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Wrestling: Potomac Falls Repeats as Dulles District Champs

Posted On: Sunday, February 08, 2009
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Wrestling: Potomac Falls Repeats as Dulles District Champs



By Dan Sousa
LoudounPrepSports.com Senior Content Editor
Leesburg (Feb. 9, 2009) – They may have turned off the lights Saturday night at Loudoun County High School to introduce the finalists for the AA Dulles District wrestling meet, but nobody was in the dark about whom the top team was as Potomac Falls, for the second straight year, wrapped up the team title before the finals even started.
Individually, two seniors added to already sparkling careers as Justin Smith of Heritage became a rare 4-time district champion (103 in 2006, 112 in 2007, 119 in 2008 and 125 this year) and T.J. Julia of Briar Woods claimed his third straight title (103 in 2007, 112 in 2008 and this year). Smith claimed a 7-3 feisty decision over Panther senior Paul Rowane who himself was looking for his third title after winning at 112 in 2006 and 119 in 2007. Julia, meanwhile, edged Park View senior Stephen Penna, 5-3, in another marque match-up.
Perhaps the only thing to rain on the Panthers purple parade was taking just three of the eight finals they appeared in, but otherwise, it was all peachy for PFalls with 195 team points, a sixth district title since 2002, and 11 wrestlers through to this week’s Region II meet which starts Friday at Park View and winds up Saturday.
Briar Woods maximized its efforts in the finals with five individual titles in six championship bouts to slide into second place with 153.5 points, just ahead of Heritage (146.5 points) which crowned the same number of champions as PF, three. Freedom finished fourth with 132.5 points and sent five to the finals with junior Joseph Sheptock claiming the Eagles first ever individual champion with a 5-2 win over Pride senior Jimmy Jurado, the returning champion from 140.
The Pride, fighting injuries and illness much of the season, are sending 10 to regionals, two more than Briar Woods (8) and Freedom (7). 
Host Loudoun County, which ran a spectacular, first-class meet which was officially sponsored DigitalSports.com, claimed two champions and will send six to Park View. Park View didn’t have any indiviudal champions but had two in the finals and will have five wrestlers on their home mats this coming weekend. While both Broad Run and Dominion didn’t have any wrestlers in the spotlight Saturday in the finals, they will be represented at regionals with the Titans sending five and the Spartans four.
Four wrestlers claimed their second district titles: Thomas Hulcher of Briar Woods at 125, Ryan Hagen of Potomac Falls at 152, Remington LaKose of Loudoun County at 189 and Ethan Ochs of Briar Woods at 285. Hagen and Mike Girolami of Briar Woods were not only the only wrestlers to record a fall in the finals, but they pinned their way through the bracket. Hagen pinned Jared Beane of Briar Woods in 3:08 and Girolami pinned Roy Stephens of Park View in 1:31 in the 215 finals. Hagen was on the mats for just over eight minutes Saturday and Girolami needed just 7:15 total to dispatch three opponents.
Hulcher, LaKose and Ochs had a much harder time repeating their titles. Hulcher survived two points for stalling in the final period to edge Ryan Snead of Potomac Falls, who had won at 130 last year. LaKose had an even closer match as he trailed Freedom’s Marshall Haas 4-3 with 12 seconds remaining in the match after Haas, trailed 3-1 had escaped and then took LaKose down, wrappinig up the two points  just as the wrestlers inched out of the circle. Haas then needed to ride LaKose out as both of the clearly weary wrestlers reset in the center of the mat. Lakose was able to elevate his base and when Haas lost his grip on LaKose, the Raider was able to reverse to go ahead as he slipped Haas into a 3-point near fall with just seconds to go to win 8-4.
Ochs wrapped the night up by shutting down the talented Zach Duffin of Potomac Falls, 3-0, thus avenging a loss to Duffin by fall at the district super quads in January.
Other champions crowned Saturday included Loudoun County’s Tyler Anthony at 103, with a 7-3 win over Nick Rea of Potomac Falls; Jo Jo Koenig of Potomac Falls with a 13-2 major decision over Chuong Le of Freedom at 119; Heritage’s Sean Dunn, seeded fifth, at 135 with a 19-7 major decision over Michael Oswald of Potomac Falls; Potomac Falls 140-pounder Charlie Haislip who won an 18-6 major decision over Mike Surowiec of Freedom; Mike Fleming of Briar Woods at 160 with a 7-2 decision over Robert Giffin of Loudoun County; Heritage’s Kevin James, the lowest seed, at No. 6, to win Saturday with an 8-3 win over Freedom’s Charles Constantino.
Haisilip went in the books with fastest pin of the meet, coming away with a 22-second fall on his way to the finals.

