Videos from the D1 quarters
A great day of wrestling was capped with an upset of epic proportions in the 285-pound quarterfinals. Eighth-seeded Justin Douglas of New Rochelle came up with a thrilling overtime win over top-seeded Sean Barry of Hen Hud, 3-1. Barry has been the favorite to win a title at 285 all season, but the inexperienced Douglas was up for the task.
Incredibly, Douglas had never wrestled before this season. As a key member of the Huguenots’ football, he was recruited to wrestle, but he did not know much about the sport coming in. He couldn’t even crack New Ro’s lineup for the first few weeks, and lost his first five matches when he did. But he’s proved to be a fast learner, and finished the season strong.
As a natural athlete, I know the Huguenots coaches were excited about the junior’s potential. But coming up with a win like this in his first season had to exceed even their wildest expectations.
He battled Barry to a 1-1 tie through three periods, which forced OT. Barry was on top of him for much of the third period, but was unable to turn him. They both looked gassed going into OT, but Douglas seemed to have a bit more in the tank. Barry went for the headlock, but Douglas was ready, and came up with a takedown to end the match.
There weren’t too many other major surprises on Day 1. Everything in D2 was pretty much chalk, and there were only a handful of guys that were seeded sixth or higher who made it to the semis from D1: Danny Murphy (sixth at 126), Luke Minasi (10th at 132), Max Bachmeier (sixth at 138), Tome Marku (seventh at 182), and Nick Giancaspro (seventh at 195).
The biggest upset of the first round came at 132 pounds, where 15th-seeded Fred Saintil of Mount Vernon pinned second-seeded Mike Morabito of RC Ketcham.
North Rockland had more wrestlers make the semis than any other team with six (Blaise Benderoth at 106, Troy Feniger at 113, Jake DiMarsico at 120, Matt Caputo at 126, Mike Caputo at 145, and Ryan Boyle at 182). Defending champion Fox Lane put five wrestlers in the semis, as did New Ro.
Here are some videos that I took from the quarters:
- 120: Jake DiMarsico (North Rockland) defeated Jimmy Kaishian (Yorktown), 4-2 in OT. I had to tape the OT period separate. Click here for that.
- 138: Max Bachmeier (Mahopac) defeated Charlie Garcia (Tappan Zee), 5-3.
- 170: Brenden Nunziata (Arlington) defeated Harry Erickson (Brewster), 4-1.
- 195: Nick Giancaspro (Somers) defeated Deondre Pierce (Beacon), 9-5. Awesome third period in this one.
- 285: I caught the OT period of Douglas’ 3-1 win over Barry. Watch coach Jim Guccione’s reaction. The old man still has some ups!
See you all at Pace tomorrow! Wrestling begins at 9 a.m., with the finals scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
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vince, who gave you the info on the Barry match? the kid headlocked him, put him to his back, rode him out almost turning him again, escaped right away in the second period and you wonder why one is more gassed than the other? All the other kid did was back up the entire match even when he had a stall called against him. the question is how a guy who didn’t hit one move (apparently just learning according to you) the entire match can upset the #1 seed….it wasn’t a thrilling match…it was a rip off. Its not fair that these kids work hard all year and get it taken away by poor officiating.
In D2 Croton had a few upsets to set them up nice for a top 3 finish. 8 guys in the semis. 5th seed 8th grader Tommy Shulze pinned Rich Dosin (finalist last year), Andrew Horan avenged a loss against your prediction and beat Abrahante.
Max Abramsky was defeated Aiden Conroy of Ardsley @120, Chris DiNardo of Irvington and Mike Manzo of westlake were scratches making Anyiche a huge favorite at 285.
Apparently D1 wasn’t able to run their tournament as smoothly in a large venue (just kidding probably more bouts for d1) but it seems D1 is a round behind and won’t start with the semifinals, they will be kicking things off with a round of wrestlebacks. Guess finals will be a little later. Semis probably won’t start till about 10:30
Why does d2 place out to 6th??? Other than 132, 38, 45, 60 the other 11 weight classes have less than 12 kids. So you can be worse than half the kids in d2, yet still say you placed in sectionals. Sad to admit it, but i can see why there are all these d2 haters
How many champs will North Rockland have? I say ZERO, perhaps one.
I think d2 only places out to 3rd. And cradle, a win is a win. Every wrestler has been screwed over by refs. However, on this occasion, the ref did fine. He knew the rule book and made fair calls based off of it.
They place till 6th because its a tournament, most place to 6th. But you only get all section for top 2. And Nevermind numbers you have a decent field in a lot of weights, decent for a section one d2 field.
99 aslanian, dillon, barsuch, k. Aslanian, kelvas hasn’t been this deep in a while. Night exactly Longo and trey but some decent depth for 113 small schools.
113 you have Trey as a clear favorite and you have Samolksy, Jimenez, Mirabal, paternastro all pretty competitive amongst each other.
120 Calvano gets a lot off attention but Frederich, Dooz, Abramsky, Conroy can hold their own
189 has Briet who is a stud and the Ventura who placed at rocklands, kraft who placed at super 16 and degnan and deleon to add depth as well as weigard from Lourdes. There are some weights that might have some weaker guys placing but their are enough with competitive guys, and at 138 you have competitive guys who won’t place
shut up cradle, just cause douglas is a new wrestler this year doesnt mean he didnt deserve it, he beat barry fair, if anything barry didnt deserve to make it to finals if he lost to a new wrestler, doesnt matter though can Varian’s gonna crush douglas