No.1 @BHSDogsWrestlin set for season-opening Westfield dual
By Keelen Barlow
The Brownsburg varsity wrestling team will kick off their 2019-2020 campaign with a home dual against Westfield on December 4. Wednesday's contest will start at 6:30 from the Varsity Fieldhouse.
Last Season
Brownsburg continued their historic run under head coach Darrick Snyder with a fourth consecutive IHSWCA Duals State Championship and a third-place finish at the 2019 IHSAA Wrestling State Finals. The Bulldogs, who sent a school-record nine wrestlers to the IHSAA State Finals last season, were headlined by 285-pound Dorian Keys who won the 2019 IHSAA Championship during his junior campaign.
The Bulldogs return four other wrestlers who were state placers a season ago. That list includes 106-pound Logan Miller, 126-pound Kysen Montgomery, 138-pound Drake Campbell and 160-pound Peyton Asbury.
Brownsburg notched a 14-1 dual record and won their fifth consecutive Hoosier Crossroads Conference Championship.
'Dogs in the Rankings
Brownsburg has a wrestler ranked in the top-fifteen of all but three weight classes in the IndianaMat.com Individual State Rankings. That group is highlighted by Keys who is ranked No. 1 in the heavyweight class. Five Brownsburg wrestlers are ranked in the top five in the state for their weight class: FULL LIST
As a team, Brownsburg is ranked in the top three of this week's Indiana Mat Team Dual Rankings and Power Poll. The Bulldogs are the No. 1 team in the state of Indiana by the Team Dual Rankings and the No. 3 team in the state in the website's Power Poll.
The Bulldogs come in at No. 34 in the InterMat High School Fab 50 team rankings which complies a list of the fifty best high school wrestling teams in the country. Brownsburg is the only team from Indiana to make the list.
About the Shamrocks
Westfield posted a 13-6 dual record last year under head coach Phil Smith. The Shamrocks finished in fourth place in the IHSAA Sectional at Frankfort and third in the IHSAA Regional at North Montgomery. Westfield had two wrestlers qualify for the 2019 IHSAA State in 170-pound Kyle Saez, who has since graduated, and 132-pound Carson Eldred.
Heading into this season, Eldred was named an "Indiana High School Wrestler" to watch by Rich Torres of the Indianapolis Star. Last season Eldred was a Sectional and Regional champion for the Shamrocks.
132-pound senior Milo Merkel is the lone Westfield wrestler who is featured in the IndianaMat Individual Rankings. Merkel was a Sectional champion and Regional runner-up last year. 113-pound Dylan Driver, ranked No. 5 for his weight class among wrestlers from the IHSAA Semi-State at New Castle, is another name to watch for the Shamrocks.
Brownsburg traveled to Westfield for a dual to open the 2018-2019 season and took down the Shamrocks 54-12. Evan Lawhead, Drake Campbell, Griffin Ison, Jacob Cookerly, Lawson Aiken, and Dorian Keys, also recorded falls on the night.
Probable Brownsburg Starters (IndianaMat Rankings)
106- No. 2 Logan Miller
113- No. 14 Braden Haines
120- Gavin Garcia
126- No. 3 Kysen Montgomery
132- Jack Hunziker
138- Stabir Signh
145- Nick Cicciarelli
152- No. 13 Jacob Cookerly
160- No. 5 Peyton Asbury
170- No. 11 Greg Golver
182- Jahmon Spiller
195- No. 10 Isaiah Street
220- No. 13 Leighton Jones
Heavy Weight- No. 1 Dorian Keys
Up Next
Brownsburg will head to Harrison, Ohio on Saturday for the Harrison Duals at William Henry Harrison High School. The Bulldogs will wrestle against a team from Ohio in each of the five rounds of the event.
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