Sunday, December 14, 2014

Naperville Central wins Cross Town Dual Against Naperville North

December 12, 2014

NCHS 42 – NNHS 22

The Redhawks won the cross-town classic at home on Friday in front of a large crowd.  The visitors from the North jumped out to a 15 team-point lead by winning the first three weight classes.  Riley Guttosch was defeated by decision at 160 pounds and Robby Martins and Kyle Hildebrand were both defeated by fall at 170 and 182 pounds.

Alex Hunter put the Hawks on the board with an exciting come-from-behind victory at 195 pounds.  Hunter gave up a takedown midway through the third period but escaped to tie the match and scored the winning takedown late in the match.  He was recognized as the team’s “I’m Somebody” award winner for his win.  Christian Nussbaum battled to a 2-4 loss against Zhang at 220.  Nussbaum gave up the winning takedown late in the third period.

With the team score at 3-18 in favor of Naperville North, the Redhawks ran off five straight wins.  Hayden Saldivar chose down in the second period of a 0-0 tie, reversed and pinned his opponent at heavyweight.  Jake Keating won the battle of the 106 pounders by a score of 14-6.  Shuji Mizoguchi scored a pin as the buzzer expired in the first period to put Central ahead 18-17 in the team score.  Derek Wilke match Shuji with a first period pin at 120 pounds.  Luc Jandt gave up the first takedown in his match but scored an escape and takedown in the third period and added another takedown in the third period to win 5-3.

Naperville North’s Kruk won by technical fall at 132 pounds over freshman Jason Heatherly to inch the team score back to 27-22 but the Redhawks won the final three matches to put the dual in the win column.  Ben Williamson’s match lasted just 15 seconds.  He won by fall at 138 and Cameron Hayes stayed undefeated at 145 with a 3-1 win verses Burkhart.  In the final match of the night, Rick Marciniak erased a 4-1 deficit  with 10 points in a row followed by a third period fall.

Naperville North won the JV1 dual by a score of 32-37 and the JV2 dual by a score of 30-42.  The Huskie freshman won 24-48.


Naperville Central is now 5-3 in duals and 1-1 in the DVC.