INDEPENDENCE—Perry won two individual championships and placed six other wrestlers in finishing fourth at the 2021 North Coast Classic over the weekend.
The Pirates finished with 369 points. Nordonia won the tournament with 433. Solon was second and North Royalton finished third with 409 and 378 points, respectively.
Dominic Ciolli won the 113-pound title and Brock Christian claimed the 132-pound championship. Riley Rowan (106), Zach Bellisimo (120), Domenick LaMacchia (150), and Ethan Hicks (165) all finished as the runner-up in their respective weight classes. Lucas Spring placed fourth at 113 and Ryan Brubaker was sixth at 157.
Ciolli finished pool wrestling with a 4-0 record and four pins. He then beat Westlake’s Chase Morgan in the championship semifinals, 16-3, and closed out the tournament with a 6-5 win over Aurora’s Luke Green in the championship bout.
Christian was 6-1 with four pins in pool wrestling. He secured an 8-1 decision in the semifinals and won the tournament with a 7-6 victory over Westlake’s Khaled Askar in the championship round.
Berkshire’s Josh Brown also won a tournament championship.
Brown won the 150-pound bracket with a 5-0 mark with four pins in pool wrestling. He then used a major decision to advance to the championship match where he pinned Perry’s LaMacchia in three minutes, 35 seconds.
Other Chagrin Valley Conference wrestlers to earn a spot on the podium included Berkshire’s Lucas Stoddard, who was second at 190, and Colin Hering, who was eighth at 106, and Independence’s Vinnie Kubicki, who placed eighth at 113 pounds.
TEAM SCORES
1. Nordonia 433
2. Solon 409
3. North Royalton 378
4. Perry 369
5. Aurora 342
6. Westlake315
7. Medina Highland 276
8. Ringgold 248
8. Tri-Valley 248
10. Revere 246
11. St. Ignatius 217
12. Berkshire 208
13. Willoughby South 197
14. Berea-Midpark 195
15. Columbia 183
16. Bay Village 182
17. Brunswick 176
18. Keystone 173
19. Holy Name 165
20. Padua 136
21. Twinsburg 129
22. Belle Vernon Area (PA) 128
23. Akron Ellet 126
24. Lutheran West 118
25. Independence 101
26. Coventry 98
27. Normandy 80
28. Brooklyn 27
