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Four Salisbury wrestlers place at tournament

Salisbury had four wrestlers place at the Carlisle Classic Tournament last weekend.

Juniors Sam Krauss and Jordan Tocci-Wachter both finished fifth at the event, held last Friday and Saturday at Carlisle High School, freshman Jarrod Blunt took seventh place and senior Nathaniel Tone was eighth.

Tocci-Wachter (160) pinned Red Land’s Eli Phillips in the fifth-place bout after going 4-2 at the event.

Phillips was Tocci-Wachter’s first-round opponent at the event. He pinned the freshman in 1:26 before falling in the quarterfinals to Palmerton’s Dylan Anthony by fall in 5:21.

The Falcon junior wrestled back with consolation bracket wins over Biglerville’s Ryan Bungard (by fall in 1:30) and Garnet Valley’s Tyler Hays (10-2 technical fall) to reach the consolation semifinals, where he lost to Dallastown’s Evan Baldwin by tech. fall.

Krauss pinned Carlisle’s Jamil Jones in 1:21 in the fifth-place bout after a consolation semifinal loss to Mechanicsburg’s Collin Stare by fall.

Krauss met the eventual 285-pound tournament champ in the first round and lost 9-4 before wrestling back with four first-period pins to reach the consolation semifinal.

The Falcon junior pinned Bermudian Springs’ Charles Brumfield (in 15 seconds), South Western’s Silas Wachter (1:14), North Schuylkill’s Sander Stokes (:49) and Dallastown’s Jason Usow (1:44) in consolation matches.

Blunt (127) earned a 19-3 (2:39) win by technical fall over North Schuylkill’s Standley Padakowski in the seventh-place match.

Blunt won his opening bout by fall in :40 before getting pinned in the first period of his second-round match. He won a pair of consolation matches by fall and major decision before a loss in the fifth round of consolations sent him to the seventh-place bout.

Tone dropped his opening match at the tournament before three straight wins in the consolation bracket. He pinned his first opponent in the wrestleback, putting Raymond Hollenbach (Millbrook, VA) on his back in 2:31 and then earning a pair of major decisions.

A loss in the fifth round of consolations sent Tone to the 152-pound seventh-place match.

Salisbury freshman Jacob Spinner (114) and sophomore Michael Segata (145) both went 2-2 at the tournament.

Salisbury had just six wrestlers compete at the tournament and finished 19th out of 21 teams. Central Bucks West won the event with 162.5 points, followed by Garnet Valley, Carlisle, Palmerton, Big Spring, Newport, North Schuylkill, Mechanicsburg, Waynesboro and Bermudian Springs rounding out the top 10.

The Falcons dropped a match to Wilson last week, 38-20.

Salisbury won three of the five contested bouts in the match. Tone pinned Jacob Montalvo in 1:37. Blunt beat Jonathan Joseph by technical fall, 16-0 (2:40). Segata picked up a 4-1 decision over Connor Millen. Krauss won by forfeit against Wilson. The Falcons (1-3 overall; 0-2 Colonial League) wrestled at Bangor Tuesday and will host Executive Academy Charter School in a nonleague match Wednesday.