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Posey County Sports
Six of eight Posey County wrestlers move on to semi-state
By Steve Joos
Three matmen from each school are going to the Ford Center. Posey County had
a good day at Castle Saturday.
Six of the eight wrestlers who qualified for the Castle Regional meet from
the county broke into the semifinals and advanced to this weekend’s Indiana
High School Athletic Association Semistate at the Ford Center in Evansville.
And once again, a county grappler pulled off the biggest upset of the day.
Mount Vernon’s Jon Hoehn became the first grappler from either Mount Vernon
or North Posey to wrestle for a championship during the postseason and do
it; he knocked off Mater Dei’s Jake Lannert 9-4 in the 138-pound semifinals.
At the Sectional, North Posey’s Seth Elderkin upset the state’s
eighth-ranked 145-pounder, Isaac Kempner of Central in the second round.
A 2011 state meet qualifier and currently ranked second in the state,
Lannert came back to finish third by registering an 18-4 major decision over
North Posey’s Michael Friymire, one of three Vikings who are still
wrestling.
All three Wildcats (Jon Hoehn, Adam Hoehn and Jordan Dallas) moved on, as
did Frymire, Tyler Stock (113) and heavyweight Austin Little from North
Posey’s contingent.
Mount Vernon coach Tim Alcorn was very pleased with the way his team
wrestled Saturday, even though Adam Hoehn (126 pounds) and Dallas (152) each
finished fourth in their weight classes, while Jon Hoehn dropped a 10-4
decision to Central’s Brandon Kelly for the 138-pound championship.
Two Mater Dei grapplers put away Adam Hoehn and Dallas in their respective
third-place matches. At 126, Josh Pierre blanked Adam Hoehn 9-0, while Logan
Folz topped Dallas 6-1 at 152.
Stock blanked Matthew Mastison of Harrison 5-0 to claim third place at 113,
while the other Semistate bound North Posey grapplers had to settle for
fourth. In addition to Frymire, Little was nipped 5-4 by Steve Breen of
Princeton in the 285 consolation bout.
All those decisions, however, took a back seat to the highlight of the day
in the 138 semifinals.
“Jon just came ready to go,” Alcorn said. “He wrestled the perfect match.”
Hoehn fell behind early, but came back to tie the match at 2-2 on a pair of
escapes before taking Lannert down four times in the next two periods.
Alcorn was amazed with the early performances of all three of his Regional
grapplers, especially after a lackluster week at the Central Sectional.
Adam Hoehn was leading Tyler Conner of Boonville 7-4 in his first match of
the day when the contest was called in the third period due to an injury
default, while Jon Hoehn dominated Castle’s Patrick Schnell, building a 12-0
lead before putting Schell out of his misery with a pin at the 3:02 mark of
their contest.
Then Dallas showed what Alcorn called “the biggest heart in the gym” to nip
Ben Hawkins of Heritage Hills 4-2.
Things didn’t go as well for the lighter-weight Hoehn and Dallas in the
semifinals, where they ran into some of the same competition they saw a week
earlier at Central.
Adam Hoehn was pinned in 1:54 by Gideon Vanhook of Reitz, while Dallas was
outpointed by Memorial’s Cody Renshaw 4-0 in the 152-pound semis.
“I’m very, very proud of these kids,” the Mount Vernon coach said. “They’re
wrestling their tails off today.”
Alcorn was very proud of the way the Cats wrestled in the first round,
noting their heart and effort in reaching the Semistate.
“Everything from here on out is bonus wrestling,” he said. “We’re going on
next week. Jon’s win (over Lannert) is icing on the cake, but we need that
cherry.”
Elderkin wasn’t as fortunate this weekend, as he was pinned by Chase
Singleton of Gibson Southern in 1:03 of their first-round match.
After Chris O‘Risky (195) was stuck in 1:48 by Dalton Halbig of Princeton,
one had to wonder if Posey County would only be represented by light and
middle weights at the Semistate, but then Little pinned Heritage Hills
junior Jake Allen in 3:07 to punch his ticket to the Ford Center.
Kelly earned his match with Hoehn by out pointing Frymire 19-11 in the
semifinals. Like their Mount Vernon counterparts, Stock and Little were also
victims of that parochial school on the West Side of Evansville.
Mater Dei freshman Alex Johnson controlled Stock 10-3 in the semifinals
while Nathan Wright got a pair of second period escape points and a
third-period takedown to hold off Little 4-2.
Dallas tweaked his shoulder in the semifinals, which is something that has
bothered him all season, Alcorn said, but he wasn’t making any excuses.
After all, grapplers with all the heart in the world don’t make excuses, but
they sometimes go on to the next level.
Kelly wasn’t the only champion to stop a county wrestler Saturday, as
Johnson, Vanhook and Wright all captured Regional titles.
