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Panther wrestling takes a tough loss against Cornwall

Joseph McDoal
Posted 12/24/24

MONTICELLO–– The Monticello Panthers hosted the Cornwall Dragons for a wrestling meet. Coach Pat Owens seemed slightly apprehensive before the meet, noting that “Cornwall is always …

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Panther wrestling takes a tough loss against Cornwall

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MONTICELLO–– The Monticello Panthers hosted the Cornwall Dragons for a wrestling meet. Coach Pat Owens seemed slightly apprehensive before the meet, noting that “Cornwall is always a consistent team and has a larger wrestling program. They have some good wrestlers, and this should be a tough match.” 

Unfortunately, Monticello lost the bout 15-54 against Cornwall, but they had some impressive matches and each wrestler fought hard. 

Results:

Cornwall 54-Monticello 15

145 lbs (Scott Larusso v. Richard Williams): Williams started with 3 early mat return takedowns and got back positioning on top of Larusso. Larusso was finally able to get free in the last few seconds of the first round and ended the round with Larusso down 2-3. Early in the second round Williams was able to score big twice to put him up 3-12 going into the final round. Williams got a big double leg takedown to start the final round and ended the final round with a 3-16 win on points for Cornwall. 

152 lbs (Jaden Ortega v. Kyler Furst): Furst started the round with an explosive ankle pick to takedown Ortega and get top position. Furst ended the match quickly with a pin after about a minute. 

160 lbs (Chase Persdon v. Marc Henke): Persdon started aggressively with an attempt at a double leg that Henke was able to sprawl out of. Henke reversed and was able to score to put him up 3-5 going into the second round. While down by four points Chase was able to flatten Henke onto his back and secure a pin with 20 seconds left. 

170 lbs (Max Barbosa v. Kiefer Grossman): With a lot of early gang fighting it seemed like neither wrestler could get an advantage. Then Barbosa shot for a double leg that Grossman reversed to put him up 1-3 over Barbosa. Barbosa was able to tie the score early in the second round but Grossman quickly responded by capitalizing on a poor takedown attempt by Barbosa to put him up 4-6 again. Grossman was able to take Barbosa down again and almost secured a pin but the clock ran down before he could pin. Grossman went into the final round up 4-16 over Barbosa. In the final round Grossman scored again putting him 15 points over Barbosa which led to a technical win for Grossman. 

190 lbs (Sincere Embry v. Noah Cisneros): Cisneros took Embry down with a headlock early on and was able to secure a pin within a minute of the first round. 

215 lbs (Dion Knight v. Michael Martinez): Both wrestlers continually trying to use collar ties for the entirety of the first round with neither wrestler getting dominant position or any points. Early in the second round Knight was able to score some points and got a dominant position twice before going out of bounds both times. 

Late in the round Knight hit an explosive double leg takedown and was able to get top position on Martinez. Knight started the final round up 5-1 over Martinez and immediately hit a big takedown for 3 more points. Martinez was able to get top position late in the round but Knight fought it and secured a win by points with 9-5 over Martinez. 

285 lbs (Julio Santiago v. Justin Walker): Santiago hit a quick single leg takedown into a pin about 30 seconds into his match. 

116 lbs (Zach Zuch v. Keaton Venarchids): Venarchids locked up a single leg takedown into a cradle pin in the first 20 seconds to win his match over Zach Zuch.  

124 lbs (Ronald Brigman v. Santiago Galbraith): After a lot of standing fighting, Brigman was able to get a big mat return into top position to score three points late in the first round. Then halfway through round two Galbraith hit a quick double leg takedown to tie the score 3-3. With four seconds left in the round Brigman was able to escape to put him up 4-3 going into the final round. In the last 30 seconds of the final round Galbraith scored with a big double leg takedown to secure a 4-7 victory over Brigman. 

131 lbs (Liam Brasington v. Xavier Clavell): Brasington started with a collar tie that he was able to pull down to get top positioning. But Clavell quickly reversed this and got Brasington onto his back for a quick pin 30 seconds into round one. 

138 lbs (Todd Petrowski v. Andrew Bonet): Both wrestlers started very quick and were dancing around each other. Then Bonet shot for a single leg that Petrowski defended perfectly. A battle for top positioning ensued that Petrowski was able to win for three points. The second round was a different story however with Bonet flipping Petrowski onto his back to secure a pin in the first 15 seconds of round two. 

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