Marshall Places Twentieth At Northern Region Wrestling Championships

Marshall High School placed twentieth overall with 26.00 points at the 2011 Northern Region Wrestling Championships Saturday evening at Fairfax High School.

Although the Statesmen didn’t fare as well as they hoped to as a whole, Marshall head coach Jason Planakis still remained optimistic about his team’s tournament performance,

“We had some setbacks. A couple guys that I thought would do a little better didn’t have the tournament that they had expected. But, at the same time, Zac Brooks, had a phenomenal tournament. He beat two guys that he had lost to a week ago, in order to finish here at fifth-place. At the beginning of the season, it wasn’t even clear that he was going to be our starter. To go from that, to being fifth is pretty good…a couple guys didn’t do what we thought they’d do, but at the same time, it (tournament) was pretty successful,” remarked Jason Planakis.

Two Marshall wrestlers placed in their events. James Cusak (112 lb.) earned a fifth place finish in his bracket, and Zack Brooks (215 lb.), pulled the upset, finishing fifth as well in his bracket.