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    Five wrestlers advance
February 5, 2012

Five wrestlers advance

Alex Vosburgh wins weight class

By PAUL HINES paul.hines@register-news.com

CENTRALIA — Alex Vosburgh emerged as a regional champ and four of his Mt. Vernon teammates will join him at this week’s wrestling sectional.

“I feel really confident,” Vosburgh said. “I feel I peaked at the right time this year.”

Vosburgh won the 160-pound weight class at Saturday’s 2A Centralia regional. The Rams wrestler rolled through the competition with three pins. He faced Larry Pippen of Cahokia in the final. The two had just matched up in the South Seven Conference meet. Vosburgh won the regional with a pin 2:15 into the first period.

“He took care of business,” Mt. Vernon wrestling coach Sean Docherty said. “Whenever you can come out of there with three pins and just wasn’t really pushed all day that feels good. Next weekend that’s not going to be the story. He’s going to have a tough bracket.”

Mt. Vernon’s Quentin Favors (113), Chase Vosburgh (138) and Blake Stricklin (152) all placed second. Tristan Penrod (195) also advanced with a third-place finish.

Favors lost his championship match 13-3 after winning his opening round on a pin and recording a 4-2 win in the semifinals. Chase Vosburgh recorded a pair of pins in his opening round matches before being pinned in the third period against Triad’s Kyle Graumenz. Stricklin lost a back and forth championship match 7-6 to Cahokia’s David Frazier, a wrestler he also lost to at the South Seven meet. Stricklin won his first two matches of the day on a technical fall and a pin.

“That’s one thing we’ve been working on this week is be a little more aggressive, set the pace a little faster, a little higher and really push your opponent,” Docherty said. “That helped (Stricklin) today.”

Penrod lost his second match of the day after being pinned, but wrestled back to the third-place match with a pin before pinning Cahokia’s Montez Meredith to qualify for the sectional.

“Getting his chance to qualify for sectional is great,” Docherty said of the freshman.

As a team, Mt. Vernon finished third out of the nine teams with 145.5 points. Triad won the team title with 192, and Cahokia was second with 182.5.

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