Wrestling: Briar Woods 53, Heritage 18 + Full Round-up

By Dan Sousa
LoudounPrepSports.com Senior Content Editor

Ashburn (Jan. 14, 2009) – Briar Woods High School celebrated Senior Night Tuesday night with a big win over a depleted Heritage team as the Falcons pinned the Pride with a 53-18 verdict in a AA Dulles District dual that figured to be much closer.

Heritage (1-1 in districdt) took the mat without starters at 171 (Kevin James out with ringworm), 189 (Jon Vargas with an ankle injury) and 285 (Gavin Hunt out with a shoulder injury) and that forced 215-pounder Josh Toney to wrestle up at 285. The Falcon quartet of Ryan Blackwell, Matt Quist, Mike Girolami and Ethan Ochs all registered pins in those weight classes including Quist thru Ochs to start off the match as Briar Woods (2-0) jumped out to an 18-0 advantage that grew to 33-0 until Heritage dented the scoreboard.

“Briar Woods was the more aggressive wrestling team tonight and they took it to us,” said Heritage coach Brian Hanselman.

Hanselman didn’t know if he would have a full squad for this Friday’s important Dulles District Super Quad at Broad Run High School. All eight district teams will be in action at once on four mats with the event starting as early as 4:30 p.m. Each team will wrestle four matches during the event, making up for more than half of the district portion of the season. See below for the schedule.

In other district wrestling action Tuesday, Freedom (1-1) jumped all over Loudoun County (0-2), winning 12 of 14 matches, for a 65-9 win. Disrict frontrunner Potomac Falls (2-0) defeated Park View (1-1), 63-12. Broad Run (0-1) and Dominion (0-1) also met on the mat.

The Falcons honored eight seniors before Tuesday’s match and all eight were in action with seven winning including T.J. Julia (forfeit), Thomas Hulcher (fall), Jared Beane (fall), Mike Fleming (decision), Blackwell (fall), Girolami and Ochs. Nik Abi-Najm also made it 8-for-8 but he lost a tough decision at 145 to the Pride’s Jimmy Jurado — who wrestled under the weather and needed one time out due to illness — who secured a 7-6 win in the final seconds with a 2-point near fall that wasn’t much longer than two seconds.

Briar Woods will have a chance to face district favorite Potomac Falls in the first round of Friday’s Super Quad.

Briar Woods 53, Heritage 18

189 – Matt Quist (BW) fall over Averys 2:35 (BW 6-0)

215 – Mike Girolami (BW) fall over Wolfe 1:45 (BW 12-0)

285 – Eathan Ochs (BW) fall over Josh Toney 1:08 (BW 18-0)

103 – Matt Gillette (BW) dec. over Akeel Channer 9-6 (BW 21-0)

112 – Brian Hulcher (BW) fall over David Ellis 4:24 (BW 27-0)

119 – T.J. Julia (BW) forfeit (BW 32-0*)

125 – Matt Holton (H) dec. over Perry Daniels 5-1 (BW 32-3)

130 – Justin Smith (H) forfeit (BW 32-9)

135 – Thomas Hulcher (BW) fall over Collin Rafter 1:20 (BW 38-9)

140 – Sean Dunn (H) fall over Alex Seely 2:34 (BW 38-15)

145 – Jimmy Jurado (H) dec. over Nik Abi-Najm 7-6 (BW 38-18)

152 – Jared Beane (BW) fall over Cody Wheless 1:34 (BW 44-18)

160 – Mike Fleming (BW) dec. over Billy Wisman 3-1 (BW 47-18)

171 – Ryan Blackwell (BW) fall over Heilman 4:07 (BW 53-18)

* BW minus one team point for misconduct

Freedom 65, Loudoun Conty 9

103 – Cole Scoggin (F) FFT

112 – Steven Marquina (F) pin 5:11 Matt Robillard

119 – Chuong Le (F) Tech Fall 18-1 Michael Martin

125 – Tom Philbrick (F) Major 18-4 Alec Scheller

130 – Austin Dixon (F) Dec 8-4 Cameron Acton

135 – Anthony Lupetaliaami (F) Tech Fall 15 – 0 Eric Acton

140 – Mike Surowiec (F) pin 3:13 David Richardson

145 – Joseph Sheptock (F) pin 5:39 Kenton Perez

152 – Matt Murphy (F) pin 1:38 Zach Stevens

160 – Robert Griffin (LC) pin 5:16 Tierney McTighe (F)

171 – Charles Constantino (F) FFT

189 – Remington LaKose (LC) Dec 9-3 Marshall Haas (F)

215 – Tanner Eddington (F) FFT

285 – Tylor Tuohy (F) pin 2:20 Antwan McDowell

Dominion 42 Broad Run 27
285 Alex Ward(D) fall over N.
Stewart(BR) :34
103 G. Akhil(BR) fft.
112 Zach Newman(D) dec. over
Dennis Murry(BR) 9 – 7
119 Andrew Fawkes(D) tech fall
over N. Schidl(BR) 19 – 4
125 Nolen Kirkwood(D) dec.
over D. Loli(BR) 4 – 2
130 Robert Shaw(D) fall over
B. Gilbride(BR) 3:33
135 Vince DiRenzo(BR) dec.
over Torey Mazza(D) 7 – 0
140 Don Tran(D) dec. over E.
Ost(BR) 11 – 6
145 Andrew Chverchko(D) fall
over D. Gallagher(BR) 1:10
152 Matt Kloc(D) maj. dec.
over P. Dunlop(BR) 11 – 2
160 JC Morrison(BR) fall
over Arta Seyedian(D) 3:04
171 M. Mendoza(BR) fall
over Emile Khattar(D) 1:00
189 Daren Littleton(D) fall
over J. Garrett (BR) :15
215 J. Dundos(BR) fall over
Kenny Sisson(D) :22

Potomac Falls 63, Park View 12
103 Rea PF dec Dang PV
9-2
112 Penna PV fall Linza PF
3:53
119 Koenig PF fall Williams PV
2:19
125 Rowane PF fall Landmesser
PV 3:25
130 Snead PF fall Williams PV
2:54
135 Oswald PF fall Garcia PV
3:30
140 Haislip PF fall Boryan PV
1:45
152 Hagen PF wins by Forfeit
160 Rowane PF fall Ward PV :43
171 Freiert PF fall Roberts PV
5:02
189 Khawaja PF maj
dec. Machado PV 13-1
215 Stevens PV fall DeVaughn
PF 1:18
285 Duffin PF maj dec Schafer
PV 11-7