Page 28 - 2020-21 Wrestling State Finals Program

Last Year’s State Finals

Cathedral bests the field for Third Straight Year

Indianapolis Cathedral wrestlers won two weight Crown Point senior Jesse Mendez collected the 132
classes and three other wrestlers earned their second pound crown with a major decision victory over Perry
state championships during the 82nd Annual IHSAA Meridian’s Matthew Koontz under the spotlight. Men-
Wrestling State Finals at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. dez completed his senior campaign 40-1 after winning
the 126 bracket in 2019.
Cathedral advanced three of its nine weekend contes-
tants to the championship matches and the top-ranked
Irish claimed the school’s third consecutive team title
under coach Sean McGinley. Crown Point took runner- Final Team Standings:
up honors with 93.5 points, Evansville Mater Dei 1. Indianapolis Cathedral 102.0
placed third with 85, Brownsburg was fourth with 63.5, 2. Crown Point 93.5
and Roncalli rounded out the top five with 63 points. 3. Evansville Mater Dei 85.0
Zeke Seltzer finished undefeated at 43-0 winning the 4. Brownsburg 63.5
5. Roncalli
63.0
120 pound class and Holden Parsons took the heavy- 6. Perry Meridian 59.0
weight division (38-4) to account for Cathedral’s two 7. Avon 58.0
champions. Logan Bailey settled for runner-up at 138. T8. Chesterton 45.0
Three wrestlers won the second state championship of T8. Mishawaka 45.0
their careers led by a pair of unbeatens. 10. Warren Central 39.0
Alec Viduya, Roncalli senior, won the 145 pound
weight class after taking a 6-4 sudden victory decision
from JaJuan Anderson of Warren Central to finish 45-0.
Viduya won the 113 title as a freshman in 2017 and
was the 132 runner-up last year.
Shenandoah senior Silas Allred wrestled his way to his
second straight 195 pound title with four consecutive
pins this weekend including one at the 5:12 mark of
the final match against Jacob LaPlace of Mishawaka.
Allred closed 39-0.

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