A historic night for Westhampton Beach Wrestling! Two Section XI Champions for the first time in school history! Ten Hurricanes made the trip to the two-day 2019 Section XI Championships being held at the Brentwood campus of Suffolk County Community College. When Saturday concluded, the Hurricanes had 2 wrestlers still remaining. Senior Liam McIntryre the #1 seed at 195 and Sophomore Jackson Hulse (160) had both made it into the quarter-finals. Hulse was not ranked in the Section XI rankings top 6 as of 2/5/2019 but was the #3 seed for the tournament. 

#3 Tournament Seed - Sophomore Jackson Hulse
Jackson entered Sunday with a quarter-final match-up against Nick Camson from Smithtown West. Camson had previously won his pigtail match, and then defeated #6 Tournament seed Jonathan Delvecchio from Longwood 8-6. Jackson handled Camson by a 7-1 final score and advanced to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Jackson faced Stephen Kane (#5 Section XI, #2 Tournament Seed). It was a very close match with Hulse prevailing 12-8, setting up his finals match against Jett Tancsik from Centereach (#1 Section XI & #1 Tournament seed). Tancsik made his way to the finals with two byes, a 4-3 win over #8 tournament seed Bryan Whitman from Rocky Point, and a 5-4 win over Josh Leidig (#2 Section XI and #5 tournament seed) from Bellport.
160 POUND FINALS MATCH
     Hulse led off the scoring with a takedown with 30 seconds remaining in the 1st period. He looked aggressive, strong and most importantly not intimidated at all from the opening whistle. Tancsik was able to escape with 2 seconds left and the 1st period ended with Hulse leading 2-1. Tancsik elected to start down for the 2nd period. Hulse arguably setup his title win by being able keep Tancsik down for the entire 2nd period. Hulse elected bottom to start the 3rd period and was able to escape in the first 5 seconds giving him a 3-1 lead. Halfway through the 3rd period, Hulse was called for stalling as he was tied up with Tancsik but was giving ground and backed out of bounds. Hulse made his only noticeable mistake of the match as he got caught by Tancsik and taken down with about 30 seconds to go in the match which tied the match at 3-3. The takedown completed near the edge of the mat and a reset took place with 26 seconds remaining. Hulse with a quick spin was able to escape Tancsik with 20 seconds remaining and avoided trouble the rest of the way to claim his Championship title!! It was an amazing run. Congratulation Jackson!!!

#1 Section XI and #1 Tournament Seed - Senior Liam McIntyre
Liam was expected to win. However, that doesn't mean it will happen. It can arguably make it harder to stay focused and avoid overlooking any opponents. Someone forgot to tell Liam that as he seemed completely focused. He started the tournament with a bye and then pinned Soel Molero from Commack to reach the quarter-finals on Sunday. In the quarter-finals Liam pinned Shakeese Byrd from Bellport setting up his match with #4 tournament seed Jaylyn Butler from Bellport in the semi-finals. Liam wasted no time and and moved on with a convincing 17-1 victory. In the finals, Liam faced Peter Magliocco from Northport (#3 Section XI and #3 tournament seed). 
195 POUND FINALS MATCH
Liam was the aggressor from the beginning and busted through with a takedown with about 1:!5 remaining in the 1st period. He let Magliocco escape soon after and led 2-1. Liam followed up with another real nice takedown with about :50 second left in the 1st period to build his lead to 4-1. That lead held until the start of the 3rd period. Liam on the bottom escaped to make it 5-1 and made his only mistake of the match with about 30 seconds to go which gave Magliocco a takedown and made the score 5-3. Magliocco let Liam up late in the match in a last ditch effort to close the gap. Liam looked in control the whole match and took the 6-3 victory for his back-to-back Section XI Championship titles! Congratulations Liam!!!