Takedown Report

Eastern N.C. High School – # 11

New Bern High athletes receive all-Conference awards
The 3A/4A Eastern Carolina Conference released its all-conference teams earlier this week from the winter sports season. New Bern High School had 21 student-athletes receive recognition across the five sports. From boys basketball, freshman Will Brimmer was the only player to make the All-Conference team with Tyriq Hicks and Saiquan Bell being honorable mentions. In girls basketball, Journee McDaniel and Destinee Banks made the team while Janaya Lambert and Keyanna Stewart were honorable mentions. Wrestling was where the Bears had their strongest representation of the season as coach Bo Lansche was named conference Coach of the Year. Michael Baysden, Sam Barnett, Grant Gupton, Jaidon Bennett, Marcus Grist, Jackson Bird and Wyatt Stevens all made the team as wrestlers. …. story at https://www.newbernsj.com/sports/20200319/new-bern-high-athletes-receive-all-conference-awards

Staying alive in Greensboro: Fike’s Bancroft, Settles, CBA duo reach 3-A semis
GREENSBORO — While all seven Fike High wrestlers competing in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association 3-A wrestling championship tournament at the Greensboro Coliseum on Friday afternoon made it to Saturday, only two kept their state championship dreams alive. Golden Demons seniors Aaron Bancroft and Jahmez Settles each won their first two matches to reach Saturday’s semifinals round along with C.B. Aycock’s unbeaten senior duo of Christian Decatur and Tyler Hughes. Nine other area wrestlers are still in action in the consolation bracket. Matches will be held for third and fifth place. The championship semifinals will start at approximately noon once the consolation quarterfinals are complete. The Parade of Champions is set for 7 p.m., followed by the state championship finals matches, once the consolation bracket is done. Bancroft had little trouble collecting his 48th and 49th wins without a loss as he stopped Eastern Guilford’s Isaiah Manning in an 18-3 technical fall in their 170-pound opener and then handed Enka’s Garrett Pugh tech fall by the same score in the quarterfinals. Bancroft, who became Fike’s first state champion last year in the 160-pound division, will face Fayetteville Cape Fear sophomore Jaden Paul (36-8) in the semifinals. …. rest of the story at http://wilsontimes.com/stories/staying-alive-in-greensboro-fikes-bancroft-settles-cba-duo-reach-3-a-semis,202050?newsletter=202054

Curtain lifts Friday on NCHSAA wrestling championships
From staff reports
Eighteen wrestlers from The Wilson Times readership area will launch bids at a North Carolina High School Athletic Association individual state championship when action gets underway at Greensboro Coliseum. The opening round is set for midday Friday after inclement weather forced the NCHSAA to push the start of the tournament back a day. The plan is still to complete the tournament by Saturday, although a formal schedule was not announced by the association in its release addressing the postponement late Wednesday evening. On Saturday, the consolations conclude earlier in the day, with the Parade of Champions and finals in all classifications. Fike High, coming off its first trip to the NCHSAA 3-A East final in the dual  team playoffs, leads the pack with seven entries and reigning 160-pound champion Aaron Bancroft. However, Bancroft, who hasn’t lost in 47 matches this season, makes the step up to 170 pounds in 2020. Joining Bancroft from Fike are regional champions Jayleen Bullock and Jahmez Settles. Settles, a senior at 106 pounds, takes a 43-8 record into the proceedings. Bullock, owning a 44-3 ledger, steps onto the mat at 195 pounds as a junior. A quartet of Golden Demons placed third in regional competition including freshman Barrett Klutey (41-17) at 120 pounds, senior Garrett Weaver (24-4) at 138, junior Patrick McCullen (47-6) at 145 and junior Vincent Page (30-7) and 152. Hunt junior Chris Silva, competing in the 195-pound ranks, is the lone Warriors qualifier and takes a 37-7 ledger into the state championships. For Southern Nash, the junior trio of Luke Coble, Jadel Davis and Terrence Raspberry, all qualified. …. story at http://wilsontimes.com/stories/curtain-lifts-friday-on-nchsaa-wrestling-championships,201918?

Friendly sibling rivalry helps fuel Extra Effort winner toward state wrestling record
By Jason Jennings, WRAL sports reporter
PIKEVILLE, N.C. — Wrestling runs in the blood of Christian Decatur. Not only is the C.B. Aycock senior going for his third straight state championship this year, his older brother, Timothy, also won three state titles for Rosewood and earned the Extra Effort Award last year. “I can’t imagine what it was like in their house,” said C.B. Aycock wrestling coach Brian Doyle, this week’s Extra Effort Award winner. “(Christian had) the greatest practice partner in the world right there in the living room,” said C.B. Aycock assistant head wrestling coach Mark Bass. “(Timothy) started Instagram Lives of us having matches so people could watch,” Christian said of his brother. While Christian admits that Timothy — who is one year older, slightly heavier and now wrestles for UNC — usually wins those matches, Christian can still beat his brother in another area: the state’s all-time wins record. Since the “new era” of NCHSAA wrestling (when match limitations have been put in place around the start of this decade), Timothy holds the record with 236 career wins. Christian currently has 221 wins. If he completes a third state title run, Christian will beat his older brother’s record. …. story, video & pictures at https://www.highschoolot.com/friendly-sibling-rivalry-helps-fuel-extra-effort-winner-toward-state-wrestling-record/18904890/

Cape Fear Extra Effort winner takes family’s passion for wrestling to state title again
By Jason Jennings, WRAL multimedia sports journalist
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Dallas Wilson is a two-time defending NCHSAA 3A state wrestling champion for Cape Fear High School who is going for his third straight title this Saturday. “I tell people, you can walk up to me and hand me a million dollars, and it still wouldn’t equal what the sport of wrestling has given me,” Wilson said. New Bern High athletes receive all-Conference awards The sport is in Wilson’s blood. His father, Heath, is also his high school coach. Back in 1990, the elder Wilson won a state title wrestling for Cape Fear. Imagine the Wilson’s father-son wrestling matches over the years. “My mother, she would have an absolute fit until we stopped,” Heath Wilson said. “We’ll be in the kitchen and start wrestling, and (family members) will be like, ‘Stop! Stop!'” Dallas Wilson said. While Dallas has his father beat in the number of state title victories, it wasn’t until this year where he could beat Heath on the mat. …. story, video & pictures at https://www.highschoolot.com/cape-fear-extra-effort-winner-takes-family-s-passion-for-wrestling-to-state-title-again/18950521/

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