Catanzarite powers Generals’ performance at WIT

  • Brian Questel
  • December 15, 2010
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122010 WITwrestling Promo: Win, pair of seconds spark Generals’ WIT effort Catanzarite powers Generals’ performance at WIT By Brian Questel As a freshman, Anthony Catanzarite watched how it was done. As a senior, he delivered. Catanzarite delivered Wooster’s first individual title at the Wayne Invitational Tournament since 2007, winning the 152-pound weight class to spur Wooster’s showing in the Smithville tournament. The Generals put a third of their nine-man squad into championship matches, with Nate Stebbins (119) and Zach Ellsworth (160) taking runner-up honors and help Wooster to a ninth-place showing in the 16-team meet with 106 points. “Anthony dominated his match with Marshall (Overholt of West Holmes),” said Wooster coach Troy Worth of the 7-1 outcome. “He felt he had something to prove. He doesn’t feel he gets a lot of respect from newspapers around here. He’s our first champion since Billy Gavidia won it in 2007. He had one pin, but he only had 3-4 matches. Two were close ones and the one pin gave him a good match.” Catanzarite was upset with his loss last weekend at the Coke Classic at Madison and that helped fuel his WIT performance. “He said this is what he needed to work on and Zach (Ellsworth) said that, too,” said Worth. Ellsworth won his 160-pound weight class at Madison last week, but he couldn’t make it two in a row when he fell 6-3 to New Philadelphia’s Mitch Riker. “Zach dominated up to the finals,” said Worth. “His half of the bracket was a little softer than the other half. That’s not to say it was easy, but it was not as strenuous as the other half. (The championship match) was close, but he cramped up at the end and couldn’t get his legs to work. Last week he wasn’t pushed at all and his body wasn’t used to it. Last week hurt with no competition at the Coke and he paid for it this week.” Stebbins continued his improvement by surprising everyone with his trip into the title bout, where he lost a 19-4 decision to defending champion Ivan McClay of Massillon. “Nate was a surprise to get into the championship. I knew he’d do well, but I didn’t know he would be in the championship,” said Worth. “It’s been a continuous work in progress. He still needs to work on the neutral position. One area where he’s made big strides is on the bottom and his top work is getting better. He’s becoming more consistent with his turns and aggressiveness on top, and that’s helped him a lot. “McClay is a very good wrestler. I thought Nate did well. He fought to the end to make him work hard.” DeVonta Anderson finished fourth (171) after suffering an injury and Logan Gable was fifth in the 112-pound weight class “DeVonta went against a Coshocton kid who is well thought of. He hurt his shoulder and didn’t wrestle well the second day,” said Worth. “He was afraid to hurt it worse and pull something … so he played it smart.” While Wooster was ninth, “We were on the first board,” said Worth. “That was our goal. We didn’t take all of our kids. There was a JV tournament Saturday we wanted to send kids to, so we only took nine kids. “The JV was at Ashland and they did real well. We had one first and second, a couple thirds and a fourth. We only took eight and some of them wrestled well. It was a good experience.” Wooster competes in the Mapleton Invitational today (Dec. 18).


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