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Allen dominated the UIL state wrestling tournament over the weekend as the Eagles more than doubled the score of their closest competitor while winning their third consecutive championship.

Four Allen wrestlers won their weight classes as the Eagles totaled 189 points, running away from second-place Canyon Randall, which had 90 points. Flower Mound was third with 82.5 points.

Lake Highlands (fourth place, 53 points) and Keller Fossil Ridge (ninth place, 40 points) also finished among the top 10.

Saginaw, in 11th place, had the best finish for an area girls team. Amarillo Caprock won the girls team title.

The following area wrestlers won individual state titles at the Austin ISD Delco Center:

BOYS

• 106 pounds: Brice Bassinger, Saginaw
• 126 pounds: Jarrod Trotter, Allen
• 132 pounds: Scott Akers, Flower Mound
• 138 pounds: Dominic Young, South Grand Prairie
• 145 pounds: Bo Nickal, Allen
• 170 pounds: Matt Meyer, Allen
• 185 pounds; Greg Wilson, Keller Central
• 195 pounds: Nick Cobb, Allen
• 285 pounds: Sam Rice, Coppell

GIRLS

• 102 pounds: Haley Moreno, Saginaw
• 110 pounds: Christina Bautista, Colleyville Heritage

Ten Allen wrestlers qualified for this weekend's UIL tournament in Austin, where the Eagles will go after their third consecutive state title.

The top four in each weight class from regionals earned spots at the state tournament, which will be Friday and Saturday at the Austin ISD Delco Center.

Here are the qualifiers from area schools:

BOYS

106 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Jordan Speckles (Flower Mound), 2 - Spencer Shoen (Frisco Centennial), 3 - Sammy Eldridge (Arlington Bowie), 4 - Hakim Sims (Keller Fossil Ridge), Alt. - Jordan Hall (South Grand Prairie).
Reg. 3: 1 - Dandre Brumfield (Lake Highlands), 4 - Gabe Torres (Allen).

113 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Dammion Heard (Keller Fossil Ridge), 2 - Brycen Coffman (Frisco Wakeland), 3 - John Arra (The Colony), 4 - Kris Do (South Grand Prairie), Alt. - Joseph Aguon (Arlington Lamar).
Reg. 3: 1 - Thayer Atkins (Lake Highlands), 2 - Mason Smout (Allen), Alt. - Huy Dao (Richardson Berkner).

120 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Dylan Akers (Flower Mound), 2 - Nathan Kearney (Kller), 3 - Tony Torres (Arlington Martin), 4 - Patrick Davis (Hebron), Alt. - Tommy Nguyen (Arlington Sam Houston).
Reg. 3: 3 - Matt Flores (Richardson Berkner).

126 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Ian Ortega (Keller Fossil Ridge), 2 - Kaleb Richardson (Coppell), 3 - Jonathan Miller (Arlington Lamar), 4 - Erick Polanco (Lewisville), Alt. - Michael Filewood (Grapevine).
Reg. 3: 1 - Jarod Trotter (Allen).

132 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Scott Akers (Flower Mound), 2 - Daniel Murrilo (Coppell), 3 - Issac Salinas (Carrollton Creekview), 4 - Daniel Turner (Fort Worth Arlington Heights), Alt. - Sean Roche (Frisco Wakeland).
Reg. 3: 2 - Nakona Brawner (Rockwall-Heath), 3 - A.J. Hinkle (Allen), Alt. - Travis Quarterman (McKinney North).

138 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Dominic Yang (South Grand Prairie), 2 - Austin Phillipe (Colleyville Heritage), 3 - Clay Lewis (Lewisville), 4. Taylor Irwin (Frisco), Alt. - Kody Collins (Trophy Club Byron Nelson).
Reg. 3: 1 - Jack Bass (Allen), 4 - Nathan Schulman (Lake Highlands), Alt. - Tyler Gaddis (Rockwall-Heath).

145 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Elijah Cook (Carrollton Creekview), 2 - Brady Speckels (Flower Mound), 3 - Dalton Caudell (Frisco Centennial), 4 - Jacob Andrews (Grapevine), Alt. - Eli Isreal (Colleyville Heritage).
Reg. 3: 1 - Bo Nickal (Allen), Alt. - Biak Thang (Lake Highlands).

152 pounds
Reg.2: 1 - Ben Hammer (Argyle), 2 - Caleb Endert (Colleyville Heritage), 3 - Cyrus Melendez (Grapevine), 4 - Taylor Garner (Frisco Centennial), Alt. - Furman Sims (Dallas Skyline).
Reg. 3: 1 - Oliver Pierce (Allen), Alt. - Simon Crawford (Richardson).

