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Oviedo Florida Wrestling Report 12-17-07 |
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The Oviedo Florida Men's Wrestling Report, 17 December 2007 The reigning 4-time 3A State Champion Oviedo Men's Wrestling Team traveled to Camden County High School, Georgia to participate in The Battle of the Borders Tournament on 14-15 Dec 2007. TEAM SCORES 268.0 Riverdale 233.5 Oviedo 163.5 Centennial 144.0 Camden County 132.5 Hiram 129.5 Wakulla 116.0 Forsyth Central 108.5 Valdosta 74.5 Cook County 74.0 Orange Park 65.0 Glynn Academy 64.0 Lowndes County 52.0 Baker County 44.0 First Coast 37.5 Coffee County 18.0 St Augustine 15.0 Brunswick 12.0 Yulee CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS 103 Ste Spradlin CAM md Salone CEN 11-2 112 St James CEN dec Strickler RIV 3-0 119 Sam Spradlin CAM dec Paraschuk RIV 7-2 125 Sentes RIV md McCullough WAK 11-3 130 Keebler OVI dec Varner WAK 5-3 135 Sanchez RIV dec Drew COF 6-3 140 M Fellows RIV dec Vasquez FOR 3-2 145 D Fellows RIV dec Qualls WAK 5-4 152 B Dukes HIR dec Rioux CEN 8-6 160 Schalles OVI pin Thacker RIV 171 O'Dell OVI dec May RIV 7-5 189 J Dukes HIR dec Scruggs VAL 2-1 215 Meloche OVI pin Becker CEN 285 Gunn RIV pin Castleberry COOK 3rd/4th PLACE MATCHES 103 Anderson dec Forbes WAK 112 Alpert OVI dec Scott VAL 7-5 119 White FOR pin Malta OP 125 Leatherman OV pin A. Harris Cook 130 J Harris Cook dec Lopez RIV 5-4 135 Zarbo OVI dec Lentz CAM 7-0 140 Porcher OVI dec Gonzalez CAM 6-4 145 George VAL md Sealy CEN 15-2 152 Chamberlain LOW dec Trippett BAK 4-2 160 Thacker CAM tf Tinsely 16-0 171 R Pitts FC dec Wildes OVI 7-1 189 Morris OVI dec Rich Pitts FC 215 Dunn RIV dec Roberson CAM 2-0 285 Daniels dec Toves FOR 4-2 ** Tourney format allowed up to 3-4 additional non-scoring entries per team, thus for example, Oviedo places O'Dell at 171 and Wildes at 171 INDIVIDUAL SEASON RECORDS 103 Kurt Keebler FR 15-4, 11 pins 112 Michael Alpert FR 17-3, 6 pins 119 Ryan Leatherman SO 10-6, 4 pins 119 Stephon Jenkins JR 13-7, 5 pins 125 Brett Leatherman SR 19-1, 14 pins 130 Josh Keebler SR 17-1, 9 pins 135 Ty Zarbo SR 3-1, 1 pin 140 Chase Gordon SO 12-2, 7 pins 140 Thrasher Porcher SR, 15-5, 9 pins 145 Brendan Bobeck, SR, 4-4, 4 pins 152 Scott Duncan JR 0-2 160 Jake Schalles SR 16-1, 15 pins 171 Erin O'Dell SO 17-3, 7 pins 189 Davin Morris JR 15-4, 8 pins 215 Dustin Meloche SR 18-0, 8 pins 285 Jonathon Musa SR 5-7, 4 pins OVIEDO WRESTLING NOTEBOOK BULLETS Brett Leatherman leads the team in wins at 19, followed closely by undefeated Dustin Meloche with 18, while a trio that includes Josh Keebler, Erin O'Dell, and Michael Alpert are at 17 each. Jake Schalles continues his season's dominance in pinning opponents with 15 pins in his 16 wins. Brett Leatherman is close behind in the pins race at 14. Freshman Kurt Keebler at 103 was a match from placing in this tourney, losing only to the #2 and # 4 seeds -- he stands at 15 wins on the season, with 11 pins in the kit bag. Freshman Michael Alpert continues to impress as his only loss in this tourney was to the top seed and tournament champion by a score of 8-5, while at the same time beating the #3 seed by a 9-1 score. Brett Leatherman, in taking third, pinned the tournament's # 2 seed in the consolation finals. Ty Zarbo made his Oviedo debut after sitting out the early season with an injury and in doing so placed third, with his only loss to the #2 seed and Florida's 2007 5th place finisher at the State Championships 8-3, and along the way beating the #4 seed by technical fall 19-4. Thrasher Porcher, at 140 pounds for the first time this season wrestled impressively in taking 3rd place with his sole loss a 3-0 decision to 2007 Florida State Runner-up Mikah Fellows. Tournament unseeded sophomore Erin O'Dell turned in the team's most impressive performance by winning the 171 lb title. In doing so he dispatched the tournament's #3, #2, and #1 seeds in order to claim his individual title, to include a 7-5 win over Florida's 4th place finisher in the 2007 State Championships, Randy May, by a score of 7-5 in the finals match. Junior Davin Morris, sitting on 15 wins for the season with just 4 losses, beat the #2 seed 10-0 enroute to a third place finish. Sophomore starters Ryan Leatherman and Chase Gordon sat out this tournament to heal nagging injuries in prep for the nationally ranked Zac Jarzynka Memorial Ironman Tournament VI that takes place at Oviedo high school on 28-29 Dec, a tournament that features four defending team State Champions and four team State Runners-up amongst the field of 30 from nine states. CONTACT INFO Tom Coffman, Coach, Oviedo Wrestling jetscoop@msn.com www.oviedowrestling.org www.zacjarzynka.org |
