Here are Centre County high school wrestling highlights, leaderboards through Jan. 21

The high school wrestling season is slowly coming to an end with just six weeks left, which means action is becoming scarce.

For the second straight week, Mother Nature limited the action even more by forcing matches on Tuesday to be postponed.

Bald Eagle Area, Bellefonte and Philipsburg-Osceola were the only schools to see any competition this week. The Mounties had the most as they took part in the Juniata Duals on Saturday, giving them four duals this week.

P-O went 2-2 on the week. It suffered a 37-28 loss to the Eagles on Thursday. The match was originally scheduled for Jan. 9, but weather forced it to this week.

During the Juniata Duals, the Mounties picked up wins over Harrisburg (45-17) and South Williamsport (46-21). Their loss came to Berks Catholic (35-21).

The Red Raiders suffered a loss to Huntingdon (45-29) on Wednesday as the pair were supposed to wrestle on Tuesday.

Penns Valley was supposed to wrestle P-O on Tuesday, instead it got the week off. The Rams will see the mat again on Jan. 26 in the Fred Bell Tournament in Grove City.

State College had the week off. The Little Lions haven’t competed since Jan. 14, so their match on Jan. 25 against Mifflin County will be a welcome competition.

The Lady Mounties and Lady Eagles made history this week by competing in the first girls dual in Centre County’s history. P-O came away with a 24-18 victory.

P-O’s Veda Kephart, Isabella DuVall, Marleana DuVall and Annanella Hunt all received forfeits. BEA’s Angelina Grieb, Eden Eveleth and Grace Crestani all earned pins.

Eveleth, Crestani and Isabella DuVall are the lone wrestlers to have double-digit wins this year. Crestani leads the county with 12 victories and nine pins.

Eveleth added a new time to the fastest falls list when she stuck the Lady Mounties’ Halee Grubb in 32 seconds. It was the fifth fastest fall in the county.

State College girls competed at the Battle Against Breast Cancer Tournament at Sharpsville High School on Saturday. The Lady Little Lions’ results weren’t immediately available Sunday.

Wins

The Mounties’ Marcus Gable, Caleb Hummel and Colton Chapman each had a perfect week, going 4-0.

Gable has 25 victories on the year now, which leads P-O. All of his wins came with bonus points as he had a major decision, pin and a pair of forfeits.

Hummel had bonus points in all of his wins too, with three forfeits and a pin. He has 20 wins this year.

Hummel’s 20th victory was a forfeit against South Williamsport. Hummel’s teammate Averi Gable also got his 20th win with a forfeit against South Williamsport.

There are now 11 county wrestlers to have 20-plus wins on the season with a handful of others closing in on that mark.

Chapman has just 13 wins so far, but this week he had a pair of pins and a pair of decisions. He earned his 10th win this week when he pinned BEA’s Cameron Dubbs in 1:57 on Thursday.

Pins

The Eagles’ Caleb Close inched closer to State College’s Nick Pavlechko, who leads the county with 18 pins.

Close stuck the Mounties’ Ean Williams in 40 seconds on Thursday to get to 16 falls on the season.

Marcus Gable became the 10th county wrestler to get to 10-plus pins on the season when he flattened Harrisburg’s Barry Daniels IV in 1:11 on Saturday. It was Gable’s 10th fall.

Bellefonte’s Ezra Swisher got his 10th pin of the year when he put Huntingdon’s Eric Mykut on his back in 4:54. Swisher was the ninth county wrestler to get to 10-plus falls.

Major decisions

P-O’s Nate Fleck was the lone county wrestler to secure multiple major decisions this week.

He earned both victories on Saturday.

Fleck topped Harrisburg’s Naelson Vazquez, 15-5, and then earned a 13-2 win over South Williamsport’s Jonah White.

Fleck now has five major decisions on the season to be tied with Marcus Gable for the county lead.

Gable earned his fifth major decision this week, when he shut out BEA’s Mason Reese, 10-0.

The Eagles’ Caden Judice is tied with Close just one behind Fleck and Gable. Judice earned his fourth major decision when he topped the Mounties’ Averi Gable, 9-1.

There are 33 county wrestlers to secure at least one major decision this year.

Technical falls & fastest falls

The Red Raiders’ Noah Weaver continues to pile up technical falls.

On Wednesday, Weaver shut out Huntingdon’s Reese Hughes, 16-0, in 1:50 of wrestling for his ninth technical fall.

The next closest county wrestler to Weaver is Penns Valley’s Colten Shunk, who has five.

P-O’s Averi Gable was the only other county wrestler to secure a technical fall this week. He shut out Harrisburg’s Deyser Perez in 5:37 of wrestling for his second technical fall.

There were no new times added to the fastest falls list.

Boys’ Leaders

Wins

Pins

Fastest falls

Technical falls

Major decisions

Girls’ Leaders

Wins

Pins

Fastest falls

Nate Cobler

Centre Daily Times

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Nate Cobler is a part-time reporter covering all things wrestling, either Penn State or Centre County’s high schools, for the Centre Daily Times. He’ll also cover other sports too. When he isn’t writing about sports, he is working for a local mortgage broker, Providence Mortgage Group.