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Published: December 20, 2009
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MIKE STAUGAITIS/Staff Photo Mount Carmel's Mike Sinopoli, red singlet, controls Pocono Mountain West's Luis Olavarria while looking for back points during their match in the Randy Zigarski Memorial Tournament held at Mount Carmel Area on Saturday.
MOUNT CARMEL - The snow kept two teams away, but the second annual Randy Zigarski Memorial Tournament at Mount Carmel Area High School Saturday still offered plenty of good competition, and was a particularly good day for the hosts.
Mount Carmel had champions in six weight classes, as well as three runners-up, to win the team title in what turned out to be a six-team event, topping Wellsboro 301-245.5. Other schools in the tournament were Pocono Mountain West, Tamaqua, Mansfield and Mahanoy Area. Hanover Area and Bishop McDevitt pulled out because of travel concerns coming from the southern tier of the state, which was hit hardest by the storm.
Mick Saukaitis (112), Shane Wondoloski (125), Nick Dusendschine (130), Mike Sinopoli (140), Meyrick Lamb (160) and Derek Urbanavage (189) took firsts for Mount Carmel in the round-robin format, in which each wrestler wrestles against every other wrestler in his weight class. All of those wrestlers except Urbanavage went unbeaten. Sinopoli was 5-0, and Saukaitis, Wondoloski, Dusendschine and Lamb all went 3-0. Urbanavage had a 4-1 record. Urbanavage was pinned in his final bout by Tamaqua's Dustin Wentz.
Dylan Hornberger (135), Doug Kraynak (152) and Brett Przekop (171) were runners-up for Mount Carmel, each losing just once. Hornberger dropped a 10-1 decision to champion Kolby Mashack of Tamaqua, who was named the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler.
Kraynak lost only to champion Brenton Acorn of Wellsboro, who won the award for most pins in the least amount of time, going 5-0 with five pins in a total of 16 minutes, five seconds. Ahmad Aboumar finished third at 285 for Mount Carmel, posting a 3-2 record.
Przekop had four pins before dropping a 10-5 decision to champion Tyler Stettler of Mansfield.
"The kids wrestled very well," said Mount Carmel coach Randy Reidler. "We still have a lot of work to do, and conditioning is a big thing yet. Meyrick Lamb did a great job for a kid who has basically been out of wrestling for two years. Przekop didn't know he was going to wrestle until the last minute because of an injury, and Derek Urbanavage is another outstanding young kid who wrestled well."
Wellsboro had three champions, with Jake Clemens (145) and Josh Mihalik (285) joining Acorn in winning titles. Pocono Mountain West and Tamaqua each had two champs. Manny Ramdat (103) and Sean Phuah (119) were winners for Pocono Mountain West, and Garth Lakitsky (215) joined Mashack as the Blue Raiders' other champion.
Brandon Silkowski (130), Matt Edmonds (145), and Travis Varonsky (160) were runnerups for Tamaqua. Mahanoy Area's Nick Forte was runnerup to Lakitsky at 215.
"It went pretty smoothly," Reidler said. "It's a shame they (McDevitt and Hanover) couldn't come, but coming from south, it's understandable."
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