Kowboys take District 16 Duals; host tourney

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Kowboys take District 16 Duals; host tourney

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Thursday, 27 December 2012 08:23

By Rick Pedone
Sports Editor
Osceola, fresh off winning the District 16 Duals at South Dade High, hosts its first Christmas Knockout wrestling tournament Friday and Saturday at the OHS gym. Competition Friday begins at 3 p.m. and action resumes Saturday at 9 a.m.
The Kowboys defeated South Dade, 42-30, for the District 16 championship Saturday after defeating Somerset (64-6), St. Thomas Aquinas (45-21), North Miami Beach (57-14), South Broward (68-8), Braddock (68-12), Southwest Miami (61-12), Miami American (81-0) Western (78-6) and Coral Reef (72-3).
South Dade, Somerset, North Miami Beach and South Broward all were top 10 teams in their respective classes.
Ariel Dominguez (22-1, 10-0 at the Duals), wrestling up from 106 to 120 for much of the tournament, beat state-ranked opponents Alex Uhre and Vic Blasucci.
Paul Zupofska was 10-0 at the Duals and raised his record at 152 pounds to 27-1 by knocking off top-ranked Kris Igiasis of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Fox Baldwin, 28-0, knocked off No. 2 Class 3A Richie Gullimaine of North Miami and No. 1 Class A Chase Singletary of Somerset.
Chris Pagan (24-0) won all seven matches at 195.
Junior varsity wrestlers Tyler Shultz (106, 9-1), Joseph Periera (152, 2-1), Alex Tilford (132, 3-5) and Brock Price (170, 4-5) stepped up to win matches at South Dade.
Two state champions are among the 25 squads visiting OHS for this weekend.
Harmony reached the championship match of its Christmas tournament Saturday before falling to Jensen Beach, 51-21.
Harmony defeated Dunnellon (54-27), Weeki Wachee (50-18) and Clearwater Catholic (60-9). Zac German, jeremy Beesley, Andrew Davis and Alex Muralles won seven matches for the Horns.
State 2A champion Springstead won the Bulldog Brawl at St. Cloud Saturday.