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St. Stephens Wrestling Established the Season of 1968-1969 by Coach Tommy Simmons
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Saint
Wrestling Summer Camp June 6-7-8-9, 2022 |
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35th
Annual St. Stephens Freestyle Open
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02-19-2022
No Placers at the State Tournament
Saint was not able to get a wrestler to the medal rounds of this years tournament. It has been a good year for us team wise with a 30-5 record. Our focus now is to get a good summer in with club activities and competition.
Best wishes to our seniors Andre Britt, Jacob Schwartz, Evan Trossi, Kymani Evans, and Evan Vue as they proceed to graduation.
02-12-2022
Saint Sends Three to the State Tournament
Saint tied for 6th place in the 3A West Regional Tournament with 69 points. Three wrestlers will go to the state tournament as State Qualifiers.
Andre Britt won the 182 weight class and will go to the State Tournament as the number one seed from the 3A West.
Andrew Kehoe placed at 170 and will go as the number four seed from the 3A West.
Cesar Chavez placed at 120 and will go as the number four seed from the 3A West.
The team will leave for Greensboro at 9:00 am on Thursday
Weigh in at 4:00 pm and wrestle Thursday night
02-08-2022
Saint Qualifies 12 Wrestlers for the 3A West Regional
Listed below are the Saint wrestlers that are seeded in the 3A West Regional for this weekend. We will leave the school Friday at 11:00 AM. We are staying at the Red Roof Inn in Henderson.
Do not go to the school before 4:00 pm.
106 – Alec Petty #8
113 – Ivan Cortez #12
120 – Cesar Chavez #4
126 – Will Moore #10
132 – Evan Trossi #6
138 – Kymani Evans #7
152 – William Fincher #11
160 – Jacob Schwartz #8
170 – Andrew Kehoe #5
182 – Andre Britt #2
195 – Luke Apollonio #15
285 – Evan Vue #8
Here's a link to purchase tickets and passes online. Tickets can also be purchased at the door with cash.
https://gofan.co/app/school/NC1678
02-01-2022
Wednesday Volunteer Practice at 9:00 AM
We will hold a non mandatory practice Wednesday morning at 9:00 AM.
Full Practice will resume Thursday 2-3-2020 after school
If you still own $40 for the wrestling shirt and pants,
please bring it with you to settle your account.
01-31-2022
Saint Falls to Ashe County 30-31 by Tie Breaker in 1st Round of State Duals
Saint battled with Ashe County right up to the end with Andre Kehoe grabbing a pin to tie the team score 30-30. By Tie Breaking Criteria D., Ashe County was awarded one point to bring the score 30-31. https://www.levelchanger.com/nfhs-dual-tie-breaking
This now concludes the team dual team competition for this season. The Tribe finished with a record of 30-5. This team results ranked #14 in the historical records of St. Stephens Wrestling (see "Single Season Most Wins Record" red tab above).
The 3a West Regional seed meeting will be held next week after the Dual Team Season Competition has be completed. We will know by Thursday morning who on our team made the top 16 in each weight class.
See the "Motel Reservation Info" above in blue for the locations the team will be staying in on Friday night Feb 11th, 2022
01-25-2022
Saint Falls to #1 3a Ranked Fred T. Foard
Saint lost its bid for a conference championship as it fell to Foard 61-9. Saint finished the regular season with a 30-4 overall record and a 6-1 conference record. Foard and Saint are ranked #1 and #2 respectively in 3A State wide rankings.
https://www.nchsaa.org/news/2022-1-27/2022-wrestling-final-rankings
It is now time for the State Duals. Round #1 and #2 will be held at Central Cabarrus Monday night. Saint will face off against #16 Ashe County . If we win we will most likely go against #6 Central Cabarrus.
https://www.nchsaa.org/sites/default/files/DT%20WRESTLING%20BRACKETS%20Final%203.pdf
1-14-2022
Saint Wins Three Conference Matches at West Iredell
Saint clinched a State Dual Team sport by defeating West Iredell 70-12, Hickory 78-3, and East Lincoln 63-18. Our conference gets two dual playoff spots. So our win over East Lincoln gave us a Conference 6-0 record with only Fred T. Foard left on the schedule. Our over all record is now 30-3.
We will host Fred T. Foard on Senior Night on Tuesday 1-18-2022. It may be moved depending on the weather conditions. We are schedule to have the conference tournament at Foard on Saturday 1-22-2022.
Congratulations to William Fincher
William won his 25th Career Wins Milestone
The win came against Hickory with a 0:23 pin over his opponent.
01-11-2022
Saint Wins at Statesville 42-33
Saint defeated Statesville tonight with a 42-33 win. This improves the Tribes record to 3-0 in conference standings and 27-3 overall.
