Wrestling: Bound Brook, South Plainfield ranked in latest NJWWA statewide Top 20 poll

Bound Brook and South Plainfield remained the only high school teams from the Courier News and Home News Tribune area ranked among the Top 20 in the state in the latest New Jersey Wrestling Writers Association poll.

The NJWWA consists of 16 voting members. Results of its poll appear weekly during the season in newspapers and on websites of participating media outlets. Region V ranking chairman Ron Mazzola is the association’s president.

Bound Brook, which remained at No. 2, wrestles at fifth-ranked Phillipsburg on Wednesday. South Plainfield, which impressed in a 40-19 win over Monroe on Friday, fell to 14-5 after losing in a tri-meet on Saturday to state-ranked Jackson Memorial and Paramus.

NJWWA Top 20

(records through Sunday)

1. Bergen Catholic (6-1) 320

2. Bound Brook (9-1) 304

3. St Peter’s Prep (14-3) 288

4. Howell (15-0) 268

5. Phillipsburg (7-1) 258

6. DePaul Catholic (11-1) 236

7. Brick Memorial (9-1) 221

8. Delbarton (9-0) 191

9. Paulsboro (11-0) 181.

10. Jackson Memorial (11-2) 153

11. Don Bosco Prep (5-2) 136

12. St. Augustine (8-5) 124

13. Clearview (10-0) 112

14. Christian Brothers Academy (12-2) 108

15. Brick Township (12-2) 91

16. Hanover Park (3-4) 81

17. Long Branch (11-2) 42

18. Paramus (5-3) 38

19. South Plainfield (14-5) 34

20. Parsippany (10-1) 30

Others receiving votes: Toms River South 25, Southern 17, Lenape Valley 14, Pequannock 13, Delaware Valley 7, Roxbury 5, Hunterdon Central 2, Monroe Township 1.

NJWWA voting members (in alphabetical order): Donald J. Brower (MorrisCountyHSWrestling.com); Frank D’Esposito (theShoreConference.com); Steve Falk (Asbury Park Press); Brian Fortner (Express-Times); Harry Frezza (Courier News of Bridgewater); Josh Friedman (The Mat Pack and Daily Journal of Vineland); Screwy Louie Lazzari (New Jersey Wrestling Historian); John Lewis (Burlington County Times); Ron Mazzola (On the Mat); Sean Miller (Trenton Times); Tom McGurk (Courier Post of Cherry Hill); John O’Kane (Atlantic City Press); Anthony Spaulding (New Jersey Herald); Greg Tufaro (Home News Tribune of East Brunswick); Mike Weilamann (Open Mike/Mugs Media); Brad Wilson (Express-Times).