Top-seeded Mike Sullivan of Fairfield Warde won the 160-pound championship as the Mustangs finished third in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference wrestling championships Saturday at New Canaan High School.
Warde sent four wrestlers to the finals, but Sullivan was the only Mustang to come away with a victory. Danbury won the team title with 234 ½ points, followed by Greenwich (184), Warde (176) and Trumbull.
Warde's Pharoh Eaton, Evan Fraser and James Neomanitis all lost in the finals, and all fell to No. 1 seeds.
Sullivan, the top-seed at 160 pounds, pined Helms in 3:34 of the championship match. Sullivan had three pins for the tournament.
Eaton, wrestling at 125 pounds, was pinned by Stamford's Ben Pierre-Saint at 3:35 in the final. Eaton won his first two matches by decision. Fraser won two decisions before losing to Danbury's Shane Jennings in the 130-pound final. Jennings won with a pin at 4:47. Neomanitis was pinned by Trumbulls top-seeded Ben Anderson at 4:49.
Alex Delaney took third at 171 pounds for Warde. Warde ended Danbury's 23-year reign as league champions last year. The Hatters bounced back this year, winning three weight classes. The top wrestlers will move on to the state competition next weekend.
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