Pinning tonight for the Tribe were Will Moore, Andrew Kehoe, Andre Britt. Andre's pin opened up the dual meet to give us a 6-0 lead. By the time we got to Will Moore it was 18-27. Will's pin pulled us to 24-27. When we got to Kehoe's match the score was 36-33.
It was a hard fought matches with our wrestlers keeping their best wrestlers to only gaining decisions wins.
It came down to the last match of the night with Andrew Kehoe at 170. The team score was Saint 36 Statesville 33. In the first period, Statesville scored a takedown on Andrew right off the whistle (0-2). Andrew fought for an escape (1-2), scored a takedown (3-2), and muscled a 3 point near fall (6-2) which ended the first period. Andrew took neutral in the second period. He scored a takedown (8-2) and finally a pin at 3:35 of the match. Saint wins 42-33.
Our next schedule event is this Friday 1-14-2022 at West Iredell. We will face West Iredell, Hickory, and East Lincoln.
1-10-2022
Saint Finishes Strong on 2021 Winning Ways
A lot has happened since the
last update. Saint defeated Bunker Hill in a second matchup as well as West
Caldwell on 12-21-2021.
Saint went on to win the Maiden Christmas Classic on 12-22-2021.
Team Scores
1 Saint Stephens 200.0
2 Bandys 125.0
3 Burns 107.0
4 West Henderson 95.0
5 Hendersonville 94.5
6 South Caldwell 94.0
7 East Lincoln 75.5
8 Mitchell 58.0
9 Sun Valley 57.5
10 Maiden 56.0
11 Lincoln Charter 18.0
12-29-2021 Saint defeated Alleghany and North Surry
12-30-2-21 Saint defeated Pisgah and Erwin, but suffer its 3rd loss of the season to 4a Northwest Guilford.
1-4-2022 Saint opened the conference season with a 50-16 win over North Lincoln.
1-7-2022 Saint defeated North Iredell 51-18 for its second conference win. Thanks to all the Saint Alumni and fans that came to support the Tribe this night. It was a strong and rowdy crowd that push the Tribe to a great victory. Thanks to all!!!
The Tribe is now 26-3 overall and 2-0 in conference.
Congratulations to Evan Trossi
Evan won his 75th Career Wins Milestone
The win came against North Iredell with a 10-5 decision over his opponent.
Congratulations to Jacob Schwartz
Jacob won his 25th Career Wins Milestone
The win came against West Caldwell with a 2:57 pin over his opponent.
Congratulations to Will Moore
Will won his 25th Career Wins Milestone
The win came against Burns with a 1:57 pin over his opponent.
Congratulations to Luke Apollonio
Luke won his 25th Career Wins Milestone
The win came against North Surry with a 1:05 pin over his opponent.
Congratulations to Coach Billy Baker
Coach Baker racked up his 700th Career Dual Win at all places West Lincoln Duals against Erwin High School
Saint travels to Statesville on Tuesday 1-11-2022 at 5:30 for a conference match.
12-17-2021
Saint Out Last Ranked #8 3A West Rowan in a 33-27 Brawl
Hello Saint Wrestling Fans. This is Saint Wrestling Radio signing on. Check! Check! Check! Nancy turn the vacuum cleaner off so we can get more power to the transmitter.
Check! Yes! That's better!! Dang that Dyson sucks up a lot of power. Wow! What a night of wrestling for the Tribe!!!! If you were there, you are probably reading this from the Cardiac Ward at the Catawba Medical Center. If you missed it, you probably don't have a life anyway.
The Tribe's Team Effort was shocking. It takes the whole picture to appreciate the entirety of the effort that took place tonight.
The match was held at Arndt Middle School. Why? I don't know. I think it's because they WON'T build us a WRESTLING ARENA at the high school. But that's another subject.
The match started out slowly for the Tribe. Like pouring molasses - outside - in the dead of winter. But like thick molasses, every one of our wrestlers stuck to their job and did their part and their best to keep us in the match.
Isaac Burgin at 182 fought valiantly and only gave a 3 point lost to West Rowan. Andre Britt pinned at 195 (SS 6 - WR 3). Luke Apollonio at 220 got caught in a pining combination and Evan Vue hung on to a 1-7 loss at 285 to keep the score at SS 6 - WR 12. Alec Petty at 106 and Logan Laws at 113 hung tough on losses but only gave up 3 point each the West Rowan. (SS 6 WR 18)
Cesar Chavez grappled to a 3 point decision at 120 bringing the Tribe back to (SS 9 WR 18). Everyone was wrestling hard, but we were not getting the breaks to climb back on top. Ryan Brown and Will Moore lost by a pin and a decision. West Rowan broke out to a (SS 9 WR 27) lead. It was not looking good for the red and gray. Only five matches to go and a long way to get there.
Seniors Evan Trossi and Kymani Evans won by decisions to get the Tribe 6 points and pulled the Tribe back to (SS 15 - WR 27).
