With a 3-0 record, the Washington-Liberty Generals won this season’s Arlington County wrestling meet between the jurisdiction’s four high-school teams.
The Generals defeated the Bishop O’Connell Knights, Yorktown Patriots and host Wakefield Warriors.
At 2-1, Yorktown was second with wins over O’Connell and Wakefield, which was third at 1-3. O’Connell finished 0-3.
“I was just really happy they [Bishop O’Connell] came. It made for a true Arlington championship,” Wakefield coach John Leinberger told ARLnow.
O’Connell has not always participated in past seasons because of scheduling issues.
Wakefield defeated O’Connell, 48-27, for its victory.
Among top wrestlers in the meet for Washington-Liberty were Josue Hernandez at 113 pounds, Dylan Walsh (120), David Guralnik (126), Ethan Jones (126), Zachary Capps (132), De’Quan Taylor (144), Tugs-Erdende Enkhjargal (150), Tuvshintur Battulga (150), Evan Cronin (157) and Liam Sloan (165).
Others were Kazi Nouf (175), Bilegjargal Miyaragchaa (175), Brayden Black (190), Anthony Urrutia (190) and William Sullen (215).
For Yorktown, top wrestlers were Saeed Almazrouei (106), Ian Cochran (113), Cambyses Khani (120), Tyson Clark (126), Logan Futrell (138), Chris Cobey (150), Jaeden Reid (157), Peter Kress (157), Neil Alleman (165) and Basheer Hadi (285).
Leading Wakefield were Ashley Alvarez (106), Zebulon Williams (132), Chris Majano (138), Owen McGinnis (144), Dante Barrios Klingle (165), Anthony Morales (165/175), Atanas Angelov (190), Jaden Delgado (215) and Antonio Warlock (285).
For O’Connell, John Wills (113), Andrew Swingle (126) Pete Bilaniuk (150), Sam Casolini Dal Bo (215) and Rowan Klanderman (285) helped lead the way.
The closest match was Yorktown’s 42-36 win over Wakefield, which was decided by the final individual bout at 113 pounds. Cochran got the win for Yorktown at that weight.
Yorktown won eight of the 14 individual matches.
NOTE: Wrestling, cross-country and track-and-field are the only sports among the four Arlington high schools that have true countywide championships each year, with the teams meeting in the same event.
