The Big Show - Final Round!

The Raiders go for 3rd place against Notre Dame - Green Pond!

This has to be one of the toughest AA brackets in the history of this tournament. It is considered by many to be a much stronger tournament than the AAA counterpart this year with 6 or 7 teams that could be in the top ten in the large school division.

AA Brackets - Updated 2/109/24 7:30am

The match numbers are in parenthesis. E.g. Our first match is match number (8). The numbers in green to the right of each school is the state ranking as of last week before the district tournaments.

If you wonder why Reynolds faces off with FCA in the first round two years in a row, the PIAA adjusts the brackets every two years. Traditionally Districts 1 and 12 did not field competitive teams so the winner of their preliminary math was paired against another district champ in the initial round. It just happened that last year, Faith Christian's super junior high team reach varisty level when it was District 10's turn to be in that bracket.

Where, When & How to Watch or Listen

Remaining Match Schedule for AA Tournament

Saturday February 10

1:00 pm Cons. Finals & Finals AA & AAA

Ryan Hills will be covering all the Reynolds matches with a live audio stream of the event on the Reynolds Wrestling News Facebook Page (chances are you are reading this blog because you clicked a link from that page). The Legacy Club is not permitted to livestream video because FloWrestling owns the broadcast rights for video.

Which leads to...

You can watch all the matches on FloWrestling. But you must have an account to use Flo.

Reynolds at the State Duals

As any Raider fan knows, Reynolds has had lots and lots of success at the team duals championships. The tournament started in 1999. Until 2005, only the district champions qualified for the state tournament. Since our first trip there in 2001, we have won 8 State Titles, four Second Places and three Third place finishes. They have qualified to compete in 22 of the 26 tournaments and three of those four missed years are when we finished 2nd in districts when only champs qualified.

Season Place

2001 dnp

2002 dnp

2003 dnp

2005 2nd

2006 1st

2007 1st

2008 3rd

2009 1st

2010 2nd

2011 dnp

2012 dnp

2013 2nd

2014 2nd

2015 3rd

2016 3rd

2017 1st

2018 1st

2019 1st

2020 1st

2021 1st

2023 dnp

2024 ???

Reynolds Raiders Review

Season Record: 20-1

Result Opponent

W 73- 0 Mercer

W 52-13 Slippery Rock

W 45-22 Grove City

W 41-17 +St Vincents-St Mary's

W 50-12 +Sharpsville

W 42-21 +Seneca Valley

W 50-14 Sharpsville

W 47-15 Cathedral Prep

W 75- 0 Sharon

W 40-23 @Chestnut Ridge

W 35-27 @United

W 47-22 @Brookville

W 30-28 @Burrell

W 28-25 @Fort LeBoeuf

W 59- 4 Greenville

W 54-15 %Sharpsville

W 38-22 %General McLain

W 33-27 %Fort LeBoeuf

L 54- 9 $Faith Christian Academy

W 27-25 $Bald Eagle Area

W 39-24 $Burrell

+Reynolds Duals

@Ultimate Duals

%District 10 Duals

$ PIAA Class AA Duals

Tournaments:

Walsh Ironman 33rd place

6th - 120 Louie Gill

Powerade 13th place

3rd - 121 Louie Gill

Ultimate Warrior - West Branch 1st place

1st 114 - Waylon Waite

1st 121 - Louie Gill

2nd 127 - Logan Stewart

3rd 107 - Angelo Lomonte

3rd 139 - Chase Bell

3rd 160 - Vito Gentile

State Rankings

Team: 5th

Wt. Rnk Wrestler (prev)

107 11 Angelo Lamonte

114 8 Waylon Waite

121 3 Louie Gill

127 3 Logan Stewart

139 9 Chase Bell

160 12 Vito Gentile

172 24 Louie Dejulia (nr)

Reynolds Roster

One of my favorite observations is watching our wrestlers' records grow in the win column after the holidays. It is quite a misdirection of talent during early January when many of our boys have losing records while competing with and beating others that have great individual recocrds

