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Saturday's wrestling
Saturday, February 06, 2010
by
Joseph Kairalla
Jupiter dominated Saturday's District 9-3A meet, winning by a 61-point margin over second-place Palm Beach Gardens while qualifying 11 wrestlers for regionals.
"I told the kids before we left my house this morning that if we wrestle to our potential, then we win this thing big," Jupiter coach Doug Rasmusson said.
In all, Jupiter had seven individual champions, led by Brian Radli at 103, Devon Bradley at 171 and Karl Stanborough at 285. All three also were county champs. The other title winners for the Warriors were Andrew MacArthur (112), Joseph MacArthur (119) and Thomas Bertone (135).
The best match of the night, however, didn't go Jupiter's way. At 152 pounds, Jupiter's Hans Rasmusson faced Palm Beach Gardens' Kerry Bradwell. Rasmusson entered the match undefeated while Bradwell's only loss of the season came at 160 pounds.
The match went back and forth before Rasmusson recorded a takedown with less than 20 seconds left to take a 5-4 lead. Bradwell, however, reversed the move as time expired to win 6-5.
"It goes to show you can never give up," said an exhausted Bradwell.
Palm Beach Gardens coach William George wasn't surprised at how close the match was.
"Those are two high-level guys with a mutual respect for each other," George said. "Kerry is great at reversing, though. When I looked up and saw 12 seconds left, I knew it wasn't over."
Joining Bradwell as individual champions from Gardens were Josh Brady (145), Kris Warden (215) and Harold Pritchard at 189. In all, the Gators are sending eight wrestlers to regionals.
"We brought nine kids, so to send eight is an accomplishment," George said. "We overachieved today."
Wellington was third and qualified nine wrestlers, while host Seminole Ridge was fourth and qualified eight, including 125-pound champ Brandon Short.
Other individual winners were Treasure Coast's Steve Santil at 140 pounds and Port St. Lucie's Jaymes Stanley at 160.
District 10-3A
Boca Raton, Park Vista tie: The Bobcats and the Cobras each totaled 164.5 points to tie for the district title in Lantana. Park Vista, which trailed Boca by three points entering the finals, had three individual champions, compared with only one for Boca Raton. But Boca had nine wrestlers place either second or third, compared with six for the Cobras, that helped forge the tie.
User Comments:
Coach commented on February 8, 2010 at 9:24 a.m.: flag
for a complete list of results for championship and consolation rounds, instead of yet another love fest about Jupiter/PBG, head over to sunsentinel.com. check out both Palm Beach and Broward high school sports for wrestling and with a little work can figure out all the seeds for regionals at Park Vista.
That's funny commented on February 8, 2010 at 5:34 p.m.: flag
Coach. That's funny. If the tournament they covered was the disrict 9-3A tournament, shouldn't they write about that tournament?
Spectator commented on February 10, 2010 at 11:29 a.m.: flag
Coach, perhaps what you've mistaken as a "love fest" is the kind of reporting coverage that wrestling gets in this area and has gotten for many years. They choose one tournament per year and you're just lucky if it is yours. As far as your apparent hard feelings toward Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens, it is perhaps more that you're jealous of the program or coaching that is done at those schools? The Gardens team only had 9 competitors and 8 moving on to regionals - he's got an 89% return on wrestlers! Of the 8 moving on - 50% were champs, 25% were runners up and the remaining 25% were 3rd place finishers! WOW! That is quite an accomplishment for those athletes. And Jupiter did win the District Title, so clearly, having accomplished those things as a team, it is a team to be highlighted.
Congrats to all the wrestlers who are moving on and good luck to all of them.
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