LAFAYETTE – Since 2003 the year the Lafayette Sectional expanded from a four-team format to its current 10-team format Tippecanoe County’s three Hoosier Crossroads Conference schools: Harrison, Lafayette Jefferson, and McCutcheon have captured all five Lafayette Sectionals.
However, that all changed on Saturday January 26th as Delphi (from the Hoosier Conference) won its first wrestling sectional since 1994 defeating runner-up Harrison by 45 points (280-245) at Lafayette Jeff’s Crawley Center. McCutheon was third with 196 points and Lafayette Jeff finished fourth with 190 points.
HCC Coordinator Eric Eaton was on hand for the finals of the sectional, click here to watch video highlihgts from some of the championship bouts. Featured for Harrison are Ezra Penn (103 lbs.), Shane Evers (140 lbs.), and Josh Thomack (215 lbs.). Sean McCann the champion at 189 lbs. is featured for Lafayette Jeff and Wesley Everett at 285 lbs. is highlighted for Delphi. In addtion, Oracle head coach Mike Atwood talks about the victory by his team.
Delphi which competes in 2A in football, took down the three 5A football HCC schools by placing wrestlers in 9 of 14 championship bouts. The Oracles won sectional championships in five of the nine weight classes in which they had finalists.
Harrison had six individual champions; but they only had one runner-up finish compared to Delphi’s four.
“Every since we came to this sectional we’ve always been the little school,” said Delphi coach Mike Atwood. “We just came out and went hard. We’ve told our kids all year, if you go hard good things will happen, today it did.”
Here’s a look at both the team and individual results from the 2008 Lafayette Jeff Sectional
Team Scores (top 2 advance to the Harrison regional on January 30th)
1 Delphi 280
2 Harrison (West Lafayette) 245
3 McCutcheon 198
4 Lafayette Jefferson 190
5 Seeger 146
6 Benton Central 121
7 West Lafayette 85
8 Lafayette Central Catholic 53
9 Attica 31
10 Carroll (Flora) 31
Individual Results (top 4 in each weight class advance to the Logansport Regional on February 2nd)
103 lbs.
1 Penn, Ezra (11) 33-7 Harrison (West Lafayette) fall 3:14
2 McIlrath, Randy (10) 16-5 Delphi
3 Draper, Taylor (9) 17-14 Lafayette Jefferson
4 Banes, Colin (11) 20-16 McCutcheon
5 Schrader, Cody (9) 24-9 Lafayette Central Catholic
6 Collins, Zachary (9) 17-14 West Lafayette
112 lbs.
1 Floyd, Bob (11) 39-4 Delphi dec. 9-3
2 Craft, Winston (11) 30-5 Seeger
3 Corcoran, Stuart (9) 22-12 Lafayette Central Catholic
4 Jackson, Austin (9) 13-13 Lafayette Jefferson
5 McTaggart, Erik (9) 18-13 Benton Central
6 Overby, Reese (9) 17-14 Harrison (West Lafayette)
119 lbs.
1 Alderman, Donovan (12) 38-0 Delphi fall 5:29
2 Hicks, Jordan (9) 35-4 Seeger
3 Weaver, Kyle (11) 24-13 Harrison (West Lafayette)
4 Flynn, Joseph (11) 26-9 West Lafayette
5 McDaniel, Jorddan (11) 2-2 Benton Central
6 Lank, RJ (9) 15-21 Lafayette Jefferson
125 lbs.
1 Back, Aaron (9) 27-15 Delphi fall 1:57
2 Fidler, Scot (11) 25-8 McCutcheon
3 Meade, Chase (11) 33-7 Carroll (Flora)
4 Jenkins, Luke (10) 17-21 Harrison (West Lafayette)
5 Berninger, Li Kang (11) 15-13 Lafayette Jefferson
6 Fletcher, Samueal (10) 24-13 Seeger
130 lbs.
