GROVE CITY — After the opening day of wrestling at the Annual Fred Bell Memorial Tournament, the Golden Tide pushed six out of 10 wrestlers on to the second day, including sending one to the semifinals.
152 pounder Logan Aughenbaugh (16-3 overall) went 2-0 on the day and will face Artis Simmons (17-4) from Erie McDowell in Saturday morning’s semifinals. The number two seed, Aughenbaugh had two first period falls Friday.
Five different Tide matmen went 2-1 on opening night and need one more win in the consloation-4 round to assure themselves of placement.
106 pounder Damian Brady (20-5), 120 pounder Jake Carfley (18-2), 138 pounder Nik Fegert (16-7), 172 pounder Chase Irwin (14-9), and 189 pounder Alex Shaffer (13-7) can all still come back for third place of the get hot in the wrestlebacks.
Ryder Kuklinskie (19-7) at 132 and Zach Shaffer (13-11) at 145 each went 2-2 but were eliminated.
Trenton Guiher (15-8) at 215 went 1-2 and Jarett Anderson (3-9) went 0-2 at 160 to bow out.
The Tide sit in ninth place out of 34 teams with 63.5 points. Penns Valley leads the tight team race with 85 points.
Complete Golden Tide results courtesy PA-Wrestling.com:
Championship Round 1
106 – Damian Brady pinned Isabella McNutt (Hampton), 0:22
120 – Jacob Carfley pinned Preston Gorton (Cambridge Springs), 2:46
132 – Ryder Kuklinskie pinned Levi Shick (Redbank Valley), 3:45
138 – Nik Fegert pinned Aiden Boone (McGuffey), 2:57
145 – Ty Watson (Penns Valley) pinned Zach Shaffer, 1:55
160 – Damien Sanchez (Warren) dec. Jarett Anderson, 3-0
189 – Jayden Resch (Hampton) pinned Alex Shaffer, 1:39
215 – Trenton Guiher pinned Gryffin Keller (Hampton), 5:26
Consolation Round 1
145 – Zach Shaffer pinned Drew Downs (Redbank Valley), 0:28
160 – James Spellman (Moon) pinned Jarett Anderson, 4:26
Championship Round 2
106 – Damian Brady maj. dec. Ryan Fitzsimmons (Warren), 14-3
120 – Jacob Carfley won by tech. fall over Gage Sonnie (DuBois), 15-0 5:28
132 – Jonathon Bissell (Sharpsville) pinned Ryder Kuklinskie, 3:48
138 – Nik Fegert dec. Hudson Spires (General McLane), 11-5
152 – Logan Augenbaugh pinned Seamus McLaughlin (Hampton), 0:20
172 – Cole Felker (Penns Valley) pinned Chase Irwin, 2:31
215 – Kollin Brungart (Penns Valley) dec. Trenton Guiher, 3-0
Consolation Round 2
132 – Ryder Kuklinskie pinned Joshua Tomaosovic (Slippery Rock), 3:23
145 – Zach Shaffer pinned Nick DeRenzo (Pine-Richland), 1:00
172 – Chase Irwin pinned Eric Guzman (DuBois), 2:36
189 – Alex Shaffer pinned Daymar Dickerson (Erie McDowell), 0:41
215 – Connor Lindsey (Moon) dec. Trenton Guiher, 4-3
Consolation Round 3
132 – Josh Letko (Warren) pinned Ryder Kuklinskie, 2:16
145 – Caleb Rihn (Hampton) dec. Zach Shaffer, 4-2
172 – Chase Irwin pinned Daniel Griffith (Grove City), 0:41
189 – Alex Shaffer pinned Cole Wilson (Pine-Richland), 0:49
Championship Quarterfinals
106 – Cael Dailey (Franklin) maj. dec. Damian Brady, 14-0
120 – Dominic Ferraro (Pine-Richland) pinned Jacob Carfley, 5:26
138 – Cody Hamilton (Grove City) pinned Nik Fegert, 1:57
152 – Logan Augenbaugh pinned David Martin (Penns Valley), 1:38