Milford Mill came up with three individual titles and had eight wrestlers place in the top six en route to a first-place finish in Saturday?s Overlea Tournament.
Darian Allen (103), Terrance Owens (125) and Ryan Smith (160) each won individual titles for Milford Mill, which finished with 194 points. John Carroll ended up in second place with 180 points with Mervo (133), Fallston (129) and Woodlawn (119) rounding out the top five of the 27-team tournament.
In all, Milford Mill advanced six wrestlers to the championship round with Kenwood?s Jason Castillo (152) defeating David Greem 12-10, Parkville?s Yousef Mohamed (171) pinning Charles Blue in 56 seconds and Woodlawn?s Alex Harper (285) pinning defending Baltimore County champion Nile Alexander in 5:36.
This win comes one day after one of the bigger upsets in the area as Chesapeake-AA upset Old Mill, 36-30, in a showdown of two traditional Anne Arundel County powers. Old Mill entered the match ranked seventhby the Maryland State Wrestling Association. Sonny Scardina (140), Tyler Lomax (140) and Zach O?Keefe (171) got pins in the win for the Cougars.
Earlier this week, No. 2 Mount St. Joseph lost more matches than it won, but made those victories count in a 34-32 victory over Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference rival and fifth-ranked Archbishop Curley.
Mount St. Joseph (11-2, 6-0 MIAA) won only six of 14 bouts, but pins from Frank Goodwin (103), Austin Clouse (112), Will Selba (145), Chris King (152) and Jake Bohn (189), along with a major decision from Danny Orem (125) would be all the Gaels would need. Archbishop Curley is now 7-1 overall and 1-1 in the conference.
“We had guys step up when they had to,” Mount St. Joseph coach Kirk Salvo said. “Guys who could have just settled for a decision took their performance up a level and risked their individual wins to help the team get the win.”
Mount St. Joseph wrestles next Saturday in Virginia when it competes in the Colonial Ford Ultimate Challenge before its big showdown Feb. 2 at home with top-ranked and defending MIAA champion McDonogh.
“McDonogh is the team to beat in the league this year,” Salvo said. “We just want to make it interesting.”
