Deaken McCoy, Zac Tupps, Northmor's Tyler Beck, win district championships

BY JON KLEINKNECHT
Inquirer Sports Edi­tor
sports@galioninquirer.com

BOWLING GREEN — Galion High School’s Deaken McCoy and Zac Tupps won Divi­sion III dis­trict wrestling cham­pi­onships here last Sat­ur­day evening.

Deaken — a 220-pound sopho­more — went 4–0 in the tour­na­ment, includ­ing a 5–4 win over Jay Nino of Genoa Area in the cham­pi­onship match.
Deaken will be mak­ing his first appear­ance in the state tour­na­ment that begins Thurs­day in Columbus.

Zac — a 126-pound junior — also went 4–0 at dis­trict, includ­ing a 5–1 deci­sion­ing of Delta’s Dustin Marteney in the title match.
Zac will be mak­ing his sec­ond state meet appear­ance.
Two other Tigers wres­tled in the dis­trict meet. Nick Flow­ers went 1–2 in the 138-pound weight class, and Mason Fry was 0–2 in the 160-pound division.

As a team, the Tigers placed 11th with 49 points.
Delta won the cham­pi­onship with 143 tal­lies. Upper San­dusky placed sec­ond and is send­ing six wrestlers to Columbus.

In the first round at the state meet on Thurs­day (3 p.m.) at Value City Arena, Deaken (49–12) will take on Joseph Dot­son, a senior from Han­ni­bal River. Dot­son placed fourth at the Philo dis­trict meet and has a 34–7 record.

Zac’s first match will be against Evan Fran­cis of Kirt­land. A sopho­more, Fran­cis has a 32–7 record and placed fourth in the Garfield Heights dis­trict. Zac sports a 49–5 mark.

Tradition-rich North­mor will again be send­ing mul­ti­ple wrestlers to “The Big Dance” in Divi­sion III.
The Golden Knights placed sev­enth at the Philo Dis­trict last week­end with 74 points.
Amanda-Clearcreek secured the team cham­pi­onship with 147.5 tallies.

And speak­ing of cham­pi­onships, Northmor’s Tyler Beck — a 195-pound senior who has a stel­lar 46–1 record this win­ter — won the dis­trict title at Philo.
A year ago, Tyler placed eighth in the state meet at 189 pounds. His opening-round op-ponent Thurs­day will be Joe Dil­bert (37–8), a senior from Read­ing. Dil­bert was fourth in the Ket­ter­ing Fair­mont district.

North­mor senior Colin Vis­conti (22–6) — com­pet­ing at 152 pounds — was third in the Philo dis­trict meet. His oppo­nent in Thursday’s first round at the state meet will be Riverdale junior Seth Knoll (47–6). Knoll placed sec­ond in the Bowl­ing Green district.

Jamie Baldridge (44–5) is a junior who placed third at 145 pounds in the dis­trict for the Black-and-Gold. His first oppo­nent in Colum­bus will be Adam Guerra (40–12), a senior from San­dusky St. Mary. Guerra was sec­ond in the Bowl­ing Green district.

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