Sunday, December 17, 2023

NCHS Girls Wrestling Team competes at Grant and Batavia

 Central Girls Wrestling Compete at Grant

12/11/2023

The Central Girls team traveled to Grant High School in Fox Lake to compete in the Girls Block Party.  Seven total teams battled in a scramble format.  The Lady Redhawks won twelve of fourteen matches, eleven by fall and one by technical fall.  All matches were decided prior to the start of the third period.  All seven Hawks won matches including Annika Hull, Gracie Meluch, Ellen Purl, Dezi Azar and Arianna Rico who all won both of their matches.  Arianna Rico won her first two matches of the season, both by fall.

Lady Redhawk Wrestlers Mix It Up at Batavia

12/13/2023

The NCHS girls continued their busy week with a scramble-wrestling event hosted by Batavia.  Nine schools matched up for a couple of matches with each wrestler receiving two matches.  Central won eight matches against seven losses.  All eight matches were won by fall.

Desi Azar won both of her matches including an exciting fall against Sylvester of West Aurora.  Azar scored two takedowns in the match before securing the fall in the second period.  Young Gracie Meluch added two more wins to here record.  Ellen Purl looked impressive with two come-from-behind wins, the second against Molina of West Aurora.  Arianna Rico got an extra match by way of a 5-man bracket and made the most of it, pinning Giakouni of Batavia in 40 seconds.  Rico finished the day 2-1.  Annika Hull, Bianca Arrendondo and Sophia Liu also competed.