Three Taconic Wrestlers into Quarters at Lowell Tournament

LOWELL, Mass. -- The Taconic wrestling team has three competitors through to the championship quarter-finals heading into Friday’s second day of the George Bossi Lowell Holiday Tournament at the Tsongas Center.

 

Dylan Burke, Shawn O’Shea and Zabion Powell each is still alive for an individual title, and Taconic is currently seventh out of 76 teams competing at the two-day tournament.

 

Springfield Central is in first place with 105 points, and Bennington, Vt.’s, Mount Anthony Union is in fourth place with 90. Taconic has 69 points.

 

Burke, at 182 pounds, advanced through the round of 16 with his second pin of the day, stopping Hopkinton’s Aidan Moran in 35 seconds. On Friday, he faces Nashua South’s Robert Isaac in the quarters.

 

O’Shea faces Joe Gjinjaj of Connecticut’s Fairfield Warde in the 195 pound quarter-finals on Friday. O’Shea won three times by pin on Thursday, stopping competitors from Hollis Brookline, Hopkinton and Wayland.

 

Powell pinned his opponent in the first minute in his first two matches at 145 on Thursday. He then went the distance to earn a 12-5 win over Nashua South’s Tom Cullerton in the Round of 16. Powell Friday faces Southington’s Jacob Cardozo, the tournament’s top seed, in the quarters.

 

Taconic also has four wrestlers competing going into Friday in the consolation brackets: Mike LeFreniere at 126, Deven Pekosz at 132, Mike Puskey at 160 and Isiah Hartman-Caesar at 285.