Wildcat Wrestling Season Opens

A fantastic finish closed out freshman Tyler Love’s first high school wrestling tournament. Tyler came away with a hard fought, well-earned sixth place finish in the prestigious Ray Oliver Wrestling Tournament at The McDonigh School in Owings Mills, Maryland. 

Love battled a bloody nose in his final three matches, using all but a few seconds of his allotted blood time in all three of those matches. Coaches and trainers worked feverishly to stop the bleeding and were successful in getting Love back on the mat and through his bracket. The young freshman butted heads with several upper classmen and had his hand raised in four of his seven matches, proving he could compete with all high school wrestlers and setting himself up to have a fantastic 2011-2012 season.

Overall the young CVHS wrestling team is improving weekly. Generating some wins for Centreville at the Ray Oliver meet were freshman Chung Do Kim, who went 1-2 at 106 pounds, junior Josh Cowman (2-2 at 126 pounds), junior Dillon Dull (2-2 at 145 pounds) and junior Joe Steinbach (1-2 at 220 pounds). Kim was exciting in capturing his first career win, as was Cowman, who recorded a pin on the day for his first win but came up one round short in his bid to place in the top six. Dull secured a decision and a pin to join Kim and Cowman in the win column. Steinbach began his season wrestling his Langley nemesis, Tate Dulany, but lost in a hard fought overtime match. He won his next bout, then came up a little short in the consolations.

The team will next compete at the NOVA Classic on Dec. 9th and 10th at .