Wrestling

Connellsville celebrates beating Trinity in the WPIAL Class 3A team championship Saturday.
Connellsville edges Trinity for 8th WPIAL team wrestling title
February 3, 2024
It’s been 15 years since the Connellsville wrestling program celebrated a WPIAL Class 3A title.

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Burrell’s Calio Zanella wins his 152-pound bout during the WPIAL Class 2A team championship Saturday.
Burrell ends drought, wins WPIAL Class 2A wrestling title
The drought is over.

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Plum’s Alaina Claassen wins her match against Norwin’s Keiarra Leonard on Jan. 31 at Plum.
Plum girls wrestlers having strong seasons ahead of postseason tournaments
Alaina Claassen waited nearly nine months to get back into wrestling competition.

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Franklin Regional senior Juliano Marion has helped the team to the WPIAL semifinals.
Franklin Regional wrestling team looking to finish WPIAL deal
February 2, 2024
Franklin Regional wrestling coach Matt Lebe said at the beginning of the season he was excited to see his team grow.

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Franklin Regional senior Juliano Marion has his hand raised after winning a heavyweight match Jan. 17, 2024.
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Mt. Pleasant’s Stephen Predajna maintains dominant position on Latrobe’s Bradan Bronson during the WCCA championships Jan. 6.
WPIAL Class 2A team wrestling championship preview capsules: Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024
WPIAL Team Championships

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Mt. Pleasant and Derry square off in the WPIAL Class 2A quarterfinals Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024.
Mt. Pleasant freshman scores clutch win to top Derry in WPIAL quarterfinal thriller
January 31, 2024
The nervous energy mounted in front of a packed crowd at Derry. The seventh-ranked Trojans were mounting a comeback against No. 4 Mt. Pleasant as they trailed by three points, and it came down to the final bout.

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Franklin Regional’s Ty Kapusta tries to get control of Latrobe’s Jacob Braun in the 127-pound match Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024.
Franklin Regional moves on to 3A wrestling semis with pair of convincing wins
Franklin Regional wrestling coach Matt Lebe paced back-and-forth in front of his match early in his team’s WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal-round showdown against Latrobe.

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Burrell’s Carter Thomas pins Bentworth’s Nick Krutules in the 114-pound bout during the WPIAL Class 2A team wrestling quarterfinals Wednesday at Burrell High School.
Burrell wrestling moves step closer to getting back to top of WPIAL Class 2A
The Burrell wrestling team topped Hampton and Bentworth in the first two rounds of the WPIAL Class 2A team tournament Wednesday at Burrell High School.

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Burrell’s Cooper Hornack celebrates after winning the 127-pound title at the PIAA Class 2A tournament March 11, 2023, at the Giant Center in Hershey.
                                Burrell’s Cooper Hornack celebrates after winning the 127-pound title at the PIAA Class 2A individual wrestling championship Saturday, March 11, 2023, at Giant Center in Hershey.
Wrestling notebook: PIAA announces interesting changes to championship schedule
January 30, 2024
The PIAA recently released the time schedule for the individual wrestling championships March 7, 8 and 9 at Giant Center in Hershey with some interesting changes.

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Hempfield’s Eli Carr tries to turn Pine-Richland’s Grant Pillar during their match Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Carr is ranked No. 1 at 145 pounds in Class 3A.
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Kiski Area’s Evan Artman celebrates a pin of moon’s Kaiden Kessler at 172 pounds Monday.
WPIAL team wrestling championships: Kiski Area beats Moon to move into 1st round
January 29, 2024
All Kiski Area senior Evan Artman had to do during the final bout of the match against Moon was win.

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Fox Chapel’s Landon Funk celebrates beating Avonworth’s Auston Kosanovic, 5-2, in the 114-pound final during the Allegheny County Wrestling Championship at Fox Chapel.
Fox Chapel wrestling reaching goals as special season rolls on
January 27, 2024
Landon Funk was surprised by who he saw when he stepped out on the mat for the final of the Allegheny County Wrestling Championships. Funk’s former youth coach Dustin Widdoss came in from out of town to see him and other wrestlers he coached in the Foxes’ youth program compete.

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Pine-Richland’s Vaughn Spencer beats Plum’s Jack Tongel, 11-0, in the 172-pound bout Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024, during the Allegheny County Wrestling Championship at Fox Chapel High School.
Pine-Richland’s Dom Ferraro, Vaughn Spencer claim county titles, look forward to postseason
For Dom Ferraro, the Allegheny County wrestling tournament was about getting over the hump.

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Plum senior Antonino Walker headlocks Gateway senior Steele Dallas during their 160-pound match Jan. 20 at the Allegheny County Wrestling Tournament.
After defending Allegheny County title, Plum wrestlers turn attention to WPIAL playoffs
The Plum boys wrestling team won last year’s Allegheny County Tournament title with two champions and a runner-up among 11 place finishers.

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Junior Arianna Bernard, right, works with freshman Lakayla Smith during a practice Jan. 22 at Valley High School.
Valley girls wrestling makes huge strides in program’s 1st few months of existence
January 25, 2024
Arianna Bernard made history Dec. 28 at the Powerade girls wrestling tournament at Canon-McMillan.

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Burgettstown’s Parker Sentipal has his hand raised after a victory at 114 pounds at the WPIAL Class 2A team wrestling championships Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at Chartiers-Houston High School.
Trinity, Burgettstown awarded top seeds for WPIAL wrestling tournament
The WPIAL wrestling committee didn’t waste much time setting up the team tournament.

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Fox Chapel senior Josh Alexander battles Bethel Park junior Ethan Higgins during their 145-pound match at the Allegheny County Wrestling Tournament.
WPIAL clinched: Wrestling team tournament field set
January 24, 2024
The WPIAL team wrestling regular season is complete with teams having finished their section schedules Wednesday.

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Burrell shuts out Greensburg Salem en route to section title
Never mind the score. That was expected. So, too, for Burrell, was securing its 20th consecutive WPIAL section championship in wrestling.

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Norwin’s Landon Sidun takes down Penn-Trafford’s Luke DeSantis during the 121-pound bout Wednesday.
Norwin wrestling team looks strong in thumping Penn-Trafford
Norwin prepped for the WPIAL Class 3A team tournament with an impressive performance against rival Penn-Trafford on Wednesday.

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