The Hempfield High School Varsity Wrestling Team dominated the competition at the 2020 Lancaster-Lebanon League Tournament, taking first place with 224 points- a whopping 37.5 points more than the nearest competitor, Garden Spot. 13 out of 14 wrestlers ended up on the podium, with 1 eighth-place finisher, 3 seventh-place finishers, 2 sixth-place finishers, 1 fifth-place finisher, 1 fourth-place finisher, 3 third-place finishers, and two champions. This win marks the first time the team has won this tournament since the 2004-2005 season! The team also received their 2020 Section I Championship Award at the conclusion of the tournament.
Congratulations to all the Black Knight wrestlers and good luck as they move on to PIAA District III Team Championships this coming Tuesday!
Detailed results below:
Lancaster-Lebanon League Tournament
Friday, January 24, 2020 – Saturday, January 25, 2020 at Manheim Township HS
Team Standings:
(1) Hempfield 224.0, (2) Garden Spot 186.5, (3) Penn Manor 163.0, (4) Solanco 159.0, (5) Cocalico 131.5, (6) Donegal 131.0, (7) Northern Lebanon 126.5, (7) Warwick 126.5, (9) Lampeter-Strasburg 125.5, (10) Manheim Central 122.0, (11) Conestoga Valley 117.0, (12) J.P. McCaskey 94.5, (13) ELCO 89.0, (14) Manheim Township 76.0, (15) Ephrata 74.0, (16) Octorara 66.0, (17) Annville Cleona 58.0, (18) Cedar Crest 55.0, (19) Lebanon 53.0, (20) Lancaster Catholic 48.0, (21) Elizabethtown 39.0, (22) Pequea Valley 35.0, (23) Columbia 5.0
Championship Round 1
126 – Clay Gainer dec. Grady Stichler (Northern Lebanon), 5-1
132 – Reagan Lefevre pinned Azriel Merjudio (Annville Cleona), 1:25
138 – Grant Hoover pinned Michael Caceres (Manheim Township), 0:27
152 – Joel Dionne dec. Wade Adams (Solanco), 8-2
170 – Dylan Bard pinned Connor Charles (Solanco), 0:41
Championship Round 2
106 – Braden Edwards pinned Jalen Frederick (Cocalico), 1:29
113 – Gio Luciano pinned Samuel Davenport (Lebanon), 0:54
120 – Micah Sams (Manheim Township) dec. Caleb Schultz, 7-1
126 – Dylan Demsky (Octorara) pinned Clay Gainer, 3:22
132 – Reagan Lefevre pinned Riley Eckman (Lampeter-Strasburg), 0:47
138 – Grant Hoover pinned Aiden Robinson (Elizabethtown), 2:59
145 – Kamron Fickes dec. Aidan Cooke (Pequea Valley), 7-3
152 – Joel Dionne maj. dec. Jonathan Rathman (Cocalico), 13-3
160 – Ian Edwards pinned Collin Bailey (Pequea Valley), 0:32
170 – Dylan Bard dec. Patrick Gibble (ELCO), 9-6
182 – Russ Hanes pinned Dan Tobias (Annville Cleona), 2:11
195 – Gordy Hoover pinned Lucas Thompson (Octorara), 3:56
220 – Jaden Deitzler (Lebanon) pinned Caleb Mussmon, 2:25
285 – Isaiah Barroso pinned Owen Kreider (Cedar Crest), 5:49
Consolation Round 2
126 – Clay Gainer pinned Sam Smith (Cedar Crest), 0:58
Consolation Round 3
120 – Caleb Schultz dec. Hunter Erb (Lampeter-Strasburg), 5-4
126 – Clay Gainer pinned Carter Rohrer (Pequea Valley), 3:41
220 – Caleb Mussmon pinned John Stanford Smith (Columbia), 0:25
Championship Quarterfinals
106 – Owen Lehman (Northern Lebanon) maj. dec. Braden Edwards, 14-4
113 – Gio Luciano pinned Leonid Medvedkin (Penn Manor), 3:57
132 – Reagan Lefevre maj. dec. Joey Vandegriff (Solanco), 9-1
