Big Dog tournament

by Scott Shindledecker, C-E Sports Editor.

Posted on December 29, 2009

BROCKWAY - The fifth annual Brockway Wrestling Association Big Dog Tournament got started Monday at Brockway Area High School.
Hundreds of wrestlers from 12 different schools in Pennsylvania and one in New York battled in pool play on the first day. Those results established the brackets for today's competition.
Of the teams from the Tri-County Area, the Clearfield Bisons had the best overall performances with four grapplers going undefeated.
The host Brockway Rovers, Brookville Raiders and St. Marys Flying Dutchmen each had one wrestler go unbeaten Monday.
Butler, out of the WPIAL, had six wrestlers sporting unbeaten records. District 10's Saegertown had five, Penn Cambria had four while Port Allegany and Mercer had three each.
Butler won the team crown a year ago, beating out the Bisons. Penn Cambria was fourth while Saegertown was fifth.
For the defending D-9 Class AAA champion Bisons, 285-pounder Andre Buck and 103-pounder Shane Peters had the best performances for Clearfield.
Buck pinned all four of his opponents, needing just eight minutes and 32 seconds.
Peters went 5-0 with four pins and one major decision.
At 152 pounds, Derek Danver went 4-0 with a pair of pins. Nolan Barger went 3-0 at 119 pounds with a pin and a technical fall.
Cliff Hill (189) and Logan Shadek (171) each went 3-1 for Clearfield as each both recorded two pins.
At 125, Kodie Lowder went 2-1 with both wins coming by fall. At 140, Troy Danver went 2-1 with a pin.
For the Rovers, 135-pounder Ian Grecco led the way with a 3-0 mark. He won a major decision while outscoring his opponents by a combined 25-5.
Grecco was the Big Dog champ at 119 pounds.
Max Hrinya went 3-1 at 285 while collecting three pins in five minutes, 12 seconds. Hrinya's only loss came by fall to Clearfield's Buck.
Trevor Hartless went 2-1 with a pair of technical falls at 145 pounds. Brother Nathan Hartless went 3-2 at 152.
At 215, Joel Yahner collected two pins while going 3-2.
The Brookville Raiders' top performers were 125-pounder Brett Smith and 189-pounder Jacob Cieleski.
Smith went 4-0 with two pins. Cieleski was 4-1 and he won three matches by fall.
For the Dutchmen, 215-pounder Sean Sadosky won three of his four matches by fall in three minutes, 38 seconds. He also won a 7-3 decision over Butler's Chris White for his only loss.
Sadosky is the defending Big Dog champ at 215.
At 160 pounds, Mike Brennen went 3-1 with three pins while 140-pounder Butch Yetzer was 2-1 with a pair of falls.
Wrestling resumed at 9 a.m. today with the preliminaries. The semifinals were scheduled for 2 p.m., the place matches at 5:15 and the finals at 6 pm.

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