Waynesburg’s Welsh, Seneca Valley’s Herrera-Rondon earn All-American honors at Fargo

By: Paul Schofield
Tuesday, July 16, 2019 | 12:59 PM

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The Pennsylvania Freestyle wrestling team captured the Cadet National Championship at Fargo, N.D. over the weekend.

Waynesburg freshman Rocco Welsh and Seneca Valley junior Alejandro Herrera-Rondon earned medals for the Keystone squad.

Welsh defeated Garrett Grice of Nebraska, 12-2, to capture the fifth-place medal at 120 pounds.

Herrera-Rondon, a two-time PIAA Class AAA champion, defeated Eli Rocha of Missouri, 10-5, in the 126-pound seventh-place match

It was the second consecutive year Team Pennsylvania won the title. The team had 12 All-Americans and two champions.

The winners were Stroudsburg’s Leonard Pinto at 170 pounds and St. Joseph Catholic’s (State College) Kolby Franklin at 220.

Paul Schofield is a TribLive reporter covering high school and college sports and local golf. He joined the Trib in 1995 after spending 15 years at the Daily Courier in Connellsville, where he served as sports editor for 14 years. He can be reached at pschofield@triblive.com.

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