NCHS 12 - St. C E 63
NCHS 42 - Oswego 28
December 7, 2013
Naperville Central Wrestling is now 4-3 in the young season (0-1 in DVC) after winning two of three at the Mega-Duals held at Wheaton Warrenville South High School.
In the opening dual, the Redhawks defeated Neuqua Valley by a score of 50-24. The Hawks scored the first takedown in 8 of the 11 contested matches. Rick Marciniak started the dual with a close 2-1 win. Riley Guttosch followed that up with a pin and Robby Martins won by major decision 13-4. Kyle Hildebrand lost to top ranked Swier of NV. Alex Hunter was pinned at 220.
The Rehawks gave up a forfeit at 195 and Neuqua Valley gave up forfeits at 285 and 106. Derek Wilke scored a fall at 113 to put the Hawks up 31-18 in the team score. Evin Kilicarslan lost by fall at 120. Connor Cesaretti won the most exciting match of the dual when he scored on a shuck in overtime to win 3-1. Nick Nunziato won 10-1 with a major decision. Ben Williamson chalked up a first period fall at 138. Matt Chobak finished the dual with a pin of his own.
The Redhawks lost to St. Charles East in the second dual of the night by a score of 12-63. Nothing seemed to go right for NCHS in the dual. Ben Williamson defaulted by injury late in his match due to a shoulder injury.
Naperville Central came back to win the final match of the day against Oswego by a score of 42-28. Matt Chobak scored his second pin of the day. Nick Nunziato also won by fall. Shuji Mizoguchi and Derek Wilke and Riley Guttosch all won by technical fall. Mizoguchi finished the day 3-0. Robby Martins won 4-1 to finish 3-0 on the day. Martins did not have an offensive point scored on him and was awarded with the team’s “I’m Somebody” for his efforts.
The JV1 team finished 3-0 in their Mega-dual efforts. They defeated Neuqua Valley 50-12, Oswego 48-30, and St. Charles East 36-27. The JV2 team finished 1-2 on the day. They lost to Rockton Hononegah 36-60 and Oswego 36-54 and they beat St. Charles East 33-30. The Freshman finished 5th in the tough 8 team tournament at Lyons Township High School. Jake Keating, Laddie Skarecky, Alex Raulicks, and Christian Nussbaum were all crowned champions of the tournament. Brayden Templeton took 2nd, and Gabe Villa took 3rd.
Next the Redhawks travel to Glenbard North on Thursday and Glenbard East on Friday. The Varsity will compete at the Hoffman Estates tournament on Saturday.
GO REDHAWKS!