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PWCA 2009 Scholarship
Application and Form
Penn State Names National
Wrestling Legend Cael Sanderson Head Coach of Nittany Lion
Program
Four-time NCAA champion and Olympic
Gold Medalist to lead program

Read
Pat Donghia's Press
Release on "Meet Cael" Day
Cael Sanderson website-
Former Indian
Valley/Chief Logan/Penn Highlands' coach Charley Roselle
dies after fall (4/10/09)
Troy Sunderland resigns
DWA/Beast of the East Announces Scholarship
Recipients
Newark, DE. : April 1, 2009 The Delaware Wrestling
Alliance awarded six (6) $10,000.00 scholarships from the
proceeds of the 2008 T.G.I.Friday's Beast of the East at
the DWA Academic All State Banquet last night, since 1994
the total awarded has grown to $496,00000.
The DWA also announced their continued commitment to the
growth of Delaware wrestling with a $50,000 contribution to
help defray the costs for the following summer events:
Scholastic Duals
Cadet/Jr Nationals Fargo
Disney Duals
Freestyle Duals
Each school in Delaware is eligible to submit an application
for one senior scholar/athlete, each candidate must meet
criteria in the areas: academics, sportsmanship, and
community service.
The DWA would like to thank the hundreds of volunteers, the
sponsors, coaches, participants, and the fans for their
continued support of the Beast of the East. Congratulations
to this years scholarship recipients!
Eric Harper (Mount Pleasant) - Delaware State University
Scholarship
Alex Thomas (Sussex Tech) - Zane Robinson Memorial
Scholarship
Joey Potts (Salesianum) - John J. Meys Scholarship
Brian Wright (Seaford) - DWA Scholarship
Josh Kosiorowski (Laurel) - Howard L. Duncan Scholarship
Bo Wilkinson (Indian River) - Louis J. Sneed Scholarship
For more information about the DWA/Beast of the East, please
visit
http://www.beastwrestling.com
2009 NCAA Brackets
Follow the NCAAs at the
official site (as with the PIAA, it is forbidden for
any other release of the results during the event.)
PJW Results
on Escape Sports
Don Lehman's NEW
West York High Wrestling Alumni Website- dedicated to past and
present wrestlers.
Dapper Dan Results-- PA
Stops USA 30-21
Official
PIAA
Brackets updated live
Revisit the PIAA Tournament
--
photos
AA and
AAA posted
Day
Two Action -
Referees
-
AA Finals -
AAA Finals - mat
notes from David Ackley... Bill Ennis
& Barry Kline photos to be added.
Rich Vetock posted all of the
updated brackets in association of Ray Bennett and Kevin Vallely of
Escape Sports.
|

Class AA PIAA Champions 2009
Front:103- Nick Roberts,
North Star, 112- Arty Walsh, Wyomissing, 119- Anthony
Zanetta, Keystone Oaks, 125- Evan Yenolevich,
Northwestern Lehigh, 130- Nick Hodgkins, Wyomissing,
135- Colin Shober, Schuylkill Valley, 140- Dane Johnson,
Shady Side Academy(OW)
Rear: 145- Eric Hess, Benton, 152- Dirk Cowbuen,
Coudersport 160- Corey Lear, Benton 171-Caleb Kolb,
Grove City 189- Jon Fausey, Line Mountain 215- Brandon
Palik, Saucon Valley 285- Jordan Roussos, Carlynton |
|

