“We were determined to show what we could do,” Colajezzi said. The winner will advance to the main draw of the PIAA duals, which begin Thursday at the Giant Center in Hershey.Ĭouncil Rock South put on a pinfest against Garnet Valley as Lucas Doyle (195), Brendan Panchison (220), Oleksiy Chaban (285), Cavan Kinne (106), Kyle Waterman (126), Cole Flanagan (145), Brian Adams (152), Joel Martsinovsky (160) and Giani Gilch (182) all had falls. The Golden Hawks, who have qualified for the PIAA duals a remarkable seven straight times and placed fourth a year ago, will host perennial state power Central Dauphin, the third-place finisher out of of District Three, on Monday. “Now, our focus is on Monday and winning that so we can get to Hershey.” “We had to bounce back and everybody did a great job doing that,” said Colajezzi, who already owns 66 career victories in less than two seasons of wrestling. Roberts 56-15 in their first wrestleback bout Saturday morning before dismantling Garnet Valley 67-12 to clinch third place. After we lost, we had to try and forget about and have a new goal of getting to states and we did that.” “We wanted to be in the championship match trying to win again. “We didn’t want to be going for third,” Council Rock South sophomore Matt Colajezzi said. “But that didn’t happen, so we had to regroup and our guys were able to do that.”Īfter winning the last three Class 3A district dual-meet titles, the second-seeded Golden Hawks, after a loss to eventual-champion (and third seed) Spring-Ford in Friday’s semifinals, found themselves on that back mat taking on upstart Garnet Valley, the 16-team tournament’s 13th seed in the match for third on Saturday. “We want to be on the big boy mat where Spring-Ford and Quakertown wrestled. That’s not where we want to be,” Council Rock South coach Brad Silimperi said. “We’re not used to being on the back mat.
Things rarely get loud there because few folks can actually see what’s going on. Oh, and then there’s that other mat, tucked back in the corner of the gym, behind the large scorer’s table, that holds the third-place final mat.
FORT WASHINGTON - It was an odd sight to see.įor anyone that’s attended the PIAA District One Dual-Meet wrestling tournament finals, they know the championship matches for both Class 3A and 2A are right in front of the bleachers at Upper Dublin High School - and that things get really loud really often.