NCHS 46 – NNHS 21
January 5, 2017
Naperville Central defeated its sister school Naperville
North in front of a rambunctious crowd at NNHS by a score of 46-21. Central improves to 15-2 on the season and 5-0
in the DVC conference.
With the dual starting at 113 pounds, Lucas Van Poucke of
Naperville North started things off for the Huskies with a 0-15 technical fall
win against Colin Baumgartner. At 120
pounds, Kruk added a major decision with a 2-11 win against Central’s Mujtaba
Ahmed. The two wins put North up 0-9 in
the team score.
Naperville Central answered with win technical falls in a
row. Joe Lopez defeated Summers by a
score of 15-0 and Nick Keating scored a 20-5 win over Gallegos. Central took a 10-9 team score lead.
McKenna of Naperville North battled freshman Qayin Dabney to
a 6-9 decision to put the Huskies up 10-12.
Naperville Central retook the team score lead when Jake Keating pinned
Davidson in the second period at 145 pounds.
Keating racked up 7 takedowns in his match. Derek McDaniel of Central won one of the more
exciting matches of the night by a score of 9-6. Matar (NN) then pinned Luke Russell in
another exciting match at 160 pounds bringing the team score to 19-18 in favor
of Central.
But it was the Redhawks that got on a roll from that point
forward. Central won five of the final
six matching including three pins in a row.
That streak started with Jackson Punzel, who got his fall in the first
period over Lapsey. Cam Palmer came from
behind to pin Simmelink in the second period of his 170 pound match. Finally, Ben Cianchetti scored a reversal and
pin in the second period of his match verses Martin at 195. After Christian Nussbaum battled to a 9-5
decision over Gray at 220, the Redhawks held a commanding 40-18 team score lead
and mathematically won the dual.
Brad Catalano lost a tough overtime battle to Habarra of
Naperville North by a score of 3-1 at the heavyweight weight class. Kyle Guttosch locked down a fall in the first
period in the final match of the night against Allgood of North to complete the
46-21 victory for the Redhawks.
Naperville North won the JV1 contest by a score of
28-36. The JV2 dual was wrestled to a
24-24 tie. Naperville Central won the
freshman dual 54-15.
Naperville Central will host Wheaton Warrenville South
tonight (Friday 1/6/2017) at home with JV1, JV2 and Freshman action starting at
5:30pm and varsity starting immediately following (around 6:45pm). Come cheer on the Redhawks.