Who beat celico and sauro? Are there brackets/resuls anywhere?
I put brackets and a short write-up in the Brackets section of this site. Below is a good article from the Concord Monitor newspaper that highlights the Sauro match and discusses the Celico match as well.
Wrestling Trio Take Titles for Tide at Capital City ClassicAfter Concord’s George Tarwo lost to James Sauro from Bishop Hendricken of Rhode Island in overtime of the 182-pound final at last year’s Capital City Classic, the two wrestlers had a talk.
“He told me he’d be back,” Tarwo said. “I was like, okay, we’re going to go at it again, and it’s going to be me or you, and this time I know it’s going to be me.”
Tarwo was right. The two met again in the 2016 Cap City Classic on Saturday and this time Tarwo pulled out the title with a thrilling 4-3 win.
“I thought George stole the show tonight,” Concord Coach Ham Munnell said.
Even so, it was Hendricken that walked away with a second straight team title, finishing with 195.5 points. Concord took second with 178.5 points, while Noble of Maine was third with 159.5 in what was one of the toughest fields in the Cap City’s 23 years.
The Crimson Tide was much closer to Hendricken than it was in 2015, when the Hawks had 271.5 points and Concord was third with 182 (Noble finished second with 199). And the Tide just beat Hendricken in a dual match earlier this month. Still, Concord would have liked to wear its own crown.
“It was awesome beating (Hendricken) in the dual meet, but since this is our tournament, it would have been awesome to take home our trophy,” said Concord’s Mark Hoyt, who won the 106 title.
But make no mistake, it was a solid day for the Tide. Tarwo and Hoyt came back from runner-up finishes last year to claim titles. Junior Chris Munnell, the coach’s son, earned the biggest win of his career at a tournament he’s been coming to for as long as he can remember with a pin in the 152 final. Sophomore Alex Buteau (220) made a run to the finals at 220. Liddon Ling (132) took third at 132. Mitch Comeau (195) and Tyshawn Roberts (285) both placed fifth and Levi-Byron Larkin finished sixth at 285.
“I think everyone went above and beyond,” Hoyt said. “We have two guys out, but everyone stepped up and I think we wrestled extremely tough as a team. I’m proud of my team.”
There’s no question Tarwo showed, and needed, plenty of toughness against Sauro in the 182 final. After a scoreless first period, Sauro started on top in the second and rode Tarwo for the entire period.
“To be honest, when he got ridden out, I thought, ‘Uh-oh,’ ” Coach Munnell said. “That’s a long time to be on bottom, that’s when you get real tired.”
But Tarwo has been working on his conditioning, in part because he ran out of gas in last year’s 3-1 overtime loss to Sauro. So after Tarwo let Sauro up to start the third period to give up the first point of the match – “I didn’t want to ride him, it would have made me exhausted,” Tarwo said – and then fought off Sauro’s shots for the first half of the third, the Concord junior still had enough gas in the tank for the final, frenzied seconds.
With about 30 seconds left in the match, Tarwo twice snapped down on both of Sauro’s arms as he tried two shots in succession. Tarwo’s defense created an opening the second time around, allowing him to gain control of Sauro for a 2-1 lead. He let Sauro up to make it 2-2 with :23 on the clock, but just six seconds later, Tarwo once again used defense, this time a neck snap, to create enough space to spin behind Sauro, earn two points for control and take a 4-2 lead.
“I knew I had to get around him quick,” Tarwo said. “So I had to hold down his head and, like Coach always tells us, just spin, spin, spin.”
Tarwo let Sauro up on a re-start with :09 left and then held on for the 4-3 decision.
“Last year George was really rolling (all the way to the 182 Meet of Champions title), but he’s had a couple hiccups this year and he really hasn’t done any big things,” Munnell said. “But now he’s had a good two or three weeks, and for him to beat (Sauro) like that, I think that pushes him to the forefront. He’s peaking at the right time.”
After the loss, Sauro sat by himself for about 30 minutes. Eventually someone came to talk to him, and that someone was Tarwo. This post-match discussion wasn’t about next year since Sauro is a senior. Instead, the two reminisced about facing each other since middle school and talked about where Sauro might go to college.
“It’s all about respect,” Tarwo said.
The younger Munnell earned some respect of his own by winning the tournament that his parents have been bringing him to, “probably since I was in a carriage or something like that.”
“It’s been a dream,” Chris Munnell said minutes after he won on Saturday, the thrill of the win still in his voice and bouncing feet.
Munnell was the top seed at 152 and he wrestled like it, pinning his first two opponents before beating Hendricken’s Mark Arcand in the semifinals, 6-4, to set up a championship match against Noble’s Kasey Rogers.
After watching Rogers earlier in the day, Munnell decided he wanted to be physical in the final, so he came out with repeated head slaps. The tactic seemed to bother Rogers, but it didn’t lead to any points. When Rogers chose bottom to start the second period, however, he played into Munnell’s hands.
“Top is my thing,” Munnell said, “so I was glad when he took bottom.”
Munnell did his thing in the final minute of the second, running and re-running a half-nelson until he pinned Rogers with 27 seconds left in the period.
“When you’re the top seed it comes with a lot of pressure, and Chris handled that today,” the elder Munnell said. “And this is certainly the best tournament he’s ever won, by far.”
Like Tarwo, Hoyt was a runner-up at last year’s Cap City. He didn’t get a finals rematch, but Hoyt did get the title he was looking for with a 2-0 win against Leo Amabile from Massabesic of Maine.
“This is one of my favorite tournaments, I always look forward to it and I’ve always wanted to win it,” Hoyt said.
Bow finished 17th in the 21-team tournament with 26 points. Ben Boufford was the only place-winner for the Falcons, taking sixth at 138.
John Stark was 18th overall, but would have had more than its nine points if Ben Widmann had not been injured in the 132 semifinals and defaulted all the way to sixth place.
Winnisquam finished tied for 18th with nine points.