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Darien Wrestling Beats Harding, 53-42

Lars Remole earns 100th career win for Blue Wave, who improve to 20-3 and continue their record-setting season

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Darien wrestling coach Joe Vano and his team couldn't have timed it any better.

The Blue Wave recorded their  20th win Thursday in their final regular-season home match, defeating Harding 53-32 on senior night.

It marks the first time the Darien wrestling team has enjoyed a 2o-win season. The previous record for wins was 16, set twice, including last year.

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Leading the way for Darien (20-3) on Thursday was  Lars Remole, who become only the fourth wrestler in school history with 100 individual match wins in a career.

Before the meet, the seniors and families that were introduced included Cindy Gaete, Dimitri Chagares, Connor Beaumont, Cody Dizeo, John Corcoran, Lars Remole, Brendan Hughes, Jared Murphy and James Shanley.

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Darien closes the regular season on Saturday in a tri-meet against Foran, Enfield and Stratford.

The postseason, consisting of four competitions, begins with the FCIAC trials, wrestlebacks and finals at New Canaan on February 11-13. That will be followed by the CIAC Class L Championships at Bristol High (Feb. 18-19), the CIAC Open championships (Feb. 25-26)  in New Haven and the New England Championships (Mar. 3-5),  also in New Haven.

Here are the results from Thursday's meet:

103 pounds - Hector Reyes (H) beat Cindy Geate (D) by major decision 16-2

112 - Ben Holcomb (D) won by forfeit

119 - Colten Appleby (D) won by forfeit

125 - Connor Beaumont (D) beat Victor Pichardo (H) by pin, 0:55

130 - Dimitri Chagares (D) beat Eduardo Torres (H) by pin, 0:33

135 - Cody Dizeo (D) beat Graham Vaughn (H) by decision 20-18

140 - Lars Remole (D) beat Eroll James by technical fall 15-0
 
145 - Noah Moore (H) beat Tyler Corcoran (D) by pin, 4:55

152 - Luis Santana (H) beat Brendan Hughes (D) by pin,  1:49

160 - Max Kiplinger (D) beat Jose Nieves (H) by pin,  1:38

171 - John Forlivio (D) beat Ariam Rivera (H) by decision 7-1

189 - Jared Murphy (D) beat Daniel Mancia (H) by pin, 0:45

215 - James Shanley (D) won by forfeit

285 - Daniel Draper (H) beat Oscar Parson (D) by pin, 0:53

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