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Sunday, January 29
Sudbury Town Crier Article - 1.26.06
Wrestlers take Wayland to brink
By Special To The Crier
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Despite what was said in some quarters, Wayland escaped with a narrow wrestling victory Wednesday, January 18 over the Lincoln-Sudbury Warriors, so, if wrestling fans were to believe the aforementioned comments in the MetroWest News, you were grossly misled.
The orange and black clad Warriors beat a young L-S team, 34-27, in a rocking, packed, western Warriordome. If Wayland fans were looking for a blow out it didn’t happen. In high school wrestling, it’s all about the matchups, not who is better on paper. Fans and Wayland wrestlers, please take note.
The loss drops L-S into a tie for second place with Weston and Weston comes to town January 31.
On Saturday, L-S hosted two of the top three teams in the Central D-2 Sectional, one, the top team in the state, Franklin, and the other, Quabbin Regional. Quabbin has a long and storied tradition of wrestling prowess. The Q boys were moved this year to the Central Section D-2, from D-3 North. A member of the Mid-Wach League, Quabbin wrestles quite a few Western Mass schools, so this will be the first time many Central Section schools have seen them.
From the events on Saturday, it looks like L-S and Quabbin will be fighting it out for a second-place finish in the D-2 Sections behind Frankenstein, excuse me, Franklin.
A trio of close matches going not the way they should have for L-S turned the tide in favor of Quabbin in the first dual of the day. Dave Ciampa, at 119 for L-S, lost a 3-0 thriller to Santo Goodwin of the Q-boys, Justin Nicholson, at 171 for L-S, lost a 6-3 decision to Alba Netshan of Quabbin, and Lee Gavin, at 145 for L-S, lost a one-point decision, 6-5, to Tom Gorman. In Gavin’s case the clock ran out, he did not get out wrestled.
On the positive side in the 39-32 loss to the Q-boys, Steve Baez at 112, won by fall, Jeff McKinnon, at 130, did the same, as did Nico von Stackelberg at 160. Eliot Gibbs won by a tech fall, 16-1, over Sherm Stacey of Quabbin at 140.
Against Keefe Tech/Ashland, a co-op team, L-S won seven out of the first nine bouts, routing the visitors 45-22. Eric Pennington, at 189, Jason Orlando, at 275, Jordan Syatt, at 103, Baez, at 112, Ryan McCann, at 125, all won by fall and Will Binder, at 130, won a thriller, an 11-10 against Ryan Mulkern of KT/A. Nicholson, at 171, stuck Ryan Messom of KT/A in 2:56, rounded out the scoring.
Keefe Tech/Ashland must have felt totally out of place having to go against Franklin, L-S and the Q-boys, but that’s the hand they were dealt.
Then the monster, Frankenstein High school, Franklin High, put a big hit on L-S. The Panthers scored 58 and L-S could muster only 12 points.
The two losses on the day puts the L-S dual record at 14-5 on the year. L-S has lost to Natick, Franklin, Quabbin, Waltham and Wayland, all ranked teams. In the losses to Waltham, Quabbin and Wayland, L-S was only one win away from being on the opposite side. A team does not get any better wrestling out manned programs, it only progresses against the best, and L-S certainly has wrestled the best.
L-S is off until Saturday when it travels to Corinth, New York for the Corinth Invitational.
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