Final Team Scores
1, Potomac Falls 195.0
2, Briar Woods 153.5
3, Heritage 146.5
4, Freedom 132.5

5, Loudoun County 88.0

6, Dominion 70.0
7, Park View 60.5
8, Broad Run 49.0
District Tournament “Fun Facts”
Wrestlers thru to Regionals by School
11 – Potomac Falls
10 – Heritage
8 – Briar Woods
7 – Freedom
6 – Loudoun County
5 – Dominion
5 – Park View
4 – Broad Run
Wrestlers thru to Regionals by Class
27 – Seniors
15 – Juniors
14 – Sophomores
0 – Freshmen
Champions by Seed
7 – #1 seed
5 – #2 seed
1 – #5 seed (Sean Dunn, Heritage)
1 – #6 seed (Kevin James, Heritage)
Weight Classes that went According to Seeding
1 – 160 pounds (Mike Fleming (BW), Robert Griffin (LC), Billy Wisman (H), Aaron Rowane (PF)
Finals that Pitted #1 vs. #2 Seed
11 of 14 (all but 135, 152 and 171)
Weight Classes with no Seniors Advancing to Regionals
1 – 103
4-time District Champion
Heritage’s Justin Smith (103, 112, 119, 125)
3-time District Champions
Briar Woods’ T.J. Julia (103, 112, 112)
2-time District Champions
Briar Woods’ Thomas Hulcher (125 in ’06, 130)
Potomac Falls’ Ryan Hagen (152, 152)
Loudoun County’s Remington LaKose (189, 189)
Briar Woods’ Eathn Ochs (285, 285)
Record Falls all the Way to the Title
Ryan Hagen (PF) 152
Fast Falls
0:22 – Charlie Haislip (PF) 140
0:29 – Tierney McTighe (F) 160
0:31 – Alex Ward (D) 285
0:33 – Charlie Haislip (PF) 140
0:33 – Josh Toney (H) 215
0:37 – Charles Constantino (F) 171
0:37 – David Zedan (PF) 215

2009 Dulles District Wrestling Championships
Loudoun County High School
February 7, 2009

Weight: 103

-Nick Rea PFHS—————-+

     
(So)   Bout:      1    
|-Nick Rea PFHS—————-+

-Cole Scoggin FREE————+           Fall 2:50          |

            
(Fr)                      
Bout:     57         |-Nick Rea PFHS—————-+

-Bye————————–+                              |            Dec 7-4           |

        
Bout:      2         |-Tuan Dang PVHS—————+                              |

-Tuan Dang PVHS—————+                                                            
|

            
(So)                                                     
Bout:    144         |-Tyler Anthony LCHS———–

-Denis Murray BRHS————+                                                            
|           Champion

     
(Jr)   Bout:      3    
|-Denis Murray BRHS————+                             
|            Dec 3-7

-Matt Gillette BWHS———–+           Fall 1:39          |                              |

            
(So)                      
Bout:     58         |-Tyler Anthony LCHS———–+

-Akeel Channer HHS————+                              |           M-Dec 1-9

     
(Fr)   Bout:      4    
|-Tyler Anthony LCHS———–+

-Tyler Anthony LCHS———–+          M-Dec 14-2

            
(So)

-Cole Scoggin FREE————+

        
Bout:     85         |-Cole Scoggin FREE————+

-Bye————————–+                              |

                                       
Bout:    113         |-Denis Murray BRHS————+

                               -Denis Murray
BRHS————+          M-Dec
4-15          |

-Matt Gillette BWHS———–+                                                             |

        
Bout:     86         |-Matt Gillette BWHS———–+         Bout:    143        
|-Denis Murray BRHS————

-Akeel Channer HHS————+           Fall 4:38          |                              |          
3rd Place

                                       
Bout:    114         |-Tuan Dang PVHS—————+           Fall 3:59

                               -Tuan Dang
PVHS—————+          M-Dec 1-12

 

                                                              -Cole Scoggin
FREE————+

                                                                      
Bout:    142         |-Matt Gillette BWHS———–

                                                             
-Matt Gillette BWHS———–+          
5th Place

                                                                                                       
Dec 5-10

 

 

 

 

                                                                                            
– Place Winners –

                                                                                            
1st Tyler Anthony LCHS                      (So)

                                                                                            
2nd Nick Rea PFHS                           (So)

                                                                                            
3rd Denis Murray BRHS                       (Jr)

                                                                        
                    4th Tuan Dang
PVHS                          (So)

                                                                                            
5th Matt Gillette BWHS                      (So)

                                                                                             6th
Cole Scoggin FREE                      
(Fr)

 

 

            

Weight: 112

-Stephen Penna PVHS———–+

     
(Sr)   Bout:      5    
|-Stephen Penna PVHS———–+

-Nelson Schmidl BRHS———-+           Fall 1:41          |

            
(So)                      
Bout:     59         |-Stephen Penna PVHS———–+

-Matt Robillard LCHS———-+                              |           Fall 3:21          |

     
(So)   Bout:      6    
|-Matt Robillard LCHS———-+                              |

-Zach Newman DOM————–+            Dec 5-3                                          |

            
(So)                                                     
Bout:    148         |-TJ Julia BWHS—————-

-Steven Marquina FREE———+                                                            
|           Champion

     
(So)   Bout:      7    
|-Steven Marquina FREE———+                             
|            Dec 3-5

-Mike Linza PFHS————–+           Fall 2:45          |                       

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