District 11 Wrestling

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Nick Salamone of Easton pins his way into quarters, where he’ll see UVA commit Ethan Timar from St. Edward’s in Cleveland, Ohio. Timar was the Ohio state champ as a freshman and runner-up as a sophomore. Salamone has three wins over state finalists already this year (Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey) and this is a huge match up for him.

Also a really fun historical match-up. Easton and St. Ed’s both attended the Top Hat tournament at Williamsport in the early 80s which kicked off a decades relationship where they would dual each other, with Ed’s coming out to make the trip to wrestle Easton, Nazareth, Northampton, and Blair throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 00s. I don’t think the two schools have met in a dual since 2002, where Easton knocked off #2 nationally ranked Eagles at 25th Street Gym. When I was working for FloWrestling, I spent a lot of time covering Ed’s - Greg Urbas was the ultimate gentleman and John Heffernan (now the head coach) is also a great guy, and they would give me endless crap for how terrible and homer they thought the officiating in that dual was. I don’t know if that makes up for 34-18, but we had a lot of laughs over it. Good guys, hope Salamone goes out and kicks Timar’s butt.

 

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As an Easton side note - I don’t know if they’ve won a match all year at 114 pounds. Just a weird hole they have in the lineup. Their junior high team is at probably the best tournament in the state this weekend out at Bellefonte (Canon Mac, Connellsville, Reynolds, Central Dauphin, Easton, Nazareth, and a bunch of other great programs) and their 115 pound 8th grader tech’d/pinned his way through the field, with a 15-0 win in the finals over a PJW state medalist. Can we call him up for the stretch run here?

 

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Nick Salamone of Easton pins his way into quarters, where he’ll see UVA commit Ethan Timar from St. Edward’s in Cleveland, Ohio. Timar was the Ohio state champ as a freshman and runner-up as a sophomore. Salamone has three wins over state finalists already this year (Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey) and this is a huge match up for him.

Also a really fun historical match-up. Easton and St. Ed’s both attended the Top Hat tournament at Williamsport in the early 80s which kicked off a decades relationship where they would dual each other, with Ed’s coming out to make the trip to wrestle Easton, Nazareth, Northampton, and Blair throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 00s. I don’t think the two schools have met in a dual since 2002, where Easton knocked off #2 nationally ranked Eagles at 25th Street Gym. When I was working for FloWrestling, I spent a lot of time covering Ed’s - Greg Urbas was the ultimate gentleman and John Heffernan (now the head coach) is also a great guy, and they would give me endless crap for how terrible and homer they thought the officiating in that dual was. I don’t know if that makes up for 34-18, but we had a lot of laughs over it. Good guys, hope Salamone goes out and kicks Timar’s butt.

Salamone beats Timar 7-1, best win of his career. Second win over a top 10 kid in the country this year for Salamone (John McGinty, who will be in the other semi).