Friday, January 13, 2023

Naperville Central Shuts Out Metea Valley

NCHS 79 – MV 0

January 12, 2023

Naperville Central traveled to Metea Valley for the final regular season dual meet of the season and shut out the home team 79-0.  Central finishes the regular season with a dual meet record of 19-8 and 4-1 in the DuPage Valley Conference.

The Mustangs forfeited seven weight classes and sent seven wrestlers to the mat.  The Redhawks won all seven with five coming by fall.  The Redhawks did not give up a takedown in the dual.

Senior Captions Larry Stubitsch (138) and Gavin Bohan (160) led the way with two of those pins.  Stubitsch’s stick came in the first period, just 40 seconds into the match.  Bohan battled to the second period before earning his slap on the mat.

Hagan Taylor (145), Nyree Dabney (182) and Niko Besteiro (220) were all winners by fall.  Henry Rydwelski (170) scored five takedowns towards his win by major decision 12-3.  Chase Enfield (285) was a winner by decision 4-3.  He scored two takedowns, one in each of the first two periods and held on through the third period to secure the win.  Winners by forfeit were Jacob Cochran (106), Zach Moen (113), Ty Martin (120), Ethan Olson (126), Mitchell Kaszuba (132), Chris Bern (152) and Jake Smetters (195).

The NCHS JV team won 72-9 and the NCHS Freshman team won 48-18.  Metea Valley did not field a JV2 team.