WRESTLING
Saturday Results
Section III Class D Tournament
Cooperstown freshman Rowan Brown won a Class D title at 118 pounds as the Hawkeyes placed fourth in the 11-team Section III Class D Tournament on Saturday, Feb. 7, at South Lewis Central School.
Brown went 3-0 with two pins. He beat Mount Markham’s Ben Dziuban in the finals, 3-1. It was the fifth time the two have wrestled this season, according to CNYwrestling.com, with Driuban holding a 3-2 lead. Driuban beat Brown, 11-2, last Saturday on his way to a Center State Conference title at 118 pounds; Brown placed third.
Cooperstown/Milford had 133 points overall, .5 better than fifth-place South Lewis. Lowville finished third with 151 points. Little Falls won the Class D title with 183 points, 13 better than Beaver River.
Max Koffer and Andrew Spaulding placed second for the Hawkeyes, with Max Pelcer and Thomas Geertgens getting third-place finishes and Theo Spinosa placing fifth.
Koffer went 2-1 at 132 pounds and got his 100th varsity win in the semifinals, with a technical fall, 21-4, over Robert McNeal from Little Falls. He lost to Copenhagen’s Zack LaRue in 4:22 in the final.
Spaulding went 1-1 at 144 pounds. He lost to Zenon Derocha in the finals in 3:55.
Pelcer went 4-1 at 132 pounds, with his only loss coming to LaRue as well. He won three matches by technical fall. He beat McNeal in the consolation finals, 10-0.
Geertgens went 3-1 at 157 pounds with three pins. He pinned Herkimer’s Joshua Gotay in 2:21 in the consolation finals.
Spinosa went 2-2 at 150 pounds.
Cooperstown/Milford will compete in the Section III Division II Tournament on Saturday, Feb. 14, at SRC Arena at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse.
Section IV Division II Qualifier A
The combined Unatego/Franklin/Unadilla Valley wrestling team won three titles Saturday at the Section IV Division II Qualifier A Tournament in Waverly.
Sava Gonopolskiy (103), Gavin Nordberg (132) and Yanni Dropaniotis (190) won titles for U/F/UV, which placed fifth in the 13-team tournament with 128.5 points.
Waverly won the tournament with 226.5 points, 46.5 ahead of Deposit/Hancock. Bainbridge-Guilford/Afton/Harpursville placed 10th with 45.5 points.
Gonopolskiy went 3-0 and beat Gavin Lovell from Owego in the finals, 7-6.
Nordberg went 3-0 and beat D/H’s Jason Canedo in the finals, 7-0.
Drapaniotis continued his undefeated season with two wins in under a minute each, including a 54 second pin of D/H’s Kam Hallock in 55 seconds in the finals.
Landyn Shaffer won a title at 138 pounds for D/H. He went 3-0 with three technical falls, beating Waverly’s Daltton Davis in the finals, 17-2.
Nolan Boyles placed second at 215 pounds for U/F/UV and Brogan LeFever placed third at 126 pounds.
Section IV Division II Qualifier B
Two Oneonta wrestlers and two Delaware Academy wrestlers won titles on Saturday at the Section IV Division II Qualifier B Tournament in Newark Valley.
The Yellowjackets finished third in the 12-team tournament with 169.5 points, 11.5 points ahead of Walton/Delaware Academy. Tioga won the meet with 234.5 points. Newark Valley placed second with 171 points. Sidney placed ninth with 73.5 points.
Clayton Ritter (128) and Alan Little (157) won titles for the Yellowjackets. Ritter went 3-0 and got a forfeit win over Logan Bellis from NV in the finals. Little went 3-0 with two pins and got a medical forfeit over NV’s Logan Woodin in the finals.
Justin Somers (144) and Jaxon Backus (175) won titles for the WarDogs. Somers went 3-0 and beat Lansing’s Evan Sheils in the finals, 9-2. Backus went 3-0 with two pins and a technical fall in the finals over Cooper Zufall from SVEC.
Kade Mustin (132) won a title for Greene/Oxford. He went 3-0 with two technical falls and won by forfeit over NV’s Kyle Kitson in the finals.
Oneonta’s Amari Champen (138), W/DA’s Trystan Hayward (150) and G/O’s Donte Wrench (285) all got second-place finishes.
W/DA’s Linkin Backus (110), Aiden Branigan (118) and Marco Possematto (165), Sidney’s Owen Mott (126) and Oneonta’s Isaac Gray (157), Lucas Weaver (175) and Eli Baggy (285) all got third-place finishes.
The Section IV Division II Championships will take place Saturday at Visions Veterans Arena in Binghamton.