Wreslting Team Joins the Falcon Nest

The Falcon Nest has branched out once more by adding the wrestling team to the fold. Now, you can check here for updates for Football, Soccer, Basketball and Wrestling. We're working on bringing more teams into the nest to give you a one-stop source for North Catholic sports.

The first two updates have already been mailed out to over 100 people. For anyone who hasn't seen them, we have posted them here. Future updates will be here, at the Nest, so family, friends and other fans of NC wrestling can keep up with the team. The entire staff at TheFalconNest.com welcomes the North Catholic Wrestling team.

Originally sent on 12/19.....

Seasons Greetings everyone,

NORTH AT LASALLE
On Wednesday night north catholic traveled to lasalle for an early season battle. we did not wrestle from dec 6th to dec 17th, and it showed. Some of our guys were not crisp and we dropped a 41-23 decision. LaSalle has got some high powered recruits recently that were able to capitalize on some of our mistakes. The best part about the whole thing is that it is only December and there is no such thing as a big match in december. Mark my words, we will be better prepared if we meet again!

ABINGTON DUALS
This saturday north is traveling to abington to participate in the abington duals. wrestling begins at 830. we wrestle william tennent and wissahicken in our pool. other team attending will be pensbury, blue mountain, central bucks east, aberdeen (md) and west chester rustin. we will wrestle 5 duals on the day. with some outstanding performances i feel we can leave with 5 wins!

HOME MATCH - TUESDAY DEC 23RD - OHARA - 6PM JV, 7PM VARSITY
there has been a slight change to the schedule. i was informed on thursday that cedar crest did not want to travel 1.5 hours to Philadelphia to get their butts kicked again. this left us scrambling to fill the date. the coach from ohara had a spot to fill and they are traveling to nc on christmas eve eve. we only have 4 home meets for the season so i hope to see many of you there. we will also have shirts and shorts for sale.

CANS FROM NORTH WRESTLING FANS
fans coming to the north match on tuesday are asked to bring canned goods for a food drop that my friends are having. we will also be taking any old coats, blankets or kids clothes that may not be of use. a box for donations will be by the gym entrance.

OWN A PIECE OF NORTH CATHOLIC HISTORY!!!!
in case you did not know, north catholic got a new gym floor this year. north catholic wrestling, along with the athletic department, are selling pieces of the floor with a plaque that says "north catholic wrestling' "THE PIT" they are selling for $15 each with all wrestling pieces proceeds going to north wrestling. to check out what they look like go to www.northcatholicbasketball.com and check out own a piece of north history. the only difference will be basketball is changed with wrestling. they would make a great gift to any and all die hard i currently have 500 of these to sell and expect them to go fast. PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG AND DONT BE SHUT OUT!!!

TAKEDOWN-A-THON
the wrestling takedown a thon for breast cancer is a great success so far. it is not too late to sponser a wrestler or the team. i will email updated takedowns after the abington duals.
i think that is all for now. you are all invited to the unofficial north catholic wrestling christmas party at the memphis taproom (memphis and cumberland) on december 26th at about 2pm. sorry folks, im a catholic school teacher and wrestling coach, it is cash bar however free beers for myself would be greatly appreciated!!!!
thanks and have a great holiday!!!
sav


Originally sent on 12/22.....

Abington Duals Update
The north catholic wrestling team bounced back from their disappointing loss at LaSalle in dramatic fashion with a 2nd place finish at the Abington Duals. The Abington Dual field consisted of 11 surbaban wrestling teams and North Catholic. We ended up going 4-1 on the day with our only loss comming to powerful Blue Mountain High School out of Allentown Area. Here are the scores....

Round 1 - North 46 - William Tennant - 21
Round 2 - North 51 - Wissahickon - 24
Round 3 - North 24 - Blue Mountain - 53
Round 4 - North 34 - Central Bucks East 31*
Round 5 - North 44 - Upper Morland - 21
* Note - coach canc almost cost us the match by not reminding me that we want to take EVEN if we win the toss. because he over looked the fact that i rarely pay attention we did not get the match-ups we needed and had to scrape out a hard fought victory !)

Here are some notable records:
Matt Dugan was the lone north wrestler to go undefeated on the day. He went 5-0 and looked dominating.

Wrestler Going 4-1 were...
Mike McCall - only loss was to a double fargo champ from blue mountain
David Davidson - david picked up a HUGE pin against CBE to tie the score with one to go
Kevin Mallon - lost to Taylor Franko (ranked 8th in the state at 171) while giving up 10+ pounds. dominated the match except the last 30sec
TJ Van Horn - big props for wanting to wrestle Josh Kinding (ranked 3rd in the COUNTRY)! I dont think his newley swollen eye was that happy:)
Nick Cancelliere - yep this is not a typo! nick canc increased his varsity win total by 200% with 4 victories on the day. also wrestled tough against state champion Corte Chote. he was still smiling at todays morning workout.

other great performances were by the following...
Freshman Gary Robinson currently is the 2nd wrestler with a 1.000 career win percentage. Gary stands a 1-0
Tim Markert, Thomas Goodyear, and Will Trainor got their first varsity pins
AJ Vizcarrondo and Jeremy Reith had big wins to secure our victory against upper moreland
Eric Stank secured our victory against CBE
and lastly big props goes out to coach Rick Mascino who broke the 25 year old record for most sandwiches eaten during a 10 hour period. Good luck to Rick in his training to get on the upcomming wing bowl...

MATCH VS OHARA - CANS FROM WRESTLING FANS
reminder that fans are asked to bring canned goods, old jackets, old blankets or kids clothes to the match tomorrow night.

OWN A PIECE OF THE PIT
we have already sold 50 of our 500 gym floor pieces. check out www.northeastcatholicbasketball.com to see what they look like. PLEASE NOTE THAT THEY DO NOT ALL SAY BASKETBALL! they will say northeast catholic wrestling. you can email me or call the office at 215-831-5246. buy them from us so we can make sure the wrestling team gets the credit.

TAKEDOWN A THON
here are our updated takedown totals current to today....you can see that it is pretty tight at the top! we are getting a lot of press with this. keep an eye out for the northeast times this week.
MATT DUGAN......................19
MIKE MCCALL.....................14
AJ VIZCORRANDO..............14
TJ VAN HORN......................13
ERIC STANK.........................13
KEVIN MALLON..................12
TIM MCGUIRE.....................10
SHANE RAND........................10
MARK BROWN.......................8
DAVID DAVIDSON................8
GIL DOUGHERTY.................7
TOM GOODYEAR.................5
RICARDO ROMAN................5
JEREMY REITH.....................5
DYLAN MARNOCH...............5
BRIAN SWEENEY..................5
TIM MARKERT.....................4
NICK CANC.............................4
JOE JANDA.............................4
SCOTT MATTHEWS.............3
VINCENZO DILEANARDO..2
TYLER DENIGHT.................2
MIKE LANG...........................2
WILL TRAINOR....................1
TAD MEYERS........................1
GARY ROBINSON................1
BOB BUTLER........................1
ANTHONY SIWEK...............1

lastly, have a great christmas. i hope to see many of you at the unofficial wrestling christmas party at the memphis taproom on DEC 26th at about 2pm.

coach sav