I’ve been working on some team power rankings to release at some point this week, and Somers made its case for the top five in Division 1 with a title at the Chase Media Group Holiday Classic at Yorktown yesterday. As detailed in my article which appeared in today’s paper, the Tuskers championship match against Yorktown featured an interesting strategic battle that produced similar results. The final score of 37-34 was the same exact score that Somers won by when the two teams met in the Section 1 Dual Meet tourney.
The Tuskers bumped Brian Realbuto all the way up to 170 pounds in an effort to take a win away from one of Yorktown’s big guns, namely Steven Sabella. But the ‘Huskers countered by bumping Sabella up to 182 and Thomas Murray up to 195, which we might as well start referring to as the “B-Real Treatment.” You can expect most teams to avoid Section 1’s all-time wins leader at all costs in a dual meet setting.
Since Sabella and Murray were still able to pick up wins for Yorktown, the final score of the match didn’t change. Somers tried to take a win away from the ‘Huskers at 285 by bumping Dom DeVita up to wrestle against David Varian, but Varian prevailed in triple OT. It was an encouraging match for DeVita, who hung tough with one of the top super heavyweights in the section. (On a side note, look for Varian vs. Hen Hud’s Sean Barry in their dual meet on Tuesday. Those are the top two supers in my weight class rankings.)
Overall, Realbuto, his brother Dylan and Nick Giancaspro each went undefeated for the Tuskers over the weekend. DeVita’s only loss came against Varian, while Luke Roediger, Larry Courtine, Kyle Turchick and Mark Lasar also had strong showings. For Yorktown, Sabella, Murray, Varian, Joe Mastro and Jimmy Kaishain did not lose over the course of the two day tournament.
The biggest surprise of the tournament was Ossining, which placed third by defeating Croton-Harmon in the consolation dual, 49-25. The Pride are making a case to be ranked in the top 10 after they finished ahead of the likes of Carmel, Sleepy Hollow, Hen Hud and John Jay. We all know about Alex Delacruz, but Devante Harrell and Andy Balcomb also went undefeated for the weekend. They’ve taken some beatings in the past few years, but seem to really be coming together this season. Harrell is the only senior in Ossining’s lineup, so there’s still room to grow for this young team.
And lastly, with its fourth place finish, Croton-Harmon stated its case for a top three ranking in Division 2. The Tigers took care of Putnam Valley in impressive fashion with a 49-22 win, and placed higher than any other D2 school present.
Here’s a few tidbits from other tournaments that were going on over the weekend:
Hackley outlasts several local teams at the Irvington Duals: Hackley took second at the Irvington Dual Meet tournament over the weekend, placing higher than any Section 1 public school. Sayville from Long Island won the whole thing.
Hackley went 4-1 for the day, beating Irvington, Port Chester, Pawling and Brewster B. Justin Seim tied for the school record with 115 wins by defeating Chris Siracusa in the final. He was named the Champion of Champions after going 5-0 for the day, improving to 15-0 for the season. Tappan Zee placed third, and Port Chester placed fourth.
Here is the box score from the final:
Sayville 66, Hackley 15
99 — B. Hald (S) won by forfeit. 106 — C. McAuliff (S) won by forfeit. 113 — M. Farese (S) dec. Steve Zak (H) 12-1. 120 — J. Siracusa (S) won forfeit. 126 — M. Leshinger (S) dec. Dan Shaw (H) 23-7. 132 — Justin Seim (H) dec. C. Siracusa (S) 3-2 (OT). 138 — N. Pesko (S) pin Chris Breen (H) 4:16. 145 — L. Ciancimino (S) pin Josh Terry (H) :36. 152 — D. Caliendo (S) won forfeit. 160 — K. O’Connor (S) pin Damis Yancopoulos (H) 1:44. 170 — J. Meyer (S) won forfeit. 182 — R. Reyes (S) dec. Will Johnson (H) 8-4. 195 — K. Bethea (S) pin Rodrigo Mejias (H) :20. 220 — Xavier Carmona (H) pin J. Papa (S) 1:15. 285 — Ben Jurcic (H) won by forfeit.
Brewster wins Lewis Johnson Memorial Dual Meet tournament: Coming off of its big win at the Section 1 Dual Meet championship on Wednesday, the Bears carried that momentum to a title at Ravena HS on Saturday. They defeated Onteora, RC Ketchem, Bethlehem, Ravena and Saugerties.
Senior Mike Parise was name the Most Outstanding Wrestler from 99-145 pounds. Parise, Tyler Gonska, Jimmy Duncan and Gino Gioelli each went 5-o for Brewster. Tommy Gonska went 3-0, and Liam Erickson went 2-0. Andrew Sion, Kyle McAlpin and Harry Erickson each went 4-1.
Muldoon vs. Benderoth: I know that many of you have commented about liking when I can take videos and put them up on the blog. I took some yesterday, but have been having some technical issues getting them up on the web. I received an email from a blogger though with a pretty interesting match that I thought you all might like to see.
