Redmen upset Edison, fall to Perkins in state tournament

By BRAD FRANK
Gazette Sports Editor

PERKINS Twp. — Belle­vue fresh­man Logan Vannest, top, wres­tles in the Ohio High School Ath­letic Asso­ci­a­tion Team Tour­na­ment on Wednes­day in a Divi­sion II, Region 9-B quar­ter­fi­nal 170-pound match against Edi­son at Perkins High School. (Gazette photo by Brad Frank)

PERKINS Twp. — In the inau­gural Ohio High School Ath­letic Asso­ci­a­tion Team State Tour­na­ment, the Belle­vue Red­men pulled off an upset win over the Edi­son Charg­ers before falling to the Perkins Pirates on Wednes­day at Perkins High School.

No. 10 seed Belle­vue elim­i­nated No. 7 seed Edi­son with a 40–32 win in the Divi­sion II, Region 9-B quar­ter­fi­nals, then was elim­i­nated from the tour­na­ment with a 62–13 loss to No. 2 seed Perkins.

The Bellevue-Edison match came down to the heavy­weight con­test, as Belle­vue led 37–32 enter­ing the final match in the dual.

Red­men sopho­more Grant Moyer earned a 2–1 over­time deci­sion over Edi­son senior Gabe Timbs to seal the win for the Redmen.

The only way Moyer could have lost the match for Belle­vue was by pin, but Red­men coach Paul Zol­man said Moyer did not approach his match against Timbs try­ing to avoid a pin but rather just to win it.

“Grant is one of the biggest com­peti­tors on our team. We’ve never han­dled him that way,” Zol­man said. “He goes out there to get the win. He prides him­self on wrestling hard, and he did.”

Bellevue’s win avenged a 42–25 loss to Edi­son ear­lier in the sea­son on Jan. 2.

Zol­man described his feel­ings about beat­ing Edi­son this time around.

“It felt really good,” he said. “We knew that if we wres­tled the best we could, we had a shot at beat­ing them.”

By seed, Bellevue’s win Wednes­day over Edi­son was an upset. Zol­man, how­ever, didn’t view the win as an upset, feel­ing his team was just as good as the Chargers.

“Yeah, by def­i­n­i­tion, it was upset, but we knew we were just as good as Edi­son,” he said. “We felt it was even ground with them all along. The score didn’t reflect that when we dualed them ear­lier this year.”

Perkins rolled to a 62–13 vic­tory over Belle­vue in Wednesday’s sec­ond match to advance to the Jan. 30 regional semifinals.

Belle­vue and Perkins met two weeks prior to their match Wednes­day, with the Pirates man­ag­ing a 62–12 win over the Redmen.

After split­ting its two matches Wednes­day, Belle­vue is now 3–5 in duals this sea­son after an 0–4 start.

The Red­men have had a decent bit of a suc­cess within the last two weeks after a rough start to the season.

Zol­man eval­u­ated his team’s progress with respect to the entire sea­son, con­sid­er­ing Wednesday’s results.

“We’re mak­ing a lot of progress. Our upper­class­men are doing a good job. Our guys who were sup­posed to score points came up big,” he said. “Sev­eral peo­ple got pins and didn’t give up pins. Our younger guys filled in a few spots. They didn’t give up pins. That was big for us tonight.”

The inau­gural OHSAA single-elimination tour­na­ment, which began statewide Wednes­day, is bro­ken down into a three-day, three-round regional tour­na­ment and a one-day, three-round state tour­na­ment on Sat­ur­day, Feb. 9.

The Red­men will wres­tle in the Celina Lions Club Invi­ta­tional on Sat­ur­day, their last event of the 2012–13 reg­u­lar sea­son, with the North­ern Ohio League Tour­na­ment loom­ing on Sat­ur­day, Feb. 2.

Belle­vue 40, Edi­son 32
106: James Kaniarz (E) win by for­feit
113: Evan Cheek (E) maj. dec. Alex Drum­mond, 11–3
120: Jude Michel (E) tech. fall Collin Adkins, 18–0
126: Chris Har­ris (B) maj. dec. Dan Stoll, 19–5
132: Dal­ton Howard (E) tech. fall Gabe Smythe, 17–2
138: Ryan Veliz (B) pin Nick Cham­bers, :44
145: Zack Miller (B) win by for­feit
152: Jake Wei­der (B) dec. Ismael Sanabria, 15–8
160: Bran­don Veliz (B) pin John Kaniarz, [5:12
170: Logan Vannest (B) win by pin 5:00
182: Jared Hoy (B) win by pin 2:36
195: Tim Young (E) pin Ethan Hart­ley, 1:45
220: Brady Wil­son (E) win by for­feit
285: Grant Moyer (B) dec. Gabe Timbs, 2–1 (OT)

Perkins 62, Belle­vue 13
106: Tyler Capodice ℗ win by for­feit
113: Juwan Min­ni­field ℗ dec. Alex Drum­mond, 4–3
120: Tren­ton Adkins ℗ pin Collin Adkins, 3:45
126: Seth Boggs ℗ pin Chris Har­ris, 4:28
132: Nate Boggs ℗ pin Ryan Veliz, 1:26
138: Nathan Salmon ℗ pin Zack Miller, 1:44
145: Bryon Logan ℗ pin Jake Wei­der, 1:55
152: Bran­don Veliz (B) pin Logan Bar­ton, 3:46
160: Tony Did­ion ℗ pin Logan Vannest, 1:03
170: Jared Hoy (B) maj. dec. Shaun Camp­bell, 10–1
182: Dylan Her­mes ℗ pin Ethan Hart­ley, 1:52
195: John Work­man ℗ win by for­feit
220: Kordell Chaney ℗ win by for­feit
285: Grant Moyer (B) dec. Josh Rohrbacher, 3–1

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