Eisnnicher advances to state at 170 pounds pounds

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While Big Wal­nut and Buck­eye Val­ley didn’t have as much suc­cess as the D-I schools did, they com­bined to pro­duce a pair of OHSAA State Tour­na­ment qual­i­fiers dur­ing last weekend’s Divi­sion II Dis­trict Tour­na­ment at Heath High School.

Big Walnut’s Alex Eisnnicher (31–5), mak­ing his sec­ond Dis­trict appear­ance, led the way with a strong second-place fin­ish clos­ing in the 170-pound divi­sion. After pin­ning a pair of oppo­nents on the first day of action, the junior came back to beat Beaver’s Daniel Lat­tanzio 11–3 in Saturday’s semi­fi­nal before falling to New Philadelphia’s Mark Bar­row 8–6 in the final.

Eisnnicher will open against Cuya­hoga Falls CVCA junior Tyler Maclel­lan (38–12) on Mat 4 in Friday’s open­ing round action. The win­ner will face the sur­vivor of the match between junior Lane Thomas (38–6) of St. Paris Gra­ham and senior Chris Moore (39–5) from Clyde.

Buck­eye Valley’s DaShawn Haynes (42–6), com­pet­ing at 126 pounds, mean­while, didn’t take the most direct route to secure his spot in this week’s OHSAA state tour­na­ment, but earned it nonetheless.

After drop­ping his quar­ter­fi­nal matchup in the 126-pound divi­sion, Haynes stormed through the con­so­la­tion bracket, pin­ning Carrollton’s Dustin Pape in 3:38 before han­dling Granville’s Chris­t­ian Price 9–5 and Jonathan Alder’s Bret Yutzy by a 4–2 mar­gin to earn a spot in the third-place match — a show­down he lost to Indian Creek’s Kyle Moffit.

Haynes opening-round match in the State tour­ney will be against Toledo Cen­tral Catholic sopho­more Nate Hagan (28–6) on Mat 8. The sur­vivor will advance to face the win­ner of the match between Spring­field Ken­ton Ridge junior Eli­jah Cochran (43–10) and Akron St. Vin­cent St. Mary senior Mike Rix (34–2).

The OHSAA State Wrestling Tour­na­ment is sched­uled for Fri­day and Sat­ur­day at the Jerome Schot­ten­stein Cen­ter on the Cam­pus of The Ohio State University.

Posted by Gary Henery on Feb 27 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.