Pearl River’s John Muldoon upset North Rockland’s Blaise Benderoth at 106 pounds on Thursday. There’s two parts. Here’s the first one. And here’s the second.
If anyone ever takes any good videos, feel free to either post them in the comments section or email them to me. I’d be glad to post them.
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Port Chester sent a B team to Irvington and beat Ossining in a dual meet last week. Ossining is not a top 10 team!
awesome post Vince!
not to be too negative but i wouldnt put too much on the Yorktown Duals it wasn’t the stiffest competition some teams didnt return this year and some that were there are down this year.
All he said was Ossining was making a case for being in the top 10, he didnt say they were in
Div 1 is Fox Lane and Brewster and a pack of guys chasing them
Div 2 is Nanuet and Edgemont and a smaller pack chasing
D1
1. Fox Lane
2. Brewster
3. NoRock
4. NewRock
5. Somers
6. RCK
7. Yorktown
8. Suffern
9. Mahopac
10. Clarkstown someone
(i put about as much time of thought, as i did time typing that so feel free to shuffle 5-10)
D2
1.Nanuet
2.Edgemont
3.Croton
4.Irvington
5.Pleasantville
6.Put Valley (if they ever have a healthy lineup come sectionals they will do better)
Rankings,
0ssining minus the 2 forfeits beat Portchester on the mat. The ref missed the pin at the end of the 99lb match. Ossining is coming together and with only one senior on the team they need to find some heavy weights to make a run at a sectional title.
96
1.Dillon-Nan – lost to Tyler
2.Aslanian,Tyler – Edge – lost to Barsuch
3.Barsuch – Croton – hasn’t wrestled Dillon
-leaving them ranked same as preseason based on last year
106 (orig. Dosin, Korek, Wexler)
1. Skokos- Nan -no D2 losses
2. Korek – Edge – pinned by Skokos
3. Dosin
Hastingsno results4. Wexler – limited results
113 (org. Trey, Patenestro, Powell)
1. Trey -easy
2. Patenestro – only D2 loss to Skokos
3. AJ Mirabal- Put Valley -out for sectionals last year
4. Jimenez
Irvplaced 2 years ago, didnt wrestle last year5. Powell – North Salem, not sure why he was ranked
120 (org. Longo, Calvano, Frederich)
1. Frederich- Croton – Longo and Calvano have yet to wrestle 120
2. Dooz
DFpinned by Frederich3. Abramsky
Edgepinned by Frederich126. (org. Kyreakedes, Occhipinti, Dillon)
1.Occhipinti – Croton – beat Kyreakedes the smaller guys are moving up from 112 to his weight
2.Longo – Ard
3. Calvano – Nan -has missed time, not sure why, rumors of knee injury last year, is it back ?
4.Kyreakedes – bad ankle injury
5. Chris Bruno – placed 3rd at 112 last year, pinned by Occhipinti
132 (org Rogener, O’Malley, Kelvas)
1. Dillon – lost to Rogener but @ 138
2. Kelvas
Put Valleybeat O’malley, 3rd at 126 last year3. Hopkins – Edge – pinned by Kyreakedes, finished above O’Malley last year
4.O’Malley – Croton – lost to Kelvas
138 (org. McCormack, Martin, O’Halloran)
1. Rogener
Westhas been wrestling up, beat Dillon2. Berman- Edge – beat Martin, might be bumped up for McCormack ?
3.Martin
Crotonlost to Berman and Pastore, beat Berman last year145 (org Pastore, Muriqi, Porter)
1. Pastore – beat McCormack and Martin
2. McCormack
Edgelost to Pastore, beat Horan3. Horan
Crotonbeat O’Halloran4. O’Halloran – lost to Horan
porter is up, Muriqi is the wrong brother
152 (org Solis, Smith, Kim)
1. Porter – Pawling – beat Solis
2. Solis – Westlake – lost to Porter, Bulmann
kim is up, smith is up
160 (org Oks, Buhlmann, Salzarulo)
1.Buhlman-Nan – inj def over Oks, beat Solis
2. Oks
Edgeinjured3. Sazarulo
Pvillelost to Smith(Nan)170 (org Messinger, Degnan, Worobow)
1.Smith
Nanbeat Coffinas(Ws), Sazarulo, Worobow, Kim2.Messinger
PVno results entered3. Worobow- Edge
4. Boyle -DF beat Kim and Kantor of Edgemont
182. (org Mold, Kraft, Brundage)
1. Mold -Pawling
2. Brundage – Nan
195. (org Briet, Pavloff, Ventura)
1.Briet – Nan – beat Kornberg @ 220
2.DeLeon – DF – beat Kraft
3.Kraft -Croton
220 (org DiNardo (hurt), Kornberg, Hay)
1. Kornberg -Edge-beat Ventura
2. Ventura – Nan
3. Pavloff – Croton
4. Hay – PV – no results
285 same
1. Aniyche – Pville
2. Manzo – Westlake
3. DiNardo – Irvington
About Blogatron’s rankings—as we all know there can be a big difference between ranking teams as best dual vs best individual tournament team. Your rankings are probably pretty accurate as an overall team ranking. The trend for the last few yrs is to get in a lot of dual meet tournaments in the early part of the season. They are great for getting your guys lots of matches (& wins) and getting your team wrestling well together. But we haven’t really gotten far enough into the tourney season to see how things will shake out. Guys will get hurt, change weight classes, elevate their game, etc…
Come sectional time we all know FL will have mult. champs and should be at the top. Brewster may be a very balanced team but may have 1 champ. Yorktown could have anywhere from 0 to a couple of champs. New Ro is always very strong at the end of the year and could have a few champs. NoRock could have 0 to a few champs. There should be some pretty balanced brackets in the D1 sectional tourney depending on where certain guys go.
