CARLISLE – Waynesboro Area Senior High School’s varsity boys’ wrestling team competed in the annual Carlisle Wrestling Classic, an individual tournament that included 24 teams.
The event was held on Friday, December 12 and Saturday, December 13 at Carlisle High School.
Waynesboro finished 16th out of 24 teams. Three other Mid-Penn Colonial Division teams took part in the tournament – Big Spring (6th), Shippensburg (9th), and Greencastle-Antrim (20th).
Biglerville won the team championship.
Waynesboro’s Steven Howard, who won his weight class at last year’s classic, placed third this year at 139 pounds.
After receiving a first-round bye, Howard earned a technical fall in 2:47 (15-0). He pinned his next opponent in 3:09 before losing to Big Spring’s Christian Best 4-0 in the semifinals.
Undeterred, Howard won his consolation semifinals match by technical fall in 4:27 (19-4) and then followed up with another tech fall in the third-place contest (4:16, 16-0).
Waynesboro’s next best finisher was 215-pounder Anthony Ausherman. The junior placed fourth after losing by fall in the third-place bout against Newport’s Kaj Miller in 4:54.
Ausherman received a first-round bye and won by technical fall in the Round of 16 in 2:23 (18-3). He lost 12-0 in the quarterfinals but won three straight consolation matches, all by fall. The times of the pins were 1:58, 43 seconds, and 2:09.
At 172 pounds, Brady Myers finished seventh, going 4-3 In the two-day tournament.
He lost his first bout by major decision but reeled off three straight consolation match wins after receiving a bye. He earned an 8-2 decision, followed by falls in 5 minutes and 2:13. He lost by pin in the fifth round and lost to Garnet Valley’s Wyatt Panarello 3-0 in the seventh-place contest.
Waynesboro’s Lucas Mummert, a freshman 285-pound grappler, was 3-2 in the tournament. He won his first-round bout by fall in 4:09, lost by fall in the second round and won his first two consolation matches by pin and decision (9-4). He then lost to Shippensburg’s Wyatt Holderbaum 1-0.
Also competing but not placing were Michael Brewer (107), Brennan Hollar (114), Wade Rogers (121), Christopher Walker (127), Sam Young (133), Ethan Tweed (145), Colton Biser (152) and Tyler Rooney (189).
Waynesboro resumes the dual meet portion of the schedule when it hosts South Western on Tuesday, December 16 at 7 p.m.
