Two days before Thanksgiving, the Section III wrestling season got underway with a neighborhood battle that proved lopsided.
East Syracuse Minoa earned five consecutive pins early in last Tuesday’s meet against visiting Fayetteville-Manlius, and the Spartans only dropped one of the nine contested bouts in defeating the Hornets 61-4.
They got going at 113 pounds with ESM’s Davis Palmer pinning Abdulrahman Abouelamayem early in the second period. Right after, at 120 pounds, Kaylee Defalco got a second-period fall over Malik Barr.
It continued at 126 pounds with Cody Ostrander’s second-period pin over Kyle Sykes, while Ayden Johnston needed just 95 seconds to pin 132-pound opponent Allen Hamilton and Alex Leo (138 pounds) finished off Aidan Nugent in 61 seconds.
Only at 160 pounds did F-M get on the board, Alex Dauksza shutting out Nick Modlewski 8-0, but that followed the Spartans’ Michael O’Brien (152 pounds) getting a 16-6 win over Abdullah Abouelamayem.
A close 170-pound bout had ESM’s Ali Abdulla holding off Sawyer Dereszynski 8-6. And it ended with quick pins from Braedon Bersani (220 pounds) over Greyson Fesko in 68 seconds and Conor Todd (285 pounds) over Nick Testani in 23 seconds.
Forfeits also went to Dylan Johnston (145 pounds) and Andrew Crone (195 pounds) as ESM has matches this week with Oswego and Chittenango before going to Saturday’s duals hosted by Jamesville-DeWitt/CBA. F-M is hosting Whitesboro Thursday before going to Cicero-North Syracuse’s Andersen Tournament two days later.
