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Four Saline High School wrestlers are moving on in the individual state tournament.
Isacc Furlong, Jason Harbach, Brice LaFleur and Kyle Barbarino finished in the top four in their weight classes in the MHSAA Individual District Tournament Saturday at Livonia Stevenson. That qualified the foursome for this week's MHSAA Regional Tournament at Saline High School.
A top-four finish in the regional qualifies a wrestler for the state finals tournament at Ford Field March 3-4.
LaFleur, a freshman with a 38-2 record, wrestled all the way to the 106 pound championship bout before falling in a 3-1 decision. He defeated Plymouth's Hoang Huynh with a pin at 21 seconds and then won a 5-0 decision over DCC's Nathan Walkowiak in the semifinal. He lost to DCC's Wyatt Lees, 3-1, in the championship.
Sophomore Isaac Furlong, 25-16, took third in the 215-pound division. Furlong opened the day by pinning Livonia Churchill's Jason Carden at 2:19. He lost to eventual champion Connor Bercume, of DCC, in the semifinal. In the blood round, Furlong bested Salem's Travis Dulong, getting the fall at 2:43. Furlong then won the consolation final, pinning Plymouth's Nicholas Chapital at 5:07.
At 285, senior Jason Harbach, 28-15, took third. In his first match, Harbach pinned Churchill's Michael Maiek at 5:38. In the semifinal he lost to Skyline's Jarel Reid by pin. In the blood round, Harbaugh stayed alive by pinning Livonia Stevenson's Grant Maxwell at 1:40. Then, in the consolation final, Harbach had a rematch with Maiek and won by pin at 4:22.
At 157, senior Kyle Barbarino, 23-13, took fourth. He started by pinning Salem's Matthew Wu at 1:51. In the quarterfinals he defeated Ann Arbor Huron's Mohamad Abufarha, 16-6. Barbarino lost in the semifinal, falling to eventual champion Darius Marines of DCC. In the blood round, Barbarino defeated Churchul's Kannon Hyatt with a pin at 2:08. In the consolation final, Barbarino lost a 7-0 decision to Trent Wiloughby.
Saline had 14 wrestlers at the tournament.
Cade Umpstead and Ayden Burton wrestled at 150, Noah Barnett wrestled at 165, Eli Johnson at 175, Tyler Fedototszkin wrested at 190, Anthony Calati wrestled at 106, Luc LaFleur wrestled at 120, Anthony James wrestled at 126 and Jacob Clause and Dylan Crum wrestled at 132.
Sunny, with a high of 71 and low of 40 degrees. Sunny for the morning, clear overnight.
No, the motion to approve & adopt was made by Ceo, seconded by Lesch. If you're interested in an unedited/unredacted version of Monday's meeting, the link to the video recording of our budget work session and regular meeting is provided below -
Thank you to those Council members who support the citizens and the Rec Center.
Please note, the rec center now requires 1/3 to almost 1/2 of its operations be funded by the City of Saline taxpayers. Approximately 10% of our City population uses the facility, while 2/3 of the members are non-resident. It’s time the non City residents of the Saline community pays its fair share.
What happened with the funding for the needed repairs at the Recreation Center? With all of the programs and community services provided at the Recreation Center, the nearby communities spending tens of millions of dollars to build new Recreation Centers, and the number of members/high usage for the Center and part
Name all the municipalities of 10,000 people that have their own Rec Center with a pool. I'm generally curious.
Saline Area Schools needs to take over the Rec Center with a Rec creation millage and maybe a short bond issue, too, for improvements.
The mayor and city council love to spend taxpayer dollars frivolously. More and more $$$ into the rec center, that needs to stop. We still don’t have drinkable water and yet the city keeps raising rates. Can’t speak for everyone but I would much rather have clean water than a “lazy river!”
Sorry, Toby Crotty. Do not align to your assessment or thoughts. While nearby communities are spending tens of millions of dollars to build Recreation Centers (because of their value to citizens and communities), Saline is in the fortunate position of already having a very good facility in place which now needs to
You avoided my main point. The rec center is a nice amenity for those that use it. However, it is not a necessity. Clean safe water that we pay exorbitant rates for IS a necessity for EVERYONE!
The unprofessional behavior while in the supposed role of being a journalist when talking to that protester is ridiculous. The incorrect information and “facts” you spewed during the conversation are just par for the course. Thanks for showing up!
I agree with your comments about this journalist. I use the word journalist loosely here, as a journalist should be bringing forth the views of the people they are interviewing, not bringing their obvious bias into every forced conversation.
I understand the right 4 peaceful protests, why expose children to hate and show disrespect to our flag, what is that teaching the children. As a Korean Veteran I oppose anyone disrespecting our countries FLAG, shame on the protesters,