Despite the fact that neither team was at full strength on Monday, Nanuet’s 49-32 win over Edgemont in the Section 1 Dual Meet tournament Division 2 championship sent a clear message that the Golden Knights are still the team to beat. After the meet, Nanuet coach Carmine Serra told me that his team is ahead of where his section championship team was at this point last season. Even without Anthony Calvano, who many consider to be the Golden Knights top wrestler pound-for-pound, Nanuet received contributions from up and down the lineup.
The biggest performance came from Dan Breit (pictured above), who bumped up from 195 pounds to wrestle Danny Kornberg at 220. Breit was at a size disadvantage, but used his quickness to starve off any offense from Kornberg for the 7-4 decision. That enabled the Golden Knights to continue a streak of eight straight wins from 160-106 pounds, effectively taking away a win that the Panthers had banked on.
The other thing that really hurt Edgemont was all of the forfeits. The Panthers gave up 24 points, which ultimately cost them the match. The absence of Trey and Tyler Aslanian, along with Skylar Korek and Jason Worobow, most certainly took its toll. But even with its full lineup, Edgemont would still be forfeiting at 195 and 285, which is why I still believe that Nanuet would have prevailed.
I took some videos of a few key matches. Here are the links:
- At 132, Nanuet’s Matt Dillon defeated Edgemont’s Colin Hopkins by major decision, 10-0.
- At 220, the big matchup of the day featured Nanuet’s Dan Breit defeating Edgemont’s Danny Kornberg by decision, 7-4.
I’ll be back later today with a preview of tomorrow’s Division 1 final four…
8 Comments
Edgemont gave up a grand total of 30 gimme points. 4 forfeits plus the injury forefit, nanuet won 49-32. That mean that they only got 19 points on their own behalf, 6 of which were from a pin at 99 to kyle aslanian, a kid who weighs signifigantly less than dillon, and a match that could have potentially swung the other way had tyler been wrestling. Im sorry, but even the addition of calvano does not take away from the fact that edgemont clearly wont this dual meet, while on paper the victory went to nanuet, and im not trying to take anything anway from those boys, they work hard and are good wrestlers, but this dual was not representative of how it should have gone
thompson out as well, graybeal got 5 where he might have gave up 6
126 Thompson
132 Calvano
138 Dillon
changes things a bit too
Jus’ Sayin
It’s not like Edgemont doesn’t get another chance in the sectional tournament at the end of the season to show there stuff. Even though I think they will still take a backseat to the Gray Knights
Hi-C,
I agree, they will get their chance in February. If Edgemont is healthy it will be close but Nanuet is now the team to beat.
Quit Making excuses you lost with the team you had in Dec 12th to the team nanuet had on Dec 12. Just happens that day was d2 dual championship. Simple as that injuries sickness are a part of this sport. Congratulate the d2 camps and use it as motivation for sectionals. It only make you look worse to make excuses
oldskool,
Who is making excuses? All I said was if Edgemont is healthy they could make a run and said that Nanuet is the team to beat. If Edgemont is not healthy it won’t be close.
Just sayin is, read the first post. Not you, you were fair. Unless you feel guilty that you were making excuses
If I felt guilty I would not have posted. Agreed, Just sayin does sound like he was making excuses.