End of the road for Rosenberry
Shane Rosenberry's season came to an end yesterday at the Giant Center in the PIAA Class AAA Wrestling Championships.
Rosenberry lost his preliminary match to Philipsburg-Osceola's Bo Reifer 12-6. Reifer was a district champ and came in with a 37-3 record. Rosenberry hung tough early, allowing only a takedown to Reifer in the first period and trailed 2-0. But Reifer hit Rosenberry with a four-point flurry early in the second to take a 6-0 lead. Rosenberry trailed 8-4 heading into the third period. He got an escape early to get within three, but Reifer pulled away with a takedown and two back points late.
In his first consolation match, Rosenberry got another district champ, Lower Merion's Anthony Fulginitti, who came in at 34-2. Rosenberry scored first, getting a takedown 1:19 into the match. But Fulginitti scored four points in the final 13 seconds to take a 6-2 lead. A Rosenberry reversal as time expired in the first made it 6-4. Rosenberry didn't score in the second period and nearly held Fulginitti scoreless, but he got a take down with 20 seconds left and two near fall points as time expired to go up 10-4 heading into the third, where Rosenberry could only manage an escape and lost 12-5.
It's never easy to see your season end, especially when you are in the state tournament, but Rosenberry should be proud of what he was able to accomplish this year. He won 38 matches and lost only 7 and, perhaps more importantly, he took another step. Last year, he failed to get out of districts. But he learned from it, and came back this year to get to states. And he'll learn from his experience in states this year and will get back there as a senior.
Trust me when I say that it's a different world at states. The level of competition is amazing and, until you experience it first hand, it's extremely tough to prepare for it. But Rosenberry's been there now. He knows how good the wrestlers at that level are, and he now knows what it's going to take to do better if he gets back there again.
Rosenberry lost his preliminary match to Philipsburg-Osceola's Bo Reifer 12-6. Reifer was a district champ and came in with a 37-3 record. Rosenberry hung tough early, allowing only a takedown to Reifer in the first period and trailed 2-0. But Reifer hit Rosenberry with a four-point flurry early in the second to take a 6-0 lead. Rosenberry trailed 8-4 heading into the third period. He got an escape early to get within three, but Reifer pulled away with a takedown and two back points late.
In his first consolation match, Rosenberry got another district champ, Lower Merion's Anthony Fulginitti, who came in at 34-2. Rosenberry scored first, getting a takedown 1:19 into the match. But Fulginitti scored four points in the final 13 seconds to take a 6-2 lead. A Rosenberry reversal as time expired in the first made it 6-4. Rosenberry didn't score in the second period and nearly held Fulginitti scoreless, but he got a take down with 20 seconds left and two near fall points as time expired to go up 10-4 heading into the third, where Rosenberry could only manage an escape and lost 12-5.
It's never easy to see your season end, especially when you are in the state tournament, but Rosenberry should be proud of what he was able to accomplish this year. He won 38 matches and lost only 7 and, perhaps more importantly, he took another step. Last year, he failed to get out of districts. But he learned from it, and came back this year to get to states. And he'll learn from his experience in states this year and will get back there as a senior.
Trust me when I say that it's a different world at states. The level of competition is amazing and, until you experience it first hand, it's extremely tough to prepare for it. But Rosenberry's been there now. He knows how good the wrestlers at that level are, and he now knows what it's going to take to do better if he gets back there again.
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