STAC GIRLS WRESTLING: TEDESCO, LaFOREST NOTCH SECOND-PLACE FINISHES; WAVERLY PLACES THIRD AT LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS (2 PHOTOS) (2024-01-20)

Valley Sports Report
HORSEHEADS — Seniors Brenae Tedesco, and Mackenzie LaForest each recorded second-place finishes, and four of their teammates earned top-four finishes to lead Waverly to a third-place finish here Saturday at the STAC girls wrestling championships.

Sophomores Elona Holmes, and Emma Vanderhoof, and freshman Onnah Thompson each registered third-place finishes, and freshman Abby Sickler was a fourth-place finisher.

Horseheads won the team title with 188.5 points, while Oneonta was second at 157 points, Waverly tallied 126.5 points, Windsor was fourth with 104 points, and U-E was fifth with 101 points.

Tedesco was 2-1 in the 126-pound bracket.

She decked Windsor’s Ava Mangino in 57 seconds in the quarterfinals, then pinned Rosenbloom in 5:45 in the semifinals.

In the finals, Tedesco lost via fall to Horseheads’ Lily Vesek.

At 235 pounds, LaForest pinned Horseheads’ Ely Bly in 1:17 in the semifinals, but dropped a 5-4 overtime decision to Windsor’s Alexis Durdon in the finals.

At 165 pounds, Holmes lost via fall to Binghamton-Seton Catholic’s Kyra Bryant in 3:32 in the semifinals.

Holmes bounced back with a 44-second fall of Johnson City’s Kiara Davidson in the consolation semifinals, and a pin of Oneonta’s Grace Cohn in 2:26 in the third-place match.

At 114 pounds, Vanderhoof pinned Sickler in 1:10 in the quarterfinals, then lost via third-period fall to Windsor’s Krysten Yadlosky in the semifinals.

Vanderhoof registered a 16-0 technical fall over U-E’s Serenity Pearson in the consolation semifinals, then pinned Sickler again — this time in 1:45 — in the third-place match.

After losing to Vanderhoof in the quarterfinals, Sickler won a pair of matches in wrestlebacks, topping Horseheads’ Alexis Miles, 8-3, in the blood round, and receiving a medical forfeit from Oneonta’s Jae Ravera to move into the third-place match.

At 120 pounds, Thompson pinned Chenango Forks’ Lydia Pokorak in 1:45 in the quarterfinals, then lost via first-period fall to Owego ace RaeAnn Craft in the semifinals.

In the third-place match, Thompson pinned Oneonta’s Mack Hernandez in 1:28.

Also at 126 pounds, Rosenbloom was 2-2 to finish fifth.

Rosenbloom edged Chenango Forks’ Bella Silvestri, 5-3, in the quarterfinals, before losing to Tedesco in the semifinals.

In the consolation semifinals, Rosenbloom lost via second-period pin to Sea Yosanankatanyu to fall into the fifth-place match, which she won by fall over Windsor’s Jayce Barton in 55 seconds.

At 132 pounds, freshman Abigail Reedy was 1-2 to finish fifth. She received a forfeit from Oneonta’s Valentina Carotenuto in the fifth-place match.

Junior Savannah Savercool was 0-3 to finish sixth in the 235-pound bracket.

LaForest and Holmes return to action Friday at the New York State Girls Wrestling Championships at SRC Arena in Syracuse.

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IN PHOTO 1: Waverly’s Brenae Tedesco. … PHOTOS BY KRISTEN DALE.