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Sparta Wrestling Drops Season-Opening Match
Spartans fall to Mount Olive, host Madison on Friday.
The Sparta High School wrestling team opened the 2012-13 season at Mt. Olive Wednesday night. The Spartans made a strong showing but fell 43-32.
"This was a very exciting opening match for us," Spartan coach Frank Battaglia said. "We are set to come out and really make a difference this year. We are a relatively young team with more experience and I keep telling the kids we have to start to prove that and turn the corner and bring Sparta back into a competitive mode. I think we accomplished that tonight."
"We were tough through the line up," Battaglia said. "We had wrestler get sick and a JV wrestler (Mateo Zapata) stepped up, a first year wrestler, and he gave it his all. He's wrestled for three weeks and he comes in and gives it his all. Those little things make a big difference in a team."
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WT MATCH RESULTS 106 Charles Miele (MO) def. Sissy Blasone (S) Major Decision 9-0 113 Garret Gerndt (S) def. Alan Anagnostos (MO) Pin 3:26 120 Jack Velella (S) def. Matt Silva (MO) Major Decision 15-2 126 Ian Burke (S) def. Dan O'Neill (MO) Major Decision 13-0 132 Ronnie Spera (MO) def. Sean McIntyre (S) Pin 1:46 138 Walker Schmitzer (S) def. Erick Matos (MO) Pin 1:39 145 Tommy Vazzano (MO) def. Jan Uczkowski (S)
Pin 1:46 152 Christian Cuellar (MO) def. Mateo Zapata (S) Pin 0:46 160 Abel Kadiric (MO) def. Connor Lore (S) Pin 2:42 170 Al Falco (S) def. Nick Scheuplein (MO) Pin 1:41 182 Anthony Colabella (MO) def. Stephan Kepler (S) Pin 3:12 195 Ryan May (S) def. Omar Hassan (MO) Pin 1:59 220 Pete Andrich (MO) def. Gavin Lally (S) Decision 3-0 285 John Martinez (MO) def. Carlos Goncalves (S) Pin 0:27
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Sparta will face Madison Friday at 5 p.m. for the Spartans home-opening match.
