Page 28 - 2017-18 Wrestling State Finals Program

Last Year’s State Finals

Three Wrestlers Become Back-to-Back State Champions,
Brownsburg Wins Team Title

Lawrenceburg’s Mason Parris, Evansville Mater Dei’s with a wrestler that claimed a state championship.
Joe Lee, and Brownsburg’s Brayton Lee joined an elite Yorktown is the only school with multiple winners
group of becoming two-time state champions during during the 2017 State Finals, Brayden Curtis and Brad
79th Annual IHSAA Wrestling State Finals at Banker Laughlin.
Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Roncalli’s Alec Viduya is the only freshman winner
Coming out victorious and ending his season unde- of the 79th State Finals. Cayden Rooks, Columbus
feated (53-0), Mason Parris, Lawrenceburg, became a East, won in the 120 pound class. Alec White, New
state champion for the second year in a row defeat- Palestine, took home the title in the 126 pound class.
ing undefeated Corbin Maddox, Daleville, to a fall. Cathedral’s Breyden Bailey won in the 132 pound
Dominating his match in the 152 pound weight class, class. Brendan Black, Hobart, and Eli Stock, Monrovia,
Joe Lee, Evansville Mater Dei, also became a two-time each won state titles in their respective weight classes.
champ, ending his season undefeated. The third
wrestler to become a two-time winner and also going Andrew Davison, Chesterton, and Evan Ellis, Eastern
undefeated this season, Brayton Lee, Brownsburg, (Greentown), both ended their high school careers
dominated in the final, winning in a major decision. undefeated and state champs.
For Brownsburg, it is the school’s first state title in A crowd of 12,456 witnessed Saturday night’s champi-
wrestling. The Bulldogs were led by coach Darrick onship matches for a weekend total of 33,844, a new
Snyder who won his third state title and became the three-session attendance record.
second coach in state history to win at two different
schools having led Mishawaka to the 2008 and 2010 Final Team Standings:
crowns. Brownsburg had eight participants that quali- 1. Brownsburgh 100
fied for the state finals and three that made it to the 2. Chesterton 80
state championship round. 3. Indianapolis Cathedral 67.5
4. Yorktown 67
Brownsburg finished with 100 points to beat out 5. Portage 54
runner-up Chesterton. Indianapolis Cathedral placed 6. Hobart 49
third with 67.5 points, Yorktown ended fourth with 67 7. Columbus East 47
and Portage was fifth at 54. Defending state champion 8. Monrovia 42
Warren Central did not place in the top 10. Of the 14 9. Evansville Mater Dei 40.5
weight class matched, there were 13 different schools 10. Perry Meridian 40

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