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Yorkville Christian sends eight wrestlers to state: Saturday’s Record Newspapers sports roundup · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Christian sends eight wrestlers to state. Saturday's Record Newspapers
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  Speaker 1: Sports Roundup written by Joshua Weljd. This article is being
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  Speaker 1: read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett
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  Speaker 1: Class one A Coal City Sectional. After heading into the
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  Speaker 1: Class one A Coal City Sectional as one of just
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  Speaker 1: three teams in one A to have all fourteen wrestlers
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  Speaker 1: compete at sectionals, Yorkville Christian will be sending eight of
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  Speaker 1: those wrestlers onto the state finals next weekend. In Champagne,
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  Speaker 1: senior Tyler Gleeson was one of two Mustang wrestlers to
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  Speaker 1: play second, doing so at one hundred and sixty five pounds.
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  Speaker 1: He will be making his first trip to state. I'm
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  Speaker 1: very happy with the team and with everyone's performance, he said.
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  Speaker 1: I've been trying to be a leader and captain of
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  Speaker 1: this team and I do my best, but everyone has skills,
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  Speaker 1: talent and a faith in God. I'm ready to just
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  Speaker 1: experience my senior year with the team. Team down at Champagne,
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  Speaker 1: first time as the charm Austin Wattis Lewis one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty also placed second, while his brother Adrian Watts
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  Speaker 1: LEAs one hundred and forty four place third to join
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  Speaker 1: him at State. Davin Torza one oh six, Phoenix Sanadinos
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  Speaker 1: one thirteen, and Christian Sandoval one twenty all place third,
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  Speaker 1: while Ryan Alaimo one thirty eight and Jackson Allen two
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  Speaker 1: fifteen punched their tickets with fourth place finishes. We've got
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  Speaker 1: some really important ones there, and when you get seniors
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  Speaker 1: in there, you really hope they get a chance to
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  Speaker 1: make it to the dance. Head coach Mike Vester said
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  Speaker 1: eight is solid and a couple of others were really close.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've got a shot to get a couple
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  Speaker 1: guys on the podium at State, and our younger guys
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  Speaker 1: this is their time to get experience and set the
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  Speaker 1: precedent for guys coming in the future. Adam Tumino Class
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  Speaker 1: one A Byron Sectional Sandwich junior Cooper Korter led two
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  Speaker 1: state qualifiers from his team at the Byron Sectional, beating
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  Speaker 1: Morrison's Caleb Madslen by technical fall in the final after
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  Speaker 1: earlier wins by technical fall and pitt our Quarter was
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  Speaker 1: pleased with his dominant day. I have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: faith in my coaches in my training, he said, I
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  Speaker 1: really believe in myself as well as my team. Not
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  Speaker 1: much stress going into the match, pretty loose, felt good
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  Speaker 1: and got it done. Quarter Is headed back to state
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  Speaker 1: for the third time after taking fifth and fourth his
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  Speaker 1: first two years. Every year, I come in with the
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  Speaker 1: mindset I'm going to be the state champ coming out
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  Speaker 1: of that bracket. This is only a step in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction, he said. I'm feeling good. This definitely brings
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  Speaker 1: a lot of confidence. I think I'm the guy to
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  Speaker 1: beat at the weight, so I've just got to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and prove it. Sandwich sophomore Joshua Katolic advanced
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  Speaker 1: by placing second at entred and seventy five pounds. Katolk
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  Speaker 1: won two matches by pin before losing a fourteen to
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  Speaker 1: four major decision to Byron's Brody Stein in the final.
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  Speaker 1: Class three A Edwardsville Sectional. Sectional champion Van Rossauer led
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  Speaker 1: three Yorkville wrestlers to qualify for state from the Class
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  Speaker 1: three A Edwardsville Section. Russauer won a four to one
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  Speaker 1: overtime decision over Juliette West Cohen Webber and the one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pound championship match. Yorkville's land of Jenkins
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  Speaker 1: was third. One hundred and twenty pounds with a fourteen
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  Speaker 1: to seven decision over Edwardsville's Anthony Swain in the third
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  Speaker 1: place match. Yorkville's Brock Genexko was third at ninety, winning
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  Speaker 1: four straight matches after a second round loss with a
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  Speaker 1: nine to seven decision in the third place match. Oswego's
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  Speaker 1: Aiden Ortiz advanced to state with a second place finish
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  Speaker 1: at one hundred and thirty eight pounds. Ortiz won two
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  Speaker 1: matches by technical fall and decision before losing a three
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  Speaker 1: to two decision to Juliette Catholics of Dante, Washington in
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  Speaker 1: the final Schomberg Sectional. Oswego East junior Ella Cooper took
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  Speaker 1: second in the one forty five pound weight class to
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  Speaker 1: advance to state. Cooper won three matches by penn before
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  Speaker 1: losing an eleven to one major decision to undefeated McHenry
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  Speaker 1: senior Natalie Corona in the final. It's crazy. I never
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  Speaker 1: thought I'd get this far, to be honest, but persistence
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  Speaker 1: is one of my main things, Cooper said. I just
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  Speaker 1: keep on going, push through the hard times and push
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  Speaker 1: back those bad thoughts, sticking with the things I've done
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  Speaker 1: for years, like the double leg and the half those
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  Speaker 1: are my main two DECALB Sectional. Yorkville sophomore Lauren Trotter
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  Speaker 1: finished fourth at one fifty five pounds to advance the state.
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  Speaker 1: Trotter won a nine to two decision in the blood
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  Speaker 1: round before forfeiting the third place match. Glen Bardon North
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  Speaker 1: seventy three, Oswego sixty two Ifan Vall scored nineteen points,
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  Speaker 1: Cole Jansen sixteen, Graham Schwab had ten points and six rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: and Brayden Barrowman scored nine points for the visiting Panthers
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  Speaker 1: twenty one to nine in a non conference loss. Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: Christian sixty five Providence fifty one. Trey Alford scored twenty
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  Speaker 1: five points and Jade Riley twenty four for the Mustangs
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  Speaker 1: eighteen ten