South Carolina 3A Wrestling State Dual Championship 2006-2007
The 2nd Round of the 3A State Dual Championships for Wednesday, February 7 looks like this:
Upper State Bracket
#2 Eastside (1st seed) at home vs. #11 Greenville (5th seed)
Coach Jack Kosmicki, who was a high school wrestler in New York, has Eastside's line-up settling
just in time. Eastside is starting 4-5 freshman, 3-4 sophomores, 5 juniors and 1 senior. That's
scary for the rest of the competition the next few years. But, Coach Kos is not looking ahead
to next year ... he wants to win three more matches this year. Greenville had a nice win on the
road at Camden Monday night, congratulations Coach Bowe! Hopefully this isn't a surprise pick for
anyone, but the 3x reigning state champs get the nod again this round ...
SCMAT Prediction - Eastside wins
#3 Lugoff-Elgin (2nd seed) at home vs. #10 Pickens (3rd seed)
Lugoff-Elgin has to be looking slightly forward to Friday's match, taking nothing away from a very
good Pickens team. For five straight years Lugoff-Elgin and Eastside have met in the Dual State
playoffs and Eastside has had the Demons number 4 of those 5 years.
2006 Upper State Finals - Eastside 39, Lugoff-Elgin 24
2005 Upper State Finals - Eastside 50, Lugoff-Elgin 27
2004 Upper State Finals - Eastside defeated Lugoff-Elgin
2003 Upper State Finals - Lugoff-Elgin 30, Eastside 27
2002 State Finals - Eastside 36, Lugoff-Elgin 30
Eventually you got to get the monkey off your back and this year won't be easy if Lugoff-Elgin
sees Eastside in Round 3. We think the match up is in the books and we'll see an absolute
thriller Friday and likely again Saturday in the 3A Finals with the Lower State Champ ...
SCMAT Prediction - Lugoff-Elgin wins
Lower State Bracket
#1 North Myrtle Beach (1st seed) at home vs. #9 Bluffton (5th seed)
Bluffton evidently didn't want to let Lake City get close in the Monday match! Impressive
road win for Coach John Hollman's team. North Myrtle Beach finished well ahead of Bluffton
at the Hardee's Blue Devil Tournament at Dreher in January, and though Dual matches can be
totally different than tournaments, we think the long ride from the lower edge of SC's coast
to the top of our coast will take a slight toll on the visitors ...
SCMAT Prediction - North Myrtle Beach wins
#4 Hilton Head (2nd seed) at home vs. #5 Chapin (3rd seed)
It doesn't get any closer than this! A very good 2A team from two years back (Chapin) moves into
the 3A neighborhood and finds a very good 4A team that just moved down to 3A in the same
neighborhood. This will be the first playoff meeting between these schools, and it should be
one of the closest Wednesday night matches, probably coming down to the last match. Weights
125-135 and 189 appear to be some key matches for Chapin to win 2 or 3 of the 4 if they want
to move on ... the slight nod goes to the home team ...
SCMAT Prediction - Hilton Head wins
Higher seeded team will always be the Home team.
