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Prep Wrestling: Poway High wins Reno TOC title for second straight year

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For the third time in the last four years, the Poway High wrestling team beat out some of the toughest teams from around the nation to capture the Reno Tournament of Champions title Saturday.

Colt Doyle and Liam Sorahan both claimed individual crowns, Andrew Tausch placed second and the Titans dominated the two-day tournament that many consider to be the most challenging of any in the country.

Poway finished with a whopping 209 points, 41 points more than second-place Mountain View of Arizona. It is the second straight Reno TOC team title for the Titans, who also won in 2011 and missed out winning the title in 2012 by just four points.

Doyle, the defending 160-pound state champion, defeated Norman North’s Hayden Hansen 6-1 in the 170-pound final to polish off a perfect 5-0 run in his final Reno TOC appearance at the high school level.

Sorahan beat Hillsboro’s Ben Kociemba 8-5 in the 220-pound championship match. Both Doyle and Sorahan now have All-American status, which goes to the top three finishers at the Reno TOC.

Tausch grappled his way to the championship match at 182 pounds, but fell just short of a title. The senior lost 3-1 to Joshua Roetman of Kotzebue High, but still is an All-American.

The Titans had five other placers in the tourney. Brandon Kier (120 pounds) took fourth, Scotty Kiyono (126) took sixth, Manny Lair (132) took seventh, Ralphy Tovar (145) took seventh and Chris Bailey (195) took fourth.

Poway has won all three tournaments it has participated in this season.

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