Mifflin County adds District 6 Championship to its distinguished 2021-22 season

By Kenny Varner Jr.
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Updated: February 5, 2022

By Kenny Varner

LEWISTOWN – Still undefeated!!!

After a regular undefeated season, the MIfflin County Huskies wrestling team put its undefeated streak alive in their District 6 Class AAA team Championship match against Central Mountain Saturday morning at the ‘Huskies home mat.

The match would be one that would go down to the last two matches before the match would be clinched by Kyler Everly.

Everly took the contest by pin at 172 en route to clinching the championship for the Huskies.

In the end, MIfflin County finished the contest the winners of a 42-24 victory.

“To be this far into it you have to have all 13 guys. Kyler’s match sealed the deal. But you think about all the other guys in between there and the jobs they did,” said MIfflin County coach Kirby Martin. “It’s awesome. Just like a kid like Lucas Sheetz who didn’t get pinned. It’s those things that are so important to winning a district title like this.”

The Huskies got the bye being the number one seed and had to wait to see early on who would advance from the opening contest that pitted Bellefonte against Central Mountain.

After a highly competitive match, the Wildcats would outlast the Red Raiders 37-26 to extend their day.

With the Huskies holding onto a 30-24 lead going into 172, Everly faced off against Rocco Serafini.

Everly started things on an early take down. He allowed Serafini up, making it a 2-1 contest. He then took down Serafini for the second time in the first. Everly continued to dominate things in the second after an escape and a takedown, upping the lead to 8-2 going into the second. In the third, Everly was able to turn Serafini over for the pin at 4:55.

After clinching the victory for the Huskies, MIfflin County had one last match at 189, MIfflin County’s Trey Shoemaker went up against Damien Gallentine.

Shoemaker came out strong taking an early 5-0 first period advantage. He built up a 6-0 advantage after an early second period escape. He then pinned Gallentine at 3:24 adding to the lead and finishing the scoring at 42-24.

The Match started at 215 and the Huskies built up an early lead.

Anson Wagner got the match started in fine fashion as he was able to get a second period fall over Micah Walizer at 2:39.

Jaxson Pupo notched a 3-0 decision at 285. Pupo was the aggressive one in his match up against Brayden Blackwell. Blackwell played possum for most of the match trying not to hook up with Pupo. After an escape point early, Pupo finished with a late third period take down to take the decision.

In the 106-pound weight class, Styers Oden made quick work over Leeah Eisenhower, pinning her at the :20 mark.

Mifflin County made it 4-consecutive wins when Nic Allison won by forfeit at 113 pounds.

At 120, MIfflin County won once again when Hunter Johnson pinned Clayton Foster at the 2:44 mark.

Central Mountain took over the momentum, winning the next five out of six matches to pull close.

The winning started at 126, Dalton Perry pinned MIfflin County’s Colby Seiler at 1:13.

Taylor Weaver took his contest at 132 for the Wildcats when he won by pinfall over Blake Aumiller at 1:46.

At 138, Braylen Corter took control of his match against Jacob Cunningham winning by a major decision at 15-7.

145-pounder Luke Simcox continued the Central Mountain victories as he notched a 19-2 tech fall over Lucas Sheetz at 4:59.

Deakon Schaeffer ended the Wildcats run when he was able to pick up a thrilling win in the fourth overtime period over Jacob Weaver 6-5. Tied 4-4 after regulation, neither wrestler was able to score in sudden victory but after over Weaver was able to get a point by escape in the second overtime, taking a 5-4 lead Schaeffer was able to pick up a takedown and hold on from there for the 6-5 victory.

At 160, Central Mountain picked up its last win when Griffin Walizer found himself in a tough match over Parker Kearns 4-2.

Mifflin County travels to Hershey Thursday for an 8:00 pm battle in State competition.