AMITYVILLE, N.Y. — Seven individual champions helped University High take 1st place in its season-debut at the Amityville wrestling tournament on Saturday.
Grant Oxley (107 pounds), Jace Stockett (126), Jake Staud (132), Dom Parker (138), Dakota Hagedorn (152), Josh Sanders (220) and Corbin Turney (285) all won their respective brackets to help the Hawks rack up 283 points. Timmy Carvill (126), Joey Gidley (145), Will Angelovvie (99) and Mason Pauley (138) finished 2nd, while Elijah Wellings-Osha (160) and Ben Tower (170) finished 3rd. The final Hawks to place were Shahid Hayward (152) and Sean Murray (195) who both took 4th.
“It was good,” UHS coach Ken Maisel said. “I told them, ‘Rarely am I happy after an event,’ but I was impressed with them [in Amityville]. It was a good start.”
Staud was awarded the tournament MVP award voted on by the eight coaches that attended.
UHS has a week off before traveling to East Fairmont on Dec. 18 for a tri with the Bees and top-ranked Parkersburg South.
MHS runners take on Nike Cross Nationals
PORTLAND, Ore. — After placing in the top 5 at Nike Cross Southeast Regionals on Nov. 30 in Cary, N.C., Athena Young and Lea Hatcher booked a flight to the national stage in Portland.
The girls’ race, slated for 11:35 a.m., was host to mid-40-degree weather and rain. Hatcher, the 2019 West Virginia state champion, crossed the finish line 18:24.6 into the race to take 32nd place, while Young, the state runner up, finished 20 seconds behind her in 48th. The national champion, Katelyn Tuohy from New York, finished 17:18.4.
Tuohy isn’t an unfamiliar name to those embedded in the sport, as the uber-talented distance runner from Fayetteville-Manlius — the best team in the country headed by famous coach Bill Aris — has garnered attention for a the last two years.
UHS girls’ hoops upends Wheeling Central 70-36
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — The University girls basketball team evened up its early record with a 70-36 win over Wheeling Central Catholic in Saturday’s installment of the Frank Hines Memorial Tournament.
Ashten Boggs led the Hawks (1-1) with 20 points before fouling out in the fourth period, and was backed up by Lauren Dean with 16 points and Eden Gibson with 12.
The Maroon Knights (1-2) were paced by Hannah White with 13 points.
University returns to Morgantown to face John Marshall Tuesday night.
BOX SCORE
UNIVERSITY (1-1)
Boggs 9 2-3 20; Dean 7 0-0 16; Gibson 5 0-0 12; Napolillo 3 1-2 7. Totals:31 3-5 70
WHEELING CENTRAL CATHOLIC (1-2)
White 3 6-7 13; Reinbeau 2 4-5 9. Totals: 9 10-16 36.
University 17 20 17 14 — 70
Wheeling Central Catholic 8 9 11 8 — 36
3-pointers: UHS 5 (Dean 2, Gibson 2, Coen 1); WCC 2 (White, Reinbeau).
Foul out: Boggs (P4)
