up there from my Northampton home every day. The owners son was a heavyweight wrestler for Northampton as well. One of the nicest guys I every met. That area has exploded in growth since the mid 80s. Nazareth was super tiny and now it is sprawling.
I'm not sure what will happen. I heard a unique name that the youth coaches like a lot. Richie is a good guy but I think some of the youth coaches are looking to make a change to someone they like and feel he would take the young talent to next level.
Kreider is 3 sport athlete. He's only a freshman. He will be starting QB next year
The ref should be ashamed. The best officials use common sense in those moments .
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Yeah, while I tend to agree with the sentiment that the ref could have wisely pretended not to see it, the red hair kid practically jumped in his lap.
Kids are kids but many are brain dead with no self control at that age. No maliciousness on the kids part, but geez, have a half a brain.
Kids are kids but many are brain dead with no self control at that age. No maliciousness on the kids part, but geez, have a half a brain.
I blame the mascot.
I agree. This ref was looking for anything to sway this match. This is terrible. I agree with Dice this should have been left alone.
Kids are kids yes, Yet you see the mat monkeys all over the mat,practically every match.
I'm guessing Telford was on the phone with the red hair kid at 12:01.
This was a chicken manure move by the ref. I hope Athens files an appeal and is successful. If not, Wyalusing should decline the victory.
Had the team score been closer, the same thing could have happened to Penn State after Bo pinned Martin and caused the loss of a team point for tossing his headgear. I can only imagine what the reaction on this board would have been like.
