CENTRAL NEW YORK – Things continued to go well for the Cicero-North Syracuse wrestling team in advance of Wednesday night’s head-to-head showdown with archrival Liverpool, which also is in good form.
The Northstars went a perfect 9-0 against a large field in last weekend’s att Fedish Memorial Duals at Chenango Valley, its second large-scale title to go with the one earned six days earlier at home in the Andersen Tournament.
C-NS beat Binghamton (78-0), host Chenango Valley (42-25), Cooperstown (71-6), Deposit-Hancock (66-12), Oneonta (63-12), Walton-Delhi (51-21), Homer (48-28), Maine-Endwell (63-12) and Susquehanna Valley (66-11) during the course of the meet.
John Sherbourne won all five of his contested bouts at 172 pounds. Jonah Geller went 7-1 at 152 and 145 pounds, while Kennedy Thomas (138 pounds) went 6-1, as did Kevin Mossow (110 pounds) and Joe Kozubowski (285 pounds).
The Northstars continued to roll with Wednesday’s 60-14 win over West Genesee, though it was accompanied by Liverpool going to Baldwinsville and dominating one of its main rivals in a 58-9 romp over the Bees.
Against WG, Kozubowski opened with a third-period fall over Derek Dishaw and Kasey Kalfass (102 pounds) claimed a forfeit.
At 118 pounds, Anthony Ciciarelli pinned Harrison Card in just 26 seconds. Two bouts later, at 132, Drew Baker pinned Mason Doran in the third period, followed by second-period falls from Geller and Sean Aldrich (138 pounds) over, respectively, Dylan Radcliffe and Joe Martini.
Ayden Sprague’s 41-second pin of 160-pound opponent Jack Wade began a closing stretch whereSherbourne Khol Kalfass (189 pounds) and Kamdin Bembry (215 pounds) also earned pins, Bembry taking just 39 seconds to finish off Omar Almlaiti.
When Liverpool handled B’ville, Dante Mallozzi got it going for the Warriors at 160 by handling Brady Lescenski 15-2 before Owen Atchie (172) beat Aaron Fredenburg 13-2 and Jayce Bliss, at 189, pinned Nathan Cali.
Though Joe Piscitelli (215) lost 5-1 to Judson Ferris, Liverpool dropped just one more bout to go with forfeits to Keegan Mayer at 285and Pierce Goodave at 118.
Paolo Munetz, at 102, handled Brennan Kline 12-2, followed by three pins from Aiden Adams-Bovenzi (110 pounds), Samir Amiri (126 pounds) and Matthews Bonato-Borges (132) over, respectively, Cael Bruce, Collin Zeman and Michael Spinner.
After Tyler Vivacqua, at 145, topped Olu Gbengbe 11-3, Connor Kral closed out the match at 152 pounds with a pin of B’ville’s Davian McLeod.
Before this, Liverpool made its way to fourth place in a field of 16 in the Dec. 10 Phoenix Round Robin, its total of 135 points trailing only Palmyra-Macedon, Rush-Henrietta and South Jefferson/Sandy Creek.
Vivacqua won at 145, pinning Grand Island’s Eli Linenfelser late in the second period of the title bout as Bonato-Borges was second at 132 pounds.
Atchie’s pin of Hannibal’s Pah Perhee in 49 seconds meant third place at 172 as Goodave, at 118, gained fourth place. Atchie went 4-1 to Vivacqua’s perfect 4-0 mark. Munetz was 3-2 at 102 , a record equaled by Amiri at 126. Piscitelli (189 pounds) and Lucas Smith (132) went 2-2.
