Cazenovia’s wrestling team hosted its annual invitational meet on Saturday with 16 squads gathered at Buckley Gym. And the Lakers ended up in the middle of the pack, tying Homer for ninth place with 70 points. Sandy Creek took the top spot with 178 points. West Genesee’s Ian Coolican, the champion at 119 pounds, and General Brown’s Nathan Silverthorn, who won at 152 pounds, shared Most Outstanding Wrestler honors. Cazenovia did have two wrestlers reach the final round. Nick Petroff, at 112 pounds, beat Pat Quinlan (Fayetteville-Manlius) 11-6 in the semifinals, but ran into Sandy Creek’s Jake Benedict and lost the championship match in a first-period pin. Ryan Cook, in the 130-pound semifinals, earned a 12-3 victory over West Genesee’s Jon Fetterolf, but got injured in the finals against Onondaga’s Nathan Smart and took a default. Three other Lakers had sixth-place finishes – Chris Biviano (103 pounds), Teddy Kugler (140 pounds) and Dan Cossitt (152 pounds), as Cossitt came closest to moving up in the standings, but lost the fifth-place match to Sandy Creek’s Stefan Goins 4-1. The finals results:
96:Kevin Paul (Baldwinsville) major decision over Joe Nelson (Oxford) 10-0
103:Dan Ciciarelli (Cicero-North Syracuse) decision over Tim Sposato (Baldwinsville) 9-2
112:Jake Benedict (Sandy Creek) pinned Nick Petroff (Cazenovia) 1:22
119:Ian Coolican (West Genesee) decision over Joey Shaheen (Baldwinsville) 7-1
125:Caleb Green (Port Byron) decision over Nicholas Koelmel (Watertown IHC) 1-0
130:Nathan Smart (Onondaga) injury default over Ryan Cook (Cazenovia)
135:Matt Shirley (Sandy Creek) decision over Devin Depew (Oxford) 7-0
140:Derek Pfluger (Sandy Creek) pinned Mitch Janes (Port Byron) 3:44
145:Nathan Silverthorn (General Brown) technical fall over Ryan Kiggins (Fayetteville-Manlius) 4:53 152:Tyler Silverthorn (General Brown) decision over James Segars (Cicero-North Syracuse) 1-0
160:Jared Soule (Sandy Creek) technical fall over Harith Mazzuri (Vestal) 3:52
171:James Benjamin (Vestal) major decision over Ben Young (Fabius-Pompey) 11-1
189:Matt Tiss (Onondaga) major decision over Patrick Nasoni (Baldwinsville) 13-3
215:Anthony Osman (Vestal) decision over Mark Allen (General Brown) 2-1
285:Clayton D’Onofrio (Cicero-North Syracuse) pinned Juwinn Jumpp (Vestal) 1:16