Sunday, December 22, 2024

Naperville Central Sweeps Four Duals at Oak Forest MegaQuad

12/21/2024

  • NCHS 65 – Bradley Bourbonnais 10
  • NCHS 52 – York 26
  • NCHS 56 – Prospect 14
  • NCHS 59 – Oak Forest 17

 Naperville Central won all three duals at Oak Forest to stay undefeated on the season at 11-0.  Combined, Central scored 232 team points to opponents’ 67.  The Redhawks won 44 matches against 13 losses.  Six Hawks finished the event at a perfect 4-0.

Leading the way for the Red and White was standout Will Ebeck.  The heavyweight improved to 12-1 on the season after winning all four matches, three by fall.  Erbeck leads the team in pin-by-win ratio.  Vince Bern, wrestling at 138 pounds, also completed a 4-0 day with two wins by fall and one by technical fall.  Bern earned seven takedowns in his matches and is now 12-2 on the season.  Jacob Cochran, 126 stays hot after a perfect day.  Cochran is now second on the team in wins with 17 and leads the team with 11 falls.  Paul Peradotti looked impressive at 190 adding four wins to improve to 12-1 this season.  Peradotti scored the second most takedowns at the MegaDuals with 8.  Dalton Meluch continued to impress with a solid 4-0 day.  Meluch, wrestling at 106 pounds scored two falls and is now 13-5 on the season.  Henry Rydwelski remains undefeated on the 2024-25 season with a sparkling record of 18-0 after locking down four additional wins at Oak Park.

Four additional wrestlers added three wins at the Duals including CJ Bierman, 150, Nichoas Olvera, 165, Jack Schwartz, 113, and Jake Moore 120.  Moore looked impressive with a team leading 9 takedowns at the MegaDuals and a win by technical fall.  Olvera had seven takedowns himself and two wins by fall to improve to 12-4. Bierman suffered only his second loss of the season against 11 wins.

Stavros Gerousis, 144, and Gavin McDonald 132, both finished even at 2-2.  Gerousis has 11 wins on the season.  McDonald has a record of 9-5.  Yusuf Sikander won one of two and earned six more takedowns to keep his team lead in that category with 40.

Justin Skryd, at 157, scored a couple of wins in as many matches winning by decision 13-9.  James Ball made the most of his varsity opportunity, winning by fall over Dines of Bradly Bourbonnais by fall in the first period.  Nithilan Gandi participated at 215 pounds for the Redhawks.