Decatur Wrestlers Finish 2nd At Mad Mats

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Decatur Wrestlers Finish 2nd At Mad Mats
Stephen Decatur’s varsity wrestling team finished an impressive second last weekend at the prestigious Mad Mats Tournament in Montgomery County. Pictured above, the happy wrestlers and their coaches show off some tournament hardware. Submitted photo

BERLIN- Stephen Decatur’s varsity wrestling team got its 2017-2018 campaign off to a fast start with an impressive second-place team finish at the Mad Mats Tournament last weekend at Magruder High School on Montgomery County.

The young, but talented Seahawks open the season with high expectations despite the loss of several impressive seniors from last year’s team. Decatur opened the regular season last week with a 72-12 win over Mardela in essentially what was a tune-up for the first significant tournament of the young season.

The Seahawks traveled to the Mad Mats Tournament at Magruder High School last weekend and finished second among some of the top public and private school programs in Maryland, Virginia and even a couple from Pennsylvania.

St. Paul’s School from Baltimore finished first with 296 team points, while Decatur was second with 217.5 points. Rounding out the top 10 were Poolesville (208), Conestoga, Pa. (195), Landon (191), Good Counsel (186), host Magruder (175), Walter Johnson (117), Gaithersburg (114), and Richard Montgomery (88).

About The Author: Shawn Soper

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Shawn Soper has been with The Dispatch since 2000. He began as a staff writer covering various local government beats and general stories. His current positions include managing editor and sports editor. Growing up in Baltimore before moving to Ocean City full time three decades ago, Soper graduated from Loch Raven High School in 1981 and from Towson University in 1985 with degrees in mass communications with a journalism concentration and history.