Xaverian profitable with stability – Boston Herald

The George Bossi Lowell Vacation Match is a gold commonplace of highschool wrestling occasions. In case you can grasp in Lowell, that’s a fairly correct barometer by which to evaluate your program.

Xaverian took its abilities to Lowell and the match ended, the Hawks turned in a decent thirteenth place efficiency. Among the many groups they completed forward of had been Franklin, Wayland, Methuen. Minnechaug and Beverly.

“We actually had some nice performances there,” mentioned Tom Trovato, the pinnacle coach at Xaverian for the previous 26 years. “We bought plenty of early pins and saved the momentum going. We wound up having three guys place there (Nathan Sayers, George McAteer and Mateus Dalton) and that was nice.

“We at all times go to Lowell for a cause. It’s the hardest match in New England and the youngsters love going there as a result of it’s so aggressive.”

Xaverian has been one of many extra constant tournament-type groups within the early a part of the season. Along with their exhibiting at Lowell, the Hawks received the Bob Homosexual Whitman-Hanson Invitational, took second at Weymouth, third at Milford and fifth at Ashland.

“We’ve had a fairly good winter,” Trovato mentioned. “We’ve actually bought a bunch of youngsters which is at all times one thing you need, it’s a very cohesive group of youngsters. You come into our practices and also you see seniors working with the youthful children and that’s not one thing you at all times see in a observe room.”

Whereas Xaverian has been lucky sufficient to have 12 totally different wrestlers place in match occasions, the top-rated Hawks are Nathan Sayers (126 kilos) and George McAteer (132). Every has received 4 tournaments, positioned within the high three at Lowell and are ranked among the many high 5 wrestlers in New England at their respective weight lessons.

“They’re dedicated to the game, they labored very onerous at it,” Trovato mentioned. “I believe they’re lucky in that they get to work out in opposition to one another in observe on daily basis and that makes them higher.”

Along with McAteer and Sayers, Dalton has positioned in all 5 tournaments and received the Bob Homosexual Whitman-Hanson Invitational at 190 kilos. The opposite Hawks who’ve made contributions embody James Goedde (175), Luke Dwyer (113), Jonathan Lyder (138), Joseph Karvelis (165), Matthew Karvelis (120), Connor Follett (215), Zachary Fondo (144), Timothy Mohan (150) and Marcel Karam (157).

“I’ve realized a very long time in the past that my aim is to assist the youngsters as a lot as potential,” Trovato mentioned. “I would like them to grasp that it’s extra than simply wins and losses. I would like them to become good folks, individuals who perceive what’s proper and what’s incorrect.”

Brief takes

The newest twin meet rankings have Shawsheen atop the leaderboard adopted by Milford, St. John’s Prep, Central Catholic, Bridgewater-Raynham, Natick, West Springfield, Chelmsford, New Bedford and Arlington.

In accordance with Max Schwartz’s extremely widespread Schwartz Report, 5 Bay State wrestlers are ranked atop his New England leaderboard as of the beginning of the yr. The Fab 5 embody Franklin freshman John Woodall (106 kilos), Billerica junior Peter Rincan (120), Andover junior Yandel Morales (132), Shawsheen junior James Tildsley (150) and Chelmsford senior Thomas Brown (285). The Villanova-bound Brown just lately earned Herald All-Scholastic soccer honors.

It was an enormous evening within the Patriot League as rising contender Scituate defeated Plymouth South for the primary time ever, 42-31. Incomes victories for the Sailors (10-3) had been Thayne Hershiser, Manny Lopes, Grayson Loeffel, AJ Reimels, Brady Standridge, Liam Holden, Xander Pizer and Wyllys Ames.

Elsewhere, St. John’s Prep standout Braedon Goes grew to become the most recent wrestler in class historical past to crack the 150-win mark final week throughout a twin meet with Wellesley.