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were less than gracious hosts in poll, outlast Mike Brauen 19-15 in the first annual Ripley Invitational what Carleton called ''kind of a Wrestling Tournament Saturday do~ fight. afternoon. 'Late in the third period, Darin

Eagles won the team title used a reversal and three-point had six wrestlers pick up indi- near fall to win."

vidual wins on the day. Ripley, who came into the tour-The final tally had Ripley scor- nament ranked seventh among

137 points to Pioneer's 98, small schools in Western ,New Lewiston Porter had 93, Hamburg York, tripped up a Panther squad ·;o, Silver Creek 66 and Maple who was seventh among large Grove ended with 65. ·schools. . ,

Eagles went into the finals . Also highlighting Ripley's ef­a slim four point lead over fort was Greg Bentley whit needed but the two schools went just 1:59 to pin Maple Grove's

in four matches and Jason Ostrom to take the 126-U:iumphed in all four to pound title. ~tctor~. . . . . Added Carleton, "Greg's hav­first btg wm came m the ing an excellent year. He totally

98 po~nd final, wh~re ~rad Rowe, dominated (Ostrom)." ts ranked third m Western The other victory for the Eagles Y~rk, p~lled off a 7-0 shut (4-2,4-0) came at the outset, when

of P10neer s Sean Tarbel~. Tar- David Rammelt won on a techni­was ,an h?norable mentiOn m cal fall in the 91-pound class.

"weeks ratmgs. . . , Rammelt held a 17-2 lead over Br~d totally dommated htm, Maple Grove's Seth Lind. ~tpley coach John Carleton. ··

'Che second matchup was in the Pioneer's only triumph came via 05-pound class, where Ryan Caleb Brittan who outlasted Marty

Bentley won by injury default Anderson of Silver Creek 9-4 at over Ryan McGuire. Bentley was 112 pounds. leading 12-2 at the time of the default.

Just a few minutes later, Ripley won by another injury default when Pioneer's Lee Heckathorn had to drop out of the 119-pound match-up with Jeremy Zeigler.

The final head-to-head matchup saw Darin Rammelt, ranked third

Lewiston Porter and Hamburg took wins in the other six weight classes.

The quickest victory of the day was picked up by Lew-Port's Ryan Weipert ·in the 155-pound class. Weipert pinned Ripley's Peter Dorman in 1:04. Dorman

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Lew-Port's other wins came at 145 pounds, with Jerimy Rinker, and in the heavyweight class as Jay Lopez needed 1:56 to pin Sil­ver Creek's Fred Hallet.

Lew-Port is fifth in the large school rankings. ,

Highlighting Humburg's three victories was Matt Diorio at 167 pounds. Rated third in Western New York, Diorio dropped Travis Eckam of Pioneer to the map in 3:16.

The other Hamburg winners were Brett Kaczmarski at 132 pounds and Luke Goble at 177 pounds. Kaczmarski is rated sec­ond in the polls.

Absent from the tournament were Cassada~a Valley and Akron as well as Ene Stron Vincent and Erie Central.

Ripley 137, Pionnr 98, Lewis-Porter 93, Ham· burg 70, Silver Creek 66, Mapl& Grove 65,

91: David Rammel! (R) tf. Seth Lind (MGI, 17-2.

98: Brad Rowe (R) d. Sean Tarbell IPI, 7·0. 105: Ryan Bentley lRI injury default. Ryan

McGuire (PI, 112: Caleb Brittan IP) d. Marty Anderson (Sl.

9-4. 119: Jeremy Zeigler (RI injury default. Lee

Heckathorn (PI, 126: Greg Bentley (RI p. Jason Ostrom (M),

T-1:59. 132: Brett Kaczmarski (HI d. Jason Austin IPI.

11-1. 138: Darin Rammelt (RI d. Mike Brauen (Pl.

