MOAC Tournament
Full Results at (
http://www.cardingtonwrestling.com/2012MOAC/index.htm)
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River Valley
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220.50
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Cardington-Lincoln
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172.00
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Pleasant
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149.00
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Highland
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137.00
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Northmor
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109.00
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North Union
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99.50
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Buckeye Valley
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85.50
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Mount Gilead
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65.50
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Elgin
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20.00
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River Valley, Cardington win MOAC wrestling titles
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CARDINGTON - At this time of the season, undefeated senior Pleasant High School wrestler Zon Fields would like to be a little more active than he was on Saturday
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Fields' 106-pound weight division in the 22nd Mid Ohio Athletic Conference Wrestling Championships at Cardington High School featured only four wrestlers.
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As a result, he was able to get in only two matches on the day. Fields did make the best of them, however, by winning the division for his third career MOAC title to raise his 2011-12 record to 34-0.
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Several weight divisions in the event were short of wrestlers due to illness, injury, or lack of grapplers from the nine competing schools.
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"I think it's bad for me," Fields said. "I wish I'd at least had four matches so I could work on things. But I took what I could get and went out and did what I had to do."
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Because of first-round byes, Fields waited an hour before his opening bout. He then had to endure 4 1/2 more hours of down time before his second and final match.
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At times this season Fields has wrestled at 113. He and Spartans coach Doug Short conferred before it was decided he would stay at 106 for the MOAC, the last event before the postseason begins next weekend with sectional meets.
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"Maybe I should have bumped up to 113 because at that class I would have gotten one more match (because of a larger field), but it's harder to bump up and then come down," Fields said. "I'm staying down for the next three weeks."
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Elgin senior Josh Edington also wrestled just two matches Saturday, yet they came against foes who had combined for only seven losses this winter.
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Edington (27-3) won his two encounters to take the crown at 160 pounds.
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Before beginning his official action, Edington did some sparring with Quinton Cooperider, a former Elgin volunteer assistant coach who won an MOAC crown while at Pleasant in 2008.
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"I'm not a big fan of wrestling tough matches right off of the bat," Edington said. "I like to get another match in before I have those, so I brought Quinton in today to warm up with."
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Like Fields, Edington would have liked to get in more matches prior to the postseason.
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"Normally it's a bad thing wrestling only twice before the sectional, but I did get in two quality matches today," he said. "I'd rather be sharp and at my best going into the sectional."
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River Valley had nine wrestlers gain finals berths, and Jonathan Edwards (120), Steven Workman (138), and Aron Gibson (285) all took first place.
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Edwards is now a two-time conference champ. He won last year at 112.
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Ben Crabtree (106), Raymond Raimo (113), Collin Rollison (132), Kevin Stephens (145), Clay Rollison (182), and Chris Fattig (195) of RV each finished second.
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River Valley defended its Red Division championship with 220.5 points. Cardington won the Blue Division with 172 points in claiming its first MOAC Blue title.
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Luke Clemens (Highland, 113), Dashawn Haynes (Buckeye Valley, 126), Josh Alexander (Pleasant, 132), David Ballard (Buckeye Valley, 145), Colton Jenkins (Cardington, 152), Ty Barlow (Pleasant, 170), Jonathan McClenathan (Cardington, 182), Tyler Beck (Northmor, 195), and Isaiah Blevins (North Union, 220) also grabbed individual titles. Beck won his second MOAC crown.
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These other grapplers lost in their finals matches to finish second: Adam Reed (Cardington, 120); Luke Hutchinson (Mount Gilead, 126); Jamie Baldridge (Northmor, 138); Colin Visconti (Northmor, 152); Cody Kucera (Highland, 160); Dustin Briggs (Cardington, 170); Drake Colbree (Pleasant, 220); and Jeff Fairchild (Pleasant, 285).
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Following are wrestlers who finished in places three through five:
106: Third, Mike Stewart, Highland; fourth, Patrick Hook, Cardington.
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113: Third, Thomas Jordan, Cardington; fourth, Gunnar Flavell, North Union; fifth, Nate Mentzer, Buckeye Valley.
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120: Third, Ethan Ice, Pleasant; fourth, Sam Neer, Northmor; fifth, Cody Creech, Buckeye Valley.
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126: Third, Marcus Gruber, North Union; fourth, Jake Limings, Highland; fifth, Efren Silva, River Valley.
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132: Third, Alex Blanton, Mount Gilead; fourth, Mitchell Whisler, Northmor; fifth, Andy Hornback, Cardington.
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138: Third, Ryan Brewer, Pleasant; fourth, Tristen High, Cardington; fifth, Tim Williamson, Mount Gilead.
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145: Third, Caleb Kellogg, Pleasant; fourth, Bryson Fisher, Highland; fifth, Ryan Cox, North Union.
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152: Third, Tyler Bashaw, Mount Gilead; fourth, Dylan Reese, North Union; fifth, Conner Price, Highland.
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160: Third, Skylar Caldwell, Cardington; fourth, Gage Stuckman, River Valley; fifth, Austin Venable, Buckeye Valley.
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170: Third, David Fisher, Highland; fourth, Ben Hamilton, North Union; fifth, Ethan Nichols, Northmor.
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182: Third, Jeff Shell, Highland; fourth, Cody Ross, Northmor; fifth, Duke Dutcher, Buckeye Valley.
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195: Third, Dustin Baker, Highland; fourth, Zach Crofut, North Union; fifth, Eric Collins, Cardington.
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220: Third, Crew Cochran, Cardington; fourth, Austin Guthrie, River Valley; fifth, Lucas Earhart, Northmor.
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285: Third, Ed Kontual, Highland; fourth, Conner Hill, Mount Gilead; fifth, Jim Russell, Cardington.
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Caldwell of Cardington recorded his 100th career win during the tournament.
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Pleasant's Alexander and Cardington's McClenathan each won a $1,000 MOAC Wrestling Coaches Scholarship.
The scholarship winners are annually selected by an impartial committee approved by MOAC coaches. Each winner must be a senior who has been a member of the wrestling team for at least two full seasons for the MOAC school from which he is graduating, including his senior year; must be accepted into a post-high school degree or certificate program; and must have strong traits of leadership, citizenship, and personal character.
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This is the first time in the five-year history of the scholarships that two have been presented in one season. Previous winners were Adam Dillion (2008) and Austin Kucera (2009) of Highland, Pleasant's Nathan Alexander (2010), and Tyler Heminger of Northmor (2011).