The Tyrone Golden Eagles have one wrestler remaining at the PIAA State Wrestling Championships at the Giant Center in Hershey.
\nFreshman A.J. Schopp (38-3) won his preliminary match by 6-0 shutout over Bethlehem Catholic sophomore Bryan Smith (35-9), the Southeast Region fourth place finisher.
\nSchopp, the Southwest Region champion will wrestle Derek Leiby (32-7), a sophomore from Troy High School, who was the third place finisher from the Northeast Region, in the quarterfinal round which began this morning at 9 a.m.
\nThe Eagle\u2019s senior 125-pound T.J. Albright (32-12) saw his illustrious high school career come to an end when he lost two matches to fall from the tournament.
\nAlbright opened his tournament by falling to Andrew Arnold (37-3), a senior from Northern Lehigh, who was the Southeast Region runner-up, by a 9-3 score.
\nIn his first round consolation match Albright lost a 4-2 ultimate tiebreaker rideout to Victor Konno (30-15) of Northwest Lehigh, the fifth place finisher from the Southeast region.
\nThe semifinals end third round consolations will begin at 6:30 p.m. this evening with fourth round consolations to follow at 9 p.m.
\nDouble-A third, fifth and seventh place consolation finals will take place at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon with championship finals beginning at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Tyrone Golden Eagles have one wrestler remaining at the PIAA State Wrestling Championships at the Giant Center in Hershey. Freshman A.J. Schopp (38-3) won his preliminary match by 6-0 shutout over Bethlehem Catholic sophomore Bryan Smith (35-9), the Southeast Region fourth place finisher. Schopp, the Southwest Region champion will wrestle Derek Leiby (32-7), a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}