Sunday, December 2, 2018

Naperville Central Sweeps the Mega Duals

12/1/2018

NCHS 56 – West Aurora 9
NCHS 49 – St. Charles East 13
NCHS 57 – Wheaton Warrenville South 7

Naperville Central improves to 7-0 in duals early in the 2018-19 season after taking all three duals at the Mega-Duals held at Wheaton Warrenville South High School.

Central won 11 of 14 contested matches in the opening dual against West Aurora.  Six of the wins were by fall and two more by technical fall.  In the second dual, NCHS won the battle between to ranked teams, defeating St. Charles East by 36 team points.  St. Charles East had several participants missing from the line-up, but it was still an impressive win for the Redhawks.  Central won 9 of 12 contested matches, including three by fall.  In the final dual, Central lost only two of twelve matches against Wheaton Warrenville South.


Naperville Central had nine wrestlers complete the mega-duals winning all three matches.  Ben Cianchetti was a perfect 3-0 with three falls in the event.  Ben improves to 6-1 on the year wrestling at 195 pounds.  Angelo Eklou remains perfect on the year and scored a couple of fall at the duals wrestling at 220 pounds.  Not to be outdone, Tyler Driessens, 113, also is a perfect 7-0 this season and locked down two pins himself.  Leo Keating has looked impressive all year at 126 pounds.  He is still undefeated at 7-0 with five of his win by fall – two coming at the duals.  Elrin Esporlas turned in a two pin performance as well at 132 pounds.  He is 6-1 on the season.

Senior captain Kyle Guttosch won all three of his matches at the Mega duals including a very impressive win over Justin Benjamin of St. Charles East by a score of 14-11.  Guttosch’s other two wins were both by technical fall.  He improves to 6-1 on the year.  Kyle’s co-captain Jackson Punzel is undefeated this year as wrestling at 182 pounds.  Cameron Palmer (170) is also 7-0 this season.  Palmer earned a fall against WWS.  Ryan Silva had an excellent day at the event, winning two matches and picking up a forfeit.  Silva is 5-2 this season.

Colin Baumgartner won two matches at the Mega duals.  He was nearily defeated by Guerrero of St. Charles East by a score of 3-5.  He is 6-1 on the year.  Freshman Tommy Porter scored a fall and major decision before losing his final match against WWS.  Porter is 5-2 this season at 106 pounds.  At the other end of the line-up, Carson Enfield won a couple of matches at the duals wrestling at 285 pounds.  Sophomore Shane Roth won a match and is now 3-3 wrestling at 160 pounds.

The NCHS JV1 team won all three matches hosting the mega-duals.  The Redhawks defeated Wheaton Warrenville South, Hononegah, and West Aurora.  Naperville Central sent two full teams to West Aurora to compete at the JV2 mega-duals.

The NCHS freshman competed at Lyons Township High School at the Lyon’s freshman tournament.  The team took third place against tough competition.  Lyons won with 199 points, Conant 2nd with 187 points and Central scored 176 points.  Central edged out Naperville North who took 4th with 175 points.  Nick Ball and Nick Antonetti both won the event, Collins, Lutes, and Damge all took 2nd place and Halverson, Premanand, Hamilton and Hurly took 3rd.  Quinn Hurly had three pins and won the fastest pin total time award.

Next up the Redhawks will resume the annual crosstown rivalry with Naperville North on Friday, December 7 at NCHS.  Action start with freshman, JV1 and JV2 levels starting at 5:30 followed by the varsity starting approximately 6:45.  Let’s pack the house!

Saturday the varsity will compete at Hoffman Estates tournament, and the JV will compete at the Streamwood Dual Tournament

GO REDHAWKS!