OK, I’ll play your game you rogue. I’ve been hearing some chatter about the dream match between Justis Flamio and Steve Rodrigues from Tuesday’s Dual Meet Championship, which Flamio narrowly won. The smart money is on them meeting again in the 125-pound sectional final. So by season’s end, I want… Read More →
I’ll be at Fox Lane today for a great duel with up-and-coming Brewster. Brewster at Fox Lane, 4:30 p.m. Clarkstown North at Nanuet, 4:30 p.m. East Ramapo at Pearl River, 4:30 p.m. Mamaroneck at White Plains, 4:30 p.m. Scarsdale at Sleepy Hollow, 4:30 p.m. Dobbs Ferry at Ardsley, 4:30 p.m…. Read More →
Vin Nicita at harrison tells me that his team, Arlington, and Yonkers are all participating in the KSA tournament at Disney World. They all leave today and begin competition tomorrow. You can find more info here. Champions get their picture taken with Goofy. If they’re lucky at least.
Anybody see these meets? New Rochelle 61, Yonkers 14 At New Rochelle 130 — Matt Jankowski (NR) pin Narli Ruiz, 0:39; 135 — Amarildo Gjondrekaj (Y) dec. James Laurent, 11-5; 140 — Mike Figueroa (NR) pin. Chris Louis, 3:02; 145 — Anthony Gabrielle (NR) tech fall John Marcano, 22-6 ;... Read More →
So what’s new? Make it three Dual Meet titles in three seasons for the Indians after a 52-24 handling of Arlington. Keep in mind this event has only been around three years. So no other team has felt the pleasure of winning this team championship. Every year John Jay is… Read More →
Worry not, wrestling fans, I’m back from vacation. We’re going to get this blog and the Journal News wrestling coverage fired up again starting now. In a few minutes I’m heading to John Jay to cover the semifinals and finals of the Dual Meet Championship. John Jay and Fox Lane… Read More →
I’ll be going on vacation starting today and will return on Tuesday. I won’t be active on the blog during that time but once I get back I’ll read all your comments so don’t hesitate to keep the conversation going. If you’ve been attending Duals or this weekend’s tournaments, other… Read More →
Horace Greeley 45 East Chester 42 112 Kurt hellthaler (EC) fall .48 Kolbe Jendzjevic (HG) 119 Tom matorello (EC) fall 4.26 Mike Orbeta (HG) 125 Jon Russo (HG) fall 4.27 Alban Kujaj (EC) 130 Matt Mercer (HG) 11 Nick Perlleohi (EC) 8 135 Dave Massi (EC) fall .51 Ben Perlmutter… Read More →
Port Chester wins the outbracket and will face North Rockland in the first round. Mamaroneck High School: 37 Port Chester Sr High School: 44 96: Rodriguez, Kevin (Port Chester Sr High School) FALL Alvarado, Julio(Mamaroneck High School) 0:57 103: Rodriguez, Joey (Port Chester Sr High School) TF (Mamaroneck High School)... Read More →
I’m going to close out the first poll of the season today. Although the number of votes was fairly low the percentages were convincing. Eighty-six percent of you said the new rule that prohibits wrestlers from shaking hands with the opposing coach is unnecessary. So either Section 1 is overly… Read More →
The new voter poll will be about the Dual Meet Championship, so vote quickly. Who will win? Will it be defending champ John Jay? Fox Lane? Someone else? Vote now.
Eastchester 47, Byram Hills 42 At Eastchester 160 — Brady Condron (BH) pin. Mike D’Ambrosia, 3:00; 171 —Mike Reda (BH) pin. Blaise Ridulfo, 0:55; 189 — Ryan Gunderson (BH) pin. Steve Sorgi, 1:32; 215 —Joe Simon (BH) pin. Dave Schonborg, 1:59; 285 — Keith Shurman (BH) pin. Ofvaldo Romero, 1:22;... Read More →
LATHAM, NY – The New York State Public High School Athletic Association has announced tickets are on sale beginning December 16th for the 2010 high school wrestling state championships at the Times Union Center on Friday, February 26th and Saturday, February 27th. The Association has also released its official competition… Read More →
The Dual Meet championships begin on Tuesday with outbrackets and conclude the following Tuesday, Dec. 15 with the Final Four. I won’t begin to lay out the bracket I got from coordinator Eric Romanino. It takes up four tabs in an Excel spreadsheet and looks like something a rat should… Read More →
Tom Josephson submitted these Carlucci results the other night as a blog comment but I missed them. Fox Lane was a perfect 6-0 and won the tourney. Fox Lane’s label last year was that their elite guys weren’t enough to win duals against deep teams. It’s only one tourney but… Read More →
Edgemont was at the Kingston Duals this weekend where they wrestled a hefty nine matches. They went just 3-6, but the Panther roster was bare bones. Only the starters came and somne of them were struck down by injury and illness. Lot of forfeits. Overall assistant coach Pete Jacobson seemed… Read More →
Brewster cruised to a monstrous win at the Rye tournament, winning by 100+ points. Twelve different Bears made the finals and nine of them won. Bernardo Magalhaes, the 171 champ, was MOW. Scarsdale was second and Mahopac, which was without Justis Flamio (he sat out so he could attend another… Read More →
Somers 89, St. John’s-B 0 At Eagle River Academy 96 — Dylan Realbuto (S) won by forfeit; 103 — Kyle Turchik (S) pin. Jack McDermott, :48; 112 — Peter Johnson (S) pin. Claude Balls, 5:02; 119 — Brian Realbuto (S) won by forfeit; 125 — Brett Emmanuel (S) won by… Read More →
I’ll update as results come in. Somers 67, Horace Greeley 9 At Somers 96 — Dylan Realbuto (S) pin. Atlas, 0:24; 103 — Kyle Turchik (S) tech fall Schwartz, 17-2; 112 — Peter Johnson (S) won by forfeit; 119 — Brian Realbuto (S) pin. Orbeta, 0:22; 125 — Brett Emmanuel… Read More →
Mamaroneck 66, Mount Vernon 15 At Mamaroneck 96 — Julio Alvarado (Mk) pin Zabel Ocean, :42; 103 — Joe Angilletta (Mk) won by forfeit; 112 — Michael Salko (Mk) pin Fred Santil, 1:46; 119 — Ben Miller (Mk) won by forefit; 125 — John White (Mk) won by forfeit; 130… Read More →
Just heard back from Greg Domestico at Port Chester. His tournament, the Tony Carlucci tournament, will be a two-day affair at SUNY Purchase. Action begins at 4:30 p.m. Friday. There will be three rounds, the last of which is 8 p.m. On Saturday things kick up again at 9:30 a.m…. Read More →
The 2009-10 tournament season kicks off with Port Chester on Friday. I’m tracking down some information on that and will post it as soon as I hear from Greg Domestico. I did talk to Matt Beckley over at Rye, who filled me in on the season’s second tourney. Rye hosts… Read More →
Yorktown at Ossining, 4:30 p.m. Nanuet at Suffern, 4:30 p.m. Nyack at Clarkstown North, 4:30 p.m. Tappan Zee at East Ramapo, 4:30 p.m. Mount Vernon at Mamaroneck, 4:30 p.m. Sleepy Hollow at Yonkers, 4:30 p.m. Hastings at Edgemont, 4:30 p.m. Eastchester at Dobbs Ferry, 4:30 p.m Irvington at Woodlands, 4:30… Read More →
