Bacon Academy wins ECC wrestling tournament
By Owen Poole Published on 2/14/2009

Waterford — Bacon Academy won the Eastern Connecticut Conference wrestling tournament Saturday at Waterford High School, dethroning four-time defending champion Ledyard.

In the process, however, the Colonels helped the Bobcats win the ECC Large Division title, too.

Bacon, which finished with 192.5 points, came into the weekend with one divisional loss and needed to beat unbeaten Waterford by two places in the tournament to overtake the Lancers. That’s exactly what happened as Ledyard finished second with 186.5 points and Waterford followed with 182.

Montville finished fourth overall with 133.5 points and clinched the Small Division title.

East Lyme’s Ryan Clarke successfully defended his 140-pound title and was named the tournament’s Outstanding Wrestler.

ECC 2009

--- Team Scores ---
1 192.5 Bacon
2 186.5 Ledyard
3 182.0 Waterford
4 133.5 Montville
5 126.5 Killingly
6 113.0 Fitch
7 107.0 St Bernard
8 101.0 NFA
9 99.5 Windham
10 93.0 Woodstock
11 74.0 Griswold
12 73.5 East Lyme
13 30.0 New London
14 27.0 Lyman

--- Place Winners ---
103
1 Ross Spencer, East Lyme, Pin 2:18
2 John Coloccio, Bacon, None
3 Jessica Bennett, Montville, Decision 7-1
4 Colin O'Brien, Waterford, None
5 Gilberto Dejesus, Windham, Decision 13-3
6 Nick Ianonne, NFA, None

112
1 Andrew Suh, St Bernard, Pin 4:59
2 Dustin Falco, Griswold, None
3 Tom Lombardi, Killingly, Decision 6-2
4 Matt Savona, Fitch, None
5 Joelle Nieves, Waterford, Decision 3-0
6 Phil Huang, Ledyard, None

119
1 Reggie Allen, Waterford, Decision 8-0
2 Taylor Grauer, Windham, None
3 Sean McAllister, Bacon, Decision 2-0
4 Cody Hawley, Fitch, None
5 Eddie Suh, St Bernard, Pin 3:55
6 Dylan Piacenza, NFA, None

125
1 Brandon Thuotte, Killingly, Pin 0:54
2 Jake Alderman, Lyman, None
3 Nick Cipriano, NFA, Decision 2-0
4 Rich Wood, St Bernard, None
5 Kenny Morrell, Montville, Pin 2:33
6 Cerrik Baldoz, Fitch, None

130
1 Ryan Quinn, Bacon, Decision 8-5
2 Tylor Herrick, Killingly, None
3 Taylor Gunnels, Ledyard, Pin 2:40
4 Josh Ross, East Lyme, None
5 Dan Kurasz, Montville, Pin 4:34
6 Christian Hammon, NFA, None

135
1 Justin Beers, Fitch, Decision 7-6
2 Mike Daly, St Bernard, None
3 Brandon Walsh, Griswold, Decision 4-2
4 Kane Jarmon, NFA, None
5 Eddie Loomis, Killingly, Pin 2:33
6 Kyle Holland, Montville, None

140
1 Ryan Clarke, East Lyme, Pin 3:06
2 Zach Cooke, Killingly, None
3 Alex Manwaring, Ledyard, Pin 4:22
4 Henry Nickerson, Woodstock, None
5 Devin Covone, Bacon, Default
6 Zac Deer, Waterford, None

145
1 Caleb Morth, Ledyard, Pin 4:30
2 Dan Alger, Montville, None
3 Mike Bove, Woodstock, Decision 4-0
4 PJ Mickens, Bacon, None
5 Cameron Gonzalez, Fitch, Decision 10-0
6 Wayne Falco, Griswold, None

152
1 Shane Sullivan, Ledyard, Decision 7-2
2 Brohen Krsulic, Woodstock, None
3 Dustin Wilcox, Montville, Decision 11-2
4 Kyle Phillips-Lanc, NFA, None
5 Duncan MacKinnon, Bacon, Decision 8-4
6 Taylor Maixner, Griswold, None

