Saturday, February 14, 2015
There isn’t an “official” Cross County Conference Wrestling Championship because there isn’t enough participating teams to officially designate a champion, but the Covington Duals is widely considered the CCC Championships for the fact that it field all of the conference wrestling programs along with Sidney-Lehman.

Both the High School and Jr. High teams at Covington won the tournament, with the high school team claiming its 10th straight championship.

The Buccaneers placed first defeating Twin Valley South, 78-6, National Trail, 72-6, Lehman, 76-6, Miami East, 63-6, and runner-up Tri-County North, 63-12. The Buccs concluded their regular season with a dual meet record of 27-3.

In all, it was an impressive day of wrestling for the Buccaneers as the varsity squad only dropped four bouts all day and finished with combined 61-4 record.

Going undefeated with 5-0 records for the Buccs were Connor Ryan (113 lbs), Coleman Ryan (120), Jared Ford (126, 1 pin), Jarred Ganger (132, 3 pins), Ryan Ford (138, 2 pins), Deron White (145, 4 pins), Lance Miller (152, 3 pins), Gage DeHart (160, 3 pins), Ben Miller (182, 3 pins) and Seth Thomas (220, 2 pins). Going 4-1 were Brandon Magee (170) and Carl Lankford (285, pin), while Bo Swank (195) finished 2-2. Also competing and winning for the Buccs were Joey Schmelzer (138), Mark Barga (138), Josh Sowers (145), Logan Fields (152), Ross Bowman (160) and Bryce Keiser (220).

Covington’s Jr. High team placed first by defeating Miami East, 57-30, Arcanum, 54-30, National Trail, 54-24, Twin Valley South, 57-18, and runner-up Tri-County North, 49-21.

Going undefeated with 5-0 records were Chris Triplett (92, 4 pins), Riley Richards (122, 2 pins), Keringten Martin (128, 1 pin) and Ian Wilson (160, 2 pins). Going 4-1 were Austin Flick (110, 1 pin), Gavin McReynolds (134), Gage Kerrigan (142, 2 pins), Cade Schmelzer (150) and Dylan Stoudt (172, 1 pin). Dolan Young (80, 1 pin) and Dominic Gibson (116) finished 3-2, while Brock Barga (110), Josh Latimer (110) and Eli Gerling (205) also competed well for the Buccs.

COVINGTON DUALS TEAM RESULTS