PHOTO GALLERY | Bishop McCort puts three in boys final, Chestnut Ridge adds fourth
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HERSHEY, Pa. – Three of the four local wrestlers in the PIAA Class 2A wrestling championship finals are from Bishop McCort.
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While Bo Bassett and Melvin Miller had fairly easy semifinal wins, and Chestnut Ridge’s Kooper Deputy made quick work of his opponent, no one had the reaction from the Giant Center crowd like Keegan Bassett.
Keegan Bassett’s 121 semifinal against Brock Rothermel was one of the most controversial of the whole weekend. Bassett had an innocent enough 1-0 lead late in the third. Then in the dying seconds of the bout, with Rothermel on top, both wrestlers made moves that appeared to score points. Between Bassett’s last move being close to the buzzer, and the scoreboard assigning points almost haphazardly – it showed at least three different final scores – there was an uproar through Giant Center supporting both grapplers.
Action from Day 2 of the PIAA wrestling tournament
Ultimately, the officials ruled that Bassett’s reversal counted for a 3-2 victory. He will face Max Dinges of Penns Valley in the final.
Bassett had pinned Flynn Arnestad of Faith Christian in 3:29 of the quarterfinals.
Bo Bassett had no such controversy in moving into the 145 final, posting a 21-6 technical fall over Greyson Music of Bishop McDevitt.
Bassett also had a tech fall in the quarterfinals, 17-2 over Charley Paige of Midd-West.
In the gold-medal match, Bassett will face Brant Harer of Montgomery.
At 160, Miller cruised to a 26-10 tech fall victory over Layden Acevedo of Berks Catholic. That matched his score in his quarterfinal win over Zac Tuberville of Slippery Rock.
Up next for Miller in the final is Reagan Milheim of Warrior Run.
Deputy had virtually no drama in clinching his spot in the 107-pound finals. The Chestnut Ridge freshman pinned Bishop McDevitt’s Blake Klipp in just 52 seconds after getting a quick takedown to start the bout. Deputy had beaten Braden Eisenhour of Montoursville 5-0 in the quarterfinals.
Deputy’s opponent in the final will be Arav Pandey of Trinity.
Three local wresters who lost their semifinals will still get medals, ranging from third to sixth based on two rounds of Saturday consolations.
At 127, Dominic Deputy of Chestnut Ridge lost 8-0 to Carter Chunko of Saucon Valley on eight third-period near-fall points. He had won his quarterfinal 8-0 over Zane Crouse of Bishop McDevitt.
Emory Gunby of Bishop McCort had an excruciating loss in the 172 semis, losing 4-3 in the ultimate tiebreaker to Gage Wentzel of Montoursville. Gunby had beaten Hans Gilfoil of Bishop McDevitt 9-2 in the quarterfinals.
At 285, Caleb Rodriguez of Bishop McCort was beaten 20-4 by Mark Effendian of Faith Christian. Rodriguez won his quarterfinal 4-0 over Blake Gutshall of Big Spring.
Five other local wrestlers will make the medal stand, anywhere from third to eighth place.
They were involved in the late-night consolation round and will have one or two more bouts Saturday morning:
Austin Carfley (133), Owen McMullen (139), Jackson Butler (152) and Marquez Gordon (215) of Bishop McCort, along with Jayden Imler (189) of Chestnut Ridge will all settle their places before the gold-medal matches take place.
Carter Ickes of Chestnut Ridge won his second-round consolation match – the first consolation round in Friday’s competition – 6-2 in the third extra period over Evan Lisowski of Penns Valley. But he was knocked out of the 114 bracket one round short of medal, losing 4-0 to Gabe Oberheim of Montgomery in the third round.
Garrett Weyandt, also of Chestnut Ridge, had a similar path as Ickes in 121. He won a second-round consolation 4-2 over Davion Edmond of Erie Cathedral Prep, but lost in the third round 5-3 to Sam Wolford of Northern Lebanon.
Berlin Brothersvalley’s Lukas Smith won his 127 second-round consolation match 7-1 over Chase Wirnsberger of Warrior Run, but followed that with a 17-1 tech fall loss to C.J. Caines of Hanover.
At 133, Brady Kostick of Richland won 8-5 over Jacksin Smith of Halifax, but dropped his third-round consolation match 4-2 to Chase Homan of Hamburg.
Josef Garshnick of United had a tough morning in 145. He lost a quarterfinal bout 15-0 to Brandt Harer of Montgomery, then lost a third-round consolation 11-3 to Gage Evans of Towanda.
At 170, Kasey Yoder of North Star won 3-2 in triple overtime over Xavier Stockman of Johnsonburg with an escape point in the second overtime. However, in the third consolation round, he dropped an 8-0 decision to Hunter Cox of Greenville.
Prior to his above loss to Imler, Pensiero lost a quarterfinal 10-3 to Luke Fugazzotto of Northwestern Lehigh.
Owen Dluhos of Westmont Hilltop wrestled once in the morning session, losing his second round consolation match in 127 to Jax Fuhrman of Delone Catholic 15-0 in 2:35.
Similarly, Dawson Shaffer of Berlin Brothersvalley lost in the second round consolations of 152, also suffering a tech fall, 16-1 in 3:36 to Landen Wagner of Lewisburg.
Meyersdale’s Cooper Porter lost 5-4 to Rocco Reiffer of Moshannon Valley in the 172 second-round consolations.