Spartans Place 2nd at North Stafford Duals

Wins Pool Going 4-0; Falls to Osbourn Park

  Following Thursday's match, there were questions about which squad would show up to the mats on Saturday.  That question was quickly answered as the Spartans ripped off four straight wins, on its way to win Pool A and would fight for the Championship of the North Stafford Duals.

  Broad Run would meet Fairfax in the first match up of the day and on paper the match looked as if it could go to either team.  Fairfax would potentially earn 12 points before the match even started due to forfeits by Broad Run at 113 and 195.  While the Spartans could bump classes, 182 Connor Bryant weighed in at only 174, making him a rather undersized 195 if bumped.    
  But Broad Run would go at Fairfax with a straight lineup and be tied 18-18 trough the first 7 matches before losing the next 3 matches to go down 32-18.  The Spartans would claw their way back racking up 3 straight pins to take the score to 36-32 with Sophomore Chris Lamboy, a rookie to the Varsity lineup this year, winning his match to solidify a win for the Spartans.

  After an exciting, down-to-the-wire, victory, the Spartans traveled to mat 1 to challenge the home team and Region rival North Stafford.  Coming into the match, the highlight meeting was to be Senior Tarkan Martin against Willie Inserra at 138 lbs.  Starting at 160 meant that this match could decide the entire match, and as it approached it was going to do just that.  At the start of 138 the team score was 30-24 in favor of Broad Run. 

  The match started off favorable with Martin scoring the initial takedown, but would give up a questionable reversal towards the end of the period in a scramble situation.  At the start of the second period, Tarkan would start down and disaster would follow as Inserra hit what should have been a potentially dangerous power half, and ended up pinning Martin.  Due to the injury, the Spartans would lose their 2-time State qualifier for the remainder of the day's matches.

  Now it was up to the rest of the team to step up for their lost Senior, and in the following match, for the second time on the day, Chris Lamboy would be the hero and put the match away with a pin that guaranteed a 36-30 Spartan victory and a 2-0 record to start the morning off.  For the third time in 3 weeks, Lamboy would be the determining factor in only his Sophomore year.

  The third match of the day was an easier dual matching up with the depleted Garfield lineup of only 7 wrestlers.  As long as only 1 person did not get pinned the Spartans would win, and they did so easily setting up a new challenge for the team; finish against Woodbridge and potentially win the pool.

  Riding a wave of momentum, Broad Run everything they needed to and defeated Woodbridge by a score of 39-29 to lock up a chance to win the 1st Place trophy.  But to get to that trophy, they would have to go through an incredibly tough Osbourn Park team. 

  Osbourn Park, who had defeated Cosby, Green Run, Woodson, and Battlefield in their path to the finals, proved to be too much for the Spartans, and they would have to settle for 2nd.  At the end of the day, the coaching staff could not have been happier with the outcome and the effort that was seen on the mat. "We were a different team today," said Coach Josh Costa.  "We wrestled better on our feet than we have all season, and after Thursday it was great to see.  Now we go back to work on Monday." 

  The Spartans travel to Stone Bridge in Ashburn for the Ashburn Duals next Thursday and look to defend their Championship trophy from a year ago.  Wrestling starts at 6pm.