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Freshman Colin Nugent went 3-0 at 126 pounds to pace Phillips Academy to wins in a quad-meet at Phillips Exeter.

Timberlane displayed its balance with a brilliant overall performance while winning the Essex Classic in Vermont Saturday.

The Owls had a whopping eight finalists and placed in all but one weight class while winning the 25-team tournament with 288 points. Host Essex was second with 269.

Andover took third at the Woburn Invitational, which was won by St. John's Prep, but the Warriors had an impressive champion in 145-pound sophomore Jonathan Davila. Trailing 6-4 in the last minute in the finals, he rallied for a 9-7 decision.

It was a good day for Whittier Tech Saturday at the Dan Gionet Tournament in Pelham and an even better day for Wildcat junior Jeremias Collazo.

Collazo won the 160-pound title in dramatic fashion, winning 5-4 in the semifinals and then 10-8 in overtime over Pelham's Evan Haskins and was then named the tourney Outstanding Wrestler. That highlighted a fine team performance as the Wildcats finished second to Tyngsboro in the 15-team field.

North Andover went 2-2 in a dual-meet tourney at Reading and had some highlights as well. Jack Carbone was 4-0 with four pins at 195 to improve to 26-5 on the year, sophomore Jack Dalton was 3-0 at 138 for his best day of the season and Ethan Ford was 3-0 at 132.

Lawrence arguably had its best day of the season, winning a quad-meet  at Billerica with one of the wins a 37-35 shocker over Central Catholic.

John Vasquez was unbeaten on the day and decided the Central meet with a 3-1 decision over Nate Vachon in the last match of the day while sophomore heavyweight Joel Baretto had a pin in the last match of the day to seal a 41-35 win over Billerica.Jaycob Zapata wrestled well and was 3-0 at 113.op

With several starters ill or injured, Windham went 1-2-1 at the Springfield Duals. Freshman Aiden Williams continued his fine season, going 4-0 at both 106 and 113. Classmate Ky Cole was 3-1 at 138 and Joel Nyonga had a good day at 195, going 3-1.  

 Ryan O’Rourke, George Boudreau, Beau Dillon and Josh Ozoria were all unbeaten on the day as Salem went 3-1 at the Hall of Fame Duals at Merrimack, falling only to a strong St. Johnsbury team.

Methuen senior Jay Ramos is the kind of first-year varsity wrestler that any coach would love to have.

Ramos started the season promising, going 3-2 in his first five matches before getting injured. But he returned to action two weeks ago and has gone 8-0 since with eight pins.

The Brooks wrestling team won its first meet of the season, defeating Thayer 36-30 as part of a tri-meet. Corey Gaffney had a second-period pin in that meet as well in a 48-30 loss to Middlesex.