160
1 John Millaras, Waterford, Decision 7-1
2 Dan Thompson, Bacon, None
3 Oleg Mironchenko, Woodstock, Pin 2:31
4 Briton Underwood, Fitch, None
5 Dean Gilbert, Ledyard, Decision 5-1
6 Brad Boots, Griswold, None

171
1 Zach Fleming, Windham, Decision 5-1
2 Shane Duplice, Waterford, None
3 Matt O'Leary, Bacon, Decision 7-1
4 Mike Green, Woodstock, None
5 Stephan Dance, New London, Pin 4:31
6 Dakota Kelly, Ledyard, None

189
1 Shane Battista, Waterford, Default
2 Nick Polonsky, Ledyard, None
3 Lucas Bowman, St Bernard, Decision 5-0
4 Aaron Ogden, Bacon, None
5 Derick Whittemore, Fitch, Pin 0:54
6 Dan Phyfe, Woodstock, None

215
1 Luke Wiggins, Waterford, Decision 7-6
2 Drew Whitehead, Killingly, None
3 Travis Koch, Windham, Decision 6-3
4 Aren Norman, Bacon, None
5 Nick Foster, Montville, Decision 8-5
6 Matt Zeppieri, Ledyard, None

285
1 Brian Webster, Bacon, Decision 13-6
2 Alex Lawrence, Ledyard, None
3 Stokes Watson, Windham, Decision 3-1
4 Matt McMahon, Montville, None
5 Tim Leonard, Waterford, Pin 1:41
6 Anthony Cornish, NFA, None

--- Fastest Fall Winner ---
Alex Manwaring from Ledyard
140 lbs, 4 pins, 7:28
(125 Thoutte 3 pins in 2:58, only champ to pin through trny)
OW--Clarke EL 140

Small Div Champs are Montville (1st reg season & 1st trny)
Large Div Champs Bacon (1st trny, 2nd reg season--almost a 3-way tie between Wat/Bac/Led, had Led edged Bacon)

189 was inj default due to Ledyard wrestler being hurt in semis resulting in injury DQ of Bowman, who wrestled back for 3rd.

Congrats to all and good luck next weekend--reminder state seed meetings on Sunday (bring scorebook and weigh in sheets in case challenged)

Very nice. I was wondering why it didnt come down to a Bowman vs Batista match up. And what happend to Sawyer at 171? did he not wrestle?

worst call i have ever seen. bowman put the kid from ledyard on his back in first 5 seconds of the matchand he tweaked his neck. totally legal not potentially dangerous!!! The ref called potentially dangerous and the kid decieded to not finish the match and ledyard got the team points bowman shouldve wrestled batistain the finals. good job luke!
sawyer had some fractured bones in his foot couln't wrestle will be back next week...

Man, i wish i could of seen that. The one weekend i get dragged out of CT, it just so happens to be the weekend of the ECC's. Congratz to all the wrestlers that placed

yea, and the kid from ledyard was COMPLETELY FINE!!!!! he came back to get his 'stolen' 2nd place medal. he was moving his neck FINE for pictures. Bowman was cheated out of his ECC final match.

if the ref called it potentially dangerous and the kid got hurt... nothing would've happened to bowman. the ref called it ILLEGAL and thats why he got disqualified from the match

aren norman wrestled 215???

Great tournament hosted by the Waterford guys. Heard a lot about the 89 bracket being the toughest only to see Battissa win by forfeit. Clark is the real deal and man the 140 is a strong bracket.

how can a #4 seed taking first not get ow.

Aree there any brackets?

bowman should end up winning S's and wrestling batista in the opens...
im not impressed with koch's 3rd place finish. what was the deal with that?
he was herald to do well this post season

you cant always win them all but it was a combination of being sick and not practicing thursday so this week i'm gonna work real hard and hopefully take M's

Don't worry kotch i'm almost positive you'll be in the finals. Your right, you cant win em all. Good luck to you and everyone at the m's.

thanks