Sunday, December 3, 2017

Naperville Central finishes 2-1 at the Megaduals: Freshman 3rd at Lyons Tournament

12/2/17

NCHS 48 – Rockton Hononegah 21
NCHS 28 – St. Charles East 39
NCHS 40 – Oswego 18

Naperville Central (5-2, 0-1 DVC) took two out of three at the Megaduals held at St. Charles East High School.  In the opening round, Central defeated Hononegah by 27 points.  Central won 8 of 12 contested matches.  In round two, NCHS lost to St. Charles East in a hard fought contest.  The Redhawks looked impressive in the final round with a solid win against Oswego.

Top performers in on the day were Kyle Guttosch (113) and Ben Cianchetti (220).  Both juniors finished 3-0 with three first period pins.  Guttosch remains undefeated in the young season.  Junior Jaskson Punzel won all three of his matches, all by decisions at 182.  Sophomore Angelo Eklou continues to look impressive finishing undefeated on the day and balloning his record to 6-1 at 195 pounds.

Senior Nick Keating won two matches, one by fall and one by technical fall.  He dropped only his first match of the year as sits at 6-1.  Also ending the day with a 2-1 record was Cameron Palmer, Tyler Driessens, and Colin Baumgartner.  Palmer and Driessens both earned a pin.  Tyler Driessens has an impressive 6-1 record on the season.  Baumgartner scored three takedowns in the final period to win 9-8 verses Oswego.

Also getting wins were Derek McDaniel, Elrin Esporlas, Ryan Silva, and Fabricio Navarro.  Silva won his first contested varsity match with a 8-0 major decision.  Derek McDaniel defaulted in his second match of the day.  He is likely to return to the line-up next week.


The JV1 team finish 2-1 at their Megadual event defeating Neuqua Valley and St. Charles East.  The JV2 team finished 1-2.

The freshman competed at the Lyons Township ant took 3rd place finishing with 5 champions.  They won 8 of the 10 medal matches.  Cooper Bohnstedt won 90, Khush Parekh won 106, Shane Roth won 138, Joe Spore won 170,  and Austin Longmire won 182.  Austin Nesci took 3rd and won most pins fastest combined time.  Shane Roth won the outstanding wrestler award  Ethan Jones 2nd 120, Ian VanEuwen 2nd at 152, Anthony Pendolino 3rd at 132, Jonah Boykin 3rd at 126.  Team took 3rd with no 195, 220 or 285. LTHS took 1st, and NNHS took 2nd. 8 teams total.