Westtown hosted the Pennsylvania Independent Schools Wrestling Tournament (PAISWT) yesterday. Wyoming Seminary and Malvern Prep were the headliners, they came into the tournament ranked #2 and #3 in the country respectively. Sem had their entire team in the finals. Malvern 9, Germantown Academy 2, Mercersburg Academy, Hill School and Western Reserve Academy each had 1. […]
There were some noisy crickets or cicadas that I didn’t hear during the interview that are apparent on the playback. Sorry if the audio is inconsistent. You can listen on Sound Cloud below the YouTube link.
Council Rock South ran away with another regional title tonight in Souderton. While they weren’t as dominating as they were at last year’s regionals, a nearly impossible task. The team race was never in question. The real surprise was there closest opponent was cross town rival CR North, who matched them with 3 individual champions. […]
Tope 15 Team Scores. Finals video is posted below. 141 Council Rock South 79 Council Rock North 72 Downingtown West 69.5 Springford 65 WC Henderson 64.5 Owen J Roberts 64 Methacton 52 Boyertown 52 North Penn 43 Pope John Paul II 42 Strath Haven 41 Pennridge 40 Harry S Truman 5 Souderton 38 Downingtown East […]
Long time Ridley wrestling coach Carl Schnellenbach passed away, He has a PIAA record of 746-217-7. By Terry Toohey, Delaware County Daily Times As a child growing up in West Reading, Carl Schnellenbach was known as “Schnelly.” That moniker was later shortened by a letter to become one of the most recognizable handles in Delaware […]
Troy Sunderland started losing the desire to be in the Manheim Central wrestling room at some point during the 2015-16 season. The Manheim Central coach soon shared those feelings with George Derbyshire, the Barons’ longtime athletic director. The conversation was short, and ended with Sunderland informing Derbyshire he’d give it another year, that he’d coach […]
Reigning World champion, the most highly sought after recruit in years and America’s #1 High School wrestler in the country, Spencer Lee, had his first high school loss in the Pennsylvania state finals tonight. Lee was wearing a serious knee brace with word around the arena that he suffered a torn ACL earlier. Austin DeSanto, […]
By Mark Wogenrich Of The Morning Call At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Ray Nunamaker walked the venues wearing a Nazareth High School wrestling T-shirt. Someone stopped Nunamaker to express his high regard for the school’s wrestling team and its head coach. The fan didn’t realize he was speaking to the head coach himself. […]
Sanshiro “Sunny” Abe Named North Allegheny Head Coach 04/23/2015 by Jeff Upson When North Allegheny head coach Jamie Kyriazis stepped down last month the hunt was on for his replacement. The search didn’t go far – geographically speaking. Sanshrio “Sunny” Abe is no stranger to WPIAL Wrestling and the former Pittsburgh Central Catholic head coach […]
AAA BRACKETS AA BRACKETS Preliminaries First Round NE-1 Tyson Klump 11 Nazareth 11 20-10 SW-3 Louis Newell 9 Seneca Valley 7 31-6 SC-4 Jordon Harsh 10 Penn Manor 3 34-8 SE-1 Matt Parker 10 Pennridge 1 25-1 NW-3 Kolby Ho 9 DuBois 9 20-10 SW-2 Job Chishko 9 Penn Trafford 7 29-8 NW-2 Geo Barzona […]
Below are this weekend’s upcoming Post-Season Tournaments. Tournament brackets and information are included. more
AA Bracket link AAA Bracket link 2014-15 PIAA AA Team Championship top 4 1. Boiling Springs 2. Chestnut Ridge 3. Reynolds 4. Wyalusing Valley 2014-15 PIAA AAA Team Championship top 4 1. Franklin Regional 2. Cumberland Valley 3. Bethlehem Catholic-would have finished 2nd if there was a true second to this event. 4. North Allegheny
Class AAA #2 Franklin Regional vs. #6 Cumberland Valley 106 lbs. Cumberland Valley: #6 William Kalades or Russell Zimmerman Franklin Regional: Mark Prucnal Edge: Cumberland Valley If Kalades is here he would like to get bonus points but Prucnal may not allow it. 113 lbs. Cumberland Valley: Russell Zimmerman or #6 William Kalades Franklin Regional: […]
by Jeff Upson Leave a Comment DSC_0230As expected the match between returning State Champions Franklin Regional and Bethlehem Catholic will be taking place. I see 7 matches going Bethlehem Catholics way and 5 going to Franklin Regional with two key toss-up matches. Bonus points will be major factor especially in the upper weights and who […]