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February 01, 2002

Another Clarion-Fredonia showdown at Salamanca
By TOM ROOF, The Times Herald, February 01, 2002

SALAMANCA - If the seeding arrangement for Saturday's Salamanca Wrestling Tournament is on the mark, you can expect another Clarion High-Fredonia showdown.

Clarion, last year's champion by nine points over Fredonia, has three No. 1 seeded wrestlers - Bryan Kiskadden (17-3) at 125, Matt Watterson (16-6) at 135, and two-time Pennsylvania state Class AA champion Kyle Cathcart (18-0) at 189.

Cathcart has already signed a national letter of intent for Penn State.

Fredonia, meanwhile, ranked second in the New York State small-school poll, got the top seeds at 130, 152, 171 and 275 (see listing below).

Host Salamanca is without a No. 1 seed, but does have four wrestlers seeded among the top four, including three No. 2s - Corey O'Neil (112), Jaymee Minner (135) and Kane Smith (171).

Among the other top seeds are Olean's Steve Pancio at 96 and Josh Anderson at 145; Oswayo Valley's Josh Lundy at 103; and Bradford freshman Kyle Keane (17-1) at 112.

Olean, which placed third a year ago, returns a pair of champions in Pancio and Shea Anzivine, who's seeded third at 112.

Also back to defend their titles are Albion's Mike Sanders, who's now at 119, Fredonia's John Perry (135), Watterson, Panama's Bob Russell (140), and Cathcart.

In all, 14 teams are entered with wrestling scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.

The semifinals will be at approximately 2 p.m. with the finals for first, third and fifth getting off a 6:30 p.m. on three mats.

Rounding out the field are Allegany-Limestone, Bolivar-Richburg, Pine Valley, Randolph, Silver Creek and Westfield.

Following are the top four seeds in each weight class (weight class, followed by seed, name, school, grade, won-loss record):

96: 1. Steve Pancio (Olean), fr., 18-5; 2. Phil Kavanaugh (Silver Creek), so., 19-4; 3. Andrew Taylor (Bolivar-Richburg), 8th, 17-4; 4. Mark Herman (Pine Valley), 8th, 12-6

103: 1. Josh Lundy (Oswayo Valley), so., 18-5; 2. Pat Loewer (Fredonia), fr., 13-13; 3. Joe Lewis (Salamanca), fr., 14-9; 4. Lucas Woyton (Pine Valley), so., 17-6.

112: 1. Kyle Keane (Bradford), fr., 17-1; 2. Corey O'Neil (Salamanca), jr., 24-5; 3. Shea Anzivine (Olean), so., 18-8; 4. Eric Henry (Clarion), jr., 7-7.

119: 1. Mike Sanders (Albion), so., 25-2; 2. Tyler Taylor (Bolivar-Richburg), fr., 16-8; 3. Dan Sheley (Westfield), sr., 17-8; 4. Cody Eddy (Panama), fr., 12-11.

125: 1. Bryan Kiskadden (Clarion), sr., 17-3; 2. Steve Ward (Bolivar-Richburg), sr., 19-5; 3. Aaron Peters (Allegany-Limestone), sr., 19-4; 4. Matt Strandburg (Fredonia), sr., 18-7.

130: 1. Justin Perry (Fredonia), sr., 25-1; 2. Paul O'Neil (Clarion), sr., 12-9; 3. Drew Silleman (Pine Valley), jr., 20-7; 4. Chad Wright (Randolph), so., 14-9

135: 1. Matt Watterson (Clarion), sr., 16-6; 2. Jaymee Minner (Salamanca), jr., 24-5; 3. John Perry (Fredonia), sr., 6-3; 4. Chris McCool (Panama), jr., 12-3.

140: 1. Bob Russell (Panama) sr., 18-1; 2. Nick Mowery (Olean), sr., 18-8; 3. Aaron Shanahan (Silver Creek), sr., 19-6; 4. Andrew Sprague (Fredonia), fr., 14-11.

145: Josh Anderson (Olean), jr., 18-7; 2. Kyle Piccirilli (Albion), so., 14-8; 3. Tyson Swain (Bradford), sr., 11-6; 4. Tom Pratton (Panama), sr., 16-9.

152: 1. Wil Sidey (Fredonia), jr., 24-2; 2. Tony Margeson (Allegany-Limestone), sr., 19-2; 3. Bobby Elliott (Olean), jr., 16-9; 4. Kevin Snyder (Pine Valley), so., 10-8.

160: 1. Bill Bean (Panama), jr., 20-3; 2. Kyle Hallett (Pine Valley), jr., 21-6; 3. Dave Hanson (Fredonia), jr., 18-6; 4. Tracy Bentley (Bolivar-Richburg), sr., 14-3.

171: 1. Caleb Carnrite (Fredonia), sr., 21-3; 2. Kane Smith (Salamanca), fr., 24-4; 3. Jason Lefrois (Albion), jr., 19-9; 4. Barrett Johnson (Randolph), sr., 14-6.

189: 1. Kyle Cathcart (Clarion), sr., 18-0; 2. Kasey Brown (Randolph), sr., 18-4; 3. Eric Herman (Pine Valley), jr., 23-5; 4. Frank Zieglinski (Fredonia), fr., 20-5.

215: 1. Brad Watkins (Albion), sr., 24-3; 2. Dave Larson (Clarion), so., 12-6.

275: 1. Chris Raymond (Fredonia) jr., 8-6; 2. Brian Nary (Olean), sr., 13-5.