The Jamesville-DeWitt/CBA wrestling team competed Saturday in Phoenix’s Mid-Winter Classic, where, with 182.5 points, it finished second out of 12 sides as General Brown (234 points) got the top spot.
Three Rams wrestlers reached the finals, but only Brandon Milham won at 170 pounds, edging Canton’s Gaven Thornton 6-3 as William Laun got pinned in the final at 285 pounds by Syracuse’s Carveion Wright and Carlos Martinez, at 138 pounds, was pinned by Phoenix’s Colton Winks.
Alikhan Abdullayev beat Dom Ianno (Liverpool) 12-2 for third place at 145 pounds, with Shoh Alibekov dominating Brandon Murcray (Canton) in a technical fall for third place at 160 pounds as Laith Abdel-Aziz (220 pounds) beat Owego’s Robert Bridge to finish third.
Corey Bauer was fourth at 113 pounds, with Enver Bulatov (145), Cameron Schultz (152 pounds) and James Richer (182 pounds) each getting fifth-place finishes and Braeden Barcza sixth at 132 pounds.
Before that, on Wednesday night, East Syracuse Minoa had its meet with Fulton postponed, but Fayetteville-Manlius was at Cicero-North Syracuse, the Hornets unable to win any of the first six bouts on the way to a 63-13 defeat to the Northstars.
Not until the seventh bout at 145 did F-M get points, Justin Bedell defeating Devin Southworth 10-1 before Ben Christopher (152) lost a close 8-5 decision to Anthony Desimone.
At 160 pounds, Alex Dauksza picked up F-M’s lone pin, taking 2:33 to earn a fall over Alex Nobles before Sawyer Dereszynski (170) claimed a 4-3 win over Robert Salvett. C-NS gained seven pins, including 126 pounds, where the Hornets’ Braden Florczyk, 18-5 going into the bout, lost to Nate Osborne, who has a 28-4 mark this winter.
F-M then went to the Cazenovia Invitational on Saturday, where it earned 78.5 points to get ninth place in a 19-team field, led by Charlie Josephson, who won at 220.
Josephson pinned Elmira’s John Robczyk in the last seconds of the semifinal, leading to a title bout against Robczyk’s teammate, Isaiah Colon, that also ended with Josephson taking a third-period fall.
Christopher was fourth at 152, dropping the consolation bracket final 4-0 to Indian River’s Gabe Lynch. Florczyk was fifth at 120 as Dauksza (160) and Zack Henderson (285) both got sixth-place finishes.
The Hornets host West Genesee this week before its own dual meet on Saturday, just when J-D/CBA heads to Indian River for the Section III Division I Dual Meet. ESM is set to face Syracuse and Central Square this week.
