Sunday, December 4, 2016

Naperville Central Sweep the Mega-Duals

NCHS 35 – St. Charles East 25
NCHS 43 – Rockton Hononegah 22
NCHS 56 – West Aurora 19

December 3, 2016

Naperville Central improved to 6-1 on the young season after sweeping the Mega-Duals held at West Aurora High School.  In the first match, the Redhawks defeated St. Charles East 35-25.  Starting at 145 pounds, NCHS won the first seven matches to go up 29-0 before SCE earned their first win.  The Hawks added to more victories to hold on for the win.  In the second dual, the Redhawks again jumped out to an early lead, earning a win by major decision and two pins to start up 16-0 against Hononegah.  Rockton answered with a major and two pins of their own in three of the next four matches to pull within 6 points, 22-16.  But NCHS won five of the final seven matches for the dual win.

In the final match of the day, the Redhawks defeated former DVC foe West Aurora by a score of 56-19.  In that matchup, NCHS won 11 matches, six by fall and one by forfeit.

The day was ruled by sophomore Jackson Punzel who earned all three of his victories by fall.  Christian Nussbaum was also undefeated and had two pins and a major decision.  Luke Russell continued his fine work from the top position.  We was 3-0 with two pins and a win by forfeit.  Kyle Guttosch, Jake Keating, and Derek McDaniel were each 3-0 as well.  Kyle had one fall while Jake had two.  Every varsity wrestler came away with at least one win.

The Naperville Central freshman wrestling team took 3rd place at the tough Lyons Tournament.  Tyler Driessens won the championship at 99 pounds.  The Redhawks sent 6 individual to the finals in the tournament.



Next up Naperville Central will host DVC duals on both Thursday and Friday nights this coming week.  NCHS takes on Neuqua Valley on Thursday and Metea Valley on Friday.  Wrestling starts at 5:30 with underlevels and varsity should begin around 6:30.  Then, NCHS travels to Hoffman Estates for the first varsity action of the year.