ND wrestlers wrap up perfect season

Published 10:43 am Thursday, February 13, 2020

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North Davie’s wrestling team obliterated regular-season opponents by an aggregate score of 863-222, went 11-0 and lifted its dual team winning streak to 20. The Central Carolina Conference Tournament at South Davie on Feb. 1 was no different.

The Wildcats racked up 227 points in the five-team event. It was really more of the same all the way around. South, whose only two conference losses were to North, finished second at 166. North Carolina Leadership Academy had 72, Ellis 56 and Summit 31.

North captured 12 of 18 weight classes. Its champions were Braxton Hunter (2-0 at 78), Hunter Potts (1-0 at 85), Brett Foster (3-0 at 100), Max McKnight (3-0 with three pins at 122), Nathan Dczskewicz (2-0 at 128), Ethan Livengood (2-0 at 140), Hunter Testa (1-0 at 154), Bentley Moody (2-0 at 162), Cole Thomas (2-0 at 172), Brysen Godbey (1-0 at 184), Evan Copeland (1-0 at 197) and Grayson Cayton (1-0 at 250).

Coach Jamey Holt got 2-1 efforts from Spencer Melton (100) and Brayden Willard (115). Going 1-1 were Cayden Glass (92), Junior Romero (115), Nick Roda (147) and Giovanni Alcacio (250). Carter Phillips (115) went 1-2.

Copeland (12-0), Testa (12-0), Moody (12-0), Potts (12-0) and Foster (8-0) led the unforgettable season with perfect records. Thomas and Livengood both went 11-2. McKnight went 11-3. Hunter and Cayton went 10-1. Roda, Glass and Romero went 10-3. Godbey went 9-2 and Dczskewicz 8-1.

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Ammiel Lyons (3-0 at 108), Luke Tehandon (2-0 at 115), Jaden Conner (1-0 at 134) and Tyler Davis (2-0 at 147) brought home individual championships for South.

Jamarius Pelote (108) went 3-1. Roman Shadrick (92) and Reid Nail (122) went 2-1. Going 1-1 were TJ Douglas (85), Ryan Williams (128), Maddux Creason (128), Adam Poindexter (140), Joseph Molina (162), Lucas Reeves (172), Jerred Alexander (172) and Jakob Alexander (222). Mason Kuhnemann (100) and Landon Nichols (100) went 1-2.

Tehandon and Davis led the Tigers with 14-1 season records. Next were Nail (14-3), Conner (13-1), Jakob Alexander (12-3), Creason (11-3), Brandon Wood (11-4), Jerred Alexander (10-4), Pelote (10-4) and Reeves (8-3).

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For Ellis, Elliott Gould went 3-2 at 100. Dylan Miller (108) and Chad Russell (222) went 2-1. AJ Sweet went 2-2 at 108, Christian Boswell 1-1 at 162 and Luke Miller 1-2 at 92.