THE REMATCH? Sherwood's 135-pound Josh Lowy (top), here earning an early lead in last week's, 10-8, overtime win over Magruder's Alex Tolbert for the Montgomery County title, could earn a rematch with Tolbert...
THUMBS UP SIT-DOWN: Quince Orchard 285-pounder, Terrence Stephens (above) was on the winning end of last week's Montgomery County title bout opposite Kennedy's Jeff Hernandez. Stephens won his 26th match without a loss on Friday night to earn a berth into Saturday's Class 4A-3A West Regional semifinals.
Six Magruder wrestlers have advanced into Saturday's Class 4A-3A West Regional semifinals, giving the Colonels a 63-53 lead over second-place Walt Whitman, as well as the lead over Montgomery County Tournament champ Damascus (44 points), which is ranked 16th in the DigitalSports-Maryland State Wrestling Association.
Moving forward for the Colonels were Jordan Tolbert (103), Helen Maroulis (112), Max Schneiderman (119), Alex Tolbert (135), Stephen Norcio (145) and Chris Ralli (152).
After becoming the first female to make last weekend's county finals, Maroulis is looking to do the same in the regionals.
Maroulis has split bouts this season with Paint Branch's Danny Lethbridge, who defeated her for the county title last week.
Walt Whitman has moved eight wrestlers into the semifinals, with Dylan Symington (103), Andrew Follman (112), Joe Hancher (119), Eric Beverly (140), Steve Fisher (152), Aaron Norris (160), Taylor Leighton (171) and Danny Lee (215) all advancing.
For third-place Damascus, Eddie Obendorfer (135), Shane Boyd (140), Zeke Gammill (145), Steve Richards (189) and county champs Brian Wittenberger (171) and Josh Frederick (215) still are alive heading into the semifinals.
State runner-up Sean McCarty (130) of Northwest, who, last week, joined Sherwood's state runner-up Steve Gamble in winning his third straight county title, improved his school career record mark to 140 with his school-record 94th career pin.
Montgomery County champs Steve Miller (140) and Tim Stewart (160) of Paint Branch; Joseph (125) and Carlo Galeano (145) of Springbrook (145); Josh Lowy (135) and state runner-up Steve Gamble (152) of Sherwood; Rasheim Smith (103) of Blake; and Terrence Stephens (285) of Quince Orchard all advanced into the semifinals.
McCarty, Okeyo, Frederick and Stephens remained unbeaten at 33-0, 27-0, and, 26-0, respectively.
Carlo Galeano earned career victory No. 101.
Class 4A-3A West Regional Team Scores:
1 . Magruder (CZM) 63
2 . Walt Whitman (WWH) 53
3 . Damascus (DAM) 44
4 . Northwest (NWM) 40
5 . Sherwood (SHE) 39.5
6 . Springbrook (SPB) 38.5
7 . Hubie Blake (JHB) 30
8 . Quince Orchard (QOR) 29
9 . Paint Branch (PBR) 29
10 . Montgomery Blair (MTB) 22
11 . Wootton (TSW) 14
12 . John F. Kennedy (JFK) 13
13 . Wheaton (WHE) 13
14 . Bethesda-Chevy Chase (BCC) 13
15 . Gaithersburg (GAI) 11
16 . Winston Churchill (WCH) 11
17 . Walter Johnson (WAJ) 9
18 . Watkins Mill (WTM) 6
19 . Richard Montgomery (RMT) 6
20 . Seneca Valley (SEV) 5
21 . Albert Einstein (AEI) 0
Championship Semifinal pairings
103
Jordan Tolbert CZM
Fall :42
Dylan Symington WWH 9-5
Taylor Boyd QOR 9-8
Rasheim Smith JHB Fall 1:38
112
Danny Lethbridge PBR 6-0
Brian Hines SEV 2-1
Andrew Follmann WWH For
Helen Maroulis CZM 5:07
119
Michael Henning NWM 2:25
Max Schneiderman CZM 1:33
Brad Warren GAI For
Joe Hancher WWH 3:48
125
Joseph Galeano SPR 11-2
Bernard Critton, JHB 2-1
Kekura Musa, MTB 5:01
Anthony Vito, WCH For
130
Sean McCarty, N.W. 2:45
Hector Guevara SPR 17-1
Joey McKenna JHB 4-2
Arthur Holland QOR 10-5
135
Alex Tolbert CZM 1:19
Jonmarc Winfield, JHB For
Josh Lowy SHE 16-0
Eddie Obendorfer, DAM 1:30
140
Steve Miller PBR 3:25
Haben Ghebremeshel MTB 6-4
Shane Boyd DAM 7-4
Eric Beverly WWH 1:34
145
Carlo Galeano SPR 1:31
Stephen Norcio CZM 6-0
Reed Neubaum QOR 7-0
Zeke Gammill DAM 2:58
152
Steven Gamble SHE 1:08
Steve Fisher WWH 12-7
Chris Ralli CZM 14-4
Bereket Kebede MTB 5-2
160
Tim Stewart PBR 14-0
Noah Joseph BCC 10-6
Greg Hamilton NWM Inj Dflt
Aaron Norris WWH 7-6 OT
171
Brian Wittenberger DAM 2:48
Alhaji Janneh MTB 12-7
Taylor Leighton WWH 4:29
Nadjitade Badje SPR For
189
Paul Okeyo WAJ 9-2
Josh Hertz SHE 3-2 OT
Steve Richards DAM 13-7
Jake Maddox PBR 1:14
215
Josh Fredrick DAM 1:10
Paul Milano SPR 3:52
Danny Lee WWH 6-3
Dake Williams QOR 4:47
285
Terrence Stephens QOR 2:55
Gerrard Brown SPR 3-0
Luis Jiron WHE 0:37
Jeff Hernandez JFK 1:31