Huskie Meet

Great wrestling in the Igloo last night

On Monday evening, the Southern Ram wrestlers traveled across the county to face off against the Northern Huskies in the second meeting of the season.  It was a cold winter evening outside, but inside the Igloo, things heated up quickly.  Each team entered the evening with only one dual meet loss and each were in search of a spot in the regional dual meet tournament.

Declan wins a big match against Wilhelm

The match started at 132 pounds where Southern's Kolton Lee built up a 12-1 lead before pinning his opponent in the second period.  Northern won a decision at 138 and Southern's Elisha Skipper won a decision at 145 to bring the team score to 9-3 in favor of the Rams.
Northern forfeited to senior Jake Sweitzer at 152 and won by decision at 160 bringing the team score to 15-6 Southern, setting up the first of two premier match-ups of the evening.  For Northern, senior Hunter Wilhelm, a third place finisher at last season's state tournament, took the mat at 170 against senior Declan McCann for the Rams.  It was a tight match throughout with McCann coming out on top on the strength of two takedowns.  After the 5-3 decision, the Rams led 18-6 and that was as close as the match would get.

Hunter Sanders wins for the 30th time this season

Hunter Sanders won by fall at 182 while Justin Richter and Cameron Glover were given forfeits at 195 and 220.  After a pin at 285 by Chris Mersing, Southern led 42-6 heading into the lower weights.
Northern won by pin at 106 and tech fall at 113 setting up the second marquis match-up of the evening.

Chop Mersing with a big-man cradle

At 120, Southern's Aiden Schwab took the mat to face Northern's Jacob Brenneman, both top level wrestlers.  The bout started with a takedown by Brenneman and a reversal by Schwab.  They each reversed positions again bringing the score to 4-4 at the end of the first period.  Brenneman controlled the rest of the match, riding Schwab the entire second period and earning a reversal and hear fall points in the third period to earn a 9-4 victory over Schwab.  Brogan Kealy was awarded a forfeit at 126 and the match concluded with Southern on top 48-20.

A great match between two great wrestlers

The Rams return to action on Thursday with a match against the Hampshire Trojans at home in front of the student body at 2pm.  Special thanks to Janet Keller for the awesome photos.

Southern 48 - Northern 20

106 - Riley Hoenstein (NG) pins Jay Miller (SG) 1:27
113 - Shane Fink (NG) tech fall Jeremiah Mellinger (SG) 17-2
120 - Jacob Brenneman (NG) dec Aiden Schwab (SG) 9-4
126 - Brogan Kealy (SG) via forfeit
132 - Kolton Lee (SG) pins Austin Ravenscroft (NG) 3:30
138 - Chase Taylor (NG) dec Colum McCann (SG) 11-4
145 - Elisha Skipper (SG) dec Devin Smith (NG) 7-0
152 - Jake Sweitzer (SG) via forfeit
160 - Josh Thomas (NG) dec Zach Schoch (SG) 7-0
170 - Declan McCann (SG) dec Hunter Wilhelm (NG) 5-3
182 - Hunter Sanders (SG) pins Nathan Reams (NG) :35
195 - Justin Richter (SG) via forfeit
220 - Cameron Glover (SG) via forfeit
285 - Chris Mersing (SG) pins Jacob Beeman (NG) 1:34