Sunday, January 12, 2025

Central Tops Morton

1/10/2025

Naperville Central improved to 16-3 on the 2024-2025 season after defeating Berwyn-Cicero Morton High School by a score of 71-6.  The Redhawks won 12 of the 13 contested matches and earned one win by forfeit.  Six matches were won by fall and five more by technical fall.  Central racked up 38 takedowns against their opponents.

Winers by technical fall were Dalton Meluch (106), Jake Moore (120), Vince Bern (132), Stavros Gerousis (138), and Henry Rydwelski (175).  Winners by fall were Jack Schwartz (113), Bradley Anderson (144), CJ Bierman (150), Nick Olvera (165), Paul Peradotti (190) and William Erbeck (285).  Jacob Cochran (126) won his match by major decision by a score of 21-12.

Central won the JV1 dual by a score of 68-12 and won the JV2 matchup 44-21.  The Redhawks won the freshman dual 76-17.

Central’s girls competed well against Morton winning nine of the eleven matches where they faced each other.  All wins by the Lady Redhawks were by fall except Annika Hull (100) who won her match by technical fall 17-2.  NCHS winners were Melva Gallego-Sugar (115), Gracie Meluch (120), Ellen Purl (120), Dezi Azar (125) Bianca Arredondo (130) and Arianna Rico (140).  Both Arredondo and Rico won two matches.