{"id":104533,"date":"2026-02-04T04:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104533\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T04:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:09:09","slug":"nazareth-and-bethlehem-catholic-wrestling-advance-in-the-piaa-state-tournament-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104533\/","title":{"rendered":"Nazareth and Bethlehem Catholic wrestling advance in the PIAA state tournament | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, PA. &#8211; The PIAA team wrestling state tournament kicked-off with preliminary and first round duals. The District 11 3A champs from Nazareth meeting with District 3&#8217;s Central Dauphin.<\/p>\n<p>At 145 lbs., Nazareth up 4-0, Jack Campbell taking on Central Dauphin&#8217;s Elliott Miller. Campbell gets the reversal in the third, en route to a 18-3 tech fall. Blue Eagles up 9-0.<\/p>\n<p>Next at 152 lbs., Chase Brown battling Central Dauphin&#8217;s Luke Hitchcock. Brown down two points late in the third, gets the takedown to win by an 11-10 decision. Nazareth up 12-0.<\/p>\n<p>At 172 lbs., Nazareth cruising up 17-0, Dominick Tunison facing Central Dauphin&#8217;s Rashaad Pouncey. Tunison goes on to get a 20-4 tech fall. Blue Eagles up 22-0.<\/p>\n<p>Then at 189 lbs., Brayden Zuercher taking on Jaden Moss. Zuercher makes short work of Moss, getting the fall at 46 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Eagles win the first eight bouts and advance, 40-16. They will face Council Rock South on Friday night in Johnstown.<\/p>\n<p>As for Becahi, they were up in Scranton where the Golden Hawks, dispatched Owen J. Roberts in the pigtail round. Followed that up with a 49-20 win over Abington Heights as the Golden Hawks get to the state quarters. They&#8217;ll meet Boyertown Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, PA. &#8211; The PIAA team wrestling state tournament kicked-off with preliminary and first round duals. The District&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,50445,155,154,50442,50443,22441,50446,50444],"class_list":["post-104533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-catholic-wrestling","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-dominick-tunison","tag-elliott-miller","tag-jack-campbell","tag-nazareth-wrestling","tag-rashaad-pouncey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}