<< Previous   of   Next >> For The Enterprise/Daniel  (click to enlarge) Shorewood's Matt Jensen works on pinning Lindbergh's Dylan Terry during a 152-pound semifinal match of the Shoreline School District Invitational wrestling tournament at Shorewood High School, Saturday, Jan. 5. Jensen won the match and went on to win the championship round. Shoreline, WA

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Four T-birds take titles at Shoreline Invite

By Tony Dondero
Enterprise reporter

SHORELINE

Four out of the five Shorewood wrestlers who made the finals in their weight classes won individual titles at the Shoreline Invitational Jan. 5.

The Thunderbirds' Tim Hester ran his record to 15-0 with a pair of pins including a victory over O'Dea's Billy Shanks in 1 minute, 43 seconds in the 189-pound title match at Shorewood High School.

Shanks did get a reversal on Hester, the only second time that's happened all year to the senior who placed second at the 4A state meet last year at 189 pounds.

"I should've pinned him faster but he was a tough guy to pin," Hester said. "I had to wait for him to get tired."

Hester also was the only Western Conference wrestler to win his match in a cultural exchange meet that pitted top Wesco wrestlers against a Japanese all-star team Jan. 8.

Shorewood senior Matt Jensen won all three of his matches by pin while he competed at 152 pounds at the invitational. He pinned Shorecrest's Stefan Orallo at the 1:36 mark in the final to improve to 15-1.

"I like that Shorecrest and Shorewood are in the finals," Jensen said. "My moves are coming together well. The team's coming together well."

T-Bird junior Carl Berenson won the 130-pound title by pin over O'Dea's P.J. Pelligrini, 2:33 into the match.

"I was so excited with the adrenaline," Berenson said. "I didn't feel any tiredness."

Shorewood coach Arnie Moreno was pleased with the effort of Berenson who improved to 16-4.

"Carl wrestled the best we've seen him wrestle all year," he said.

Shorewood freshman Daniel Yun pinned Lindbergh's Mark Rodriguez at the 4:53 mark in the 103-pound title match.

"I'm really happy I ended up with the pin instead of something else," said Yun, who took a big early lead in points.

Shorewood freshman Brandon Leach took a 6-0 lead on Aki Chinen of Bellevue in the 112-pound title bout, but Chinen roared back to win, scoring a late near fall that proved to be the difference.

Shorecrest's lone champion was senior Cole Arbanasin at 125 pounds.

He pinned Colin Dunphy of Ballard in 48 seconds.

"I thought it was a pretty easy tournament," Arbanasin said. "I didn't go up against anybody really hard."

Freshman Drew Arbanasin made the 140-pound final but lost 18-7 to Bellevue's Matt Verstegen.

O'Dea put seven wrestlers in the finals and three won titles. O'Dea won the team title with 171.5 points out of eight teams. Bellevue finished second with 151 points, Shorewood took third with 134 points and Shorecrest was fourth with 122 points.