160 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Drake Dudley (Flower Mound), 2 - Blake Andrews (Grapevine), 3. Omari Mackey (Keller Fossil Ridge), 4 - Conner Zimmerman (Frisco Wakeland), Alt. - Michael Nolan (Arlington).
Reg. 3: 2 - Michael Kubik (Plano), 4 - Lee Lueder (Lake Highlands).

170 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Julius Bell (Hurst L.D. Bell), 2 - Riley Curnutt (Arlington), 3 - Matt Swoyer (Southlake Carroll), 4 - Jonathon Murphy (Flower Mound Marcus), Alt. - Tony Garcia (Fort Worth Paschal).
Reg. 3: 1 - Matt Meyer (Allen), 4. Brady Van Bevers (Rockwall-Heath), Alt. - John Hernandez (Rockwall).

182 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Greg Wilson (Keller Central), 2 - Ashton Harris (Frisco), 3 - Brandon Litten (Flower Mound Marcus), 4 - Daniel Foyt (Arlington Lamar), Alt. - Conner Massie (Hebron).
Reg. 3: 1 - Daniel McCaffrey (Plano), 3 - Manny Houellemont (Plano East), 4 - Henry Offord (Richardson).

195 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Cody Lindberg (Southlake Carroll), 2 - Steven Candley (Arlington Martin), 3 - Howard Huggins (Dallas Kimball), 4 - Tyler Scalzi (Flower Mound), Alt. - Brett Green (Arlington Lamar).
Reg. 3: 1- Nick Cobb (Allen), 2 - Troy Mercer (Rockwall-Heath).

220 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Donovan Kleckner (Colleyville Heritage), 2 - Rodrick Williams (Lewisville), 3 - Shawn Evans (Keller Central), 4 - Tre Smith (South Grand Prairie), Alt. - Micha Capra (Argyle).
Reg. 3: 1 - Stone Drulman (Allen), 3. - Darrell Travis (McKinney North), 4 - Brad Beattie (Wylie).

285 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Sam Rice (Coppell), 2 - Shane Roberson (Frisco), 3 - Dominique Woods (Dallas Skyline), 4 - Breyun Owens (South Grand Prairie), Alt. - Byron Pruitt (Arlington Sam Houston).
Reg. 3: 3 - Ryan Branch (Lake Highlands).

GIRLS

95 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Dalina Vuong (Arlington Sam Houston), 2 - Kathya Martinez (South Grand Prairie), 3 - Marrissa Griffin (Arlington Martin), 4 - Issa Rodriguez (Keller Central), Alt. - Y Le (Keller Fossil Ridge).

102 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Bri Lowe (Keller), 2 - Daysha Woods (Arlington Sam Houston), 3 - Enya Hernandez (Carrollton Newman Smith), 4 - Beatriz Sanchez (Lewisville), Alt. - Hana Henderson (Frisco Centennial).

110 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Bobbi Navarrete (Carrollton Creekview), 2 - Christina Bautista (Colleyville Heritage), 3 - Samantha Tudor (Coppell), 4 - Alexandra Pebworth (Frisco Liberty), Alt. - Jocelyn Cooper (Arlington Lamar).

119 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Christina Machado (Carrollton R.L. Turner), 2 - Leah Olguin (Carrollton Creekview), 3 - Nathalie Martinez (South Grand Prairie), 4 - Ali Arjaz (Euless Trinity), Alt. - Rachel Lex (Keller Central).

128 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Kennon Henderson (Frisco Centennial), 2 - Avery Souders (Coppell), 3 - Betty Ordorica (Fort Worth Trimble Tech), 4 - Vanessa Vaquiz (Justin Northwest), Alt. - Cheyenne Rodriguez (Keller Fossil Ridge).

138 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Sharde Alexander (Dallas Skyline), 2 - Hailey Garcia (Carrollton R.L. Turner), 3 - Stephanie Ayala (Fort Worth Paschal), 4 - Valeria Lopez (Euless Trinity). Alt. - Sydney Szmuc (Arlington).

148 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Jackie Puga (Arlington Seguin), 2 - Gisselle Ruvalcaba (Arlington Bowie), 3 - Malin Monrad (Frisco Heritage), 4 - Isis Lewis (Frisco Liberty), Alt. - Stephanie Ramirez (Coppell).

