Cariddi Leads Hawks in Balanced Mat Attack

River Dell added three more wins to its haul (12-1) at Saturday’s wrestling quad with convincing victories over Ridgefield Park, 61-18, Lyndhurst/North Arlington, 74-0, and Hasbrouck Heights/Wood-Ridge, 48-24. Sophomore 145-pounder Cenzo Cariddi led the charge with a 6-5 victory over Aviator's Edward Cox, a 1:29 pin of Golden Bear Ian Yunis and a 1:36 pin of Scarlets Justin Jones. Additional Golden Hawks wins were contributed by Ethan Hartman and Dylan Mitchell (both at 106), DJ Tirelli (113), Danny Lynch (120), Andrew Fay and John McLaughlin (both at 126), Brendan Campbell (138), Nick Siegel (152), Tyler Kallensee (160), John Dickson and Alex Kim (both at 170), Nick Baranello (195), John Buller (220), and Lenny Smith (285).

PJ Reed led a low scoring win as the only Bergen Catholic Crusader to hit double digits in a 74-37 romp over Paramus. While the majority of the squad was limited to single digits, the entire bench was strong from behind the arc to knock the Spartans down a peg. John Morella of Paramus led all scorers from both sides with a game-high 25 points.

The Golden Hawks stayed ahead of the curve with a 64-49 rout of Dwight Morrow this weekend as River Dell makes a push for the County Tournament. Tim Barnes led all scorers with 23 points but gaining on his scoring record is Sean Boland who has been averaging 16 points a game. The Hawks dropped a 56-52 decision to Ridgefield Park on Friday night after a slow first half start even though Barnes connected on 20 points.

Still learning to play as a cohesive team are the Lady Hawks who are focusing on everyone scoring and not just relying on all-star Kate Brock. Senior captains Brock and Jordan Bastable teamed up for 29 points during the 57-34 win over Dwight Morrow. Over at Felician College this weekend, River Dell struggled heavily against Ridgefield Park falling 49-29 after netting six points in the first half. Kayla McGovern led all Lady Hawks with 11 points followed by Brock' 10. Jordan Bastable and Kristen Hartwick each had four points as River Dell saw four players find the net.

BC swimming took a hit when they lost to Demarest 92-78 on Thursday night. Coming in for first place finishes were Liam Kelly (200 freestyle), Josh Sembrano (50 free and 100 backstroke), John Om (500 free and 100 breast stroke) and the 400 free relay of Sembrano, Rob Farrell, Sebastian Lopez and Om. The Bergen Catholic combination of Sembrano, Lopez, Om and Kelly’s time (1:39.01) in the 200 medley relay broke a Bergen County meet record on Sunday over in West Nyack, NY at the County Swim Meet as part of the second place finish with 250 points behind the winning Tenafly Tigers (298). Sembrano took fourth in the 200 freestyle and third in the 100 backstroke; Om third in the 200 IM and first in the 100 breasstroke; Lopez sixth in 100 fly; Kelly fourth in the 50 freestyle and sixth in the 100 freestyle; relay was fifth in the 200 freestyle and second in the 400 freestyle. 

The Bergen County second-seeded Emerson/Park Ridge wrestlers clashed on the mat with the Crusaders on Friday night and the top-ranked team from Bergen Catholic proved to a standing room only gymnasium that Bergen is the better team in their 39-19 victory. The Crusaders once again dominated in the upper weights, and Christian Jenco's 1-0 win at 195 lbs sealed the match following Johnny Sebastian's 34-second winning pin at 160 pounds and Alex Kruklinski's 9-5 win at 170 pounds.

Max Barnett rolled to a 624 high series during the Hawks 5-2 loss to Bergenfield on the bowling lanes. The girls were shut out 7-0 by the Bears.

Over in Totowa, the Hawks took to the Track Universe shot put and high jump series finals with Matt Koh securing a first place finish in the shot put by an inch over Kennedy's Mark Ramsey. Koh throw a 51-11 1/4. Austin Berninger finished in fifth with a 46-5 1/2 throw. Laura Oh came in second in the girls shot put with a 35-4 toss behind IHA's Theresa Picciallo who threw 41-9 1/2.

On the ice, Bergen (2-6) picked up a 6-3 win over Pascack Valley (8-4) on Friday night with a consistent attack as Scott Mogerly netted two goals with Tucker James, Joey Brown, Mike Ramirez and Kyle Marano rounding out for the victory. David Gerity took to the posts and made 16 saves. The squad knocked off Bishop Eustace 6-3 on Sunday afternoon with as many as secen freshmen taking to the ice. James (2), Brandon Crawly, Mogerley, Ryan Smyth and Sean Brennan led BC to victory. Gerity made a total of 25 total saves.

Against a tough County meet, RiverDell/Westwood boys swimming placed 13th in the County Championship in West Nyack, NY while the girls placed 8th. Liam Oberlander placed third in the 50 freestyle.