The 1A/2A West Regional tournament began last evening at Oakdale High School near Frederick. This tournament is the last event before the state tournament next weekend. The top four place winners at regionals qualify.
Seniors Cooper McCauley and Zach Tichnell each earned a spot in regionals by placing second at last week's Bi-County event. Each of these Southern Rams wrestled hard, but they each lost their match and were eliminated from the tournament, ending their careers at Southern. Both of these wrestlers joined the team last season and were great additions to Southern Wrestling. Good luck in the future Cooper and Zach.
Freshman, Devan Hamrick was seeded 7th in a very tough 106 pound class. His first match of the tournament was against the #2 seeded senior from Winters Mill. The older, more experienced wrestler was too much for Devan to overcome and Devan lost a decision, dropping him into today's consolation round.
Defending state champion Austin Shaffer was the top seeded wrestler at 113 and took care of business easily in the quarterfinal round. Austin went right to work and earned a 2nd period tech fall to earn a spot in this morning's semifinal round.
Junior Tanner Massey was the 4th seed at 138 and faced a tough #5 seed from Brunswick in round 1. Tanner scored early and often en route to an impressive 7-2 win to earn his spot in today's semis.
At 195, senior Scott Cooper took the mat as the #6 seed and also faced a wrestler from Brunswick. Scott overpowered the #3 seeded wrestler, easily winning by major decision 14-0. Scott also has a place in the semi finals later this morning.
Today's wrestling begins at 10 am with the semi final round and will be followed by an afternoon filled with consolation wrestling. The finals will be held later in the day at the conclusion of the other placement rounds. Let's go boys!
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