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District Duals tourney: Tamaqua, Jim Thorpe, Northwestern qualify

District 11 has released tournament information for its team wrestling championships.

Three Times News area teams have qualified for the event. Tamaqua, Jim Thorpe and Northwestern will all be part of the 12-team Class 2A field.

First round and quarterfinal round action will be held at Northern Lehigh and Bethlehem Liberty High Schools on Thursday. The 2A tournament will finish up with the semifinal round, loser’s bracket matches, and the championship match on Saturday at Bethlehem Freedom High School.

The top four seeds in the field will receive byes while the remaining eight teams will play first round matches. All first round losers will be eliminated from the tournament. The quarterfinal round will then begin the double-elimination part of the tournament.

Tamaqua is the No. 6 seed and will open with a first round match at Northern Lehigh against No. 11 seed Pine Grove on Thursday at 6 p.m.. The winner of that match will face No. 3 seed Wilson at 7:30 p.m. at Northern Lehigh in the quarterfinals.

Jim Thorpe is the No. 7 seed and will face No. 10 seed Catasauqua at 6 p.m. at Liberty. The winner will meet No. 2 seed Notre Dame of Green Pond at 7:30 p.m. at Liberty in a quarterfinal round match.

Northwestern is the No. 8 seed. The Tigers will also be in action at Liberty where they will face No. 9 seed Pen Argyl at 6 p.m. The winner of that match will take on top-seeded Saucon Valley at 7:30 p.m. at Liberty in the quarterfinals.

All eight quarterfinal round qualifiers will advance to Saturday’s action at Freedom, where action will begin at 9 a.m. The finals are scheduled for 5:30 p.m.