Minutemen Youth Wrestling

Please understand that it is difficult lining up matches at our meets. I try to match our kids with someone of equal ability. I don't want someone to become discouraged because they wrestle someone so much better they can't do anything on the mat. I also want everyone to have a match and this is where the dilema happens. Some times teams don't match up well and their better wrestlers are where our weaker wrestlers are. For the remainder of the year I will try to arrange the matches in the order that people arrive for the match. Those arriving late will wrestle at the end of the night when an opponent has multiple matches. The other factor that plays into the equation is when a wrestler leaves or doesn't want to wrestle or doesn't show up. This can throw off the order that we have put together and the pairings. Anyone wishing to help during matches please let me know. All help is welcome and if we share the jobs that need to be done we will all come out winners. Special thanks to Paul Powers and Bob Butler for heelping out at our match with Meriden!

Great Job! Click on the title to see the stat's from our match against Meriden.

It was 2nd places almost all around with the following bringing home the silver: Sean Pentalow, Ryan Butler, Kevin Moss, Ron Marchetti and Mason Powers. Coming close was Derrick Durity but was one match short of placing.

Click on the title to see the results of this meet held on Tuesday, January 15, 2002.South Windsor Vs Berlin Youth Wrestling On Tuesday, January 15th, South Windsor Youth traveled to Berlin for a dual meet. The Berlin Squad was without its 5th graders from Willard School as they were all away at Nature’s Classroom and the flu bug which has been. The young Berlin Wrestler’s did well but came up on the short end of a 23-14 score. Winning by pin for Berlin were Ryan Vujs over Nicholas Healy in 1:25 and Peter Ginter who won in :33 seconds against Chris Gineo. Ali Sullivan won by Technical Fall over Chris Lyons 20-1 and also beat Justin Schilberg 4-2. Major Decision wins were racked up by Sean Pentalow 11-2, James Marchetti 12-2, Will Matuszak 13-2 and Zachary Parsons 10-0. Round out the night with wins were Colin Cunningham who pulled out an 8-5 win over Asum Siddiqui, Jack Russo 12-5 over Chris Lyons, John Swantek 4-3 over Justin Schilberg, Eric Cote 7-3 over Nathan Thaller, Tim Norton over Mike DeGrandi 12-8 and Ryan Preece 5-0 over Chris Gineo. Wrestling well but losing one match for the Minutemen were: Matthew Cote 4-3, Ian Vujs 6-2, Michael Cassineri 6-3, Mason Powers 4-2 decision, Jack Banks 10-5, Ryan Bisson and Brendan Butler both at 4-0. Losing two close matches were Erin McKinnon by scores of 7-4 and Ryan Butler losing both by 5-4 scores. The Minutemen are back in action against Meriden at home on Friday, January 25 in the wrestling room.

Five Berlin Youth Wrestler’s traveled to Griswald High School on Sunday, January 20th with four taking home a medal. In the Bantams Division Ryan Butler took first place pinning all three of his opponents on the day. This was only Ryan’s second tournament he has competed in. Also in the Bantams was Sean Pentalow who met Joe Murphy from Avon in his first meet. Murphy is the only wrestler who has been Pentalow in tournament action this year. Pentalow had a Tech. Fall against his next opponent from East Lyme 11-0, had a pin in his third match and beat Zachary from Somers 6-5 to take home second. In the Midget Division Ryan Bisson had a forfeit in his first match then went on a tear, pinning his opponent in the first period from East Lyme and Montville for first place. In the Novice Division, Kevin Moss won his first match 16-1 against his Groton opponent then lost in the semi-finals 2-0 against Gibson from East Lyme and then couldn’t come out on top of a 7-2 score against his Somers opponent in the consolation bracket. In the Schoolboy Division John Holzinger won his match by pin and then lost his second match 9-1. Tournament Action picks up again next Sunday in Somers.