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3rd annual
Olean Big 30 Classic
Varsity Wrestling Tournament
@ Olean High School (Section 6)
Tuesday & Wednesday,
December 28 & 29, 2004
Final Results
Port stacking up the titles
By Tom Roof
The Times Herald
December 30, 2004
OLEAN — A year ago when Aaron Rendos sent his wrestlers on the mat he was just
hoping for the best.
This year, he’s expecting it.
That’s what a change in programs can do for one of the Big 30’s up-and-coming
young coaches.
Rendos, a graduate of traditionally wrestling-rich Brockway High School, was
making his second appearance at the Olean Big 30 Wrestling Classic on Wednesday
with his second different team.
A year ago, Rendos coached Oswayo Valley to a respectable fifth-place finish, 87
points behind champion Smethport.
This year, Rendos is at Port Allegany, where he’s inherited the Big 30’s No.
1-ranked team. And yesterday, at the 3rd Annual Big 30 Classic, the Gators
didn’t disappoint.
Placing a tourney-best 12 wrestlers in the top five, including five in the
finals, Port Allegany captured its second Big 30 title with a record 242.5
points.
The nearest challenge came from Bolivar-Richburg, which matched Port’s five
finalists, but still finished a distant second with 176 points. Cameron County
(136 points), Salamanca (122) and Coudersport (111.5) rounded out the top five
schools in the 14-team tournament.
“It’s no surprise what these kids can do,” said Rendos. “I always tell them, you
work hard and it pays off. It paid off today ... and it will pay off at the end
of the year.”
Rendos says the
transition from OV to Port, where he took over for the highly-successful Doug
Triplett, has been easy.
“I love wrestling and this is what I do,” he said. “And I’ve always felt if you
can get the kids to like you, they’re going to do what you want.”
But the Gators’ title didn’t come as easily as it looked. With three starters
out of the lineup, Rendos had to do some major juggling.
“We had to move some kids around, and we’ve had to overcome some adversity this
year,” he said. “We had a couple JV kids in the lineup and we had to do some
shifting around, but, again, those kids stepped up ... and that was big for us.”
While Port got titles as expected from top seeds Nick Nichols at 112 and Steve
Spees at 189, the Gators got a huge bonus from previously little-known Jeff
Jones at 130.
Unseeded with a 6-4 record, the Port sophomore made a claim for the tourney’s OW
award (which went to Salamanca’s Kane Smith) by knocking off fourth-seeded
Brandon Slater of Oswayo Valley in the quarterfinals (pin in 1:52), top-seeded
and former champ Matt Appleby of Bolivar-Richburg in the semifinals (5-4), and
second-seeded and returning third-place finisher Dan McGillivray of Genesee
Valley in the finals (4-3).
“He had a real strong tournament,” said Rendos. “He’s one of those kids who
really stepped it up for us.”
MEANWHILE, 11 schools put wrestlers in last night’s finals with six getting
champions. Cameron County and Salamanca matched Port with three each, while
Coudersport and Portville had two apiece.
Two wrestlers also became three-time winners with Coudy’s Brock Frederick and
Cameron’s Dustin Mullens taking the top podium spot for the third time.
Frederick, who won at 135, improved to 15-3 on the year and claimed the tourney
trophy for most pins in the fastest time — three in 2:48, including a 29-second
fall in the finals when he stuck Olean junior Bryan Orcutt (14-5) with a
spread-eagle.
A two-time Class AA state qualifier, Frederick already has as many losses this
season as when he placed fifth in the state a year ago.
And, he admits, his slow start has been a needed awakening.
“I think it has really helped me regain my focus,” said the Falcon senior. “You
just can never take it easy if you want to be ready for the better competition.”
No one has been telling Frederick that more than his coach.
“He just wasn’t focused earlier in the year,” said Coudy coach Clay Gooch. “The
expectations for him were high and I think he assumed things would just fall
into place. But what Brock has to remember is that people are now gunning for
him.
“I don’t think those losses hurt him. In the long run, they’ve probably helped.”
Mullens, improving to 8-0, won one of the night’s highlight bouts with a 3-1
victory in the 152-pound finals over 2003 champion Steve Pancio (14-4) of Olean.
Three other wrestlers became two-time titlists as Smith breezed through the
215-pound bracket and teammate Matt Metzler did the same at 103. Portville’s
Matt Miller won his second title with a 2-2, sudden-death rideout decision over
Port Allegany’s Brian Neal at 275.
Bolivar-Richburg’s Tyler Taylor finally broke through to the winner’s circle
after finishing second the past two years.
Wrestling at 145, and in one of only two weight classes where the top seed
didn’t prevail, Taylor (seeded second) toppled No.1-seed Caleb Olcott, of
Genesee Valley, 12-7.
“That was a tough match for Tyler,” said B-R coach Rich Schumbehl. “But it’s the
kind of match he needs to win to take the next step. This tournament turned him
around last year, even though he lost in the finals (10-2 to Bradford’s Kyle
Keane), he really came on after that. It showed him what he could do. Now, we
hope it does the same thing this year.”
The matchup pitted two of Section 5’s top 145-pounders. Olcott is ranked first
in the section in Class B, and Taylor first in Class BB.
“It was a good match for both kids,” said GV coach Matt Hopkins. “It was a super
final ... and for Caleb it’s an indication of what he’ll see at sectionals.
Tonight, Tyler was really good on his feet ... and he knew what Caleb had and
defended it well.”
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