Wrestling: Freedom Varsity and JV Have Banner Weekends; Timbers Takes 6th at Beast of the East

The Freedom Wrestling Team had a banner performance this weekend. The Eagles were all over the State and the East Coast as the team competed in three separate events. And in the end the varsity and JV teams took home titles and senior DaQuante Timbers cemented his national credentials with a 6th place finish at the prestigious Beast of the East tournament.


Freedom Varsity Defends Lou Nagy Invitational Title
The Freedom Varsity Wrestling Team defended their Lou Nagy Invitational Championship, winning the tournament for the 3rd consecutive year. The Eagles dominated the field finishing over 100 points ahead of 2nd place Stuarts Draft. The Eagles finished with 13 of their 14 wrestlers placing in the top 4, and placed 9 individuals in the finals. The Eagles walked away with 6 individual champions.

106- Anthony Chau was untested the entire weekend as he pinned his way through the tournament, including his finals opponent.

120- Dua Silva won his first ever tournament title by tech falling Stuarts Draft's Jesse Smallwood in the final. Silva reached the finals on the back of two pins, including his Semi final match against Tristian Bailey of Broadway

138- Cody Hamm became the Eagles 3rd individual champion when he pinned Broadway's Tyler Torkelson in the finals. Hamm reached the finals with a 8-0 decision over a game Tyler Colvin of Fort Defiance.

145- Andrew Hinrichs may have scored the Eagles most impressive win of the tournament when he won a 10-2 decision over AA State Qualifier Brett Talley of Stuarts Draft. The Eagle Sophomore, was up 4-2 in the final period before turning Talley twice in the final period to secure the win.

170- Patrick Haggerty used a pair of pins to secure a place in the finals before beating Waynesboro's Kahwan Veney 10-3 in the finals.

182- Tyler Young had a very impressive day by defeating a pair of State Qualifiers from a year ago. His first was a 15-2 decision over Stuarts Draft's Sam Veney and the second was a pin over Harrisonburg's Brad Johnson in the finals

Others placing for the Eagles were
113- Gray Murray(3rd)
126- Matt Allison(4th)
132- Levi Hamm(4th)
152- Cole Scoggin(2nd)
160- Andrew Nelson(2nd)
195- Brendan Kammerdeiner(3rd)
220- Chris Freda(2nd)

Freedom J.V. Finishes First at Broad Run Meet
The Eagle J.V. wrestling team competed at Broad Run High School in Ashburn and had an outstanding performance over all. The eagles finished in 1st place in the bracketed individual tournament after placing 24 individuals in the top 4 of the tournament. The Eagles also had four individual tournament champions in Noah Carney, Tyler Beck, Jason Cardozo, and Truman Davenport.

Placing for the Eagles were
Matt Curry(2nd)
Aspen Whiteside(3rd)
Nick Hosti(4th)
Ben Gluck(3rd)
Austin Kilbride(4th)
Matt Garcia(4th)
Mitchell Richards(3rd)
Henry Liu(4th)
Tariq Ayubi(4th)
Jack Wrenn(2nd)
Bradley Nelson(3rd)
Brandon Rafferty(4th)
Stephen Young(2nd)
Kyle Murphy(2nd)
Jason Cardozo(1st)
Sean Stallings(2nd)
Reid Clark(3rd)
Tyler Duffy(2nd)
Nick Brown(2nd)
Devin Richards(4th)
Nived Sultan(4th)


DaQuante Timbers Takes 4th at Beast of the East Tournament
This past weekend DaQuante Timbers competed at the Beast of the East. This tournament is the #1 tournament in the country and DaQuante's 6th place finish assured him of National Attention. Timbers(who is currently ranked the #16 Senior Heavyweight in the country by USA Wrestling Magazine) cruised through his first two matches reaching the Quarterfinals with pins over Mitch Ward of Middletown PA, and Allan Beattie of Kiski, PA.

In the Quarters, Timbers received a set back when he lost to Delaware State Champion Dink Purnell, before bouncing back to win his next two matches. Timbers' next match against Cape Henlop Delaware's Thomas Ott, was a battle of two state medal winners. Timbers carried a slight lead going into the third period beforing turning Ott to his back for a pin in the third. In his next match Timbers faced Germantown Academy's Chuck Boddy a recent Bucknell University Wrestling Commit. After falling behind 1-0 early in the second period Timbers scored a takedown to take the lead for good before pinning Boddy in the second period, and assuring Timbers of a top 6 finish.

After a loss to eventual 3rd Place Finisher Michael Johnson of Wyoming Seminary(a national runner up) Timbers' bounced by wrestling tough against Zach Dawe of Pleasant Valley Utah. The State Medal winner from Utah fell behind Timbers and was in bad shape, losing 6-1 before he was injured and could not continue the match with 30 seconds remaining. Unfortunately, the injury was a result of an illegal move applied by Timbers and as a result Dawe elected not to finish the match and win by default.

Overall, Timbers weekend was a huge success as he cemented himself as one of the top high school heavyweights in the country. Timbers becomes the only wrestler from Loudoun County to place at the Beast of the East.