165 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Brittany Marshall (Lewisville), 2 - Myla Casey (Keller Central), 3 - Juana Robles (Arlington Sam Houston), 4 - Sandra Flores (Frisco), Alt. - Ashley Williams (Frisco Liberty).

185 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Amanda Allen (Frisco Liberty), 2 - Stephanie Rangel (Dallas Skyline), 3 - Emily Prewitt (Arlington Lamar), 4 - Abagail Flores (Frisco), Alt. - Kavir White (Fort Worth O.D. Wyatt).

215 pounds
Reg. 2: 1 - Paige Garcia (Keller Fossil Ridge), 2 - Saane Kaihau (Euless Trinity), 3 - Raven Chapman (Dallas Kimball), 4 - Trisha Wright (Arlington), Alt. - Jameshia Wesley (Arlington Sam Houston).

ALLEN, Texas - In Allen, football is a lifestyle.

All you have to do is drive by the campus that houses one of the largest enrollments in the state and the peaks of the Eagles' new football stadium that is going to be the Cowboys Stadium of all high school venues in the country to see that.

Leading the pack of those who will christen the new Friday night temple is junior Oliver Pierce, who was the Eagles' second leading wide receiver with over 600 yards.

As one of the top athletes returning for his senior season, Pierce is first in line to replace Alec Morris at quarterback and line up under center in the state-of-the-art stadium.

However, Pierce is one of the few athletes in the Dallas suburb who places football second, despite his standout abilities. He might even miss two-a-days for the second year in a row to chase world fame in his true athletic calling -- wrestling.

"This sport is definitely the hardest sport there is," Pierce said. "Football, that's easy. That's my offseason. There's no doubt about it that it's the modern day gladiators."

Pierce joined the Eagles football team late last fall after representing the United States in the FILA Cadet World Championships in Hungary, taking fifth place in his weight class.

Pierce beat wrestlers from Mongolia and Canada to earn a spot in the bronze medal match but lost to Azamai Dauletbekov of Kazakhstan.

The world-traveling experience, which included time at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., was worth more than its weight in gold, sliver or bronze to Pierce.

"No one really spoke English anywhere," Pierce said. "It was just a different culture. After weigh-ins, some kids didn't have anything to eat or drink so they would just pick up your water and start drinking it without asking if it was OK because they didn't speak English. It was a really fun experience interacting with people of different cultures."

Pierce returned to the United States just a day before Allen's season opener against Cedar Hill in the Tom Landry Classic and picked up a team-high 129 yards receiving and a touchdown in the Eagles' win. No big deal.

Now, with that "offseason" activity over, Pierce is focusing on returning to state in wrestling after a disappointing end to his sophomore year.

Last year in the state semifinals, Pierce suffered one of his very few career losses after catching his foot between the mats and breaking his ankle in the first period.

"He didn't show a lot of emotion or anything and we got a timeout and said he was fine and finished the match and lost 2-0," Allen wrestling coach Jerry Best said. "He took it like a man and didn't say anything, didn't use it as an excuse, just used it as motivation to come back this year and win another state title."

It was his first high school loss after he won a state championship as a freshman.

Pierce has the chance to finish out his junior and senior years with a bang. Last weekend, Pierce took first in his 152-pound weight class at the district tournament for the third straight year, helping Allen win another team title with 275 points.

It's one step closer to the state title Pierce needs to add to his collection of national and world awards.

He'll then have a chance to go 4-for-4 in district and have another shot at state next year. All that after leading the football team in the 2012 season in front of a national spotlight surrounding the new stadium. And then it's off to Oklahoma.

Pierce has already accepted a scholarship offer to wrestle for the Sooners, representing Texas on the collegiate level.

"It's a great group of guys to work out with and great people to be around and I wanted to put myself in that environment," Pierce said of the program at Oklahoma.

And on Friday nights next fall, if Allen fans are worried about Pierce's nerves on a national stage, he's already performed on the world stage -- and succeeded.

"[Football is] just having fun, that's the easy part," Pierce said.

The University Interscholastic League's legislative council met Monday in Austin and passed an amendment that puts new limits on football practices outside of the school year.

• On days when more than one practice is held, the minimum rest and recovery time between practices was increased from one hour to two hours.
• Players can't participate in multiple practices on consecutive days.
• In the first four days of practice, if more than one practice is conducted on the same day, the second practice can only be a teaching session that doesn't include conditioning, contact or equipment.

