STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Monsignor Farrell built a 27-0 lead and never looked back in posting a 51-12, non-league wrestling victory over PSAL power James Madison Wednesday at the Lions\u2019 den.<\/p>\n
The Lions came out firing at 285 pounds and won the first five weight classes to take a commanding lead.<\/p>\n
The Golden Knights, who are 7-0 in the PSAL, got on the board with a pin by Eric Ivry at 132.<\/p>\n
The Lions\u2019 Albert Lula picked up a late victory at 138 on a reversal and near fall with just 18 seconds remaining to defeat Monte Badalyan.<\/p>\n
The Knights secured decision at 144 by Maxim Sarkissian, winning 5-3 to close the gap a bit.<\/p>\n
The Lions then stepped on the gas, winning the next four bouts at 150, 157, 165, 175 to pull away.<\/p>\n
Picking up those big Farrell wins were Sebastian Georges (150), Joe DiMaria (157, pin), Anthony Taylor (165, pin) and John Bonura (175, pin).<\/p>\n
Closing out the match for the Lions was Sam Figueroa at 215 with a pin. <\/p>\n
\u201cTo be fair the Golden Knights were down a few horses due to injury,\u201d said Farrell head coach Peter Hamm. <\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
NOTES: All of the teams from around the city will compete in this weekend\u2019s Donald Douglas Memorial Tournament (the overall city championship). Farrell, which is the defending champ in the tourney, rolls in with serious momentum. Wrestlers earn bids to the tournament based on their performances so far this year. The seeds will be out Friday morning with every team and individual looking for a city crown. The event is two days and will take place at Petrides on Jan. 17-18. <\/p>\n
St. Peter\u2019s 86, St. John the Baptist 79<\/p>\n
PATCHOGUE, L.I. — Freddie Avitto and Miles Boylan were quadruple winners as the Eagles won the CHSAA swim meet Tuesday at St. Joseph\u2019s University.<\/p>\n
The Eagles lifted their record to 5-1. <\/p>\n
Avitto\u2019s wins came in the 200-yard medley relay, 200 free relay, 50 free and 100 back, while Boylan\u2019s triumphs came in the 200 medley relay, 200 free relay, 100 fly and 100 free. <\/p>\n
Frank Conwell (200 medley relay and 200 free relay) and Mike Avitto (200 medley relay, 200 free relay) won two events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Monsignor Farrell built a 27-0 lead and never looked back in posting a 51-12,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-101192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}