SALAMANCA — Camren Driscoll’s first-place finish at the 1st Rich Morton Salamanca Wrestling Invitational on Dec. 7 highlighted a big day for Olean/Allegany-Limestone.
The Huskies had five wrestlers walk away from the invitational, held at the Seneca Allegany Community Center, with top-three finishes.
Driscoll (108) recorded the only first-place finish out of the five top performers from Olean/A-L as he defeated Kenmore West (Ken-Ton)’s Easton McCall by a 17-0 score and a technical fall.
Second-place finishes were nabbed by Jack Aderman (131), Blake Kinnaird (145) and Gaine DeGolier (170). Domonick Hirliman (138) and Gideon Tarr (160) each grabbed third-place finishes.
Salamanca’s only boys wrestler in the invitational, Wyatt Bialaszewski (116) finished in second place with a record of 2-1 after falling in 5:02 to Ken-Ton’s Aiden Fitzgibbon in the weight class final.
However, on the girls side of the tournament, the Warriors had two wrestlers. Aaliyah Winship finished with a final record of 1-2 on the day with her win, the first for the Salamanca girls this season, coming by way of pin. Maelonnee Bacelli finished 0-2 after getting a tough draw against Lockport’s Ava Bragg who finished third at the state tournament last season.
AT SALAMANCA
Participating Teams: Falconer, Health Sciences Charter School, Kenmore West (Ken-Ton), Lockport, Olean, Salamanca
108: Driscoll (O) 17-0 McCall; 116: Fitzgibbon (K-T) 5:02 Bialaszewski; 131: Giannatonio (K-T) 10-4 Aderman; 138: Johnson (Lock) 15-0 Al-Obaidi; 145: Velaquez (Lock) 5:41 Kinnaird; 152: Cusick (K-T) 3:55 Estus; 160: Dickinson (K-T) 0:19 Arroyo; 170: Qneis (K-T) 1:08 DeGolier; 190: O’Malley (K-T) 2:59 Marrero; 215: Harris (HS) 1:41 Hattaway
BOYS BASKETBALL
Otto-Eldred 76, Northern Potter 20
DUKE CENTER — Manning Splain’s game-high 26 points highlighted an extremely efficient offensive night for Otto-Eldred as it breezed past Northern Potter.
Splain had no problem from range as 18 of his 26 points came from 3-point land. However, he was far from the only O-E player to have stuffed the scoresheet. Davey Schenfield and Landon Francis scored 12 points apiece with Shene Thomas finishing right behind them in the scoring column with 11 points. Jared Obenrader provided nine points, all from 3-pointers.
Gaige Hohenwarter led Norther Potter with five points.
AT DUKE CENTER
Northern Potter (20)
Hohenwarter 2 0-2 5, Sherman 2 0-2 4, Lewis 1 1-2 3, Martin 1 1-2 3, Cady 1 0-0 2, Hamilton 1 0-0 2, Daniels 0 1-2 1, Kicklighter 0 0-2 0 Totals: 8 3-12 20
Otto-Eldred (76)
Splain 9 2-2 26, D. Schenfield 4 2-2 12, Francis 3 4-5 12, Thomas 5 1-1 11, Obenrader 3 0-0 9, Sheeler 0 4-6 4, M. Schenfield 0 2-4 2, Minard 0 0-2 0. Totals: 24 15-22 76
NoPo 4 12 18 20
O-E 23 36 54 76
Three-point goals: NoPo (Hohenwarter), O-E (Splain 6, Obenrader 3, D. Schenfield 2, Francis 2); Total fouls: NoPo 19, O-E 14; fouled out: None
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
Portville 3, Cuba-Rushford 1
PORTVILLE — Behind 13 kills and seven digs from Abe Cook, Portville defeated Cuba-Rushford 25-17, 25-16, 18-25, 25-20.
Alongside Cook, Brady German finished with nine digs and seven kills and Chase Armstrong tallied four blocks and four kills. Colin German ran the Panthers’ offense with 25 assists, three blocks, four digs and two aces.
Anderson Siegel led Cuba-Rushford with 14 kills, seven digs and three aces.
Brock Stadler recorded 10 digs, nine kills and four aces, Gunner Jahnke finished with four kills and four blocks and Colton Stupp compiled five kills and three blocks in the loss as well.
