It was nearly a shutout for the Jamesville-DeWitt/CBA wrestling team as it took on Cortland last Wednesday night and earned an 81-3 victory over the Purple Tigers.
After the opening bout at 113 pounds, where David BeSeth lost 8-2 to Josh Rowland, it was a clean sweep, inaugurated by Corey Bauer’s 80-second pin of Jacob Sutton at 120 pounds.
Four more pins quickly followed, with Luis Martinez (126 pounds) taking 72 seconds to finish off Frederick Ott and Ethan Wells (132 pounds) pinning Gildon Case in 3:32.
It took 3:44 for Braeden Barcza, at 138 pounds, to pin Noah Wurst, with Enver Butalov (145 pounds) needing only 97 seconds for his fall over Luca Canzano before Cameron Schultz (152 pounds) won a 7-3 decision over Bryce Palmer.
Five of the remaining seven bouts were forfeits, but Brandon Milham did wrestle at 170 pounds, pinning Jarrod Bush in 56 seconds as William Laun, at 285 pounds, got an 81-second fall over Logan King.
A night earlier, East Syracuse Minoa hosted Chittenango, and it got five different pins on the way to beating the Bears 60-21.
Right after a forfeit to Donovan Marriott at 120, Dakota Allen (126) took 64 seconds to finish off Andrew Bailey as Alex Leo (132) got his pin over Mark Young in 1:45 and Casey O’Donnell (145) had a fall over Damian Fratello in 2:45.
Later in the meet, a heavyweight sweep involved Conor Todd, at 285, pinning Ethan Ferguson in 41 seconds right after Ameer Ladd (220) got a second-period pin over John Spencer. Aslan Abdulla (152), Ali Abdulla (170), Ron Salermo (182 pounds) and Iziha Hayden (195 pounds) each claimed a forfeit.
Fayetteville-Manlius also wrestled on Wednesday, hosting Liverpool, and took a 61-19 defeat, though Braden Florczyk won a memorable opener at 120, holding off the Warriors’ Jacob Ianno in a 9-7 decision.
Liverpool took the next four bouts before Ben Christopher, at 152, got a 15-0 technical fall over Chris Ianno. At 170, Sawyer Dereszynski got a pin over Shane Hazelmyer early in the third period as Kyle Sykes (106 pounds) had his own 15-0 technical fall to beat Hayley Delia.
J-D/CBA competed in last weekend’s North Country Invitational, where it would finish seventh in a 16-team field with 147.5 points as host Indian River prevailed with 228.5 points.
Kellison was the lone Rams wrestler to reach the finals, at 132, where he lost 11-4 to IR’s Logan Patterson. Wells beat Malone’s Lucas Martin 7-3 for third place at 126 as Honis, at 220, beat Olean’s Tyler Husse 3-0 to finish third.
F-M, meanwhile, was ninth out of 19 teams in the Phoenix Round Robin, with Florczyk getting to the finals at 126 before getting pinned by West Genesee’s Nate Wade. Christopher was fourth at 152 as Dereszynski was fifth at 170 and Justin Bedell took sixth place at 145.
ESM took part in Central Square’s Brett Dixon Memorial Duals before it visits Auburn Wednesday, with F-M meeting Syracuse at Henninger High School and J-D/CBA has matches at Central Square and Oswego.
