by Taylor Vortherms on Sports Wrestling
Sports Editor at The Ellsworth American
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. — Two Ellsworth wrestlers competed at the 51st annual New England high school wrestling championships on Friday and Saturday at North Andover High School.
Freshman Peyton Cole and junior Connor Petros both traveled nearly 250 miles to represent Ellsworth among 169 schools. Cole won one of three matches at 132 pounds, and Petros lost both his matches at 152 pounds.
Neither Ellsworth wrestler ended up placing among the top six. The five Maine wrestlers who did place were Marshwood’s Bradley Beaulieu (second at 126 pounds), Cody Hughes (third at 170 pounds) and Jackson Howarth (fifth at 160 pounds) as well as Gardiner’s Peter Del Gallo (fourth at 126 pounds) and Wells’ Michael Curtis (third at 220 pounds).
Beaulieu was the only Maine wrestler to reach the finals of the two-day event.
Cole advanced to the second round with a bye, then beat Tyson Cram of Otter Valley, Vt., 8-2. Cross Cannone of Trumbull, Conn., — the eventual 132-pound runner-up — pinned Cole in the quarterfinals. Cole then lost to Cole Megill of Narragansett, R.I., 3-2 to fall out of the running.
Petros lost 9-2 in the first round to Jake Stetson of Framingham, Mass., who went on to place fifth at 152 pounds. Petros then lost 6-3 to Brett Leonard of New Milford, Conn.
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