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Pitt County Wrestling coaches reflect on season

By Jake Keator, The Daily Refelctor
Sunday, February 17, 2019
GREENSBORO — With the high school wrestling season officially in the books following Saturday night’s state finals, coaches are beginning to reflect on their seasons and plan ahead for next year.  The North Pitt Panthers captured a Pitt County championship and 2-A Eastern Plains title, both goals they hope to repeat next season. NP will lose some strong wrestlers in graduating seniors Dalton English at 138 pounds and Dominic Maurizzio (132), but other notable names will return, including Raheem Jones (182) and Alex Espinosa-Johnson (195). “I think our upper weight classes, about 160 and up, will be really strong next year,” North Pitt coach Chris Young said. “Raheem for example, things just clicked with him the last month of the season and he placed in the state finals this year.”

As a whole, Young was proud of the way his team fought through adversity. “In the beginning of the year I had high expectations,” he said. “It was an up-and-down season. I wasn’t sure if we were going to have any impact wrestlers, and we dealt with a lot of injuries. We won the Pitt County championships and the conference tournament, so we had a slow start in the beginning but really picked up in the end.” Ayden-Grifton capped off the season in style with Ray Darden taking home the 2-A state title at 195 pounds Saturday night. Rest of the story at http://www.reflector.com/High-Schools/2019/02/17/Wrestling-coaches-look-ahead-to-2020-season.html

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