Brackets for some past SC State Wrestling Dual Tournaments can be located here --- 2006 4A State Duals < = > 2006 3A State Duals < = > 2006 2A-1A State Duals < = > 2006 SCISA State Duals 2005 4A State Duals < = > 2005 3A State Duals < = > 2005 2A-1A State Duals Please note in the 3A Dual bracket below - Lake City made it to the Finals in 2004, not Georgetown. 2004 4A State Duals < = > 2004 3A State Duals < = > 2004 2A-1A State Duals 2003 4A State Duals < = > 2003 3A State Duals < = > 2003 2A-1A State Duals 2002 4A State Duals < = > 2002 3A State Duals < = > 2002 2A-1A State Duals 2001 4A State Duals < = > 2001 3A State Duals < = > 2001 2A-1A State Duals Finally, a History of the SC 3A State Wrestling Tournament State Title determined by Duals Championship - 2007 - TBD 2-10-07 2006 Eastside 41, North Myrtle Beach 19 (Jack Kosmicki, Charlie Clay) 2005 Eastside 46, Chapin 24 (Jack Kosmicki, Scott Harmon) 2004 Eastside 59, Lake City 12 (Jack Kosmicki, Mark Tillotson) 2003 Lugoff-Elgin 58, Carolina Forest 20 (Kevin Knoerr, Bill Mayer) 2002 Eastside 36, Lugoff-Elgin 30 (Jack Kosmicki, Kevin Knoerr) 2001 Lugoff-Elgin 51, Seneca 14 (Joe Connell, Andy Smyth) 2000 Eastside 31, Lugoff-Elgin 27 (Jack Kosmicki, Tim Wash) 1999 Lugoff-Elgin 39, Eastside 25 (Tim Wash, Jack Kosmicki) 1998 Lugoff-Elgin 48, Fort Mill 12 (Tim Wash, ?) 1997 Lugoff-Elgin 59, Seneca 7 (Tim Wash, Andy Smyth) 1996 Battery Creek 34, Dutch Fork 20 (Nathan Day, B.D. LaPrad) 1995 Battery Creek 36, Lugoff-Elgin 19 (Nathan Day, Tim Wash) 1994 Battery Creek 37, Eastside 27 (Nathan Day, Ed Coles) State Title determined by Team Points Championship - 1993 James Island Nelson Huggins 119 - 98½ Eastside Ed Coles 1992 Belton-Honea Path John Abercrombie 130½ -89½ Lugoff-Elgin Tim Wash 1991 Battery Creek Nathan Day 98 - 80 Swansea Jeff Slagle 1990 Swansea Jeff Slagle 114½ -81½ Lugoff-Elgin Eddie Whitt 1989 Swansea Jeff Slagle 119½ - 119 Dreher Joe Soltish 1988 Dreher Joe Soltish 111½ -78½ Belton-Honea Path John Abercrombie 1987 Belton-Honea Path John Abercrombie 80 - 76 Hanahan Randy Learn 1986 Swansea Jeff Slagle 93 - 78 Camden John Thompson 1985 Swansea Jeff Slagle 91½ - 81½ Belton-Honea Path John Abercrombie 1984 St. Andrews Ed Coles 139½ - 35 J. F. Byrnes Roy Turner 1983 Belton-Honea Path John Abercrombie 91 - 81 St. Andrews Ed Coles 1982 St. Andrews Ed Coles 157½ - 37 Fort Johnson Mark Agner 1981 J. F. Byrnes Tim Ramaley 188-130½ Fort Johnson Mark Agner 1980 Fort Johnson Mark Agner 110 - 92 Mauldin Stan Hopkins 1979 Bonds-Wilson Mike Casey 110 - 92 Fort Johnson Mark Agner 1978 Greer Steve Woodward 96½ - 89 James Island Albert Spalviero (All Classifications 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A together) 1977 Airport Jim Barnes 122 - 80 Bonds-Wilson James E. Cox 1976 Airport Jim Barnes 75 ½ - 68 Fort Johnson Chester Willis 1975 Lower Richland Jim Fitzpatrick 73 - 57 Airport Jim Barnes 1974 Lower Richland Rudolph Cooper 55 - 41 ½ Summerville Jim Flowers 1973 Lower Richland Rudolph Cooper 65 ½ - 35 Union Jim Barnes 1972 Lower Richland William Tourek 48 - 41 ½ Bishop England Jack Cantey 1971 Fort Johnson M. Leroy Jackson 56 - 53 Brookland Cayce John Checkovich 1970 St. Andrews Rusty Hamilton 113 - 61 James Island Edward Hertwig 1969 St. Andrews Rusty Hamilton 130 - 93 James Island Edward Hertwig Best wishes to all teams that are competing in this year’s 3A State Wrestling Duals Tournament! Article by Mark Buford Wrestling USA Magazine’s SC State Editor