138 – Ronnie Fulton (Solanco) dec. Grant Hoover, 9-5
145 – Kayde Althouse (Ephrata) pinned Kamron Fickes, 4:15
152 – Joel Dionne won by inj. default over Noah Safford (Annville Cleona), 5:34
160 – Ian Edwards dec. Bradey Cunningham (Lampeter-Strasburg), 7-2
170 – Dylan Bard pinned Anthony Glessner (Penn Manor), 5:35
182 – David Hnasko (Warwick) pinned Russ Hanes, 3:03
195 – Gordy Hoover pinned Levi Arms (Northern Lebanon), 1:08
285 – Charles Martin (Garden Spot) pinned Isaiah Barroso, 1:53
Consolation Round 4
106 – Braden Edwards dec. Adam Hahn (Garden Spot), 7-4
120 – Caleb Schultz pinned Taylor Gehman (Cedar Crest), 1:14
126 – Clay Gainer pinned Todd Fritz (Cocalico), 3:24
138 – Grant Hoover maj. dec. Jonathan Berlingeri (J.P. McCaskey), 11-2
145 – Kamron Fickes dec. Daniel O’Neill (ELCO), 6-1
182 – Russ Hanes pinned Robert Castagna (Solanco), 2:36
220 – Jacob Humphrey (Cocalico) pinned Caleb Mussmon, 1:00
285 – Isaiah Barroso maj. dec. Thomas Hershey (Lebanon), 12-4
Championship Semifinals
113 – Eric Howe (Lancaster Catholic) dec. Gio Luciano, 4-2
132 – Reagan Lefevre maj. dec. Brandon Breidegan (Northern Lebanon), 14-2
152 – Colt Barley (Penn Manor) maj. dec. Joel Dionne, 9-1
160 – Ian Edwards pinned Kole Marley (Penn Manor), 0:58
170 – Andrew Vogelbacher (J.P. McCaskey) maj. dec. Dylan Bard, 11-0
195 – Nick Yannutz (Solanco) pinned Gordy Hoover, 3:26
Consolation Round 5
106 – Braden Edwards dec. Austin Reiff (Lampeter-Strasburg), 11-7
120 – Aiden Swann (Cocalico) dec. Caleb Schultz, 7-3
126 – Clay Gainer pinned John Hackett (Warwick), 3:25
138 – Grant Hoover dec. Owen Rohrer (Penn Manor), SV-1 8-4
145 – Michael Trainor (Octorara) maj. dec. Kamron Fickes, 14-0
182 – James Ellis (Ephrata) pinned Russ Hanes, 2:38
285 – Connor Ruhl (Donegal) dec. Isaiah Barroso, 2-1
Consolation Semifinals
106 – Trent Ruble (Conestoga Valley) dec. Braden Edwards, 7-5
113 – Gio Luciano dec. Connor Beck (Manheim Central), 12-6
126 – Jackson Houghton (Solanco) dec. Clay Gainer, 7-2
138 – Grant Hoover pinned Kayden Clark (Northern Lebanon), 1:42
152 – Joel Dionne dec. Taylor Sheaffer (Conestoga Valley), 10-5
170 – Dylan Bard pinned Cole Rice (Elizabethtown), 0:46
195 – Brett Barbush (Manheim Central) dec. Gordy Hoover, 4-0
Seventh Place
120 – Brandon Kheuangthirath (Manheim Central) dec. Caleb Schultz, 3-2
145 – Kamron Fickes dec. Aidan Cooke (Pequea Valley), 5-3
182 – Russ Hanes pinned Conrad Dillman (Conestoga Valley), 2:22
285 – Isaiah Barroso dec. Jesse Lonon (Conestoga Valley), 3-2
Fifth Place
106 – Ethan Missimer (Annville Cleona) won by tech. fall over Braden Edwards, 4:28 (17-1)
126 – Keaton Fischer (Conestoga Valley) dec. Clay Gainer, 4-0
195 – Gordy Hoover maj. dec. Justin Pacheco (J.P. McCaskey), 14-4
Third Place
113 – Gio Luciano dec. Weston Bare (Solanco), 5-1
138 – Grant Hoover dec. Keegan Donmoyer (ELCO), 6-5
152 – Nick Winters (Northern Lebanon) dec. Joel Dionne, 7-1
170 – Dylan Bard dec. Benjamin Bearinger (Cocalico), 3-2
Championship Finals
132 – Reagan Lefevre dec. Grant Swann (Cocalico), 8-2
160 – Ian Edwards dec. Mason Ober (Donegal), 6-4
Hempfield wrestlers in bold.
Lancaster Newspaper, 1/26/2020: KNIGHTS ARE KINGS!
