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WRESTLING
MAT STATS
Dakota Geer reacts after
winning state championship
The first wrestling program to appear in Venango County was Oil City in 1948. Franklin soon followed and Cranberry had a team by the early 1960s. Rocky Grove also fielded a team at one time. Now the Orioles are in a co-op with Franklin. Cranberry and Oil City have co-oped since 2018 under the Berry banner.
Dalton Wenner and Elijah Brosius are 1-2 on Cranberry's all-time wins list.
Anatomy of a Pin
Franklin freshman Seth Hollerman lifts Greenville's Caden Saeler.
Boy, this guy is not light.
C'mon ref. He has zero chance.
Franklin freshman Seth Hollerman lifts Greenville's Caden Saeler.
Photographer Christy Fackler had her camera cranking to get these shots of a pin by Franklkin's freshman 107-pouder Seth Hollerman.
MOORE TWINS
Josh Moore (left) and his brother Scott wrestled for Franklin in the late 1990s. Together they racked up 222 wins (Scott missed a season). But they didn't stop there, starring in college at Penn State mostly and Virginia (Scott). And they're still active as coaches -- Josh at Kent State and Scott at Lock Haven, bringing their programs into prominence.
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You can read more about Scott here, too.
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How Scott Moore uses his Penn State wrestling experience in building a program at Lock Haven
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'Masters of Disaster' was coined by the late Craig Phillips when writing about the twins for The News-Herald and The Derrick.