19-15, . 145: Jerimy Rinker !W d. Ron Spieldogel (P),

8-0. . 155: Ryan Weipert (L) p. Peter Dorman (R),

T-1:04. 167: Matt Diorio !HI p, Travis Eckam (P),

T-3:16. 177: Luke Goble IHI d. Tim Schafer (L), 14-6. 215: Jay Lopez (L) p, Fred Hallet lSI, T -1:56

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n ~~cmg on .the cake for Rowe and he • Rh · · h i .,9P,Ped. Ius season record to 26-1 ' . etms nat led an early take-

. wtth his League crown. ·down to lead, until Sweet dupli-.. , Greg Bentley of Ripley (30_2) ,cated the effort with his own sec-

BY GREGG MUNKSGARD Ll!cored a f?'Y l~ilestones at the ,6nd period t:no pointer. In the

SALAMANCA - The 1994 eague classic m the 126 cate- ;~~ertime penod, Sweet needed

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1 School Friday and Saturday set the .ul!.ee d·1cond fall ~~er Westfield's ~anama scored in all three periods 1

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lone for the upcoming sectional ,;pl t ~· mOie on l•nday. To com- to blank Ripiets Ryan Bentley elimination tournaments .e e d 1~ trophy weekend Bentley l:<J-0. Franklmvdle's Chad Caros

f ~. Ripl.ey.. Southwestern and pmne outhwe.st~m's Jerry Fair- ·held J h 1 kl

'r.·.l,.'rankhnvtlle all advanced four .~.~hanks .at th.e 1.45 mark of thet'r ' o n n .ey of Randolph in .., am h pheckthroughout their 112 bout to

I.; wrestle~s in the championship fi- ,, .: Th prons 1P match. · · rQOUnt a 7-0 score. nals, With Falconer, Pananma AI- :K 1 e Sweet brothers, Joe and ··:Olean's Matt Lindamer doubled

l:tegany, Portville, and Salamanca yde, fr!>m Franklinville each the s~orlng of Westfield's Jim .(~ach sending two to the finale. ~a e /he~r .way to the finals. Joe qunnmgham, 6-3 .• to cop the j .. Ripley's Brad Rowe (98) left ''b wee c. atme~. the 91 pound cr t 119 1. ltttle dou~t from. the opening whis" ; la~~e tl!le w~th a 4-2 overtime <?'Yn a · ! t~e of hts dommance over Kyle .,Ne1tSl~~ . ~ve1 Southwestern's f Sweet. Rowe led 13-5 after two . o an euush. r periods, using takedowns and ·· th~ee .nearfall combinations to bulld hts lead. ·

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; Matt Amore (132) of Allegany ~W~s in a nip and tuck match with Southwestern's Limy Bryant as Jhe number one aQd two seeds

:· met. Bryant scored a third period t takedown to knot the bout, 4-4, ~with Amore escaping a short time ~:later to get the one point margin of "victory. I Panama's David Bryant, a ~cousin to Southwestern'~· Larry l Bryant, used a overtime .. period 1 takedown to snag his League title •, at 138. Bryant and Portville's i Ryan Jordan were deadlocked 1-1 ' after regulation, and Bryant I waited just 28 seconds into the OT 1 nenod before he. scored as the two l were heading out of bounds. 1 Jacob Schaus of Falconer con­; tinues on his quest for further 1 post-season .action with a League 1 title at 145. The Falconer standout l met up with Cassadaga Valley's , Jim Mower in the championship bout. ''

•'· Schaus turned a low shot into a takedown and scored two nearfalls to . lead 8-0 after one period. A

, nifty ankle trip· put Mower on his · ·:tiack and Schaus in position for :;the fall at 2:21. : ,, Erich Crisafulli of Allegany 1 zoomed to a 19-5 lopsided win 'Over Gowanda's Seth Leising at rl55 pounds. (_ Fredonia's Robert Dando had ~'oaches and knowledgeable wres-

1 tJing observers shaking their heads after he decked Nate Chapman of

1 franklinville at 4:44 of the 167 : pound championship tilt.

"' Salamanca clatmed back-to­'""Back titles with Chauncey Brace at.

177 and Bob Breazeale at 215. f

Brace had the local partisan crowd screaming as he took Dave Hodges of Southwestern to the mat ~nd. worked for a· pinning combmatton.

