Wrestling – Five Hornets receive top five seeds heading into tonight’s District XI individual tournament

Five Emmaus wrestlers earned top five seeds for the upcoming District XI Class 3A individual tournament, which gets underway at 5 p.m. tonight at Liberty High School in Bethlehem.

Freshman Emilio Albanese received the highest seed of any of the 13 Hornets competing with a No.2 seed at 107. Albanese has had an outstanding first season compiling a 28-2 record.

Junior Jesse Scott, who finished in sixth place a year ago at districts, earned the No.4 seed at 160. Scott is 23-9 on the season.

Three other Hornets – freshman Teagan Caciolo (23-7 @ 121), sophomore Xayden Sallit (22-10 @ 152) and junior Massimo Tranguch (17-8 @ 189) – are all 5 seeds.

Emmaus’ last District XI champion came back in the 2017-18 season when Caden Wright claimed the title at 160.

The tournament continues at 9 a.m. on Saturday with the consolation round followed by the semifinals at 10:15 a.m. The consolation finals will start at 3 p.m. with the finals scheduled for 4:45 p.m.

The top five in each weight class move on to the Northeast Regional Tournament, which will be held back at Liberty on March 1 and 2.

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Emmaus lineup (First Round matchups):

107 – #2 seed Emilio Albanese (28-2) vs #15 C. Morawiec (ESS)

114 – #10 seed Jackson Max (10-10) vs #7 H. Brown (Sburg)

121 – #5 Teagan Caciolo (23-7) vs #12 J. Labar (Bang)

127 – #11 Aiden Bayard (9-13) vs #6 C. Smith (Bang)

133 – #15 Tom Fallstich (4-13) vs #18. L. Dalton (Bang)

139 – #11 Logan Armstrong (8-13) vs #6 J. Bodnar (Fr)

145 – #15 Chance Henry (3-19) vs #18 L. Spang (Pk)

152 – #5 Xayden Sallit (22-10) vs #12 X. DeSelm (Pk)

160 – #4 Jesse Scott (23-9) vs #13 R. Waldron (Bang)

172 – #18 Scott Furniss (1-15) vs #15 J. Adjin-Tettey (ESS)

189 – #5 Massimo Tranguch (17-8) vs #12 K. Munch (Sburg)

215 – #15 Logan Roth (3-13 ) vs #18 R. Stapp (Bang)

285 – #14 Ashir Choudhry (4-17) vs #19. G. Mulhern (BC)

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