BROCKWAY – The Brockway Area High School wrestling squad improved to 12-5 on the season with a 31-17 victory over the visiting Curwensville Golden Tide Thursday night on the Rovers’ home mat.
Dean Swatsworth, Golden Tide head coach, talked about the meet and the match-ups, saying afterwards, “Going into tonight we knew that Brockway was a good team. We tried to match up our wrestlers to get the best matches we could. I thought we wrestled hard, and even though we lost I think as a team this was our best showing at a dual meet.”
The match started with the featured bout of the night as Shae Bloom, at 160 pounds for the Golden Tide, won by a major decision over Cody McClintick.
Bloom upped his sparkling record to 25-1 while McClintick fell to 23-7. Both wrestlers are seniors.
In the other highly anticipated bout it was freshman Blake Passarelli for Curwensville against Brockway’s Mitchell Overbeck at 113 pounds.
Overbeck, a senior, improved to 23-4 on the year with a 12-7 decision over the now 23-6 Passarelli.
The Tide did get wins at 152, 195 and 220 to go along with Bloom’s victory.
Curwensville’s Mason Lancaster pinned Brockway’s Bryce Grecco in just 36 seconds at 152 in the evening’s final bout.
Back to back wins for the Tide came at 195 when Hunter Lancaster won by a major decision, 12-3, over Brockway’s Pierce Yahner and then at 220 as Steven McClure knocked off Rover Mark Latuska, 8-2.
Swatsworth closed his comments with, “We came together and fought hard the whole match. I hope the kids can take this and carry it over to the post season now. We still have some little things we need to fix, but we are getting there. With two weeks before districts we are going to work hard to improve.”
Other Rover wrestlers who added to their impressive individual records were Ryan Carlson, a senior, 26-1 at 120 pounds and senior Dustin Jamison, wrestling at 126, now 25-8.
Brockway also won the junior high match, 54-12.
The Golden Tide end its dual meet season with an 8-12 mark and will now be off until the District 9 tournament which is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, February 26 and 27, at Clearfield Area High School.
BOUT BY BOUT RESULTS:
160 Shae Bloom, CURW major dec Cody McClintick, BKWY 12-4 4 0
170 Garrett McClintick, BKWY dec Eli Jacobs, CURW 10-4 4 3
182 Michael Martino, BKWY dec Ben Junod, CURW 6-5 4 6
195 Hunter Lancaster, CURW major dec Pierce Yahner, BKWY 12-3 8 6
220 Steven McClure, CURW dec Mark Latuska, BKWY 8-2 11 6
285 NO BOUT
106 NO BOUT
113 Mitchell Overbeck, BKWY dec Blake Passarelli, CURW 12-7 11 9
120 Ryan Carlson, BKWY pinned Seth Woolcock, CURW 3:31 11 15
126 Santino Inzana, BKWY major dec Dylan Meyers, CURW 12-1 11 19
132 NO BOUT
138 Troy O’Brien, BKWY pinned Jordan Peters, CURW 3:00 11 25
145 Dustin Jamison, BKWY pinned Logan Charles, CURW 1:59 11 31
152 Mason Lancaster, CURW pinned Bryce Grecco, BKWY :36 17 31
REFEREE: Marvin Morris
Golden Tide Scoreboard:
Date Opponent Score Record
12/05 Mountaineer Tourney @ PO 110 pts. 6th
12/17 RIDGWAY 38 – 42 0 – 1
12/19 @ Redbank Valley Duals
vs. Keystone Oaks 45 – 33 1 – 1
vs. Oswayo Valley 66 – 17 2 – 1
vs. Slippery Rock 48 – 30 3 – 1
vs. Marion Center 28 – 37 3 – 2
vs. Smethport 45 – 15 4 – 2
12/22 WEST BRANCH 21 – 52 4 – 3
01/05 PUNXSUTAWNEY 46 – 25 5 – 3
01/07 REDBANK VALLEY 22 – 52 5 – 4
01/12 @ Clarion ppd. 5 – 4
01/14 @ Clarion 21 – 54 5 – 5
01/22 @ Glendale ppd. 5 – 5
01/23 @ Clearfield Duals
01/23 vs. Montoursville 12 – 64 5 – 6
01/23 vs. West Branch 8 – 66 5 – 7
01/23 vs. General McLane 14 – 61 5 – 8
01/23 vs. Clearfield 15 – 64 5 – 9
01/26 @ Brookville 12 – 68 5 – 10
01/28 @ Mo Valley 22 – 42 5 – 11
01/29 & 30 Fred Bell Tourney @ Grove City 55 pts. 25th place
02/04 @ Cameron County 59 – 8 6 – 11
02/05 @ Glendale 40 – 33 7 – 11
02/09 @ Johnsonburg 42 – 22 8 – 11
02/11 @ Brockway 17 – 31 8 – 12
02/26 & 27 District 9 AA Champs @Clfd HS
03/04 & 05 Northwest Regionals @ Sharon
03/10-03/12 PIAA States @ Hershey
