Consolation Finals

At 103 Malik Rasheed will wrestle for fifth place. He takes on Tim Schaefer. Just like the first match in the quartefinals, Rasheed pulls out a 3-2 win to take fifth in the state. Not a bad finish for the freshman. Schaefer gave up an escape in the third for a neutral start which was the difference in the match. The coaches for Lancaster were not too pleased with that decision to give up a point. Especially afterward when it costs him the match.

So Malik is done for the day and the season. As the wild card, he takes fifth place, his best finish in his short career.


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At 145 Anthony Volpe will face Ryan Tompkins for third/fourth. Tompkins lost in the semifinals to Brian Herold of Macarthur. Tompkins is from Beacon (Section I).

He wins an 8-3 decision to take third place.


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At 160 Billy Coggins will face John Paris of Amsterdam, the same wrestler he lost to in the quarterfinals. They're scoreless after a one-minute first period. Coggins gets two with 1:00 left in the second to take a 2-1 lead which he holds onto going into the third period. Coggins gets another points to make it 3-1. He gets two more to go ahead 5-1. He wins it 5-3.


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In the final consolation at 189 Zach Buonaiuto is taking on Marvin Titus-Casseus, the same wrestler he beat in the county final. Buonaiuto takes a 4-3 lead in the second period. He falls behind 6-4 after two. He wins it 10-6 to take fifth.

Buonaiuto was pretty emotional after the match as he hugged it out with coach Dom LoRe. A long career, the best in Miller Place history, had reached its end.

That wraps up the consolation finals. A few more matches are finishing up right now in the heavyweights and then the arena will be cleared and set up for the finals. The arena opens back up at 5 p.m. and around 5:45 will have the parade of champions with wrestling at 6.