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  Speaker 1: Yorkville other Kendall County area teams set for postseason with
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  regionals this weekend. I written by Joshua Weld. This article
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  is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  by Everlett Yorkville coach Jake Osters. Foxes will have plenty
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  of familiarity as they begin to embark on the wrestling
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  postseason this weekend. An unfamiliar wrinkle awaits after Yorkville, ranked
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  seventh in the Illinois Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association Class
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  three A rankings and coming off its fifth consecutive Southwest
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  Prairie Conference championship, starts the postseason this Saturday at the
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  Class three A Moulleen Regional. The regional includes five other
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  SPC opponents, including AS we Go and As we Go East.
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  The three other regional teams Moulleene East, Moullene and Nurkele
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  Valley Yorkville A Seene at the Devorak, the Illinois Classic
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  and Cheesehead Tournaments, respectively. We've competed against every team, whether
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  dual or tournament. Our expectation is to go out and
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  win the thing as a team and qualify everyone for Sectionals.
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  If not close to everyone, Oster said, we still have
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  to go out there and do it. Yorkville had seven
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  finalists at the SPC tournament, with three champions, Donovan Roseauer
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  at one hundred and fifty pounds, Kala Viscagliosi at one
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  hundred and seventy five, and Landon Jenkins at one hundred
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  and twenty Rosaur, fourth in the state last year, is
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  ranked third by IWCA. Viscagliosi is ranked eighth. We feel
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  all right, We feel good. We lost a couple in
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  that last round at conference that we felt we could
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  have won, Oster said. Overall, a good weekend. The postseason
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  schedule has been tweaked after this weekend. Individual sectionals are
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  not until February fourteenth. However, should Yorkville win the team
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  regional title, it would turn around and play the dual
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  sectional on February fifth at a site yet to be determined,
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  like against number one ranked Joliette Catholic. In the past,
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  dual sectionals were held the Tuesday after individual state. It's
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  a little different, Austro said. Normally he'd go out and
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  wrestle in less than a week to get ready for sectionals.
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  Now we have to wrestle the duel In between, we'll
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  see how we approach the dual meet, making sure we
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  have guys ready for the individual state series. It's kind
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  of weird. We want to win the duel meet, and
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  we will do our best to win the duel meet,
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  but if things go downhill and it's out of our hands,
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  do we even bother wrestling some guys for As we
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  go sixth at the SPC meet last weekend, the best
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  bets for postseason advancement appear to be Aiden Ortiz and
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  Dylan Griffin conference champions at one hundred and thirty eight
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  and one four, respectively in Class one A. Sandwich is
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  at the Princeton Regional, which is headlined by Dixon. Ranked
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  fifth in the Class one A team rankings by IWCA.
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  Our guys are as healthy as they're going to be
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  ready to go, Sandwich coach Derek Jones said, our regional
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  is a little different than years past, a few different
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  teams which will change things. Ultimately. What I tell the
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  kids is it's an individual sport that has a team component.
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  We have to focus on taking care of the right
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  individual things and the team stuff is tacked on at
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  the end. Sandwich junior Cooper quarter, a two time state medallist,
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  is ranked third at one fifty. Dixon sophomore Preston Richards,
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  ranked fourth, is also at the regional. Cooper had the
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  one loss to a top ranked kid from Unity Christian
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  at the beginning of January and it hasn't slowed him down.
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  If anything, it's added fuel to the fire, Jones said,
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  excited to see what Cooper can do come February. He
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  should be in the finals and he has a solid
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  kid from Dixon. Beyond that, Jones said that Jackson Blanchard
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  has made the finals at a couple tournaments and is
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  looking good. Jack fourth at one hundred and fifty seven
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  is a three year starter that has qualified for sectionals
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  a couple times. Josh Katalk is a kid is looking
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  forward to seeing wrestle this weekend, and Kay Kern and
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  Caden Clevenger at one nine two point fifteen have good
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  brackets to make it to the sectional meet at Byron,
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  and at that point it's the most important tournament of
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  the year, Jones said. Elsewhere in Class one A, Yorkville
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  Christian is at the Walther Christian Regional. The Mustangs, who
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  are ranked seventh in Class one A by iw CoA
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  have been banged up throughout the season, but their lineup
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  is intact after their last injured wrestler was just cleared.
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  It's a favorable regional. Yorkville Christian coach Mike Vester said,
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  coaching the guys throughout this week, we said this is
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  where you have to take advantage of certain situations. If
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  you have an opportunity to position yourself, you need to
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  take advantage because sectionals will not be easy and state
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  will not be easy. Should Yorkville Christian win the regional,
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  it will be at Coal City for team dual sectionals,
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  potentially against Hope Academy. It would be a duel of attrition.
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  Fester said, Hope has some tough guys, but they have holes.
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  Individual Wise, Yorkville Christians Jackson Allen is ranked fourth at
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  two fifteen, David Torza is ninth at one two six,
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  Freshman Phoenix Sennadinos is seventh at one thirteen, and at
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  one twenty, Ryan Festuling, like Allen, is a returning state
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  qualifier to lead the team's state hopefuls. My goal is
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  to try to get us double digit guys down to state.
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  Fster said it's a lofty goal, but I think it's
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  possible