{"id":9311,"date":"2020-02-19T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=9311"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:28:00","slug":"stallions-munoz-wins-individual-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/stallions-munoz-wins-individual-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Stallions\u2019 Munoz wins individual title"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the final match of the Central Section Div. II Championship round, Madera South\u2019s Joseph Munoz sent the hometown fans home happy with a pinfall at 147 pounds for an individual championship.<\/p>

Munoz, wrestling at home in Madera South\u2019s gym, pinned top-seeded Anthony Estrada of Monache-Porterville, with a minute left in the second round grab the title.<\/p>

\u201cIt feels pretty good,\u201d Estrada said. \u201cI was able to do it in front of my coaches, my dad and the crowd. I was feeding off the coach\u2019s reactions and my dad\u2019s reaction. It feels great, it\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cJoseph upset a couple of guys and is in the finals,\u201d Madera South head coach Ryan Philp said. \u201cAlmost every one of our guys upset somebody this weekend.\u201d<\/p>

Munoz\u2019s win also caused a celebration for Pioneer Valley, who won the Div. II championship because of Munoz\u2019s pin. Pioneer Valley edged Monache by 1.5 points to capture the championship.<\/p>

Madera South finished fifth overall and briefly held the top spot before the semifinal rounds started.<\/p>

\u201cWe had a great shot at the team title,\u201d Philp said. \u201cEveryone wrestled above their seeds. Everyone did better than they were projected to do. It\u2019s unfortunate that we had a couple of seniors miss weight. I feel bad for those guys. I wish they could had finished the season off right.\u201d<\/p>

The Stallions will next wrestle in the Grand Masters Tournament at Hoover-Fresno this weekend with a berth at the CIF State Championships at stake.<\/p>

\u201cOur momentum has carried over very good from the regular season,\u201d Philp said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to make a run at winning this thing next year.\u201d<\/p>

Munoz, seeded third, received byes until the quarterfinal round where he pinned his opponent. In the semifinals, Munoz defeated Foothill\u2019s Luis Amaya, the second seed, by pinfall in the third period.<\/p>

In the finals, Munoz got off to a 2-1 lead with a takedown with 23 seconds left in the first period against Estrada. Munoz added to his lead with a takedown and three near fall points with 39 seconds left in the second for a 7-2 lead.<\/p>

Then, Estrada twisted his opponent to the mat with a takedown 31 seconds into the third period. He got Estrada\u2019s shoulders onto the mat with 1:03 left in the third period to capture the Div. II championship.<\/p>

Damion Sharrif placed fourth at 115 pounds for the Stallions. Diego Jaimes also reached the podium with a sixth place finish at 122 pounds.<\/p>

Vincente Moreno won a pair of matches to place sixth at 128 pounds. At 140 pounds, Jaime Garcia won four straight matches, including a 5-4 decision in the third place match to win the consolation championship.<\/p>

Arturo Perez placed eighth at 154 pounds. Abel Cardenas earned a pair of victories to place fourth at 162 pounds. Giovanni Ortiz earned a fifth place finish at 172 pounds.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the final match of the Central Section Div. II Championship round, Madera South\u2019s Joseph Munoz sent the hometown fans home happy with a pinfall at 147 pounds for an individual championship. Munoz, wrestling at home in Madera South\u2019s gym, pinned top-seeded Anthony Estrada of Monache-Porterville, with a minute left in the second round grab […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":27092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-9311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}