Class AAA PIAA Champions 2009
Front:103- Jimmy Gulibon,
Derry 112- Nico Megaludis, Franklin Regional 119- Shane
Young, Penn Trafford, 125- Sam Sherlock, West Mifflin,
130-Joe Waltko, North Allegheny, 135- Josh Kindig, Blue
Mountain 140- Andrew Alton, Central Mountain
Rear: 145- Dylan Alton, Central Mountain (OW) 152-
Marshall Peppelman, Central Dauphin 160- Jake Kemmerer,
Hempfield Area 171- Clay Gable, Dallastown 189- Tony
Dallago, Central Dauphin 215- Nate Gaffney,
Connellsville 285- Evan Craig, Abington Heights |
AMATEUR
WRESTLING NEWS PREP 40 March 10, 2009
Final Rankings by Bob
Preusse
1.
Blair Academy
N.J.
2. St.
Paris Graham Ohio
3.
Apple Valley
Minn.
4.
Central Dauphin
Pa.
5.
Wyoming
Seminary
Pa.
6.
Northampton
Pa.
7.
Central
Mountain
Pa.
8. Simley Minn.
9. Huxley
Ballard Iowa
10. Christiansburg Va.
11.
St. Mark
Del.
12. Brandon Fla.
13. St. Edward
Ohio
14.
Cumberland Valley
Pa.
15.
Massillon
Perry Ohio
16.
Blue Mountain
Pa.
17. Montini Catholic
Ill.
18.
Poway
Calif.
19.
Clovis
Calif.
20.
Collins Hill
Ga.
21.
Lake Stevens
Wash.
22.
Reynolds
Pa.
23.
Wadsworth
Ohio
24.
Buchanan
Calif.
25.
Wisconsin Rapids
Wisc.
26.
Wausau
West Wisc.
27.
Long Branch
N.J.
28.
Hastings
Minn.
29. High Point N. J.
30.
Park Hill
Mo.
31. Flathead
Mont.
32.
Billings
Skyview
Mont.
33.
Oak Park River Forest
Ill.
34.
Grand Island
Neb.
35.
Crown Point
Ind.
36.
Goddard
Kans.
37.
Roseburg
Oreg.
38. Waverly-Shell Rock
Iowa
39.
Iowa City
West Iowa
40.
Ponca City
Okla.
If you wants to
run a wrestling Tournament in a first-class style, get the program
the PIAA and the PJW uses EscapeSports.com..
(NJ also has used this software for
their Regionals and States for the past several years.
Tournament Report
First practice
Date in 2009-2010 is November 20; the first competition date is
December 11.
States are scheduled for March 11,12, 13, 2010. Regionals
March 5-6
Wrestling
Against Autism
District Four to
Induct Six New Members to their
Hall of Fame
District Six adds
Twelve to Hall-of-Fame
Great
Article by Dr. Bill
Welker on the importance of bringing the single Dual Meet back.
PIAA Districts and Regional Reports

Front Row L-R: 103-
Kaleb Loht, Indian Valley; 112- Shelton Mack, Meadville; 119-
Mitchell Port, Bellefonte;
125- Steve Spearman, McDowell; 130- Rocco Wellek, Cathedral
Prep; 135- Tyler Parsons, Cathedral Prep; 140- Andrew
Alton, Central Mountain
Back Row L-R: 145-
Dylan Alton, Central Mountain; 152- Mark Havers, Bradford; 160-
Jermaine Easter, Cathedral Prep;
171- Nick Milano, Cathedral Prep; 189- Jacob Bachman, Central
Mountain; 215- Glenn Barnes, Central Mountain;
285- Sean Owen, Clearfield
PIAA 2009 Road-to-Hershey Sectional, District Results
| Dist 1
Sectionals - AAA -1,
2,
3,
4, 5,
6 |
Dist 3
Sectionals -AA 1, 2,
3
AAA - 1,
2,
3 |
Dist 4
Sectionals
E,
W, S |
Dist 6
AA Championships |
District 7 Sectionals
AA-
1,
2,
3 |
District 10 AA Sectionals |
District 2 AA |
District 2 AAA |
|
District 6 AAA (Rich Vetock) |
|
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Revisit the PIAA
Team Championships bout-by-bout on the
official PIAA
site with Escape Sports, Gimp, Paul Conklin and Tom Elling-
HERE -
Photos of the
Championships
PIAA Team
Championship Brackets
AAA
AA

Central Dauphin PIAA AAA Team
Champions |

Reynolds PIAA AA Team Champions |
District TEAM
Brackets
2/3/09: Ches-Mont League officials have suspended intra-league competition
because of an outbreak of mat herpes at several league schools.
Skin problems forced Great Valley to
withdraw from the PIAA District 1
Class AAA duals tournament
West
Chester Henderson has also
withdrawn for the same reason. They
had been scheduled to meet
Boyertown.
District
TWO Finals: AA: Elk
Lake 35 – Lake
Lehman 33 AAA: Hazleton Area 31 – Pittston Area 28
(Sean McMahon)
District SIX Finals: AA:
Westmont Hilltop 36 Forest Hills 23
AAA: Central Mountain 47 Indian Valley 16
Pigtail: 2/3/09 -
AAA
Blue Mountain 38, Lower Dauphin 30 (summary by Dean
Beers)
Boyertown 38, LaSalle College 21
Clearfield 34, Hempfield 33
Connellsville 74, Brashear 4
Cumberland Valley 35, Shikellamy 28
Council Rock North 40,
Hazleton 24
AA
Bedford 49, Forest Hills 10
Bermudian Springs 53, Octorara 15
Shady Side Academy 39, Fort LeBoeuf 30
Pen Argyl 35, Montoursville 33
LaSalle College
HS wins Philadelphia Catholic League Championship
Past Results
of PIAA Wrestling Tournaments 2008
Gallery of Wrestling pics from PIAA
All of the PA
Wrestling family mourns the passing of Garden Spot Wrestling Coach
Tom Hecker.

