Cards heading back to state

February 15, 2019February 28, 2019 Editor

DISTRICT AND CHAMPIONSFor the second consecutive year the Onaway Cardinals’ wrestling team won district and regional titles. Front from left are Coty Ionetz and Teddy Peters. Middle from left are Andrew Pippo, Nick Gardner, Brittney Wolgast, Matthew Grant, Aidan Fry, Joey Galvez and Dylan Crowe. Back from left are head coach Mark Grant, manager Maggie Grant, Sam Tennant, Seth Enos, Colby Pauly, Brendan Fenstermaker, Declan Clayton, Maxwell Boettger, Gavin Fenstermaker and assistant coach Rod Fullerton. (Photo by Angie Asam) — DISTRICT AND CHAMPIONS! For the second consecutive year the Onaway Cardinals’ wrestling team won district and regional titles. Front from left are Coty Ionetz and Teddy Peters. Middle from left are Andrew Pippo, Nick Gardner, Brittney Wolgast, Matthew Grant, Aidan Fry, Joey Galvez and Dylan Crowe. Back from left are head coach Mark Grant, manager Maggie Grant, Sam Tennant, Seth Enos, Colby Pauly, Brendan Fenstermaker, Declan Clayton, Maxwell Boettger, Gavin Fenstermaker and assistant coach Rod Fullerton. (Photo by Angie Asam)

by Richard Lamb–Advance Editor

The Onaway Cardinals are heading back to the state quarterfinals after convincing wins on the mats in St. Ignace. The Cards took the regional team title with wins over Iron Mountain, 60-21, in the regional semifinals and Ishpeming Westwood 45-30 in the regional finals.

That puts the Cards in the round of eight with Schoolcraft, Hudson, Manchester, Clinton, New Lothrop, Carson City Crystal and Leroy Pine River. The state quarterfinals are set for Friday (Feb. 22) at the Wings Events Center in Kalamazoo. Wrestling begins at noon Friday with seedings to be announced Sunday.

The state Division 4 semifinals are scheduled for Saturday, Feb, 23 at 9:30 a.m. with the winners squaring off for the state championship at 3:45 p.m. Onaway is seeded No. 7 in the tournament facing No. 2 seed Carson City Crystal, a winner over Martin, 80-18 and Hart, 59-18 in the regional rounds. The winner of that match will go up against the winner of the Hudson vs. Leroy Pine River in the state Division 4 semifinals.

The complete brackets are available here:

https://www.mhsaa.com/DesktopModules/MHSAA-Tournaments-Brackets/PrintableBrackets/2018-WR-M-4.pdf

Boxscores:

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Iron Mountain HS vs. Onaway Area HS @ Regional 125 on 02/14/2019.
Onaway Area HS (ONAWAY) 60.0 Iron Mountain HS (IRONMT) 21.0
103: NICK GARDNER (ONAWAY) over (IRONMT) (For.) 112: Parker Stroud (IRONMT) over Aidan Fry (ONAWAY) (Fall 0:00) 119: Issac Manier (IRONMT) over Brittney Wolgast (ONAWAY) (Dec 8-4) 125: Joey Galvez (ONAWAY) over Trevor Malburg (IRONMT) (Fall 5:26) 130: Teddy Peters (ONAWAY) over Dow Dawson (IRONMT) (Fall 3:54) 135: Matthew Grant (ONAWAY) over Tre Sabotta (IRONMT) (Fall 3:37) 140: BRENDAN FENSTERMAKER (ONAWAY) over Preston Robe

rts (IRONMT) (Fall 1:52) 145: Coty Ionetz (ONAWAY) over Jon Carrion (IRONMT) (Fall 2:31) 152: Sam Tennant (ONAWAY) over (IRONMT) (For.) 160: Seth Enos (ONAWAY) over Myles Carey (IRONMT) (Fall 1:34) 171: GAVIN FENSTERMAKER (ONAWAY) over (IRONMT) (For.) 189: Caleb Burklund (IRONMT) over ANDREW PIPPO (ONAWAY) (Fall 0:25) 215: Colby Pauly (ONAWAY) over Jordan Tramontine (IRONMT) (Fall 1:19) 285: Giovanni Colavecchi (IRONMT) over (ONAWAY) (For.)

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Ishpeming Westwood HS vs. Onaway Area HS @ Regional 125 on 02/14/2019.

103: Christian Ryan (ISHWESTW) over NICK GARDNER (ONAWAY) (Fall 1:04) 112: Aidan Fry (ONAWAY) over (ISHWESTW) (For.) 119: Alana Nuorala (ISHWESTW) over Brittney Wolgast (ONAWAY) (Dec 4-1) 125: Joey Galvez (ONAWAY) over Wyatt Carlson (ISHWESTW) (Fall 1:20) 130: Teddy Peters (ONAWAY) over Lenny Pizziola (ISHWESTW) (Fall 4:23) 135: Matthew Grant (ONAWAY) over Connor Traver (ISHWESTW) (TF 17-0 0:00) 140: BRENDAN FENSTERMAKER (ONAWAY) over Tyler Lindholm (ISHWESTW) (MD 10-1) 145: Coty Ionetz (ONAWAY) over Luke Vidlund (ISHWESTW) (Fall 1:44) 152: Sam Tennant (ONAWAY) over Elliott Lemire (ISHWESTW) (Fall 1:59) 160: Rocco Carlson (ISHWESTW) over Seth Enos (ONAWAY) (Dec 1-0) 171: GAVIN FENSTERMAKER (ONAWAY) over Carter Guidebeck (ISHWESTW) (Fall 1:10) 189: Jackson Vidlund (ISHWESTW) over ANDREW PIPPO (ONAWAY) (Fall 0:30) 215: Sam Gilles (ISHWESTW) over Colby Pauly (ONAWAY) (Fall 0:48) 285: Kurt Anderson (ISHWESTW) over (ONAWAY) (For.)