In other action by the legislative council Monday:

• A proposal to increase the distance of girls cross country races from 2 to 3.1 miles was placed on a referendum ballot this spring.
• The soccer tie-breaking procedure will be changed from a 35-yard shootout to penalty kicks, taking effect Aug. 1, 2012, if approved by the commissioner of education.
• Area meets will be added to post-district track and field competition, taking effect Aug. 1, 2012, if approved by the commissioner of education.
• An additional conference will be added in wrestling, taking effect Aug. 1, 2012, if approved by the commissioner of education.

The UIL state wrestling tournament will take place Friday and Saturday at the Austin ISD Delco Center.

With 11 qualifiers and one alternate, Allen is in good position to defend its boys crown.

Here are the athletes from area schools who qualified:

BOYS

103 pounds: Dylan Akers (Flower Mound), Dammion Heard (Keller Fossil Ridge), Nick Barron (Dallas Sunset), Sammy Eldridge (Arlington Bowie), Gabe Torres (Allen), Brycen Coffman (Frisco Wakeland-alternate).

112 pounds: John Arra (The Colony), Kaleb Richardson (Coppell), Zach Ziober (Grapevine), Tony Torres (Arlington Martin), Mason Smout (Allen), Thayer Atkins (Dallas Lake Highlands), Cutler McMartin (Argyle-alternate), Antonio Martinez (Dallas Jesuit-alternate).

119 pounds: Nick Peckham (Hebron), Nathan Kearney (Keller), Kyle Obenberger (Frisco), Ian Ortega (Keller Fossil Ridge), Ian Jones (Plano East), Chase Luttrell (Allen), Daniel Murillo (Coppell-alternate).

125 pounds: Scott Akers (Flower Mound), Dominic Yang (South Grand Prairie), Mark McPherson (Coppell), Fortino Valdez (Dallas Molina), Bo Nickal (Allen), Demarquis Fields (Lake Highlands), Isaac Salinas (Carrollton Creekview-alternate), Jordan Naemi (Richardson Berkner-alternate).

130 pounds: Mason Kraft (Frisco), Keith Sutton (Arlington Martin), Alex Scheer (Frisco Centennial), Greg Barrera (Justin Northwest), Jarrod Trotter (Allen), Wade Ritchie (Keller Central-alternate)

135 pounds: Dalton Caudell (Frisco Centennial), Ray Moreno (Carrollton Creekview), Jacob Andrews (Grapevine), Corey Ticknor (Arlington Lamar), Steven Reyes (Allen), Greyson Medina (Flower Mound-alternate), Nathan Schulman (Lake Highlands-alternate).

140 pounds: Austin Riddle (Flower Mound), J.T. Favara (Arlington), Elijah Cook (Carrollton Creekview), Eli Israel (Colleyville Heritage), Lance McGowan (Keller Central-alternate), Biak Thang (Dallas Lake Highlands-alternate).

145 pounds: Peter Huang (Arlington Martin), Brady Speckels (Flower Mound), Kameron Sanders (Keller Fossil Ridge), Matt Swoyer (Southlake Carroll), Clay Lewis (Lewisville-alternate), A.J. Hinkle (Allen-alternate).

152 pounds: Dillon Swacker (Southlake Carroll), Ben Hammer (Argyle), Tom Beaury (Flower Mound), Caleb Endert (Colleyville Heritage), Oliver Pierce (Allen), Ashton Harris (Frisco-alternate).

160 pounds: Drake Dudley (Flower Mound), Matt Robinson (Coppell), Dusty Bess (South Grand Prairie), Michael Cragle (Carrollton Creekview), Matt Meyer (Allen), Junior Flores (Fort Worth Carter-Riverside-alternate), Jacob Glastad (Rockwall-Heath).

171 pounds: Michael McKinney (Lewisville), Conner Griggs (The Colony), Victor Williams (Keller Central), Salvador Hernandez (South Grand Prairie), Ophir Bernstein (Allen), 4. Dylan Devereaux (Rockwall), Joseph South (Arlington Lamar).

180 pounds: Chad Wampler (Justin Northwest), Paolo Montes (Arlington Martin), Francis Abbey (Lewisville), Howard Huggins (Dallas Kimball), Nick Cobb (Allen), Troy Mercer (Rockwall-Heath), Jon Hubbard (South Grand Prairie-alternate).

189 pounds: Greg Wilson (Keller Central), Andy Meadows (Frisco Wakeland), Richard MacKillop (Lewisville), Daniel Foyt (Arlington Lamar), Ben Laures (Plano), Waleed Hymore (Richardson Berkner), Mark Snow (Keller-alternate), Hunt Biggers (Highland Park-alternate).

