Clovis HS – 2013 Doc Buchanan Champions
The Fresno Bee
Finals update: Clovis heavyweight Nick Nevills pulled off a reversal with 30 seconds left to cap a 4-0 win over Wyoming Seminary’s Michael Johnson on Saturday night, clinching the Cougars’ fourth straight Doc Buchanan Invitational title.
Clovis won 180-178, with Nevills a three-time Doc B champ.
Wyoming Seminary of Pennsylvania had taken a 178-176 lead about midway through the first-place matches.
Here are the first-place match results:
106: Matt Gamble (Monache) over Adrian Campasano (Central) 19-12
113: Zahid Valenica (St. John Bosco) over Israel Saavedra (Modesto) 9-2
120: Mason Pengilly (Porterville) over Isaiah Locsin (Live Oak) SV-1, 5-3
126: Judson Preskitt (Wyoming Seminary-PA) over Vincent Gomez (Frontier) 6-4
132: Aaron Pico (St. John Bosco) over Javier Gasca III (Kingsburg) pin 5:40
138: Anthony Valencia (St. John Bosco) over Sergio Enloe (Poway) 18-5
145: Niko Villarreal (Gilroy) over Victor Lopez (Poway) 5-3
152: Reed Van Anrooy (Roseburg-OR) over Shayne Tucker (Bella Vista) SV-1, 5-3
160: Isaiah Martinez (Lemoore) over Nick Fiegener (Folsom) 16-1
170: Corey Griego (Sultana) over Peter Santos (Oakmont) 1-0
182: Adrian Salas (Clovis) over Eric Morris (Wyoming Seminary-PA), injury default
195: Mason Kumashiro (Los Alamitos) over Nicolas Johnson (Murrieta Valley) 6-5
220: Spencer Empey (Reed-NV) over Garrett Ryan (Wyoming Seminary-PA) pin 5:55
285: Nick Nevills (Clovis) over Michael Johnson (Wyoming Seminary-PA) 4-0
Pre-finals: Clovis High and Wyoming Seminary Preparatory of Kingston, Pa., nationally ranked wrestling programs separated by nearly 3,000 miles, were matched Saturday night in two of the 14 finals while battling for the team title of the Doc Buchanan Invitational at Clovis High.
Wyoming Seminary, ranked second nationally with a roster representing nine states, Washington, D.C., and Lithuania, won all four of its semifinal matches Saturday morning while compiling 174 points entering the 5:30 p.m. finals.
The Blue Knights from a Methodist Church-based private school in northeast Pennsylvania, will match nationally No. 1-ranked and Harvard-bound Eric Morris against Clovis’ Adrian Salas at 182 pounds and Michael Johnson against the Cougars’ Nick Nevills in a showdown of nationally ranked Nos. 7 and 3 wrestlers at 285.
Clovis has 170 points.
The Cougars, the state’s two-time reigning champions ranked No. 9 nationally, have won three straight titles in the 35th annual event that has drawn 41 nationally ranked wrestlers and 465 overall from 100 teams and five states. Cowboy hats go to individual champions.
Lemoore senior Isaiah Martinez, a nationally No. 2-ranked wrestler and two-time state gold medalist headed for Illinois, roared into the 160-pound final with his fourth straight pin of the tournament. He’ll meet Folsom’s Nick Fiegener, who crushed Bakersfield’s Hunter Hodges with a 15-0 technical fall in the semis.
An all-Central Section 106-pound final is set with Central’s Adrian Campasano and Monache’s Matt Gamble.
Porterville’s Mason Pengilly will oppose Live Oak-Morgan Hill’s top-seeded Isaiah Locsin at 120 pounds.
The 132-pound feature will match Kingsburg’s nation No. 14 Javier Gasca III against St. John Bosco-Bellflower’s nation No. 1 Aaron Pico, a freshman.
