A 24-hour weather postponement did not stop the Cazenovia wrestling team from hosting its annual invitational meet Sunday at Buckley Gym.
In all, 16 teams made it to Cazenovia, and the host Lakers, with Matt McLaughlin earning the title at 126 pounds, finished eighth with 106 points. Indian River won the team title with 169.5 points, holding off Camden (157 points) for that top spot.
Each of McLaughlin’s wins was a first-period pin. He finished off Jon Scalzetti (Fayetteville-Manlius) with three seconds left in the opening period and got a 54-second fall over Hunter Guyette (Carthage) in the semifinals before a title bout where McLaughlin pinned Ogdensburg’s Zach Roberts in 1:52.
At 152 pounds, Sam Deleon, after a semifinal defeat, won both consolation bracket bouts, edging Rob Krone (South Jefferson-Sandy Creek) 1-0 before pinning Adam Crossley (Holland Patent) late in the second period to finish third.
Patrick Nourse lost in the 145-pound semifinals, but rebounded to finish third when he claimed a forfeit over Carthage’s Tom Albright in the consolation bracket final.
Jacob Wells finished fourth at 113 pounds, going 2-2 overall. Casey Cunningham pinned F-M’s Alex Dauksa in 86 seconds for fifth place at 160 pounds. Joe McLaughlin gained sixth place at 132 pounds with a 2-3 mark.
At another weather-delayed tournament, Chittenango finished 10th out of 20 sides in the Red Devil Invitational at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill, with Camden (177 points) rising to the top of the team standings.
Connor Fredericks won another tournament for the Bears, prevailing at 182 pounds to improve to 19-2 on the season.
Fredericks pinned Richard Baylor (Little Falls) in the second period of their semifinal bout and then took just 55 seconds to pin Gouverneur’s Kyle Jenkins in the finals.
Peyton Denney had Chittenango’s lone other top-four finish, earning fourth place at 113. Robert Shepard won fifth place at 170 pounds by pinning Morrisville-Eaton’s Luke Perry.
