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Only one of the top eight seeds
did not advance to Saturday's
quarterfinals as Harrison Hooper
of Airline knocked off #7
Nicholas Wallace of Zachary 4-3
in the Round of 16. |
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| #6 Brody Bonura
(LO) over Peyton Cortez (TC) in 2:25 |
#8 Nicholas Comardelle (BM) over G'Corey
Fullilove (JC) 6-5 |
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#2 Blaze D'Aquin (JE) over Kade McAdams
(CEN) in 1:23 |
Harrison Hooper
(Airline) over #7 Nick Wallis (ZAC) 4-3 |
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Saturday Matches - February 1st |
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Two of the
remaining top four seeds were relegated to
the consolation bracket during the
quarterfinals. Grace King's Aaron
Maddox, the #5 seed, defeated #4 Brody
Lemaire of North Vermillion via a fall in
4:51. Live Oak's Brody Bonura, the
sixth seed, received a forfeit from
Mandeville's Frankie Arena to advance to the
semifinals.
(Photo left) #7 Nick Wallis (ZAC) over
Luther Jones (DUT) in 4:34 |
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Duhe and Maddox met
in the Louisiana Classic, a match won by
Duhe in 3:32. This match seemed to be
similar. In the first 32 seconds Duhe
had taken down Maddox, been reversed, and
then reversed him back for a 4-2 lead.
Twelve seconds later Duhe led 9-2, and at
the end of the first period the Holy Cross
junior had a 12-2 lead. It did not
take long, 39 seconds actually, for Duhe to
tack on another five nearfall points to end
the match via a technical fall at 2:39. |
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The second
semifinal started slow but picked up pace in
the latter rounds - a lot of pace.
Thirty seconds into the second round D'Aquin
had a 4-0 lead. Bonura closed the gap
to 4-3 with an escape and a takedown, but
with a minute remaining D'Aquin added
another escape point. Then the wheels
came off of Bonura's plan. D'Aquin
posted 11 unanswered points to take a 16-5
lead before finally subduing Bonura via a
pin in 5:45. |
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The second-seeded
Blaze D'Aquin of John Ehret entered the Ken
Cole with an impressive 15-5 record, falling
to some tough competitors in De la Salle's
Alex Martin, Jesuit's Jake Eccles, Holy
Cross' Porter Dazet and twice to Grace
King's Aaron Maddox (over whom he also had
two victories). The Patriot senior
also had a championship win at the Jefferson
Invitational.
Duhe, though, was a different story.
The junior from Holy Cross was 28-3, and two
of those losses were to an out-of-state
wrestler in Las Vegas. Only Jesuit's
Jake Eccles managed a win over Duhe at the
Greater New Orleans Championships 6-2, which
must have been sweet revenge for the Blue
Jay after Duhe beat him 4-3 in the Louisiana
Classic finals. Duhe had an impressive
list of other victims on his resume
including Travis Quarterman of Brother
Martin, Shaw's Kody Woodson, Mandeville's
Frankie Arena and Chase Cochran of St.
Paul's.
Duhe started the scoring in the finals with
a double-leg takedown after 45 seconds, and
the first period ended in Duhe's favor 2-0.
In the second period D'Aquin managed an
escape, but Duhe countered a single-leg shot
to score another takedown. D'Aquin
escaped again as the round ended. Duhe
had only a 4-2 lead entering the final
period. The Tiger escaped in the first
six seconds and then grabbed a single-leg
shot. D'Aquin tried to "rip" Duhe back
to his back, but Duhe popped his head out to
get behind D'Aquin, scoring a takedown and
putting D'Aquin on his back. D'Aquin
got out of the hold, but Duhe merited three
nearfall points with the move, increasing
his lead to 10-2, and he controlled D'Aquin
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Consolation Rounds
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Maddox
handily took care of Airline's
Harrison Hooper in 1:18 to
advance to the consolation
finals. There he met De la
Salle's Logan Sylve, who had won
matches in 1:24, 1:48, 5-4 and
10-1 to get there. But the
#5 seed was too tough for the
unseeded Sylve, and Maddox took
third with a 7-2 decision.
Hooper rebounded well after his
loss to Maddox and defeated Live
Oak's Bonura 7-2 to place fifth. |
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