With only 3 matches to go, down by 12, the Tribe needed to win all of them and in a big way. Freshman Will Fincher at 152 goes out and gets a 2nd period pin to pull up the Tribe, (SS 21 WR 27).
Senior Jacob Schwartz at 160 powers to a 5-0 lead and then catches his opponent for a 1st period pin. (SS 27 WR 27)
One match to go and it's Andrew Kehoe for the Tribe. This is why Mothers hate wrestling, Her little boy with it all resting on his shoulders and her heart.
The whistle blows and BAM. Andrew is hit in a head lock and on his back in the first 10 seconds. He's fighting, fighting, fighting. Run Clock Run!! Dang, 1:45 left in the first. All is lost.
What's this! Andrew fights off his back and Wham-o he is hit in a Banana Split. That looks like that would hurt. Oh well, it was a good try. What! Kehoe is out!! But wait. Now he is caught in a cradle!!!! Kehoe is down 0-5, in a cradle, and it is only 1:12 into the first period. How long can this go on? Well Tribe fans, it only lasted another 15 seconds. In the biggest display of determination I have seen since the miraculous Blake Baker win in the 3A West Regional, Kehoe fought out of the cradle and pinned his opponent to win the match. (SS 33 WR 27).
It was "Chaos at Arndt". Saint fans were shouting and Mom was shedding tears of relief. Dad's chest was pumped up as a toad that Shrek just blew up for Princess Fiona. Hugs and love all around.
The Tribe is now 18-2. We travel to Bunker Hill next Tuesday.
Saint Wrestling Radio is signing off!! (Ok Nancy, you can vacuum now)
Wait! Wait! Wait! I have more Breaking News!!
Congratulations to Andre Britt
Andre won his 100th Career Wins Milestone
The win came tonight at the West Rowan match with a 1:50 pin over his opponent.
Congratulations to Andrew Kehoe
Andrew won his 25th Career Wins Milestone
The win came tonight at the West Rowan match with a
Dual Meet
Wining 1:27 pin over his opponent.
12-08 to 12-10- 2021
Tribe Goes 5-1 During the Week
On 12-08-2021 Saint traveled to South Iredell. Saint dropped the first match to 4A Hickory Ridge 30-38. Pinning for the Tribe was 106 Alec Petty, 113 Ivan Cortez, 120 Cesar Chavez, 126 Ryan Brown, and 152 William Fincher.
In the nights closing match with 4A South Iredell, the Tribe scored a 54-27 win.
On Friday 12-10-21, Saint traveled to RS Central for the Hilltopper Duals. Saint defeated Kings Mountain 54-25, Albemarle 84-0, RS Central 43-24, and Bunker Hill 51-26.
Saint's dual record is now 17-2.
Congratulations to Cesar Chavez-Alonzo
Cesar won his 75th Career Wins Milestone
The win came at the RS Central Duals on
12-10-2021 with a 5:57 pin over his
Kings Mountain opponent. He has continued to
win and now has 78 career wins.
Congratulations to Kymani Evans
Kymani won his 50th Career Wins Milestone
The win came at the RS Central Duals on
12-10-2021 with a 5:57 pin over his
Kings Mountain opponent. He has continued to
win and now has 55 career wins.
Congratulations to Evan Vue
Evan won his 25th Career Wins Milestone
The win came at the Indian Classic 2021 on
12-4-2021 with a 0:30 pin over his
Lincolnton opponent. He has continued to
win and now has 30 career wins.
12-04-2021
Results of the 2021 Indian Classic and JV Indian
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MOW: Brayden Guess - Bunker Hill
Placing for St. Stephens In the Indian Classic
113 Ivan Cortez 4th
120 Cesar Chavez 3rd
132 Will Moore 4th
138 Evan Trossi 2nd
152 Will Fincher 2nd
170 Andrew Kehoe 2nd
182 Andre Britt 2nd
195 Luke Apollonio 3rd
285 Evan Vue 2nd
Placing for St. Stephens In the JV Indian Classic
126 Yoabdriel Ortiz 4th
138 Kyler Milligan 2nd
145 Juan Orozco 3rd
160 Dylan Herrea-Luna 1st
160 Jared Luna 2nd
170 Irvin DeLa Cruz 3rd
170 Daniel Lowder 4th
182 Shane Ritchie 1st
182 Isaac Burgin 2nd
220 Thomas Lipford 3rd
12-01-2021
Saint Falls to Newton-Conover
It was an event of tight matches, but the Tribe came up short 31-42. We split the matches 7-7, but Newton won several bonus point matches. Pinning to night for the Tribe were Will Moore, Andre Britt, and Evan Vue. Cesar Chavez won a major decision. Jacob Schwartz, Alec Petty, and Kymani Evans won their matches by decision.
Saint is now 12-1.
