District Brings Home 23 State Medals
District 1 brought home a total of 23 medals from the PIAA Championships in Hershey, 22 in AAA and one from AA. The District had three in the finals, two in AAA and one in AA, where each fell short of state gold. For the first time since 1995, no District 1 wrestler won gold.
Of the 23 medal winners 15 were seniors, which means eight will be returning to the mats next season. Five are currently juniors with three being sophomores. In AA, the District’s lone representative was Octorara’s Josh Smith, who made it to the finals at 171 pounds only to fall by a 3-2 score. In AAA, the two District 1 finalists were Council Rock North’s Jamie Callender at 189 and Abington’s David Osei at 285. Both had to settle for the silver.
Overall, 26 from the District qualified but failed to earn a medal. Nine of those wrestlers were juniors, seven were sophomores and one was a freshman. Those 17 wrestlers gained valuable experience for next season, and beyond. Congratulations to all the qualifiers and medalists!
State Duals: Boyertown goes farthest of D1 teams
Class AAA runner-up Boyertown advanced the farthest of the four District 1 teams to advance to the state duals. The Bears opened with a victory over D12 champ LaSalle before falling to D6 champ Central Mountain in the second round. D1 champ Quakertown lost their quarterfinal to D11 runner-up Blue Mountain to setup a consolation match with Boyertown. Boyertown won the rematch of the D1 final and then defeated D7 champ Bethel Park before being elimated in the consolation semifinals by D11 champ Northampton. Council Rock North, the third qualifer in AAA, opened with a first round win over D2 champ Hazleton before falling to D7 runner-up Connellsville and then Bethel Park.
In AA, Octorora lost their opening round match to D3 runner-up Bermudian Springs.
D1 Duals: Quakertown wins AAA; Octorara wins AA
The 2009 District 1 Duals tournament came to an exciting conclusion on January 31st at Council Rock South. Quakertown, the second seed, upset top-seeded Boyertown in the AAA final by the score of 54-16 to claim the championship.
In the AAA third place match, Council Rock North defeated rival Council Rock South 31-28 to claim the last spot in the state duals tournament.
In AA, Octorara repeated as champions by defeating Harriton by the score of 41-18.
For complete results for the entire tournament, click the District 1 Duals bracket link below.
SEPA Middle School Tournament
The 2009 Southeastern PA Middle School Tournament can be downloaded using the folliwng links:
New Look for District 1 Wrestling Website
NHSCA Sports Network unveiled a redesigned District 1 website for the 2008-09 season that includes several new features plus easy to find links to all 12 Pennsylvania District homepages. Additional features include 100 win club and the archives area. Both of these new pages will be expanded over the course of this year as more information is collected. For example, we are looking for the record of any District 1 wrestler who has won 100 matches or more in their career. However, we will need them to be broken down by season so that they may be entered into our database. In addition, we would like to have the records of any wrestler who has 40 or more wins in a single season. As we are collecting these statistics across the state, if you have access to any additional records that we are mising, please email them to the NHSCA Sports Network.
Rankings Directory: We are in the process of organizing a directory of wrestling rankings around the state. Check back often for additional rankings and updates.
NHSCA Sports Network Needs Your Help!
As we are expanding our coverage each season, we need additional volunteers to help us maintain individual team websites. Our system is quite simple and requires no knowledge of creating websites. If you are interested in helping maintain a team's website through entering rosters, schedules, complete results, etc., please go to our signup page.
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Are you a wrestling fan who is a texting fantatic? If so, we're looking for you. We would like to post final scores as soon as possible after the completion of a dual meet, but can not be everywhere at once. Please send the text results to 610-597-5842 and include complete team names. Here is an example:
Council Rock South 36 Council Rock North 27
Career Wins Leader Board
We will be unveiling an active wrestler career wins leaderboard in the future. It will obviously be incomplete, so we need your help. If you see someone's record (career and/or any season) record is incorrect, please email us. In addition, we would like coaches or fans to email us records (by season) for any District 1 wrestler who has recorded 100 or more wins, whether they are currently in high school or not.
Missing Results:
If you have any results that are not posted on this site, please either email them to us or fax them to 215-689-3509. We will try to post as many as possible, but additional help is needed. Please consider helping us maintain your team's website on the NHSCA Sports Network. Go to our signup page and become a part of the network.
Attention Coaches:
Please submit your rosters and schedules as soon as possible to webmaster@PA-D1wrestling.com. Also, we are looking for additional team and league webmasters to assist in maintaining these sites in our network. If you are interested, please signup here. We are also looking for amateur photographers to contibute to our ever-growing Photo Gallery. Contributing photographers receive 50% of the net profit from the sale of any of their photos. If you are interested, please email us at photos@NHSCAsportsnetwork.com.
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