Centre County qualifies 4 for PIAA championships, with 17 still alive in PIAA Class 2A SW Regional
As far as Coen Bainey is concerned, he’s happy to be a 120-pounder and not seven pounds lighter.
The reason?
Bainey’s cousin, Landon, wrestles at 113 pounds. Landon Bainey, a sophomore at West Branch, is the top seed just like Coen is.
“He’s my dad’s brother’s child,” said Coen Bainey. “Wrestling is wrestling, so that’s it, but if it were a close relative I had to wrestle, it would suck.”
Both Baineys won their first two bouts in the PIAA Class AA Southwest Region championships Friday at Peters Township High School.
They advanced to Saturday’s semifinals, which begin at 12:30 p.m. Finals are set for 5 p.m.
Bald Eagle Area brought nine wrestlers to the event and two others — Lucas Frye (113) and Caleb Close (172) — made it to the semifinals with Bainey. They are joined by Penns Valley’s Ty Watson (145).
The top six wrestlers in each weight class advance to the PIAA Class AA championships.
The following is a look at how the wrestlers fared on the first day of this difficult tournament.
Quarterfinals
106
Jacob Sombronski (United) major dec. Gavin Guenot (Bald Eagle Area), 14-0; Easton Mull (Chestnut Ridge) pinned Jack Darlington (Penns Valley), 1:05
113
Lucas Fye (Bald Eagle Area) dec. Colin Bartley (Laurel), 1-0
120
Coen Bainey (Bald Eagle Area) tech. fall Dylan Slovick (Burgettstown), 16-0 (5:15)
132
Kyle McCollum (Beth Center) dec. Marcus Gable (Philipsburg-Osceola), 10-5
138
Ambrose Boni (Central Valley) dec. Jeffre Pifer (Bald Eagle Area), 3-2
145
Ty Watson (Penns Valley) pinned Austin Foster (Philipsburg-Osceola), 3:16
189
Noah Gnibus (Mt. Pleasant) dec. Noah Foltz (Bald Eagle Area), 3-1; Patrick Cutchember (Quaker Valley) major dec. Hunter Lyons (Penns Valley), 9-1
First Round
106
Darlington (Penns Valley) dec. Shawn Robertson (Fort Cherry), 9-2; Guenot (Bald Eagle Area) dec. Isaac Maccaglia (Quaker Valley), 10-9 (UTB); Cooper Hornack (Burrell) major dec. over Colten Shunk (Penns Valley), 12-2
113
Fye (Bald Eagle Area) tech. fall over Calio Zanella (Burrell), 15-0 (2:17)
120
Bainey (Bald Eagle Area) pinned Tristen Hawkins (Conemaugh Twp), 0:35; Logan Richey (Quaker Valley) dec. Nick Coudriet (Philipsburg-Osceola), 6-0
126
Davis Stepp (Beth Center) dec. Scotty Frantz (Philipsburg-Osceola), 5-2
132
Gable (Philipsburg-Osceola) tech. fall over Ryder Goe (South Side), 15-0 (2:59); McCollum (Beth Center) major dec. Kevin Taylor (Bald Eagle Area), 16-5
138
Pifer (Bald Eagle Area) dec. Isaac Lacinski (Burrell), 3-0
145
Watson (Penns Valley) pinned Chase Brandebura (Carlynton), 3:13; Foster (Philipsburg-Osceola) dec. Ryan Celaschi (Frazier), 7-2
152
Joey Boughton (Avonworth) dec. Luke Hughes (Philipsburg-Osceola), 2-0; Justin Richey (Quaker Valley) major dec. Mason Reese (Bald Eagle Area), 10-1
160
Trevor Pettit (Beth Center) pinned Cameron Dubbs (Bald Eagle Area), 3:02
172
Mason Diemert (Quaker Valley) dec. Cole Felker (Penns Valley), 3-2 (SV)
189
Lyons (Penns Valley) dec. Anthony Salvini (Fort Cherry), 2-1; Foltz (Bald Eagle Area) pinned Chase Tinstman (Laurel), 3:20; Gnibus (Mt. Pleasant) pinned Dom Shaw (Philipsburg-Osceola), 1:20
285
Coltin Hill (Laurel) dec. Chase Klinger (Philipsburg-Osceola), 8-1
This story was originally published March 5, 2022 at 12:42 AM.