Blue Ridge’s Zach Edwards, right, hammers down on Greater Nanticoke’s Kyle Gavrish during a 126-pound match at the Tunkhannock Kiwanis Tournament on Thursday. Edwards took home a bronze medal from the tournament on Friday evening. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN WOODRUFF
Blue Ridge’s Zach Edwards was the top finisher from the county at the 34th annual Tunkhannock Kiwanis Tournament on Friday night taking bronze with a win in the third place bout at 126 pounds.
Edwards, a sophomore atBlue Ridge, defeated Wyalusing’s Justin Haley, 5-2, to take home a bronze medal.
Blue Ridge also had an eighth place medal from Tom Maby who made it to the seventh place bout where he lost to Niyaz Bakradze ofScranton, 3-1.
The Raiders ended up 19th in the team standings with 41 points.
Wyalusing took first place as a team with 200
Blue Ridge’s Tom Maby puts his weight down on Elk Lake’s Derrick Smith on his way to a win at 145 on Thursday. Maby finished with an eighth place medal. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN WOODRUFF
total points, followed by Pocono Mountain East at 190.5 and Coughlin in third at 158.
Topping for Elk Lake was Derrick Smith who took fifth place at 145-pounds with a decision over Mark Meloro of Coughlin, 3-1.
Mason Maye medaled at 120 pounds for the Warriors with an eighth place after a loss to Scranton Prep’s Pat Creedon, 6-2.
The Warriors finished 20th in the team standings with 31 points
Montrose Area was led by Aaron Grochowski, who took sixth place at 113 pounds with a loss to AJ Luton of GAR in the fifth place bout.
Montrose’s Aaron Grochowski controls Mount Carmel’s Brendin Panchear during the second round in a 113-pound matchup. Grochowski brought home a sixth place medal. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN WOODRUFF
The Meteors finished at 23rd in the standings with 11 points.
Team standings
1. Wyalusing (WYA) 200.0, 2.PoconoMountainEast (PME) 190.5, 3. Coughlin (COU) 158.0, 4.Western Wayne(WW) 147.5, 5. Lake-Lehman (LL) 140.5, 6. Cedar Crest (CC) 134.0, 7.WarrenCounty,Va.(WC) 133.0, 8.Scranton(SCR) 116.0, 9. Lackawanna Trail (LT) 110.5, 10. MountCarmel(MC) 98.0, 11.WyomingArea (WYO) 97.5, 12. North Penn (NP) 83.0, 13. GreaterNanticoke(NAN) 63.5, 14. Valley View (VV) 54.0, 15.Northeast Bradford(NEB) 53.0, 16.WyomingSeminary (SEM) 50.0, 17.
Montrose’s Nick Moore battles with Mount Carmel’s Derek Urbanavage on his way to a loss at 220 pounds on Thursday. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN WOODRUFF
Tunkhannock (TUNK) 49.5, 18. GAR 47.0, 19.Blue Ridge(BR) 41.0, 20.ElkLake(EL) 31.0, 21.ScrantonPrep (SP) 24.0, 22. Mahanoy (MA) 21.0, 23. Montrose (MON) 11.0.
Championship First Round
120: Josh Brown (WW) dec. Pat Parks, (MON), 10-7; Dakota Gajewski (BR) Major dec. Eric Filipiak (WA), 10-1; 126: Blaise Cleveland, (EL) pinned Zack Chiao (MAH), :49; 152: Rob Wozniak (MAH) pinned Justin Carpenter (BR), 1:33; Dominic Gulius (COU) pinned Dakotah Sherman (EL), :46; 160: Rich Sicker (GAR) pinned Addisin Parson (BR), 5:33.
Elk Lake’s Derrick Smith (145) battles with Lake-Lehman’s Jake Winters. He took fifth with a win over Coughlin’s Mark Meloro. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN WOODRUFF
Championship Second Round
113: Aaron Grochowski (MON) pinned Brendin Panchear (MC), 1:07; 120: Pat Creedon (SP) dec. Mason Maye (EL), 6-5; Brandon Kelley (WYA) pinned Dakota Gajewski (BR), 2:44; 126: Zach Edwards, (BR) major dec. Kyle Gavrish (NAN), 13-2; Kyle Poray (COU) pinned Gary Parks (MON), 2:20; Zeb McMillan (LL) tech. fall Blaise Cleveland (EL), 15-0; 132: Dalton Church, (BR) pinned Zach Appleby (TUNK), :52; 138: Morgan Fuller (WW) pinned Lewis Esposito (BR), 4:37; 145: Tom Maby (BR) dec. Derek Smith (EL), 9-4; 170: Charlie Generotti, (TUNK) injury default Isaiah Ofalt (EL); 182: Dan Noldy (EL) pinned Skylar Scherer (CC), :31; 220: Dylan Otis (WYA) pinned Jon Haines (BR), 1:23; Derek Urbanavage (MC) pinned Nick Moore (MON), 4:15 Nate Stettler (NP) pinned Austin Bomboy (EL), :36; 285: Joseph Ingaglio (WW) pinned Harold Wehler (EL), :49; Brad Emerick (COU) pinned Nick Schell (BR), :39.