Central Cambria HS Wrestling Hall of Fame - First Inductees
Mike Williams, Rich Vetock, Tom Vaux

Hank Blake- the father of Lock Haven
University wrestling.
Story
here.
Bill Welker's "Pancake Series" DVD now available.

Tom Elling's PA Wrestling Handbook
- Sold Out!!! Thank you!
How do you count team points for duals and
tournaments? Check
HERE
Ken Wunderly's
2007-2008 Southwestern PA Wrestling Recap.. Ordering information
HERE
PA Native Billy Welker (article of West Virginia
National Wrestling Hall of Fame - West Virginia Chapter)
Williamsport - Joe Eaton
Methacton - A.J. Maida
Phoenixville - Dave Saville
Pottsgrove - Jeff Madden
Neshaminy - Dan Winters
Conestoga - Steve Harner
Ply. Whitmarsh - Nate Wachter
Franklin:
Scott Ziegler
Harbor
Creek:
Derek Chew
Fairview:
Ben
Corbin
Slippery
Rock: Jeff Kline
Tyke Conover is the new coach
at Hanover
Pat Brennan is the new head
coach at Pottsville
Jack Drey has been named Head
Coach at Pine Grove High School.
Jeff Stover has been named
head coach at State College High.
Keith Youtz is the new
Abington Heights' coach.
Bob Nikolishen is the new
head coach at Central Cambria
Jason Carpetta has been named
head coach at Peters Township
Barry Spohn is the new head
coach at Cedar Crest
Rich McIntyre is the new head
coach at Bethlehem Freedom.
Greg Lazor takes over for the
retired Jim Clark at Chestnut Ridge (Ryan Spring)
Former Bedford assistant Josh
Deputy is the new coach at Everett (Ryan
Spring)
Jeff Karam has moved from Freedom to Bethlehem Catholic
as head wrestling coach.
Kemal Pegram has been named head
coach at Big Spring High School.
Tom Smith has been hired as the
head wrestling coach at Richland in Johnstown.
Mark Sallot hired
as Cathedral Prep head coach.
Sunny Abe is now the head coach
at Pittsburgh Central Catholic
Al Camaerei steps down at East
Stroudsburg South; Keith Miller resigns at Cathedral Prep.
Mike Maney
named head coach at Bellefonte.
Steve Millward gets head coaching job at Bald Eagle Area.
Jason Bainey is the new head coach at West Branch.
Mike Wilt is
the new coach at United.
Kerry McCoy named
head wrestling coach at Maryland.
Wrestlers and Wrestling Fans ...
Get your
Pennsylvania Wrestling Tee-Shirt
Now two choices of design.
Design #1
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Ken Wunderly is looking for any new
coaches with 300 wins or more. and any schools who have 450
wins or more. Contact Ken at
statco@nb.net
2007-2008
Tournament Results
WPIAL Wrestling and more on
WJPA... check out
info here.
Counting your Competition Points
A PIAA-member school is permitted to
participate in a maximum of twenty-four (24) Regular
Season wrestling Contests based on the following
method of counting Regular Season
wrestling Contests:
1 point for Contest for each dual
meet.
2 points for Contests for each
triangular meet (formerly called dual meet Tournament)
or for each individual Tournament involving up to 8
teams.
3 points for Contests for each
quadrangular meet, for each one (1) day multiple dual
event (formerly called dual meet Tournament), or for
each individual
Tournament involving 9 or more teams.
4 points for Contests for each two
(2) day multiple dual event.
The History of Collegiate
Wrestling Book. The price has been reduced by 30%. You can
now purchase this great book including updates for last year for
$34.95. Please remember that this is a project of the state chapter
program and all proceeds go to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.