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JOE WATERS IS WI-HI
WRESTLING'S
11TH STATE CHAMPION, TEAM PLACES TOP 10
 Joe
Waters earned Wi-Hi's 11th individual state wrestling championship with a 6-2
victory over previously undefeated Mike Santiago of Oakland Mills in the MPSSAA 1A/2A 285 lbs. final match at the state championships Saturday.
Waters had to defeat the #1 ranked Sean Sisler of Southern Garrett just
to get to the final, and will now wrestle in the District7/8 All-Star
Match and the prestigious Maryland State Wrestling Association Senior
Classic.
Joe finishes his
career as a 3X State Qualifier, a 3rd place state finish his 11th grade
year, and a state championship. He's a 2X Captain, a Regional Champion,
a 2X Regional Finalist, a 3X Regional Qualifier and place winner, a Bayside Champion, and a
3X Bayside Finalist.
The MPSSAA-produced video of his finals, with footage
taken at matside, can be viewed here.
Junior Nick Leto (152) finished 3rd and senior Nick
Slagle (215) finished 6th. The team finished in 9th of 68 teams, its
highest finish in two decades. Senior Darrin Church (140) and sophomore
Andrew Johnson (189) also won matches. Congratulations to all the Wi-Hi
Wrestlers!
WRESTLING PLACES 3RD AT REGIONALS,
QUALIFIES FIVE FOR STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
 The
Wi-Hi Wrestling Team qualified five wrestlers for the 1A/2A East
Regional wrestling tournament this weekend in St. Michaels and all five
qualified for states! Two-time state qualifier Junior Nick Leto (152, 25-3) and
three-time state qualifier senior Joe Waters (285, 23-3), who placed 3rd
as a junior, lead the way as
Regional Champions, with senior Nick Slagle (215, 22-7) as a #2, senior Darrin Church
(140, 23-7) as a #3 and sophomore Andrew Johnson (189, 16-10) as a #2
seed. The team placed 3rd with just five wrestlers, the highest placing
for Wi-Hi in 15 years!
The Daily Times article on Wi-Hi can be found here.
 Leto avenged two earlier losses to Kent Island's Ronny Marvel in the
Regional Finals while Joe Waters collected a forfeit and Andrew Johnson
made the finals in just his first year of wrestling. Slagle and Church
both finished 3rd, but Slagle will advance as a #2 seed due to an
ejection by an Easton wrestler.
The tournament website with brackets and team-by-team
results can be found here.
Leto and Waters both finished 2nd in the Bayside Championships in
February. Slagle and Church finished 3rd, while sophomore Kevin Greenfarb
(125, 13-13) finished 5th and senior Frank Hayes (171, 6-6) finished
6th. Any wrestler who placed in the top 4 advanced to the 1A/2A MPSSAA state championships in College Park next weekend for a chance at
a state title. Wi-Hi has had 10 individual state champions and 24 more
wrestlers who have placed.
Wrestling starts at 2:30 p.m. Friday in College Park. Wish our Indians
grapplers good luck!
2008 1A/2A EAST
REGIONAL BRACKETS ARE HERE IN PDF FORM
WI-HI FINISHES 9-5, TAKES 7TH
AT BAYSIDES, SENDS 5 WRESTLERS TO 1A/2A EAST REGION
From Coach Stone:
Over the weekend, the wrestling
team finished the regular season at the Bayside Tournament. We finished
the dual season with a 9-5 record which put us about 5th in the
conference. At Baysides we finished 7th but we only entered 9 out of 14
wrestlers because we had some late attrition. Nick Leto and Joe Waters
finished in second place. Both lost to highly ranked state wrestlers.
Nick Slagle and Darrin Church placed third in very competitive brackets.
Kevin Greenfarb placed 5th and Frank Hayes finished his senior season
with a bang, as he was seeded 10th and beat three higher ranked
wrestlers to place 6th! Travis Workman, Doug Ruark and Bo Wang also
wrestled very well but failed to place.
Coming up this weekend we will be taking Darrin Church, Nick Leto,
Andrew Johnson, Nick Slagle and Joe Waters to the Regionals tournament
at St. Michaels. Anyone who places top four at regionals will qualify
for the State Tournament so wish them good luck!
CITY CHAMPS!
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The Wi-Hi Wrestling Team makes its home debut
against Bayside rival Queen Anne's at 6 p.m. in the Wi-Hi Gym. The team
saw 11 of its 14 wrestlers place in the top 6 in the Parkside Holiday
tournament this weekend, and took 3rd place. Nick Slagle (215) and Nick Leto (152) each won their weight classes, while Joe Waters (285) and
Darrin Church (140) took second and Kevin Greenfarb (125) and Travis
Workman (130) took 3rd. Del Young (145),Andrew Johnson (189), Doug Ruark
(112) and Thomas Booth (135) took 5th and July Medina (103) took 6th.
July became the first Wi-Hi girl to win a varsity match with her pin of
a Snow Hill wrestler in the 2nd period of her Friday night match. The team hosts a tri-meet Friday against
Cambridge-SD & Kent Island at 5 p.m.