Sunday, January 11, 2015

Naperville Central Wins All Three Duals at Downers Grove North

January 10, 2015

NCHS 63 – South Elgin 6
NCHS 56 – Champaign Central 12
NCHS 49 – Downers Grove North 12

Naperville Central won 34 of 42 matches at Downer’s Grove North in a quad that included Champaign Central and South Elgin.  All 14 NCHS wrestlers came away with a win.

Triple winners include Jake Keating (106 pounds, two wins by fall), Shuji Mizoguchi (113 pounds, one win by technical fall), Luc Jandt (126, two wins by fall), Ben Williamson (138, one win by fall, one by technical fall), Cam Hayes (145, two wins by fall), Rick Marciniak (152, two wins by fall, one by technical fall), Laddie Skarecky (170, did not give up a technical point), Christian Nussbaum (220, two wins by fall).

Christian Nussbaum scored two first period pins and won a hard fought dual against Smith of Downer’s Grove North by a score of 3-2.  He was awarded the team’s “I’m Somebody” Award for the day.

The Redhawks are now 16-5 on the year.

Naperville Central JV1 team took 5th in the 16 team Bolingbrook Invitational.  Cam Baugartner brought home a gold at 106 pounds.  Mujtaba Ahmed and Robby Martins both took 2nd.

The NCHS JV2 team took 4th place at the 8 team Naperville Central JV2 tournament.  Nick Keating took first place, Jacob Viehmann, Sam Piazza, Gabe Villa, and Andre Pittman all took 2nd place.

Next up the Redhawks will wrestle at home against Lake Park on Thursday, January 15.  The NCHS Seniors will be recognized at the event.  Action starts at 5:30 with underlevels and varsity will begin at around 7:00.  The seniors and their parents will be recognized just prior to the varsity dual.  The varsity will travel to Mahomet-Seymour for a tournament on Saturday, January 17 while the JV2 will compete at Rolling Meadows and the freshman will wrestle at Neuqua Valley for a quad.

GO REDHAWKS!