IAC WRESTLING: TIOGA ADVANCES FIVE TO QUARTERFINALS AT KNUUTILA MEMORIAL; TWO ALIVE IN WRESTLEBACKS (24 PHOTOS) (2024-12-20)

Valley Sports Report
SANBORN, N.Y. — Tioga advanced five grapplers — sophomore Declan McKee, juniors Kadin Cole, Logan Bellis, and Jayden Duncanson, and freshman Mark McCane — into the quarterfinals, and sits in fifth-place after Day 1 of the annual Linda C. Knuutila Memorial here at SUNY Niagara.

Chatauqua Lake-Westfield-Panama and St. Francis lead the team chase with 90.5 points, with Niagara Wheatfield in third with 84 points, Hamburg in fourth with 62.5 points, Tioga fifth with 57, and Falconer and Wilson tied for sixth with 54 points in the 30-team field.

Senior Tate MaCauley, and sophomore James Howey are still alive in the wrestlebacks for the Tigers, while five were eliminated Friday.

McKee, the top seed at 108 pounds, won both his matches via fall, pinning Lancaster's Noah School in 39 seconds in the opening round, and Randolph's Jamie Nottingham in 1:47 in the round-of-16.

McKee will square off Grand Island's Cole Randle in the quarterfinals

Cole, the second seed at 124 pounds, decked Jamestown's Nick Melendez in 1:33 in the round-of-16.

Cole will face Lackawanna's Rasheed Ahmed in the quarterfinals.

Bellis, the second seed at 131 pounds, scored a pair of first-period falls, and a wild win by decision.

Bellis decked Starpoint's Samuel Fields in 29 seconds in the opening round, then pinned Grand Island's Sami Salih in 13 seconds in the round-of-32.

In the round-of-16, Bellis scored a wild 18-11 decision over Frontier's Balin Ramella.

Bellis will face Medina's Luke Doffing in the quarterfinals.

Duncanson, the top seed at 138 pounds, scored a 17-2 technical fall of Niagara-Wheatfield's Aiden Johnson in the opening round, then pinned North Tonawanda's Jayden Aconite in 1:13.

Duncanson will face eighth-seeded Dylan Scovazzo of Starpoint in the quarterfinals.

At 285, unseeded McCane decked Ivan Ortiz of the Charter School for Applied Technologies in 1:28 in the opening round, and Wilson's Michael Jeffords in 3:32.

McCane will face top-seeded William Workoetter of St. Francis in the quarterfinals.

MaCauley, the sixth seed at 285, opened his day with a pin of Ken-Ton Nick Wilson in 1:20, then lost via fall in the round-of-16 to Holley-Kendall's Hunter Jewel-Smith in the second period.

MaCauley bounced back with a pin of Newfane's Weston Henning in 1:25.

Howey dipped his opening round match in the 190-pound bracket, then bounced back with a pair of wins.

After losing via fall in the opening round to fourth-seeded Patrick Braley of Falconer.

In the consolation bracket, Howey topped Lancaster's Dylan Pierce, 7-3, then beat Niagara Falls' Matthew Sposs, 12-9.

Freshman Drayke Ulrich was 1-2 at 101 pounds. He won his opening-round match via a 20-3 technical fall over Lackawanna's Yahoo Mohsen, then lost back-to-back matches via fall.

Senior Austin Babcock pinned Tonowanda's Nathan Guslawski in 4:00 in the opening round, then lost his next two bouts via fall.

Eighth-graders Harold Corby (101 pounds), Liamm Comstock (108), and Parker Jackson (116) were all 0-2 on the day.


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