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Wrestling
Coach on Drosos: ‘His time is coming’
1st-and-3
22CM file Photo
Stars of the
Week
1. Andrew Vorobev
(ABOVE). Our cover
boy this week put
on quite a show
at the conference
meet, breaking a
60-year-old record
and helping one
of Giants relays to
two second-place
finishes.
2. Isaac Griswold.
The Highland Park
basketball player
stepped up for
the shorthanded
Giants in their loss
to conference rival
Glenbrook North
on Friday night.
3. George Giese.
The Giants hockey
star just keeps
going. Just after
being named to
the All-State team,
Giese scored
twice in a loss and
then helped led
his team to a 6-2
win in the IHSHL
posseason.
Junior picks up pair
of wins at sectional
Gary Larsen
Freelance Reporter
It’s always difficult for
a wrestler to see his high
school career end, and
even though he didn’t advance
downstate, Highland
Park junior Pano
Drosos went 2-2 Friday
and Saturday, Feb. 8-9,
at the IHSA Class 3A
Barrington Sectional and
gained some hard-earned
insight.
“This experience was
invaluable for him,” Highland
Park coach Steve
Moore said. “Now he
knows what to expect. He
knows he has to get in the
weight room and how hard
he has to work, and to get
to camps. To be good in
this sport, you can’t just do
it when wrestling season
starts. But Pano will get
there.”
Drosos won 23 matches
this year at 160 pounds.
He lost to the third- and
fourth-place finishers in
Barrington.
“He’s one of the hardest
working kids I know,”
Moore said. “Ask any kid
in our wrestling room;
they’ll tell you that Pano
never stops. He’s the
hardest-working kid we
have. His time is coming.
He’s got that heart and that
drive.”
The Giants’ Matt Salcena
(195) was also a sectional
qualifier in his senior
year.
“It was a surprise, but
you can never count anyone
out in wrestling,”
Moore said. “Matt has
been peaking the last couple
of weeks, working his
butt off, and he got here
and got a win. I couldn’t be
more proud of him. He’s a
kid that probably nobody
expected to get here, so
that was fantastic.”
Local competitors
The Giants intradistrict
rivals, Deerfield, will be
sending three grapplers to
the state finals.
Warriors Jacob Recin
(152) and Brock Emmerich
(160) won their respective
weight classes,
while Cody Goodman
(195) finished second and
will join them in Champaign.
Glenbrook North’s
Trent Williams won the
220-pound division, while
teammate Cam Casey took
third at 182 and Nico Jung
fourth at 170.
Loyola Academy senior
Aidan McKeag fought
through ankle and hip injuries
at this year’s sectional.
He opened with a win
at 132 pounds before consecutive
losses ended his
season.
Fellow senior Sam
Schierloh (195) joined
Highland Park’s Pano Drosos squares up his opponent in a sectional match Saturday,
Feb. 9, at Barrington High School. Gary Larsen/22nd Century Media
McKeag as a sectional
qualifier for Loyola this
season. Schierloh went
2-2 in Barrington and
finished one win away
from advancing to the 3A
individual state finals in
Champaign.
Schierloh lost his first
match before posting two
wins by fall in the consolation
round. He then lost by
fall to see his season end.
Schierloh finished 21-6
this year, after sitting out
last season to concentrate
on football. But he let
Haney know he’d be back
for his senior wrestling
season.
New Trier’s Tyler Janczak
(195), Matt McKenna
(145) and Jack Cummings
(160) all competed at this
year’s sectional, and Janczak
and Cummings finished
one win away from
qualifying for next week’s
3A state finals.
McKenna lost to the
third- and fourth-place
sectional finishers in Barrington.
The freshman Cummings
reached the championship
semifinals before
losing to eventual sectional
champ Brock Emmerich
of Deerfield. A consolation
semifinal loss then ended
his season.
In IHSA Class 2A, five
Lake Forest wrestlers
competed in the Antioch
Sectional, with two pushing
through to state.
Chase Waggoner, who
was an injury replacement
at the sectional, took second
in the 170-pound division
and Truman Thuente
was third at 195.
Listen Up
“I’m pretty tired. On a scale of from 1 to 10, I
feel like I’m a 7 1/2 or 8.”
Andrew Vorobev — Giants conference champion swimmer
after his four-medal performance
tune in
Boys Basketball
•7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, Highland Park visits
Deerfield
Index
31 - High School Highlights
30 - Athlete of the Week
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