McIntosh and

Starr's Mill went to the Program Challenge wrestling meet over the weekend

and both teams were joined by their middle school counterparts, Booth

Middle School and Rising Starr Middle School. Starr's Mill and Rising

Starr placed first while McIntosh and Booth placed third overall.

The tournament

began on Friday night and Starr's Mill faced and defeated Grayson - 60-18;

Wesleyan - 71-3; Marist - 75-0 and Union Grove 51-21. Starr's Mill had

seven wrestlers go 4-0: Corey Radcliffe (103), Devon King (112), Patrick

Bates (119), Mike Cosper (130), Tyler Kourajian (135), Matt Hartpence

(145) and Kyle Verzello (160). Jordan Powers (171) went 3-0. Bruce Ferguson

(125) went 3-1 as did Nick Bennett (152), Matt Milner (189) and Bradley

Connor (215). Davey Woods (140) went 2-2 as did Kevin Pierce (275).

During the

tournament on Saturday, Starr's Mill had eight champions of their weight

class: Radcliffe, King, Cosper, Kourajian, Bennett, Verzello, Powers and

Pierce. Bates, Ferguson, Woods, Hartpence and Connor placed second and

Milner placed fourth.

Rising Starr

produced five champions of their weight class, six second place finishers,

one third place finishers and one fourth place finisher. Champions were

Jason Allen (75), Kevin Thurber (80), Brandon Ferguson (85), Derek King

(90) and Jeff Koziol (110). Second place finishers were Kevin O'Brien

(95), Trent Freeman (115) Keith Manching (127), Jeff Messer (157), Tim

Jones (185) and Sean Surrles (275) while John Donaldson (105) placed third

and Kyle Trahan (147) placed fourth.

Place winners

for McIntosh were Justin Edwards (130) second place; Andy Ellinas (152)

third place; Cameron Hall (160) second place; Josh Allison (171) fourth

place; Thomas Beck (189) third place and Darryl Walton (215) first place.

For the Booth

Warriors, Chris Chapman (127), Landis Ford (137), and Zac Gilmer (157)

each won their weight class. Jacob Brandlehner (75) took fourth, Jessy

Toscano (85) took second, Shane Beard (90) took second, Doug Taylor (95)

took fourth, Brian Huefner (120) took fourth, and JJ Pigott (167) took

second.

This Friday

and Saturday all four local high school teams will be competing in the

South Metro Invitational at Stockbridge High School. The tournament begins

on Friday afternoon at 5 p.m. and starts on Saturday at 9 a.m.

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