Seniors Marco Albanese and Jake Gross headline a contingent of 13 Emmaus wrestlers that will compete in the District XI Class 3A individual wrestling tournament, which gets underway tonight at Liberty High School in Bethlehem.
Both wrestlers received high seeds with Albanese (25-6) earning the No.2 seed at 145 and Gross (24-7) the No.4 seed at 215.
Five other Hornets – freshmen Logan Armstrong (16-12, 127) and Xayden Sallit (13-11, 139), sophomores Jesse Scott (20-8, 152) and Reilly Bechtel (12-10, 172) along with senior EJ Boney (14-13, 285) – are all eight seeds.
Action gets underway tonight at 5 p.m. with pigtail matches followed by the quarterfinals at 6:30 p.m. First-round consolations are set for 7:30 p.m.
Saturday will feature second round consolations at 9 a.m. with the semifinals set for 10:15 a.m. The finals are scheduled for 4:45 p.m.
The top five in each weight class move on to the Northeast Regionals which will be held back at Liberty on March 3 and 4.
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Emmaus lineup (First Round matchups):
107 – No.9 seed Fr. Jackson Max (14-12) vs No.8 Soph. Hunter Brown, Stroudsburg (17-11)
114 – No.13 Fr. Aiden Bayard (8-15) vs No. 4 Soph. Zach Berwick, Stroudsburg (24-7)
121 – No.12 Sr. Alex Issa (8-13) vs No.5 Sr. Jake Brown, Stroudsburg (22-9)
127 – No.8 Fr. Logan Armstrong (16-12) vs No.9 soph. Nolan Schmeckenbecher, Whitehall (13-13)
133 – No.16 Soph. Chance Henry (3-11) vs No. 17 Fr. Elijah Williams, Allen (1-10)
139 – No.8 Fr. Xayden Sallit (13-11) vs No. 9 Fr. Sean Steckert, Solehi (19-12)
145 – No.2 Sr. Marco Albanese (25-6) vs No. 15 Soph. E. Sanchez, Dieruff (2-18)
152 – No.8 Soph. Jesse Scott (20-8) vs No. 9 Sr. Adim Ogbolu, Stroudsburg (16-12)
160 – No. 18 Jr. Sam Rainford (1-8) vs No.15 Jr. Darryl Meeker, ES South (10-17)
172 – No. 8 Soph. Reilly Bechtel (12-10), vs No. 9 Jr. Cade Sawyer, Solehi (18-11)
189 – No. 16 Soph. Massimo Tranguch (2-4) vs No. 1 Sr. Adrian Gacek, Parkland (30-2)
215 – No.4 Sr. Jake Gross (24-7) vs No.13 Soph. Lukas McNamara, Pottsville (6-13)
285 – No. 8 Sr. EJ Boney (14-13) vs No. 9 soph. Drew Seaman, Pottsville (9-11)