When Ryan Anderson found out he was named to the second team of the East Penn Conference wrestling all-stars, it’s fair to say that it provided a bit of fuel heading into last weekend’s District 11 3A tournament.

Anderson, who is ranked fourth in the country at 138 according to Intermat, had little trouble dispatching through his bracket at Liberty’s Memorial Gymnasium, producing a fall, technical fall and two major decisions en route to winning his first district title.

Anderson, a junior, thumped Parkland senior Zach Ortman by a 12-3 major decision in the championship round, as Becahi (246.5 points) came away with three champions on the night and ran away with the team title, outpacing second place Nazareth (196.5 points).

The Hawks also crowned new champions with Matt Mayer (106) and Luca Frinzi (152) bringing home their first district titles, but Anderson’s championship was certainly a long time coming and one that garnered extra motivation by his EPC snub.

“I was definitely pissed about that,” said Anderson of being named second team EPC. “It was so much motivation coming into the tournament because I was second team EPC and then second seed at districts. I just told myself I was going to take this anger out on the competition.

“This is definitely special though. Anytime you win your first district title, it’s always going to feel the best.”

While it wasn’t a banner night for the Hawks, it was a dominating weekend for the team, as they had nine finalists and advanced 10 wrestlers to this weekend’s Northeast Regional tournament.

Anderson kicked things off in the finals with a win, while Frinzi followed up with a 3-2 decision over Stroudsburg’s Lenny Pinto at 152.

Frinzi scored a late takedown in the third period to come away with the title to join Anderson among the newly minted juniors on Becahi’s long list of district champions.

“It feels awesome after having this goal in mind all year,” said Frinzi. “I took fifth at districts a year ago, so to come away with the title is really special.”

Frinzi’s title came with a clamor of boos from the crowd, but it’s something that any Golden Hawk wrestler has become accustomed to.

“I definitely heard them at the end,” he said with a laugh. “I think you almost come to expect it wrestling at Beca, but I was just happy to win. That’s the only thing that mattered to me.”

Mayer earned an 8-5 decision over Emmaus’ Peyton Brown in the championship to round out the Hawks titles.

Kenny Herrmann (126), Cole Handlovic (145), Mikey Lewis (160), Tavion Banks (182), Robert Spezza (195) and Jase Crouse (HWT) each took silver medals from the competition.

Herrmann suffered a 2-1 defeat to Blue Mountain’s Josh Mason in the finals and Handlovic had the tough draw of battling Nazareth’s four-time district champion, Sammy Sasso, to a 15-6 major decision.

Mikey Lewis was forced to injury default against Emmaus’ Caden Wright, while Banks lost an entertaining 3-2 battle to Liberty’s Damen Moyer. Spezza and Crouse were both pinned by Blue Mountain’s Nate Stine and Easton’s Jonathan Pineda respectively.

Joe Kurtz was the only other Hawk to advance to regionals with a fourth-place finish at 170.

Dillon Murphy (113) and Jarred Papcsy (132) both took sixth and found themselves a spot out of moving on.

Papcsy had to forfeit his consolation round bout to injury.