CENTRAL NEW YORK – No one who faced the Cicero-North Syracuse wrestling team during the Dec. 8 and 9 Matt Fedish Memorial Duals at Chenango Valley High School proved capable of stopping the Northstars.
In nine different matches over two days, C-NS won them all, starting with a 48-21 victory over Oneonta and routs of Walton-Delhi (51-18), Cooperstown (65-11) and Deposit-Hancock (60-15) in the early going.
More would follow, the Northstars handling Susquehanna Valley 45-16 before a 54-21 win over the eventual second-place finisher, Maine-Endwell. Then Binghamton (63-6), Homer (57-12) and Chenango Valley (48-17) all fell in quick succession.
Going a perfect 9-0 during this meet, Zion Mukasa, at 160 pounds, had five pins, a technical fall and three forfeits. Austin Hartman (190 pounds) also went nine-for-nine with eight pins, one of them 42 seconds over Cam Caskey (Deposit-Hancock).
Joe Kozubowski swept through the 285-pound bouts with seven pins, only pushed by Homer’s Jack Brown in a 4-1 decision as Kamdin Bembry (215 pounds) improved to 14-0 through seven pins, five of them in bouts lasting less than a minute.
Kacey Kalfass (101 pounds) went 8-1, as did Aaron Westcott at 116 pounds and Kaydin Welch at 170 pounds. Aaron Ciciarelli claimed six of seven bouts at 124 pounds as E.J. Altobello (108 pounds) had a 5-4 mark.
Back in SCAC Metro division action last Wednesday night, C-NS went to West Genesee and won the first seven bouts on the card on the way to defeating the Wildcats 53-19.
They opened at 190, with Hartman pinning Raul Colon late in the first period. Pins by Bembry and Kozubowski followed as Kalfass took 83 seconds to finish off Cole Willis and Westcott got a technical fall.
Though WG did take four of the last six bouts on the card, Mason Indick (138 pounds) stepped up to pin Nathan Mittler-Romano with 43 seconds left and Welch closed out the match with a 57-second pin of Jacob Severson.
Liverpool would go 2-3 in the Dec. 9 Valley Duals at Central Valley Academy, beatng Lowville 46-30 and Mount Markham 48-30, only to have a narrow 37-36 defeat to Gouverneur and defeats to host CVA (45-28) and West Genesee (50-24).
Two days later, the Warriors hosted Baldwinsville in its Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division opener and started quick, but could not sustain it in a 43-20 loss to the Bees.
Triston Sacadura won the opener at 215 pounds, routing Connor Daughton 11-1, and David Blue Moore followed up at 285 pounds by pinning Don’Sincere Allen.
From there, though, B’ville won all but two of the remaining bouts, the only exceptions a forfeit to Paolo Munetz at 116 pounds and Samir Amiri, at 138 pounds, routing Aaron Fredenburg 15-2.
In a close 131-pound battle, Marek Sokolowsi went to overtime only to have Scottie Warner take him down and prevail 5-3. Gavin Connolly had an active bout at 124 pounds but lost, 11-6, to Levi Schanzenbach.
The C-NS girls wrestling team met Fulton last Wednesday and fell to the Red Dragons 60-18, surrendering most of the points due to forfeits.
Three of the five contested bouts went to the Northstars, though, as Brooke Todd (107 pounds) pinned Caeli Bartlett in exactly four minutes, Meghan McGrath (114) took 10 fewer seconds to pin Tessa Newton and, late in the match, Ariana Welsh (165 pounds) got her pin over Peyton Newton early in the second period.
