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West Scranton\u2019s Tommy Schechterly, back, wrestles Boyertown\u2019s J.D. Heiser in the 160-pound first round Thursday during the PIAA Class 3A Wrestling Championships at the Giant Center in Hershey. BOB GAETANO \/ CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER<\/p>\n
HERSHEY \u2014 Tommy Schechterly made a major statement Friday night during the PIAA Class 3A Wrestling Championships.<\/p>\n
The West Scranton sophomore stormed to a 10-1 major decision in the 160-pound semifinals over Oxford\u2019s Jon Smith, the No. 1 wrestler in the state according to PA Power Wrestling, and advanced to the final.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I wrestled it really good,\u201d said Schechterly, who is ranked fourth in the state. \u201cI came prepared, knowing what was going on and what I had to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll be centerstage at the Giant Center on Saturday, with the boys Class 3A and 2A and girls finals starting at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels amazing,\u201d Schechterly said. \u201cEverything I\u2019ve done has paid off, training, waking up early, getting them early workouts in, lifts. It feels like everything is coming together.\u201d<\/p>\n
It certainly came together in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Schechterly scored first with a takedown on the edge of the circle with three seconds left in the first period, keeping his right foot inbounds for the 3-0 advantage.<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting that first-period takedown was huge,\u201d Schechterly said. \u201cIt started to open up the match a lot. I got the underhook the first time. I felt when we were going out of bounds that it was there, that I could have definitely hit that and scored. And then when I came in, I got into it and I had to hurry up and get that takedown with the last couple seconds left.\u201d<\/p>\n
From there, Schechterly took over, securing a six-point move at the end of the second period for a 9-1 advantage entering the third. He added an escape in the third for the 10-1 victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started to feel him out more,\u201d Schechterly said. \u201cI knew what I was capable of and my scoring abilities. He gets in my leg, and it is what it is. I can get out, so that helped a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schechterly started the day with a 2-1 victory over Mount Lebanon\u2019s Cole Gibbons (sixth in state) in the quarterfinals. The two traded escapes, but Schechterly pushed the pace throughout to force a stall warning in the first period and a stall point in the third.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll face Altoona\u2019s Gavin Ciampoli (second in state) \u2014 who beat Schechterly, 5-2, at Mid-Winter Mayhem in January \u2014 in the final.<\/p>\n
Class 3A<\/p>\n
Semifinals<\/p>\n
114: Gabe Benyo (Hazleton Area) dec. Cael Muller (Notre Dame \u2013 GP), 4-2.<\/p>\n
160: Tommy Schechterly (West Scranton) maj. dec. Jon Smith (Oxford Area), 10-1.<\/p>\n
Consolation fourth round<\/p>\n
(Ongoing)<\/p>\n
Quarterfinals<\/p>\n
114: Gabe Benyo (Hazleton Area) dec. Dom Powell (Upper Dublin), 8-7.<\/p>\n
121: Mateo Gallegos (DuBois) dec. Jake Benyo (Hazleton Area), 7-2.<\/p>\n
160: Tommy Schechterly (West Scranton) dec. Cole Gibbons (Mt. Lebanon), 2-1.<\/p>\n
Consolation third round<\/p>\n
121: Jake Benyo (Hazleton Area) dec. Tommy Oswald (Lower Dauphin), 9-2.<\/p>\n
133: Mason Whitney (Abington Heights) maj. dec. Shane Young (North Penn), 9-1.<\/p>\n
215: Connor Smalley (Notre Dame \u2013 GP) maj. dec. Brody Spindler (Pittston Area), 18-4.<\/p>\n
Consolation second round<\/p>\n
133: Mason Whitney (Abington Heights) maj. dec. Matthew Sommer (Northampton Area), 10-0.<\/p>\n
145: Eric Orpin (Northeastern) dec. Micah Engelman (Crestwood), 9-5.<\/p>\n
215: Brody Spindler (Pittston Area) pinned Kaleb Dumin (Boyertown), 2:12.<\/p>\n
Class 2A<\/p>\n
Semifinals<\/p>\n
107: Arav Pandey (Trinity) dec. Nathan Schuman (Honesdale), 11-6.<\/p>\n
Consolation fourth round<\/p>\n
(Ongoing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Scranton\u2019s Tommy Schechterly, back, wrestles Boyertown\u2019s J.D. Heiser in the 160-pound first round Thursday during the PIAA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-131928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131928","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=131928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}