Raiders鈥� Szewczyk ends career with 111-42 record
Waynesburg Central sent three wrestlers to the PIAA Class AAA wrestling championships in Hershey and each picked up at least one win but came up short of a medal.
Senior Ky Szewczyk wrapped up his high school career with a 2-2 mark in the state tournament.
Szewczyk opened by winning a 3-2 decision over Conestoga’s Miles Warkentine in the preliminary round but dropped a 5-2 decision to Northampton’s Trey Wagner in the first round.
Szewczyk bounced back in the consolation bracket with a 4-1 decision over Keagen Oler of Erie Cathedral Prep but he was eliminated in the next round, dropping a tight, 7-6 decision to Hickory’s Brady Slicker.
Szewczyk finishes his Waynesburg career with a 111-42 record including 32-11 this season. He finished second in the sectionals and fourth in the Southwest Regional.
Raiders’ junior Brock Evans and sophomore Roan Tustin both went 1-2 in PIAA competition.
Evans opened with a preliminary-round pin of Neshaminy’s Evnazar Baiyshbekov in 3:52 before losing by 20-5 technical fall to Thomas Jefferson’s Bode Marlow in 5:01.
Evans then lost a 5-2 decision to Bethlehem Catholic’s Charlie Scanlan, 5-2, in the consolation bracket. He wrapped up his season with a 24-14 record and has a career mark of 37-26. Evans placed fourth in the sectionals and the regional.
Tustin was pinned by Twin Valley’s Ean Winchester in 35 seconds in the first round. He dropped into the consolations where he won a 6-5 decision over New Oxford’s Michah Smith before losing by fall in 1:37 to St. Joseph’s Prep’s Maxwell Roy.
Tustin ended his season with a 24-6 record and is 45-11 after two years. He was a section champion and placed second in the regional.