by Brendan Cudd ’14

The wrestling team currently has a 5-7 record a little more than three-quarters of the way through the season. Sherwood recently wrestled in two tournaments, the Cougar Claus tournament at Quince Orchard and the Big Train Duals at Walter Johnson. At the Cougar Claus tournament, the team won 5-3. At the Big Train Duals, they won 7-1, losing  to Paint Branch in the finals.  During the Grapple at The Brooke tournament, junior Chris Minor placed second, and junior Michael Macheras and sophomore Andrew Frumpkin placed third.

In addition to tournaments, the wrestling team also has regular matches. They lost their last match to Blair 39-37. On January 23, the Warriors wrestled against Damascus but lost 58-13.

After the Warriors wrestled against Wheaton this past Tuesday, the final match of the season will be against Paint Branch on February 2. If the Warriors win both of these matches, they will be at .500 for the season. After the regular season, the team will go to the counties and the best wrestlers will get invited to the State finals.

“We started out very young,” said Coach Pete Siarkas. “With a lot of new wrestlers, slowly we are getting better every day. The teams that we are beating are like us and we are competing with the teams that have experience.”

“I feel as if we have done mediocre so far,” said Minor. “There were a couple of matches that we should have won that we didn’t. Our team [is] in a rebuilding stage for the past two years, so I think we are about the same as last year’s squad but we will improve drastically in the next couple of years.”