Wt Wrestler Rec

107 Lomonte, Angelo (Jr) 27- 9

107 Ranalli, Brayden (Jr) 3- 0

107 Wolbert, Hudson (So) 12- 5

114 Waite, Waylon (So) 23- 7

121 Gill, Louie (Sr) 35- 5

127 Stewart, Logan (Fr) 28- 7

133 Anderson, Brendon (Fr) 2-13

139 Bell, Chase (Sr) 24- 9

139 Gustas, Greyden (So) 18-11

145 Malgieri, Kevyn (Sr) 1-13

152 Johnson, Emery (Fr) 8-11

160 Gentile, Vito (Jr) 27- 8

172 DeJulia, Louie (Jr) 18-15

189 Tupper, Colton (So) 16-13

215 Wilkinson, Kolton (Sr) 7-18

285 Resek, Casey (So) 17-13

Bonus Point Chart

Wrestler Pins Tech Maj

Vito Gentile 17 1 -

Chase Bell 14 - 3

Louie Gill 12 5 5

Angelo Lomonte 11 3 1

Waylon Waite 10 2 4

Casey Resek 8 - 1

Logan Stewart 8 7 6

Greyden Gustas 7 1 1

Colton Tupper 7 - 4

Louie DeJulia 6 - 2

Hudson Wolbert 5 - 2

Emery Johnson 3 - 1

Kolton Wilkinson 3 - -

Brayden Ranalli 1 - -

Brendon Anderson - - 1

Notre Dame-Green Pond Crusaders Review

NDGP is another quality team with a recent history of success at the state level. Their lineup is pretty solid throughout with superstar Ayden Smith in the light weights and a very good core of grapplers from 160 and higher. The rest of the light and middle weights are relatively vulnerable and where the Raiders must dent the Crusader armer.

Record: 11-1 (5-0 league)

Result Opponent

W 72- 0 Northern Lehigh

W 64- 3 Palisades

W 54-15 Pen Argyl

W 69- 3 Palmerton

W 67- 0 Bangor

W 72- 0 Salisbury Township

W 60-12 Saucon Valley

W 64- 3 Wilson Area

L 26-25 Bethlehem Catholic

W 66- 3 +Palmerton (QF)

W 59- 8 +North Schuylkill (SF)

W 52- 9 +Saucon Valley (Final)

+District 11 AA Duals

Tournaments

Walsh Ironman 34th place

3rd 113 - Ayden Smith

Beast of the East 19th place

1st 113 - Ayden Smith

7th 165 - Dominic Sumpolec

Powerade 11th place

2nd 114 - Ayden Smith

7th 160 - Dominic Sumpolec

Escape the Rock at Council Rock South 8th place

1st 114 - Ayden Smith

3rd 160 - Dominic Sumpolec

8th 189 - Connor Smalley

Colonial League Championships 11th place

2nd 139 - Stephen Bialek

3rd 152 - Josh Ludlow

4th 107 - Paul Laubner

State Rankings

Team: 3rd Notre Dame GP

Wt. Rnk Wrestler (prev)

114 1 Ayden Smith

127 19 Tanner Berkenstock (18)

133 20 Gavyn Kelton

145 19 Nino Morici (20)

160 4 Dom Sumpolec

172 11 Joseph LaPenna

189 11 Keegan Ramsay (20)

215 20 Connor Smalley (nr)

Notre Dame-Green Pond Roster

Wt. Wrestler Rec

107 Laubner, Paul (Fr) 5- 3

107 Volpe, Jacob (Fr) 9- 5

114 Smith, Ayden (Sr) 33- 2

121 Feltmann, Cooper (Jr) 10- 6

127 Berkenstock, Tanner (Jr) 12-11

133 Hurd, Michael (Jr) 0- 2

133 Kelton, Gavyn (So) 16- 8

139 Bialek, Stephen (Jr) 3- 2

139 Gonzalez, Jared (So) 7- 7

139 McQueen, Tanner (Sr) 3- 3

145 Darois, Jakob (So) 0- 2

145 Morici, Nino (Jr) 12- 9

152 Ludlow, Josh (Sr) 7- 3

152 Thomas, Nathan (Sr) 12-13

160 Sumpolec, Dominic (So) 27- 9

172 Lapenna, Joseph (Sr) 9- 0

172 Ramsay, Keegan (Jr) 19- 8

189 Smalley, Connor (So) 23- 9

215 Knorp, Noah (Fr) 0- 2

285 Guerrisi, Gino (Sr) 16- 8

--- Kanuck, Cole (So)

Top Wrestlers

Ayden Smith 136 career wins, 1st, 3rd & 4th states; Rutgers Commit

Keegan Ramsay 71 career wins, 4th region

Joseph Lapenna 71 career wins, 5th region

Cooper Feltmann 52 career wins, 5th region

Tanner Berkenstock 40 career wins, 7th region

Gavyn Kelton 38 career wins, 6th region

Connor Smalley 40 career wins

Dominic Sumpolec 27 career wins (1st year starting)

Bonus Points

Wrestler Pins

Dominic Sumpolec 14 +2 maj

Connor Smalley 13

Ayden Smith 12 +2 maj & 6 TF

Keegan Ramsay 11

Cooper Feltmann 7 +3 TF

Nathan Thomas 6

Gavyn Kelton 6

Joseph Lapenna 6 +2 maj

Nino Morici 2 +4 maj & 3 TF

Bonus Points Lost

Wrestler Pins

Gino Guerrisi 4

Nathan Thomas 3 + 3 maj & 2 TF

Gavyn Kelton 3 + 1 maj & 1 TF

Connor Smalley 2 + 3 maj & 1 TF

Tanner Berkenstock 0 + 4 maj