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CV’s Fischer Punches Ticket to State Tourney
“Keaton Fischer reaped the rewards of a ton of hard work The ‘Road to Hershey’ took in the offseason. He had the on a different meaning this toughest road to the medal year as the 2022 edition of the stand than anyone,” said District 3-3A Championship Turner. That difficult path saw Fismoved from Hershey to Spring Grove, leaving just the cher drop his quarterfinal PIAA Championships in the bout opposite Hempfield’s sweetest place on Earth. “All Reagan Lefevre by a 6-4 final, of our guys competed hard,” wiping out his opening round said head coach Trent Turner win over Gettysburg’s Jaxon of the eight wrestlers Conesto- Townsend. That quarterfinal ga Valley sent to the champi- loss dropped Fischer into the onship tournament. Unfortu- consolation bracket where he nately, only two managed to ran off four straight wins to earn that bronze. He started land on the medal stand. Keaton Fischer was one of fast, taking out Jarod Baker those two, nabbing his first (Spring Grove) in just 36-seccareer district medal while onds then battled Cedar serving as the top finisher for Cliff’s Max Haas for a 4-0 vicCV thanks to his bronze at 145. tory. Fischer needed overtime to get past York Suburban’s Noah Rice in the consy semifinal but did just that with a 50 win. That setup Fischer’s consolation final match with Cocalico’s Aiden Swann which Fischer claimed 11-0. “That run was nothing short of amazing,” Tuner said. “I believe that he will represent Staff photo The Buckskins’ Jonathan Lopez turns CV Wrestling well Solanco’s Robert Castagna for back points at the Giant Cenduring his 8-5 win in a 189-pound, first- ter in Hershey.” round match at the South Central AAA Fellow senior Regional Tournament in Spring Grove on and co-captain February 25. BY ERIC PYLES
Trent Ruble was the second Buckskin to make the medal stand, doing so in the 113pound bracket. Ruble picked up his second sixth place district medal after missing the podium last year. “I would have loved to have had two state qualifiers, but Trent still had an exceptional career,” said Turner. Ruble posted a 3-3 mark over the two-day event with all three losses coming to others on the medal stand. The first of those losses came in the quarterfinals where eventual silver medalist Nico Tocci of Warwick knocked Ruble out of gold medal contention via an 11-5 decision. Ruble opened his district time by blanking West York’s Nate Brown 10-0 and rebounded after the loss to Tocci by pinning Keegan Zeigler of Cedar Cliff early in the third period of their tangle. Ruble’s final win was a 15-0 tech fall win over Cumberland Valley’s Alex Tennis that ensured the senior his second medal. Rumble stumbled from there, falling to Penn Manor’s Travis Clawson and Chambersburg’s Rylan Carter to settle into the sixth-place spot. Turner also mentioned the other three seniors that took part in the District 33A Championships, saying, “ We had a great group of seniors this year and it’s always hard to see some of their season’s end prematurely, but I am proud of all
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Conestoga Valley’s Keaton Fischer works towards an 8-6 win over Gettysburg’s Jaxon Townsend in a 145-pound opener in the South Central AAA Regional Championships in Spring Grove on February 25. Fischer went 5-1 in the Tournament to place third in the bracket and qualify for the PIAA Championships in Hershey’s Giant Center on March 10-12.
and Jake Mitchell (Cumberland Valley). CV ’s Jake Needham suffered setbacks in the 152pound bracket, falling to Cade Dobbins (Dallastown) and Jarrett Wilson (Carlisle) and freshman Abdoul Akala finished his season with a 23-17 mark after losses to Gettysburg’s Jacob Cherry and Hempfield’s Grant Hoover. BOWLING The last remaining CV bowlers, Ryan Muckle, and
Jocelyn Ross, spent Saturday February 26th at ABC North Lanes in Harrisburg, competing in the District 3 singles championship. Neither was able to make it out of the qualifying round with Muckle finishing 33rd on the boy’s side and Ross 10th on the girl’s side. Muckle’s five-game count of 853, fell short of the finals cut of 1057. The same was true for Ross and her 928 which came up just short of the finals cut line of 965.
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Conestoga Valley’s Abdoul Akala mixes it up with Jacob Cherry of Gettysburg in a 160-pound, opening-round contest at the South Central AAA Regionals in Spring Grove on February 25.
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that they accomplished and how they led the team through this year.” Turner was talking about Nathaniel Kirchner, Jonathan Lopez and Mukhammed Karayev who went a combined 3-6 over the weekend. Lopez accounted for two of those wins but also suffered two losses to put his record at 2816 for the season. Things started well for Lopez in the 189-pound bracket with an 85 win over Solanco’s Robert Castagna but went south with a quarterfinal loss to Teague Conover (Spring Grove). He was able to bounce back with a 7-2 win over Dallastown’s Michael Klinger but saw his season come to a close with a loss to Ephrata’s James Ellis in the consolation quarterfinals. Karayev picked up the third win for the trio, slipping by Red Land’s Ethan Eisner, 4-3, in the opening round of the 285-pound festivities but then suffered back-to-back losses to Ben Stewart (Central Dauphin) and Caleb Mussmon (Hempfield), leaving Karayev with a 22-11 record for the year. Kirchner’s time in Spring Grove ended with losses to Dallastown’s Isaiah Feeney and Big Spring’s Clayton Hetrick in the 172-pound draw. He finished with a 26-21 mark for the year. The remaining three Buckskins went a combined 1-6 with Luke Morley picking up the lone victory. He did so in his first consolation bracket match, topping Central Dauphin’s Dallas Schorr by a 6-4 final. Morley’s other two matches in the 120-pound bracket also went the distance but Morley ended up on the wrong side of those finals, with the sophomore falling to Gabriel Pecaitis (Gettysburg)
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