December
13, 2014
Naperville
Central finished in fourth place at the Hoffman Estates Tournament. The Redhawks finished just 13 team points
from second place. In the final place
round, NCHS won seven of the eleven matches.
Finishing
in first place was junior Cam Hayes.
Hayes, 145, was unseeded in the tournament but scored a 16-0 technical
fall against the fourth seed and pinned the first seed in the semifinals before
working to a 3-1 decision in the finals against Josh Alexander of Bolingbrook.
Two
Redhawks took second place. Ben
Williamson won by technical fall to advance to the finals but was defeated by
Barzowski of Notre Dame 2-4 in overtime.
Derek Wilke won 15-0 and 13-5 to get to the finals before losing to
Piuti of LWC 2-10.
Three
Central wrestlers finished in third place.
Senior Riley Guttosch came from behind in his final match and locked
down an exciting fall. Riley finished
the day with two pins. Jake Keating also
won by fall in this final match to take the bronze. Jake got two pins as well. Shuji Mizoguchi locked down a fall in the
first period of his consolation match too.
Rick
Marciniak earned a trip to the semifinals with a fall and finished in fourth
place. Christian Nussbaum ended the day
with three hard earned victories, two of which were pins, to take fifth. Kyle Hildebrand scored three wins in the
wrestle-backs to take fifth place. Luc
Jandt wrestled back for a fifth place finish with two wins. Heavyweight Hayden Saldivar had three wins of
his own to take sixth.
Robby
Martins won a match against Libertyville to finish at 1-2. Jason Heatherly and Alex Hunter also wrestled
for the Redhawks.
The
Naperville Central JV1 team won the Streamwood Dual Team Tournament. They defeated South Elgin, West Chicago and
Highland Park. The NCHS freshman team
wrestled Lyons, Glenbard South, and Fenwick at Lyons.
Next
Up the Redhawks will compete at the competitive 28 team Whitlatch Tournament at
Hinsdale Central High School. The
tournament will take place Friday and Saturday December 19-20. On Friday the JV1, JV2 and Freshman will host
Glenbard West. On Saturday the JV1 team
will travel to Bolingbrook, the JV2 team (sophomores) will compete at the Maine
South Tournament, and the Freshman will be in a quad at Hinsdale South.