Great Season Opener

A fine looking, hard working bunch of young men

The Southern Rams traveled off the mountain to tangle with the Campers of Allegany High School in the season opener on Saturday.  It was one year ago that the Campers shocked the Rams with the upset victory on day one of last season.  The Rams were determined to not let that happen again.

 

The match started at 195 and Allegany sent out their top wrestler to take on our Freshman Hunter Park.  Allegany was able to get the pin and take an early lead.  The Campers were able to get pins in the next two weights and the home crowd was excited to have an 18-0 lead heading into the lower weights.  After forfeiting 106, 113 and 120, the team score was tied at 18.

 

Joey Embleton runs the bar to earn the fall

At 126, sophomore Jake Sweitzer scored a second period pin to give the Rams a lead we would never give back.  We received a forfeit at 132 then picked up a 1 minute pin by defending state champion Devan Hamrick at 138 and the rout was on.

 

Jimmy Schwab, Corey Horner, Joey Embleton and Ethan Bittinger all gave the Rams big pins to stretch the lead to 60-18 heading into the final bout.  At 182, junior Patrick Duggan fought hard and was able to come away with a 7-6 victory to finish off the Campers bringing the final score to 63-18.

 

The Southern Rams start the season 1-0 and will be back in action this Friday as we travel to Winters Mill HS to compete in the Grindstone Duals.

 Southern 63 - Allegany 18

195 - Jordon Patterson (A) pins Hunter Park (SG) :55
220 - Caleb Wilt (A) pins Gunnar Ward (SG) 1:46
285 - Jacob Riffe (A) pins Scotty Tichnell (SG) 2:56
106 - Evan Paugh (SG) via forfeit
113 - Brison Dixon (SG) via forfeit
120 - Nate Tasker (SG) via forfeit
126 - Jake Sweitzer (SG) pins Carter Nave (A) 2:36
132 - Jace Guy (SG) via forfeit
138 - Devan Hamrick (SG) pins John Dye (A) 1:00
145 - Jimmy Schwab (SG) pins Michael Snyder (A) :52
152 - Corey Horner (SG) pins Austin Saxburg (A) :41
160 - Joey Embleton (SG) pins Steven Conrad (A) 3:55
170 - Ethan Bittinger (SG) pins Craig Offut (A) 1:30
182 - Patrick Duggan (SG) dec Jeremy Harrison (A) 7-6