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Congratulations are in order for the Norristown contingent that wrestled in Hershey this weekend in the PIAA state wrestling championships. Of the four wrestlers that went, three brought home medals.

Zach Fuentes, 103 lbs. After dropping a tough preliminary round match, stormed back through the consolations to wrestle for 3rd/4th. Unfortunately he faced Canan MacMillan's Colt Shorts and lost another tough match to take a very respectable 4th place.

Brett Harner, 152 lbs. Brett took the same road as Zach Fuentes. He lost a tough opening round match, and then wrestled all the way back through the consolation rounds to take a 4th place medal. Along the way he avenged his preliminary round loss to Geno Morelli, by beating him 7-4 in the 4th Consolation round. Harner faced a tough foe in Lorenzo Thomas from Pittsburgh Central Catholic in the 3rd/4th place finals. Harner improved upon last year's 8th place finish this year taking 4th. Sunday's Times Herald features a story on Brett:

http://www.timesherald.com/articles/2011/03/12/sports/doc4d7c29dbddc18106185516.txt?viewmode=fullstory

Gavin Queenan, HWT. Gavin lost his preliminary round match to eventual finalist and 2nd place winner, Dawson Peck, and then won his first 2 consolation matches before dropping his 3rd consolation round match to wrestle off for 7th/8th. Gaving pinned Ryan Geiger of LaSalle in 23 seconds in his final match to take 7th place.

Brandon Parker, 145 lbs. Brandon won his preliminary round and unfortunately just missed the podium by losing 2 in a row to Trey Duncan of Spring Grove and Garret Peppelman of Central Dauphin. Although Brandon didnt medal, qualifying for this tournament winning a match here is an accomplishment in itself.

All official results can be found here: http://www.wrestlereg.com/2011-PIAA/

Overall, Norristown took 12th place with 37 team points. Again, congratulations to Norristown for a great season and a very successful and memorable post-season. Its going to be a long off-season as we wait for the 2011-12 season to start.

Brandon Parker wins preliminary round match and advances to face Trey Duncan of Spring Grove in the quarterfinals.

Zach Fuentes, Brett Harner and Gavin Queenan all lost their first matches, however all 3 won their first consolation round matches to stay in it.

Quarterfinals start Friday at 1pm and the 2nd round consolation matches start at 2:45pm.

Tournament results can be found here: http://www.wrestlereg.com/2011-PIAA/

For those that can't make it to Hershey but still want to watch some of the awesome wrestling, Saturday's action will be streamed live for a small fee here: http://www.livesportsvideo.com/golive/goliveevents.asp?q=PIAAStateWrestlingTournamentFinals

An article from today's Times Herald about our local wrestlers: http://www.timesherald.com/articles/2011/03/11/sports/doc4d796bbe4fa6a664820190.txt?viewmode=fullstory

Results from Regions:

Brandon Parker, 145 lbs, 1st

Brett Harner, 152 lbs, 1st

Zach Fuentes, 103 lbs, 2nd

Gavin Queenan, HWT, 2nd

Mikey Springer, 135 lbs, 5th

Larry Gordon, 189 lbs, 5th

Complete tournament results: http://www.nhscasportsnetwork.com/wrestling/highschool/pa/teams/norristown/tournament_stats.htm?id=2760

Times Herald article, 3/6/2011: http://www.timesherald.com/articles/2011/03/06/sports/doc4d73261e90931723321713.txt?viewmode=fullstory

Congratulations to all who wrestled at Regions and best of luck to those moving on to states next weekend!

I am not sure how official they are, but here are the region brackets:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=1ZdQDa6Iq8fgdyLYsZ6jESjC2I3jlfhQHkj9KUaAfYOodwUWpJld166V8UuMt&hl=en

Congratulations to the Norristown wrestlers for a great showing at Districts, taking 2nd as a team and advancing 6 to regions next week. Here is a summary of the individual medals won.

Brandon Parker, 145 lbs, 1st

Brett Harner, 152 lbs, 1st

Gavin Queenan, HWT, 1st

Zach Fuentes, 103 lbs, 2nd

Mikey Springer, 135 lbs, 2nd

Larry Gordon, 189 lbs, 5th

More details and some pics in Sunday's Times Herald:

http://www.timesherald.com/articles/2011/02/27/sports/doc4d696b9695109002673096.txt?viewmode=fullstory

More media coverage of the tourney:

http://www.suburbanonesports.com/headlines/wrestling

Best of luck to our wrestlers next weekend at Regions!

TOP 20 WINS INDIVIDUAL IN PA

TOP 20 TEAMS PIN IN PA 2/17/2011

TOP 20 IN PINS IN PA

Times Herald article, 11 Feb 2011, http://www.timesherald.com/articles/2011/02/11/sports/doc4d561d497c30e477815971.txt?viewmode=fullstory

Suburban One Sports, Wrestling Notebook, 14 Feb 2011, http://www.suburbanonesports.com/content/2011-wrestling-notebook-vol10

Norristown Golden Eagles lost in the first round of state duals to a leading contender, Central Dauphin, 48 - 12.

They then won their first consolation match against Shikellamy, by score 37 - 25.

Their next opponent is Greater Latrobe, the second place team from District 7, which will begin at 6pm on Friday Feb 11.

Results can be found here: http://gimp.escapesports.on-rev.com/TeamDuals/PIAAStateDuals2011_204.htm

Brackets: http://www.piaa.org/assets/web/documents/2011_AAA_TW_Brax.pdf

Coverage in the Times Herald: http://www.timesherald.com/articles/2011/02/11/sports/doc4d5567eac8817174677716.txt

Best of luck to the Norristown wrestling team. Lets get some!

OUR BOYS STOOD TALL AND DID ALL OF US PROUD WITH A RUNNER5 UP FINISH AT THE DISTRICT 1 DUALS. 

THEY TUFFED OUT A CLOSE ONE WITH UPPER PERK IN THE QUARTERS ON FRIDAY NIGHT.

 FOLLOWED DIRECTLY WITH ANOTHER EXCITING WIN OVER SPRING FORD. 

THE FINALS WERE HELD SATURDAY AND THE NORRISTOWN FANS WERE IN FULL FORCE BUT THE EAGLES JUST DIDN'T HAVE IT IN THE CARDS FOR CR SOUTH. 

THE MEDALS WERE NICE AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENT WAS GREAT!!  NOW, WE WRESTLE ON MONDAY 2/7/11 AGAINST SOLANCO AT METHACTON AT 7PM.  BE THERE EARLY!  WINNERS GO TO HERSHEY ON THURSDAY, LOSERS GO HOME.  COME MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!!

NORRISTOWN OPENED UP THE DISTRICT DUALS AGAINST PIGTAIL WINNER QUAKERTOWN.  NORRISTOWN STARTED FAST AND NEVER LOOKED BACK.  NORRISTOWN WAS VICTORIOUS 50-SOMETHING TO 20-SOMETHING.  01/31/2011.

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