Marmonte League sends 13 wrestlers to Masters

READY TO GO—Agoura’s Devin Conroy, bottom, battles Westlake’s Dan Nguyen during an earlier postseason match. Conroy will be one of 13 Marmonte grapplers to compete n this weekend’s CIF Masters Meet at Fountain Valley High School. The two-day competition begins Friday at noon. Thirteen wrestlers from the Marmonte League have qualified for the CIF Masters Meet beginning Friday at Fountain Valley High School.

Leading the league are Moorpark, Simi Valley and Royaleach of which had three wrestlers

qualify for Masters during lasweekend’s Southern Section finalsMoorpark will send Reed Dadoune (140 pounds), Eric Bodjanac (152 pounds) and David Johnson (189 pounds).

“It’s very good for our program and for the kids,” MHS head coach Sean Burns said. “As hard as those kids worked, this is whaall that hard work can get you.”

Simi Valley is represented by Mikey Murphy (125 pounds), Dan Stoner (152 pounds) and MatBruno (160 pounds).

Royal, which finished seventh during the Southern Section team championships, is sending Kevin Dunn (119 pounds), Gerald Figueroa (103 pounds) and Mike DiCato (171 pounds).

Dunn was the only Marmonte wrestler to win a Southern Section championship last weekend when he defeated Jason Lara of Calvary Chapel of Santa Ana in the 119-pound final.

Westlake senior Arian Ghaffari finished in third place in the 112pound division and will also advance to Masters.

“It’s the farthest a Westlake kid’s gone in a long, long time,” Warrior head coach John Cuccia said.

“For us to be a part of representing the Marmonte League at Masters,” Cuccia said, “I’m extremely proud of the program and I’m extremely proud of Ari.”

Agoura, Calabasas and Thousand Oaks will all send one wrestler to Masters.

TOHS will be represented by Jason Moore (119 pounds).

Agoura senior Devin Conroy will wrestle in the 130-pound division. Cameron Teitelman of Calabasas will compete in the 125-pound weight class.

Teitelman, a Stanford-bound senior, made it to the Southern Section 125-pound final before losing to Aaron Navarrete of Temecula Valley.

The majority of the Marmonte grapplers scheduled to compete at Masters took part in a pair of practice sessions this week at Royal.

Burns said at this point in the season, the Marmonte coaches like to see any local wrestler do well.

“It nice to have a good showing from the league,” Burns said. “If we can get a good showing from the county, that’s always a plus too.

“Even though the kid may not be ours from our school, it’s good to see the area well represented,” Burns said.

The CIF Masters Meet is scheduled to begin at noon Friday in Fountain Valley. Saturday’s action gets underway at 9 a.m.