NORTH WRESTLING STARTS THE SEASON STRONG!!!!

NORTH WRESTLING FINISHES 2nd AT SEPA CLASSIC!!!!!


The NC Wrestling team kicked off their season this Friday and Saturday at the always tough Southeastern PA Classic wrestling Tournament held at Wissiahickon High School. The Falcons finished in 2nd place (out of 15 schools) behind tournament winner Wilson High School from Reading. North finished higher than such large schools as North Penn, Methacton, Plymouth Whitemarsh and Spring-Ford. The falcons were led by Seniors David Davidson and Anthony White who both finished in 1st place. Furthermore, both wrestlers did not give up an offensive point during the tournament. Here are the placers for the tournament:


103 - Mike McCall - 2nd place

119 - Erik Stankiewcz - 2nd place

125 - David Davidson - 1st place

135 - Nick Cancelliere - 6th place

140 - Thomas Goodyear - 3rd place

145 - Anthony White - 1st place

152 - Will Trainor - 6th place

189 - Riccardo Roman - 7th place

215 - AJ Vizcarrondo - 2nd place

285 - Jeremy Reith - 2nd place



There was also a JV Tournament in conjunction with the varsity tournament. North had 4 place winners and were led by junior Joe Janda who finished 2nd. Also placing was Anthony "Technique Tony" Siwek (3rd) , Kevin Leyland (3rd) and Gary Robinson (4th).

NORTH OPENS CATHOLIC LEAGUE SEASON WITH A WIN!

Last night in front of a large group of falcon supporters, north dominated o'hara to the tune of 67-9. North used 6 falls and 3 forfeits to take down the Lions. Congratulations to Tad Meyers on his first varsity win. It was also great to see many of the alumni come out to the matches. Spotted in the crowd was Derick Wasnick (who when not running through town can be found at the memphis taproom) who was the man on the mat when north clinched its first catholic league championship.

North continues its busy week on saturday at the Abington duals. North hopes to improve on its 2nd place finish from last season. wrestling begins at 9am for the die-hard fans who are planning on making the trek to abington.

NEXT HOME MATCH - TUESDAY NIGHT - NESHAMITY

Our next home match will be this tuesday night at 7pm against Neshamity. Neshamity should have a pretty good squad this year and it should be a night of good, tough wrestling. We hope to see many of you at the match. We will again be collecting cans of food and old blankets and coats for the holidays. This is our last home match before the new year so we hope to see many of you there. There has also been some rumbling about the crowd that some of the alumni may be going out for some holiday cheer after the match....ill keep you posted....