The D2 teams are all over the place after the top 2. Nanuet should take it with the most champs but Edgemont will be right behind them. Westlake is bad dual team but could have a few champs. Croton and Irvington and P’ville probably only 1 each.
Westlake will probably have one, their guys haven’t been dominant
Brewster is deep and will place a lot of guys, but they’ll need to place high enough to keep them near the toop. but yeah it was more a hybrid ranking not really dual or tourney, just a mix
1. Brewster
2. Fox Lane
3. North Rockland
4. New Rochelle
5. Somers
6. Suffern
7. Yorktown
8. RCK
9. Mahopac
10. Scarsdale
Brewster ahead of Fox Lane?
Ossining is up and coming but no respect for there coaching staff they wrestled somers and didn’t wrestle delacruz vs realbuto but they bumped delacruz up vs croutons and in other matches. Even last week vs Ettlinger of Fox lane. Why wouldn’t you wrestle a quality kid like Dylan realbuto state runner up? Win or lose delacruz would of got seeding points! Maybe I’m old school but I prefer to wrestle the best especially in a early tournament were you weren’t going to win the dual! Wake up ossining staff wrestle good competition when u have. A chance.
realdeal
what weight is croutons from Somers? and what was the score.
What was the score of Muldoon VS Blaise – big upset.
agree with d1 rankings… but Brewster and Fox Lane should be switched.
Also, i think 8-10 could be switched in any order.
1. Fox Lane
2. Brewster
3. North Rockland
4. New Rochelle
5. Somers
6. Suffern
7. Yorktown
8. RCK
9. Mahopac
10. Scarsdale
yes who is this Crouton ?
crouton= croton one tastes better in salad that the other
6-3 Muldoon… the kid came ready to wrestle and Blaise looked very flat. Not to discredit Muldoon, he came ready to wrestle and took care of business
If you are doing dual meet rankings, and for the most part thats the majority type of matches wrestled so far, then ranking Brewster #1 is fine because they did beat FL. I may think FL is still a better team, but you can’t argue against Brewster.
North Rockland is right up there as well for dual meet rankings.
For medium sized individual tourneys, Brewster will be right up there with FL due to being strong
thruout their entire lineup, while in bigger tourneys like Eastern States and Sectionals FL will pull ahead.
cya
is it safe to say that TZ 220 man, Chris McGann, is the best in the section?
Puck
Bryan Burger of Suffern pinned TZ 220 Chris McGann
i thnk Brewster can do pretty good at sectionals if some of these guys that give them strength in duals make runs at sectionals.
Ty Gonska, Parise, Erickson, Tom Gonska, Duncan, Gioelli, McAlpin, Erickson, Albertassi, even Liston (never know with supers) not insane to think ALL these guys, if not most place at sectionals. If you can place 8-10 guys you’re going to do pretty darn good
heres something to remember during sectionals..
Tournament scoring 6 places: 16-12-9-7-5-3
so one 2nd place finsher is the same as four 6th place guys. one champ is more points than a 4th, 5th, and 6th place finisher. not including bonus points.
thats why fox lane wont be challenged at sectionals. the race is for 2nd between somers, mahopac, brewster, north rockland, New rochelle. 7-10 will be between scarsdale, rck, yorktown, suffern.
oldskool, what would your ranking be for top 10 at sectionals?
Have to wait until Janurary to see actual weights for the guys.
cya
D2
I would add Smalsky from Ardsley to the 113 conversation. I would put him 2 or 3. JMO
1. Fox lane
2. Somers
3. North rockland
4. New rochelle
5. Mahopac
6. Brewster
7. Scarsdale
8. Yorktown
9. Rck
10. Arlington
11. Suffern
12. Jjef
13. Ossining
14. Sleepy
15. Clarkstown south
16. Carmel
17. Clarkstown north
18. Nyack
19. Tapan zee
20. Harrison
That’s sectional finish. Teams like mahopac and Somers will do better at sectionals than what we consider them ranked. Brewster will do worse but they are #1 “team” and proved it on the mat.
Besides Bachmeier, Strednicki, and Spinelli, who does Mahopac have who
can place at sectionals?
I agree. Brewster can place anywhere from 2nd to 5th, with Mahopac 6th at best.
cya
2 champs and a 3rd/4th may be good enough for 5th or better at sectionals. They also have camastro who placed last year, their 60lber will Prob place as well.
joe simolacaj from rye is the best wrestler in section 1