Eleven teams on two mats wrestling back to fifth makes for a long day.  Too long, in fact.  However, we did fairly well with only eleven wrestlers.  The team finished 4th out of eleven, with nine guys placing.

Champions: Xavier Bailey, Charlie Dew, Jake Reinemund

2nd place: Skylar Kitchen

3rd place: Anthony Samperisi

4th place: Jeff Cramer

5th place: Matt Hannah, Kyle Hays, Matt Watson

The Hawks JV's put 17 in the finals or consolation finals at Saturday's JV Grind at WJ.  Individual placewinners are listed below.  The best news: 11 of them are freshmen.  Great job, guys!

1st: Jacob Salzer, Andreas Riggins, Javon Johnson, Chris Sauls

2nd: Hunter Blake, Cole Reinemund, Joey Roach,

         Dalton Bealer, Blake Raynor

3rd: Tyler Perkins, Lee Cupick, Mitch Brady, Alex Pajon

4th: Ryan Fawcette, Vincent Faulk, Ryan Schaffner,

        John Demcovici

      After Wednesday's match with Cary, it would have been easy for us to start doubting ourselves.  But we haven't trained this hard to get discouraged by one match.  We decided to try our hand at a new duals, so we headed over to West Johnston for a little heads-up competition.  Things went well, very well.

     First, we went 4-1, defeating Clinton 72-12, a pesky Fuquay-Varina 46-30, Gray's Creek 65-12, and Pine Forest 52-28.  The loss was a heartbreaker to West Johnston, 33-42, which is only a one pin swing.

Second, outstanding individual performances for the day:                                         

5-0: Jake Reinemund and Skylar Kitchen

4-0: Leo Diaz and Anthony Sampeisi                                                                                        

4-1: Charlie Dew, Xavier Bailey, and Big Matt Hannah                                                          

3-1: Kyle Hays                                                                                                                                    

2-0: Devin Porter and Cole Reinemund

Due to various circumstances, we had to take several young wrestlers to fill in some spots.  Congratulations to Blake Raynor, Andreas Riggins, John Demcovici, Myles Jones, and Sean Duncan for their first-ever varsity wins.  Thanks for your help, guys!

Missing basically two starters, the wrestling Hawks still took 3rd at the tough Western Harnett Invitational.  Placewinners for the tournament:

125: Jake Reinemund  1st

140: Jeff Cramer  2nd

160: Kyle Hays  2nd

171: Xavier Bailey  2nd

130: Charlie Dew  3rd

119: Matt Watson  4th

215: Anthony Samperisi  4th

On Tuesday the Hawks defeated the Yellowjackets of Lee County 61-13 in their second Tri-Nine conference match.  Winners for the Hawks were Matt Hannah, Tyler Perkins, Matt Watson, Hunter Blake, Jake Reinemund, Charlie Dew, Jeff Cramer, Skylar Kitchen, Don Sill, Kyle Hays, and Devin Porter.

 Individual JV winners were Andreas Riggins, Cody McKeon, CJ Cooper,  Seth English, Chris Sauls (2x), Brandon Ballance, Kylen Blanchette, and Jacob Salzer.

HSHS  48  Apex  23

HSHS  42  Cardinal Gibbons  35

HSHS  67  Southern Durham  9

HSHS  63  Broughton  16

HSHS  21  Panther Creek 55

Varsity individual records for the day:  5-0: Skylar Kitchen; 4-1: Matt Hannah, Jake Reinemund, Charlie Dew, and Leo Diaz; 3-0: Devin Porter; 3-2: Matt Watson, Hunter Blake, and Anthony Samperisi.

JV individual records for the day: 4-0: Jacob Salzer and Ramsey Haddad; 3-0: Joey Roach and Kylen Blanchette; 3-1: Micah Drengler; 2-1: Lee Cupick, Andreas Riggins, John Demcovici, Brandon Ballance; 2-0: Javon Johnson, Jon Rolon, Ryan Schaffner, Mitch Brady, and Tyler Perkins.