OJR passes test from Pottstown
Wildcats score twowin day on Duliakas’ tide-turning pin
The Owen J. Roberts wrestling teamwas busy Thursday evening. They had reason to be nervous, too. Pottstown was pushing the Wildcats in their Pioneer Athletic Conference dual, the Trojans trailing by just one (25-24) with four bouts remaining. But Nick Duliakas’ pin at 182 turned the tide back in OJR’s favor as they rode out a 34-30 victory in the ‘ Battle of the Bridge’ to earn its second win of the day.
Earlier Thursday, OJR defeated Pottsgrove, 53-19.
Duliakas, Tyler McCutchen (113), Daniel Mancini (126) and William Scherfel (220) won both their bouts while Luke Resnick and Ryan Resnick were also 2-0, each benefitting from a forfeit.
Against Pottstown, OJR built a 25-6 lead but the Trojans answered with four straight wins that included back-to-back pins by Mason Pennypacker (152) – his 100th career win – and Saddiq Ibn-Mustafah (160) and was capped by Isaiah Mayes’ 7-4 decision of Micky Kohn for a 25-24 OJR lead. The teams split the final bouts but Duliakas’ pin provided the difference.
Girls Basketball
TRI-COUNTY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP >> Maimuna Kenneh scored her 1,000th career point late in the second quarter to highlight Collegium Charter’s dominating 54-19 victory over the Perkiomen School in the Tri-County League Championship at The Hill School.
The Panthers kept it close in the first quarter, before Collegium outscored them19-2 in the second quarter to pull ahead with a com--
manding 31-9 halftime lead. The lead only expanded in the second half as Collegium pulled away with the 45-point victory.
Boys swimming
SPRING-FORD 107, METHACTON 63 >> Carson Huff and Carson Hilliard each swam four victorious races to lead the Rams over the Warriors in a PAC-10 meet.
Huff won the 200 IM (2:06.75) and 100 butterfly (1:00.23), Hilliard the 200 freestyle (1:50.07) and 500 freestyle (5:00.11) individually and teamed up on the 200 free relay.
Gilbert Price was the sprint standout for Methacton in winning the 50 free (22.62) and 100 free (48.34). UPPERPERKIOMEN84, PERKIOMEN SCHOOL 73 >> Mitch Cairns and Tyler Reed won four events to lead Upper Perk in the crosstown battle.
Individually, Cairns took the 200 free (1:57.69) and 100 free (54.12) while Reed won the 50 free (22.82) and 100 butterfly (1:00.63). The joined forces to win the 200 medley and 200 free relay. Kyle Kovalenko figured in on three wins, taking the 200 IM (2:16.61) and 100 breaststroke (1:06.36) individually.
Girls swimming
METHACTON 96, SPRINGFORD 71 >> Emily Sykes, Anna Price and Sarah Lebold each won and individual event while teaming up to win the 200 medley and 200 free relays to lift the Warriors.
Sykes won the 500 free (5:25.59), Price the 50 free (25.84) and Lebold the 100 free (56.79) to hold off Rebecca Cubbler-led Spring-Ford
Cubbler won the 100 fly (1:02.23) and 200 free (1:57.37) and swam on the winning 400 free relay. UPPERPERKIOMEN88, PERKIOMEN SCHOOL 46 >> Kristen Siwy was a four-event winner for Upper Perk.
Siwy claimed the 50 free (25.99), 100 free (55.46) and swam on the winning 200 medley and 200 free relays. Bailey Mc Causland and Melissa Kilroyw ere each a part of three wins for UP.