Hamburg’s Mason wins 182-pound title; Kutztown’s Fisher, Raudenbush advance
Hamburg’s Reese Mason claimed the 182-pound championship at the District 3 Class 2A Championships to lead the Berks County contingent last weekend at the Giant Center in Hershey.
Mason, a senior, defeated Camp Hill’s Luca Colestock, 9-3, to go atop the podium. He upped his season record to 35-2.
Brandywine Heights’ Dalton Gimbor was the runner-up at 113 following a 7-6 loss to Bishop McDevitt’s Nate Smith. Brother Bailey Gimbor placed third at 106, capped by a 4-2 sudden-victory win over Middletown’s Luke Fegley in the medal match.
Schuylkill Valley’s Jack Bennett placed third at 145, the senior going 3-1 for the tournament. He pinned Newport’s Mike Capozzoli in 2:30 in his medal match.
Kutztown junior Tyler Fisher took fourth at 170, going 2-2 for the tournament. The junior who missed the early part of the season with a knee injury fell is his medal match to Littlestown’s Carl Harris 7-3. Teammate Nate Raudenbush went 3-3 at 285 and placed sixth.
Top-seven finishers qualified for next weekend’s Southeast AA Regional at Wilson.
Also advancing for Hamburg were: Kyle Vernon (sixth place at 120), Shane Strausser (sixth place at 126) and Ben Weidenhammer (seventh place at 195). Weidenhammer came through in his last chance to advance by pinning Northern Lebanon’s Brendan Madeira in 2:35. Schuylkill Valley sophomore Aiden Weber moved on with a sixth at 182.
Boiling Springs, with two champions and two runnersup, won the team title with 169, over Northern Lebanon (145) and Bishop McDevitt. Hamburg was 13th (49) and Brandywine Heights was 17th (41.5).
Class AAA
Exeter’s Dennis Karas was the silver medalist at 220 pounds at the District 3 Class 3A Wrestling Championships last Saturday at Giant Center in Hershey.
Muhlenberg’s Stefahn Mayo was also runner-up, finishing second at 152 following a 11-7 defeat to Lower Dauphin’s Clayton Ulrey.
Karas fell to Shippensburg’s
Cole Forrester 9-4. They were Berks counties’ only finalists.
Twin Valley’s CJ Morton earned another trip to the state tournament by placing fourth at 120, falling to Cocalico’s Josiah Gehr, 11-5 in the third-place match.
Gov. Mifflin heavyweight Jordan Espinosa qualified for states and finished fourth at 285 after an 11-4 loss to Warwick’s Ryan Stewart in the medal match.
Finishers in the top 4 qualified for the PIAA Championships.
In fifth-place matches, Gov. Mifflin’s Jalon Lavine majored Josh Miller of Central Dauphin 14-5 at 106; Wilson’s Kolbe Eidle topped Exeter’s Gage Moran 10-6 at 152; Exeter’s Matt Ward edged West Perry’s Caden Morrison, 8-5 at 160; Exeter’s Michael Crane fell to West Perry’s Jake Quaker.