{"id":108965,"date":"2026-02-09T10:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108965\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:34:14","slug":"council-rock-south-and-bethlehem-catholic-pick-up-major-wins-on-the-mat-in-the-quarterfinal-round-bouts-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108965\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Rock South and Bethlehem Catholic pick up major wins on the mat in the quarterfinal round bouts | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHNSTOWN, PA. &#8211; Johnstown&#8217;s 1st Summit Arena playing host to the final rounds of the PIAA team wrestling tournament. Quarterfinal round bouts Friday night leading with Class 3A.<\/p>\n<p>District 11 champ Nazareth squaring off with District One&#8217;s Council Rock South.<\/p>\n<p>At 133, Nazareth&#8217;s Caleb Kosko rolls Council Rock&#8217;s Cody Riccadi. Kosko would go onto win by fall at 1:15.<\/p>\n<p>At 215, Nazareth&#8217;s Brayden Zuercher sticks the pin on Samuel Persofsky a much needed 6 makes it 32-27 Nazareth.<\/p>\n<p>But at 285, Council Rock South&#8217;s Matthew Scott keeps on moving forward. He scores a takedown that led to a tech fall which tied things at 32.<\/p>\n<p>But Council Rock owned the tie breaker. They move on after the scores were adjusted, 33-32.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Catholic, clashing with District One champ Boyertown.<\/p>\n<p>At 114, Boyertown&#8217;s Liam Vance lifts Beca&#8217;s Gino Bozzi and lands the mat return for 3. Vance would win by major decision, 10-0.<\/p>\n<p>At 121, Beca&#8217;s Nico Emili adjusts position and sticks Carter Fogle with the pin at 3:13.<\/p>\n<p>At 139, Beca&#8217;s Reef Dillard gets the snapdown on Liam Diamond and gets to the back. Dillard would win by tech fall, 20-1.<\/p>\n<p>Beca moves on, 32-28. Connor Gillihan&#8217;s win at 285, the final bout, sealed it for the Hawks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They face Franklin Regional in the semis Saturday morning at 10:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHNSTOWN, PA. &#8211; Johnstown&#8217;s 1st Summit Arena playing host to the final rounds of the PIAA team wrestling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,50445,155,154,52313,52316,52314,52315,29388],"class_list":{"0":"post-108965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-catholic-wrestling","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-connor-gillihan","13":"tag-counsil-rock-south-wrestling","14":"tag-gino-bozzi","15":"tag-matthew-scott","16":"tag-reef-dillard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108965","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=108965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}