11-23-2021
Saint Wins Mallard Creek Maverick Duals
Here's a Happy Thanksgiving to all Current and Alumni Wrestlers and Parents. We have made it through the 1st quarter of the wrestling season with a 12-0 record. It has been a successful quarter with a signature win over Bandys, which is currently ranked #2 in the high school 2A division.
Let us give thanks to all the young men we have been bless to meet and be a part of their young lives for all the years of Saint Wrestling. Current and Alumni. May they continue to prosper as they have and will become young men.
The scores at Mallard Creek were:
Saint 71 Olympic 12
Saint 78 East Burke 6
Saint 45 Mallard Creek 30
Saint 66 A.L. Brown 15
Congratulations to Evan Trossi
Evan won his 50th Career Wins Milestone
The win came at the Forbush Duals on 11-20-2021 with a 1:51 pin over his South Davidson opponent. He has continued to win and now has 56 career wins.
Congratulations to Alec Petty
Alec won his 25th Career Wins Milestone
The Milestone win was set up by his 1:20 pin in our Mallard Creek match on 11-23-2021 which gave him 24 career wins. His 25th win came as a forfeit from the A. L. Brown match.
11-22-2021
Saint Has Come From Behind Win Against Bandys
Saint came from 0-21 deficit to overtake Bandys for a 39-31 win. This was a total effort by the team and by the fan support in the stands. It took the entire village to pull this out for a victory. We had the loudest team support tonight that we have not had for several years. This was a SAINT NATION win.
The match started out bad for the Tribe. The Bandy's hammers jumped them off to a 0-21 lead after 4 matches. It was not looking good for the Tribe. Then Andrew Kehoe score the first team points for the Tribe winning a tough 6-3 match. (3-21). Andre Britt followed up with a pin. (9-21). The Tribe had to stop the bleeding of big points to Bandys. Luke Apollonio fought off the Bandys wrestler and only allowed 4 team points to Bandys (9- 25). Vastly improved Kassen Turner lost a 0-1 match which gave Bandys a lead of (9-28). Evan Vue pins for the Tribe at heavy weight. (15-28). We are running out of weights to close the gap with small wins. We needed the TEAM effort. Alec Petty pins to give us 6 more points. (21-28). Bandys had no one at 113. We did! Our 113 Logan Laws makes weight, wins by forfeit. (27-28). Bandys 120 fails weigh in. We didn't. Sebastian Lopez-Santos makes weight and takes the forfeit (33-28) Cesar Chavez-Alonzo bumps up a weight class had hold off Bandy's scoring by a 4-6 loss and only giving Bandys 3 team points. (33-31).
With only a 2 point lead, the fate of the Tribe tonight was resting on our Will Moore. The entire gym was rocking. Our bench was chanting "Let's Go Will!". The Bandys fans and team exploded with their chant for their wrestler. The Tribe fans fired back louder with "Let's Go Will!". The first period had shots and scrambles by both wrestlers, but ended with no first period score. Will took bottom in the 2nd period and finally scored an escape. 1-0 for Will. Bandys took bottom in the 3rd period. All they needed was a reversal to win the bout and the match. The flurry of moves and scrambles was intense. But Will rode the Bandys wrestler for 1 minute and 11 seconds. And Then! And Then! ac-ac-ac! Will twisted his opponent on his back and stuck him for the MATCH WINNING PIN! 39 - 31 FINAL. Everyone was involved. Total Team-Total Fans-Total Scorekeepers-Total Coaching Staff. It all counts.
Saint is now 8-0 and heading to Mallard Creek tomorrow for a 4 match dual team tournament. Why don't you join us?
Shout Out to our JV wrestlers. We had 10 preliminary matches last night at Bandys. We won 7 of those matches.
Winners were:
Ivan Cortez by pin 0:45
Kyler Milligan by decision 7-3
Dylan Herrera-Luna by pin 0:51
Edwin Mentado-Moran by pin 1:52
Irvin DeLa Cruz-Contreras by pin 4:19
Isaac Burgin by pin 0:52
Zikevion "Ziggy" Hall by pin 0:34
11-20-2021
Saint Wins Forbush Duals Tournament
Saint 66 South Davidson 9
Saint 38 Asheboro 33
Saint 72 Forbush 12
Saint 78 North Stokes 6
Saint 42 Ashe County 27
11-18-2021
Wrestling Schedule the Week of Thanksgiving
11-20-2021 SAT Away 9:00AM @ Forbush Duals
11-22-2021 MON Away 5:00PM @ Bandys
11-23-2021 TUE Away 5:00PM @ Mallard Creek Turkey Duals (4 Matches)
11-24-2021 Wed - Off - No Practice
11-25- 2021 Thurs - Off- No Practice
11-26-2021 Fri - Practice 8:30 am to 10:30 am
11-27-2021 Sat - Practice 8:30 am to 10:30 am