215 pounds: Dominic Cruciani (Southlake Carroll), Trevor Harris (Arlington Bowie), Dylan Powers (Flower Mound Marcus), Trey Neal (Frisco Centennial), Stone Drulman (Allen), Jay Arnold (Rockwall-Heath), Donovan Kleckner (Colleyville Heritage-alternate).

285 pounds: Chandler Ford (Arlington Martin), Alex Wranik (Flower Mound), Josh Graciano (The Colony), James Floyd (Fort Worth Paschal), Robert Hinton (Rockwall), Baldemore Flores (Plano), Breyan Owens (South Grand Prairie-alternate), Ryan Branch (Dallas Lake Highlands-alternate).

GIRLS

95 pounds: Vanessa Smith (Frisco Centennial), Colleen Miley (Arlington Lamar), Bri Lowe (Keller), Dalina Vuong (Arlington Sam Houston), Carla Morales (Fort Worth Trimble Tech-alternate).

102 pounds: Ambre Reed (Frisco Liberty), Kaci Fullinwider (Coppell), Claudia Morales (Fort Worth Trimble Tech), Daysha Woods (Arlington Sam Houston), Brenna Figueroa (Arlington Lamar-alternate).

110 pounds: Christina Bautista (Colleyville Heritage), Lorena Ramirez (Coppell), Allison Nall (Arlington Lamar), Bentriz Sanchez (Lewisville), Jasmine Alverado (Keller Central-alternate).

119 pounds: Cheyenne Rodriguez (Keller Fossil Ridge), Margie Mena (Dallas Molina), Hannah Peters (Frisco Liberty), Esmeralda Rodriguez (Dallas Skyline), Rachel Lex (Keller Central-alternate).

128 pounds: Christina Machado (Carrollton R.L. Turner), Charley Clark (Keller Fossil Ridge), Melva Williams (Arlington Bowie), Vanessa Vasquez (Justin Northwest), Betty Ordorica (Fort Worth Trimble Tech).

138 pounds: Rachel Mahlow (Arlington Martin), Heiley Garcia (Carrollton R.L. Turner), Christin Galla (Arlington), Adaw Gwath (Euless Trinity), Ashley Tasby (Dallas Kimball-alternate).

148 pounds: Shea Smith (Frisco Wakeland), Tara Brandt (Copell), Sharde Alexander (Dallas Skyline), Gisielle Ruvalcaba (Arlington Bowie), Madelyn Miner (Frisco-alternate).

165 pounds: Tammy Bourma (Frisco), Amanda Allen (Frisco Liberty), Tishiana Covington (Fort Worth Trimble Tech), Freana Tucker (Dallas Skyline), Patricia Coronado (Midlothian).

185 pounds: Sherese Thomas (Arlington Seguin), Shevon Hubbard (Dallas Skyline), Rebecca Perales (Arlington Martin), Shala Jones (Fort Worth Trimble Tech), Abby Lopez (Dallas Sunset-alternate).

215 pounds: Paige Garcia (Keller Fossil Ridge), Sara Vernon (Arlington Sam Houston), Iliasani Kauhai (Euless Trinity), Nkem Ukoha (Coppell), Trisha Wright (Arlington-alternate).

The Spring 2010 Anabolic Steroid Testing Report was released by UIL on Thursday with no positive results coming from the 3,308 tests conducted.

From January 2010 to May 2010, 2,092 males and 1,216 females representing 11 sports were tested from 207 Texas schools. The ninth grade class in the Spring of 2010 contained the most total tests with 984 (609 males and 375 females).

Student-athletes participating in multiple sports were the highest tested group, as 682 males and 405 females were tested.

The most individual tests in the male sports came from football with 590 tests, soccer with 209 tests and basketball with 176 tests. The top three individual sports in which females were tested were soccer(166), softball (143) and volleyball (123).

ESPN RISE Magazine gives props to some of the top teams in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the Recognize section of its April issue:

Boys Lacrosse -- St. Mark's: What kind of power do the Lions possess? When two players from the same team commit to powerhouse lax programs in the Northeast, that’s a big deal.

Girls' Swimming -- Southlake Carroll: The Dragons may not have had one dominant swimmer this season, but that didn’t stop them from finishing third as a team at the Class 5A state meet.

Wrestling -- Allen: The Eagles had been climbing up the ladder at the state tournament so quickly the past few years that a state title seemed inevitable -- and it was.

Girls' Basketball -- Cedar Hill: The Longhorns outscored three foes by an average of 10.7 points in the final quarter to earn its first trip to the state finals in 13 years.

For more of what RISE had to say about these local teams and others, click here.