Ellsworth’s win fuels’ WHS effort at Madison

  • brian questel
  • December 8, 2010
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121310 wrestle Promo: Trio lead Wooster wrestlers in Mansfield tournament Ellsworth’s win fuels’ WHS effort at Madison By Brian Questel It wasn’t a classic performance, but it was enough to please Wooster High wrestling coach Troy Worth. The third-year coach watched Zach Ellsworth kicked off his senior wrestling campaign in fine style, winning his first five matches to dominate the 160-pound weight class in the Coke Classic at Mansfield Madison. Two teammates, Anthony Catanzarite and DeVonta Anderson, were runner-up in their weight classes as a thin Generals’ squad placed seventh in the 12-team meet with 182 points. Manchester won with 330, well in front of Wooster’s Ohio Cardinal Conference foes Clear Fork (281) and Madison (251), who were second and third. “We did well,” said Worth. “We had a bunch of young kids wrestling with us. We didn’t have Matt Baumgartner (145) or our 189 and 215 there. We wrestled as well as expected for our first competition … but we had some major improvement from some kids from last year to this year’s tournament.” Ellsworth swept through his weight class, winning all five of his matches. “We expected him to do well,” said Worth. “His weight class wasn’t that strong and Zach made the comment, ‘Coach, there wasn’t that much competition.’ There wasn’t that quality in his weight class and there really wasn’t anyone else other than Kyle Kinzel (Clear Fork) for Anthony at 152. Some years it’s really stacked, but the one’s where we were good we didn’t get a lot of push for the first time.” Both Catanzarite and Anderson wrestled well, both going 4-1. “Anthony took a bad shot at the end and Kinzel capitalized (for a last-second 6-4 win),” said Worth. “We took shots and were aggressive the whole time. Kyle waited to capitalize on a mistake and unfortunately that happened right at the end. Anthony beat himself and he knew it. “DeVonta made a mistake, too. He was doing well,” added Worth of a match that ended with Anderson being pinned. “He looked good in his pool matches and he looked good in the finals. He just tried rushing instead of being technical.” Nate Stebbins also went 4-1 to place third in the tournament, as he nailed down his bronze medal with a pin in his final match at 119. Four other Generals added fifths to add to the point totals with freshman Phil Wentz (0-4) placing at 103, Logan Gable (2-3) at 112, Drew Worth (2-3) at 125 and Trever Chapman (3-2) nailing down fifth at 285. “Looking up and seeing 182 points was nice,” said Worth. “It was dual meet scoring … but it was good to see that many points and to do as well as we did. We showed a lot of heart, even the ones who are inexperienced. They wrestled their tushes off and some are not quite ready for this level of competition. “At 145, Baumgartner … didn’t wrestle so we were empty there and we were open at ‘89 and 215 also,” he added. “Mason Harris (189) dropped out with a knee injury and Nick Miller is still nursing a knee injury and we wanted to be safe. “Only 24 points separated us from Mansfield Senior. We were in the middle of the pack … and our goal was to be in the top five, so we’re getting there. We’ll see how we do in the WIT and then get ready Mapleton dual tournament.” Wooster traveled to Smithville for the Wayne Invitational Tournament Dec. 10-11.


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