CENTRAL NEW YORK – On Monday morning the Cicero-North Syracuse wrestling team joins seven other sides at Jefferson Community College in Watertown to take part in the Section III Division I Dual Meet. The Northstars will bring a load of tournament experience to the event, including its near-victory Jan. 11 in the Phoenix Mid-Winter Classic where, with 189 points, it only trailed the 197.5 of Central Square. Liverpool was also in the field in Phoenix, and the two rivals would meet each other in the 145-pound final where C-NS’s Sean Aldrich would pin Liverpool’s Samir Amiri with 43 seconds left in the third period. Two other Northstars reached the finals and lost, Grady Ellsworth (108 pounds) running into West Genesee’s Cole Willis and dropping a 15-0 technical fall as Kasey Kalfass (124 pounds) was pinned by Jamesville-DeWitt/CBA’s Dominic Schiano. Kennedy Thomas won a tough 4-1 decision over Fulton’s Collen Austin for third place at 152 pounds as Kaydin Welch got the same at 215 pounds when Fulton’s Micah Collins forfeited. James Conklin earned fifth place at 101 pounds when he shut out Peru’s Alyn Capen 8-0 and Javone Dawkins matched it at 131 pounds by pinning Phoenix’s Quentin Thomas. As for Liverpool, other than Amiri’s finish there was Aiden Adams-Bovenzi earning third place at 116 pounds with a tough 4-3 decision over J-D/CBA’s Tom Lavalle. The C-NS girls wrestlers had a tough assignment last Monday night, facing a strong Fulton team which would claim all but three of the bouts on the varsity card while defeating the Northstars 50-14. They opened at 114 pounds, with the Red Dragons winning twice before Liliana Chiarizia put C-NS on the board at 126 pounds, pinning Isabella Salotto in 78 seconds. Five Fulton pins and a technical fall followed before Chloe Tice, at 235 pounds, got a 61-second fall over Jocelyn Vasquez. Shea Ellsworth later prevailed at 107 pounds, beating Harper Nichols in a 12-2 technical fall. The Northstars turned it around two nights later routing Fayetteville-Manlius 40-8, the quickest pin coming at 145 pounds from Elise Graham who earned her fall over Sydney Graham in 49 seconds. Tice got a 62-second pin of Norah Kelly as Chiarizia pinned Elizabeth Banashkevich in 65 seconds. Aniyah Burton (165 pounds) pinned Persephone Spates in 2:27, while Ellsworth had a 10-0 technical fall over Ava Bird. This happened as the C-NS boys wrestlers were handling F-M 56-17, with the most exciting match coming at 124 when Kalfass outscored Joe Rafuse 15-13 right before Dawkins pinned Athan Dauszka in 82 seconds. Thomas pinned Zach Henderson in 3:35, with Welch and Dominic Salvatore (190 pounds) earning their own second-period falls over, respectively, Caleb Haase and Sam Herber. Grady Ellsworth pinned Eliot Olech in 2:50 to close the match right after Conklin pinned Cayden Stewart late in the first period. Aldrich beat Graham Dauszka with an 18-3 technical fall.