After an adjustment for leverage Brace tightened the hold and he heard the mat slap at 4:58 for his share of the title hardware. Brea­zeale won a 6-4 decision over Jess McFall of Portville. · . Falconer's Erin Putnam put the

hd on the League tourney with his second pin of Ripley's Dan Webb.

The top four place finishers in each weight class plus the follow­ing ~even wrestlers qualify for the Sect10nal tourney next weekend in Sweethome: Dale Lamb of Fal­coner at 145, Southwestern's Lee Lindstrom (112).

Ripley sends David Rammelt (91) and Je~emy Zeigler (119), whtle Olean s Anthony Mariani (105) and Jeff Henning (126) each get a ticket, with Portville's Jason Hoffmier moving on also.

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS

91: Joe Sweet (Fran) OT d. Nolan Rheinish (SW). 4-2.

98: Brad Rowe (Rip) d. Kyle Sweet (Fran). 16-3. ·

105: Jason Burch (Pan) d. Ryan Bentley (Rip). 10-0.

112: Chad Caros (Fran) d .. John Inkley (Rand). 7-0. \

119: ·Matt Lindamer (0) d. Jim Cnnningham (WF). 6-3.

126: Greg Bentley (Rip) p. Jerry Fairbank (SW). 1:45.

0/.: Matt Amore (A) d. Larry Hryaut (SW). 5-4.

1311: David Bryant (Pan) OT d Rym1 Jordan (Port). 3·1. ·

V~5: Jacob Schaus (Fal) p. James Mower (CV). ?.:2 .

~;;.s: Eric CrisafuHi (A) d. Seth Le1::mg (G). 19-5 . . . . 67: Robert DaHdo (Fred) p. N;lle Chapman (Fran). :44. .

11 77: Chauncey Brace (,')al) p. l);1ve Hodges (SV/). 4:58.

J:15: Bob Breazeale C:~al) d. Jess . JvkPall (Port). 6-4 ·

/,'}0: Erin Putnan1 (F;ll) p. Dan Webb (Rip). 3:06. ·

CONSOLATION FINALS 91: Ryan Fralick (Fal) d. Bran·

don Smith (WF). 13-5. 98: Shane Simpson (0) inj def.

John Molly (Frew). 105: Andrew Diaz (Fred) d.

John DeBarbieri (Port). 5-4. 112: Alan St. Clair (Port) d.

Luke Ecker (Pan). 5-0. 119: Dennis Stein (PV) d. Tre­

vor Norlander (Fal). 9-2. · · 126: Jason Pecuch (Frew) d.

Scott Oroloff (CV). 4-2. 132: Louis Szabo (Fran) won by

forfeit Jim Reese (WF). 138: Darin Rammelt (Rip) d.

Walter Stanton (Frew). 8-1. 145: Frank Anastasia (A) p.

Randy Ewing (Rip). 2:42. 155: Bill O'Dell (Pan) p. Carlo

Miceli (SW). 1:50. 167: Alan Harding (Fal) p. Brad

Verbosky (MG) 3:35. 177: Miah Stanton (Frew) d.

Rich Chase (PV). 7-3. 215: Eric South (SW) d. Shan­

non Milliman (WF). 4-2. 250: Jeff Reisner (0) d. Seth

Garfield (SW). 10-0.

Shown are the winners in this year's Southern Tier Wrestling Conference state qualifier Saturday at Salamanca Central School. From left, bottom row, Joe Sweet of Franklinville at 91, Brad Rowe of Ripley at 98, Jason Burch of Panama. at 105, Chad Caros of Franklinville at 112, Matt Lindamer of Olean at 119, Greg Bentley of Ripley at 126. In back from left, Matt Amore of Alleghany at 132, David Bryant of Panama at 138, Jacob Schaus of Falconer at 145, Eric Crisafulli of Alleghany at 155, Robert Dando of Fredonia at 167, Chauncey Brace of Salamanca at 177, Bob nreazeale of Salamanca at 215, Erin Putnam of Falconer at 250. P-J Photo by Timothy J. McNeill

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