Consolation First Round
Elk Lake’s Dan Noldy looks for an approach on Cedar Crest’s Skylar Scherer on his way to pinning him in 31 seconds in the second round Thursday. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN WOODRUFF
120: Gajewski (BR) dec. Parks (MON), 4-3; 126: Cleveland (EL) pinned Devin Remley (NP), 3:46; 152: Carpenter (BR) dec. Matt Baer (WC), 9-6; Mike Cipilewski (VV) major dec. Sherman, (EL), 9-0; 160: Parsons (BR) dec. Mikey Colatosti (NAN), 7-4.
Championship Quarterfinals
113: Kyle Montague (WC) pinned Grochowski (MON), 3:47; 126: Edwards, (BR) pinned Kyle Poray (COU), 2:47; 132: Frank Mahmoud (COU) dec. Church (BR), 14-13; 145: Jake Winters (LL) dec. Maby (BR), 3-1 OT; 182: Anthony Clark (WYA) pinned Noldy (EL), 2:15.
Consolation Second Round
120: Maye (EL) dec. Gajewski (BR), 8-4; 126: Cleveland (EL) pinned Nick Fischetti (WW), 2:17; Kyle Gavrish (NAN) dec. G. Parks (MON), 9-2; 138: Tyler Peterson (WC) pinned Esposito (BR), :45; 145: Smith (EL) pinned Griffith Walters (SP), :50; 152: Shane McTiernan (SCR) pinned Carpenter (BR), :34; 160: Tyler Fenton (WYA) major dec. Parsons (BR), 13-1; 170: Rob McGregor (SP) injury default Ofalt (EL); 220: Gage Cara (MAH) pinned Bomboy (EL), 2:15; Haines (BR) pinned Moore (MON), 1:55; 285: McNamara (TUNK) pinned Schell (BR), 3:15; Lehman (LT) pinned Wehler (EL), :43.
Consolation Third Round
113: Grochowski (MON) dec. Nick Chesko (VV), 4-2; 120: Maye (EL) dec. Pavlichko (TUNK), 11-6; 126: Kyle Poray (COU) tech. fall Cleveland (EL), 16-0; 132: Troy Edwards (SEM) dec. Church (BR), 6-2; 145: Maby (BR) major dec. CJ Sargent (NP), 9-0; Smith (EL) dec. Tyler Wariki (MC), 5-0; 182: Virgil Burns (WW) pinned Noldy (EL), :29; 220: Josh Santos (PME) pinned Haines, (BR), :59.
Consolation Fourth Round
113: Grochowski (MON) pinned Shane Jennings (SCR), 1:20; 120: Joseph Souza (WC) dec. Maye (EL), 4-0; 145: Cody Lloyd (CC) maj. dec. Maby (BR), 8-0; Smith (EL) pinned Niyaz Bakradze (SCR),2:31.
Consolation semifinals
113: Bill Poray (COU) maj. dec. Grochowski (MON), 13-3. 126: Edwards (BR) dec. Zeb McMillan (LL), 4-2 SV. 145: Jake Winters (LL) dec. Smith (EL), 6-3.
Semifinals
126: Tyler Farrell (SCR) dec. Edwards (BR), 2-0. 220: Laytos (LT) dec. Dylan Otis (WYA), 8-3.
Seventh place
120: Pat Creedon (SP) dec. Maye (EL), 6-2. 145: Niyaz Bakradze (SCR) dec. Maby (BR), 3-1.
Fifth place
113: A.J. Luton (GAR) pinned Grochowski (MON), 1:46. 145: Smith (EL) dec. Mark Meloro (COU), 3-1.
Third place
126: Edwards (BR) dec. Justin Haley (WYA), 5-2.
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