Even before the year ends, the Baldwinsville wrestling team may find itself in control of the CNY Counties League.
All of that hinges on what happens in Wednesday night’s meet at Liverpool, where the Bees will arrive seeking some payback after the narrowest possible defeat to the Warriors in last Saturday’s Phoenix Round Robin Tournament.
In all, eight teams gathered at Phoenix, and B’ville picked up 153 points – but Liverpool had 153.5 points to grab the top spot. Petrides contended, too, and was third with 152.5 points ahead of Phoenix (143.5 points), West Genesee (132.5 points) and Fayetteville-Manlius (127.5 points) in the closely-bunched standings.
This usy stretch commenced last Wednesday night on the home mats at Baker High School, where B’ville met West Genesee head-to-head and led from start to finish in a 58-19 romp over the Wildcats.
They started at 106 pounds, where Cole Accordino pinned Vincent Calabria with 34 seconds left in their bout. Zach Hahn, at 120 pounds, needed just 80 seconds to pin Patrick Ivery, while Bailey Austin (132 pounds) pulled away from Ian Blatchford in a 15-6 decision.
Between those bouts and forfeits to Jacob Cavallo (113 pounds) and Jake Naples (126 pounds), B’ville had a 28-0 edge before West Genesee even got on the board, Tyler Patrick (145 pounds) battling hard in a 10-6 defeat to Brady Ryan, but David Rush followed at 152 pounds with a first-period fall over Cole Wade.
WG won the next three bouts, all of them decisions, the closest one at 170 pounds as Nick Lakomski scored well, but lost, 8-7, to Griffin Sasso. But the heavyweights recorded three straight pins as Thor Sutphen (195 pounds) finished off Chandler McAvan in 2:31, Gunnar Hunt (220 pounds) got his own second-period fall over Ahmad Wady and Mike Spicer (285 pounds) pinned Michael Mesa at the end of the first period.
By routing West Genesee, the Bees improved upon the 3-2 mark at the Dec. 9 General Brown Duals where it beat South Lewis (48-24), Watertown IHC (75-6) and Carthage (60-21), but lost 42-29 to host General Brown and dropped a close 41-34 match to Camden that wasn’t decided until Accordino got pinned by the Blue Devils’ Devin Coleman in the 106-pound finale.
