BINGHAMTON – Norwich coach Terry Hagenbuch has said all season that he thought his squad was a better tournament team than a dual meet team.

Hard to argue with Hagenbuch as the Purple Tornado matmen completed a triple crown of championships winning the STAC title, the Class B championship, and Saturday night at the Floyd L. Maines Memorial Arena, repeated as Section IV Division II champions totaling 159.5 points to easily outdistance runner-up Unatego by 33 points.

Norwich had eight wrestlers place in the top six, the most of any club, and senior standouts Tristan Rifanburg and Frank Garcia, the lynchpins to the program the last six years, tacked on two more individual sectional championships.

“Coach Hagenbuch says that Tristan and I set the standard for the rest of the guys,” Garcia said. “The rest of the guys are training as hard as we do, and they deserve the recognition.”

Four other area wrestlers won sectional crowns. B-G/A/H’s Chris Cirigliano won his third straight Section IV title; Oxford sophomore Garyn Huntley won his first; while Sherburne-Earlville’s Garrett DuVall and Jack Buell claimed Section III titles at Onondaga Community College Saturday evening.

Other than a first-period reversal in his finals match against Whitney Point’s Nate Grubham, Rifanburg (145) was completely dominant on his feet and on the mat winning by a 12-2 count. It was the sixth Section IV title for Rifanburg, tying the all-time section record set by former B/G/Afton standout Eric Decker.