1 Cook, Jacob (12) 40-0 Seeger TF 16-0
2 Ford, Derick (12) 8-2 Lafayette Jefferson
3 McTigue, Nathan (10) 26-18 Delphi
4 McDaniel, Dusttin (12) 27-7 Benton Central
5 Barker, Vinnie (11) 21-14 McCutcheon
6 Son, Forrest (10) 18-21 Harrison (West Lafayette)
135 lbs.
1 Jude, Nick (12) 28-7 Harrison (West Lafayette) Injury default
2 Harriger, Logan (12) 29-5 West Lafayette
3 DeVoe, Chadd (10) 29-15 McCutcheon
4 Grayson, Trey (10) 27-15 Lafayette Jefferson
5 Irvin, Clinton (11) 26-13 Seeger
6 Happ, Brandon (12) 17-13 Benton Central
140 lbs.
1 Evers, Shane (11) 29-8 Harrison (West Lafayette) dec. 12-7
2 Stodgell, Rory (12) 25-13 Lafayette Jefferson
3 Fidler, Ross (11) 17-11 McCutcheon
4 Palmieri, Eric (9) 18-17 West Lafayette
5 Munson, Damon (11) 26-14 Benton Central
6 Smith, Cory 20-21 Delphi
145 lbs.
1 Nugent, Cameron (12) 23-6 Harrison (West Lafayette) major dec. 12-2
2 Peterson, Hayden (11) 15-15 Delphi
3 Hamrick, Jordan (10) 26-15 Lafayette Jefferson
4 Wethington, Jared (10) 15-16 McCutcheon
5 Raymon, Todd (11) 20-12 West Lafayette
6 Moore, Scott (10) 37-4 Seeger
152 lbs.
1 Vlahos, Cameron (10) 38-2 Harrison (West Lafayette) injury default
2 Dale, Cheney (10) 31-6 McCutcheon
3 Cooper, Tyler (12) 24-8 Delphi
4 Currie, Noah (11) 14-8 Attica
5 Baker, Doug (9) 9-11 Lafayette Jefferson
6 Cohen, Bryan (10) 10-8 Seeger
160 lbs.
1 Atwood, Braden (10) 40-1 Delphi dec. 6-0
2 McCoy, Tyler (11) 32-7 McCutcheon
3 Lazarz, Mitchell (12) 19-7 West Lafayette
4 Weston, Travis (12) 21-11 Lafayette Jefferson
5 Lynch, Jacob (12) 25-14 Harrison (West Lafayette)
6 Bachman, Matt (10) 9-10 Attica
171 lbs.
1 Cravatt, Mark (12) 37-3 Seeger dec. 5-4
2 Evans, Shane (12) 29-11 Delphi
3 Arihood, Michael (12) 29-8 McCutcheon
4 Kepner, Chad (11) 25-16 Benton Central
5 Trueblood, Eli (12) 17-8 Attica
6 Cox, Jack (11) 11-17 Harrison (West Lafayette)
189 lbs.
1 McCann, Sean (12) 31-3 Lafayette Jefferson dec. 5-3
2 Delaney, Brandon (10) 30-11 Delphi
3 Robertson, Marcus (11) 14-20 McCutcheon
4 Kepner Travis (11) 11-5 Benton Central
5 Milakis, Jacob (10) 23-11 Lafayette Central Catholic
6 Linsenmeyer, Bowdie 11-18 Harrison (West Lafayette)
215 lbs.
1Thomack, Josh (12) 31-4 Harrison (West Lafayette) dec. 4-3
2 Mills, Chad (12) 23-8 Lafayette Jefferson
3 Kauffman, Nick (12) 25-5 Benton Central
4 Yoakum, Travis (11) 24-19 Delphi
5 Strong, Mark (10) 19-8 Lafayette Central Catholic
6 Sumner, Matt (9) 11-20 McCutcheon
285 lbs.
1 Everett, Wesley (11) 31-7 Delphi fall 3:01
2 MacDonald, Eric (12) 30-5 Harrison (West Lafayette)
3 Benner, Dereck (11) 19-13 Benton Central
4 Smith, Brad (11) 19-10 McCutcheon
5 Mukai, Zachary (10) 28-15 Seeger
6 McCann, Brandon (10) 21-13 Lafayette Jefferson
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