This week Patrick Henry suffered a defeat on home turf, something that doesn’t happen a lot, at least not in the past three years. Patrick Henry was short on wrestlers due to injuries and Scripps Ranch came to win. It was a close match and both teams fought for every point. The defeat came when Scripps wrestler Dafn Wang clinched the win for Scripps with a pin. Patrick Henry was on its way to bring the difference to a one point loss after a pin by senior Aedyn Jamison and what seemed like a sure win by freshman Abdullah Alshami, but a third period technical disqualification pulled the score to 43-30.
Patriots had two days to regroup. Patriots sent to the prestigious Temecula Valley High School Battle for the Belt tournament three wrestlers and the Jim Londos Orange Glen tournament nine.
On Friday at Temecula Valley’s Battle for the Belt Koa Altmeyer was 2-1, winning over Saint Francis and Elijay Vinoray took fourth place, losing twice to Poway’s 13th in the state ranked wrestler. His second loss to Farha of Poway again was for third place where only one point was scored by Poway, clenching the win with a 0-1 victory. Both wrestlers are sure to meet each other again at CIF and Masters. Patrick Henry placed 37th of 52 teams.
Then on Saturday, Patrick Henry took the young squad to Orange Glen Jim Londos Memorial tournament. Koa Altmeyer took 5th place, including victory by pin over a Torrey Pines wrestler who beat him in overtime the week before at Hilltop. Alex Adler placed 5th while first year wrestler and senior Aedyn Jamison took 3rd place, missing a first place finish by 10 seconds. Freshman Ethan Vinoray was the champion at 113lb pushing the young team into 10th place out of 23 teams.
Next week the team faces off against Mira Mesa at home on Wednesday and JV goes to the Monte Vista JV tournament.
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