Tonight was a great night for our young Eagle wrestling team.  With three teams each team had two duals.  The first dual of the night was between Two Rivers and Laona Wabeno.  

 

Dual #1 Laona Waubeno Three Lakes vs Two Rivers

182 Frank Shepard LWT won by fall over Harper Shimanek TR 2:26

195 Chase Matthias TR won by fall over Zeke Lagalbbo LWT 1:27

220 Dbl FFT

285 Augustus Fink LWT won by fall over Dan Hudson TR 0:34

106 Dbl FFT

113 Kaken Kakes TR won by FFT

120 Brady Shepard LWT won by FFT

126 Kevin Sheldon LWT won by FFT

132 Noak Kincaid LWT won by FFT

138 Zander Ginet LWT won by fall over Jeremy Dey TR 0:31

145 Jackson Harris LWT won by fall over Tyler Harrier TR 1:12

152 Connor Reed TR won by FFT

160 Pierson Czaplinski LWT won by fall over Justin Klinker TR 3:46

170 Ryan Ro LWT won by fall over Damien Gretz TR 4:56

Final Score Laona Waubeno Three Lakes 54 Two Rivers 18

 

The second dual of the night started at 195 between Southern Door and Laona Waubeno Three Lakes.   After watching and waiting our Eagle team was ready and excited to wrestle, and so were the coaches.  This was the first trip back to SD for former Eagle standout Colin Schubert.  Colin is the current head coach for LWT.  Colin was a 2013 State Champ at 145 and holds many individual school records.  After high school, Colin went on to Northern Michigan University where he trained for the Olympics in Greco Roman and earned his teaching degree.

 

As a team, we competed against Laona Waubeno Three Lakes at two tournaments.  First at Oshkosh on the Water and most recently at the Cutler Classic in New London.  Both tournaments were individually bracketed tournaments and we only faced a few wrestlers head to head.  At both tournaments, LWT finished higher in the team standings so we were expecting a battle.  

 

Although we didn't get a win in the first match, it was a great match and helped set the tone.  At 195 Riley was facing Frank Shepard from LWT.  Shepard is currently ranked honorable mention in D3 at 182 and has been wrestling very well.  Shepard scored a first-period TD but Riley was quick to get back to his feet and earn the escape and the period ended 1-2.  Shepard chose bottom in the second where he earned a reversal but again Riley escaped.  Unfortunately, Riley gave up a TD with less than 10 seconds to end the period down 2-6.  In the third period, Riley chose bottom and earned another escape to cut the lead to 3-6.  Another TD by Shepard made the score 3-8 but Riley didn't quit.  He kept battling and hit a beautiful reversal bringing Shepard to his back.  Unfortunately, Riley was just short of time and only earned two near fall to end the match 7-8.  If ever there is loss you can be proud of and build from this was it.  Riley wrestled very smart and kept himself in position the entire match.  

 

A pin by Brodie Overbeck at 220 was followed by a pair of FFT's.  Then, five wins in a row from 126 - 152 sealed the victory for SD.

 

Dual # 2 Southern Door vs Laona Waubeno Three Lakes

195 Frank Shepard LWT won by decision over Riley Phillips SD 8-7

220 Brodie Overbeck SD won by fall over Augustus Fink LWT 2:24

285 Dbl FFT

106 Lucas Kallin SD won by FFT

113 Cameron Ambrosius SD won by FFT

120 Brady Shepard LWT won by fall over Mason Motquin SD 5:29

126 Spencer Slezewski SD won by decision over Kevin Sheldon LWT 12-3

132 Wyatt Wilke SD won by fall over Noak Kincaid LWT 0:39

138 Trevor Englebert SD won by fall over Zander Ginet LWT 4:31

145 Thoms Grosbeier SD won by FFT

152 Thomas Jackson won by major decision over Jackson Harris 18-4

160 Pierson Czaplinski LWT won by fall over Hayden Jeanquart SD 0:59

170 Ryan Roy LWT won by tech fall over Zack Lynch SD 16-1

182 Zeke Lagalbbo LWT won by decision over Jonas Jandrin SD 8-2

Final Score Southern Door 44 Laona Waubeno Three Lakes 23

 

 

The final dual of the night was Southern Door vs Two Rivers.  Unfortunately, Two Rivers was missing a few wrestlers.  We didn't get as many matches as we would have liked but, we did get some very exciting matches.  At 138 Lucas Conard was very aggressive and set the tone early.  Nice to have a young inexperienced wrestler going hard and seeing things click for him.  Thomas Grosbeier at 145 is getting better every week.  We'll see if he can better his 4th place finish last week as he gets on a roll.  

 

At 160 Hayden Jeanquart asked me for a rematch against Justin Klinker rather than moving up to 170.  Klinker got the best of Hayden last Saturday at Sheboygan North in the second round of the Herb Tyler invite with a decisive 10-2 major decision.  Tonight Hayden was ready and attacking.  Hayden shot a double off the first whistle and after a fierce back and forth battle earned the takedown.  A reversal by Klinker ended the period 2-2.  Klinker chose down in the second and earned another reversal to go up 2-4.  Hayden was close to some scores from the bottom but couldn't get out ending the second down 2-4.  In the third Hayden chose neutral and was fast to attack again.  He scored a takedown with a nice double and 3 near fall to go up 7-4.  After Klinker scored another reversal he let Hayden escape to make the score 8-6.  The period ended with another flurry of action from both wrestlers.  Both were close but there were no takedowns or scoring.

 

Dual # 3 Southern Door vs Two Rivers

220 Chase Matthias TR won by fall over Brodie Overbeck SD 0:47

285 Dan Hudson TR won by FFT

106 Lucas Kallin SD won by FFT

113 Mason Motquin SD won by FFT

120 Spencer Slezewski SD won by FFT

126 Wyatt Wilke SD won by FFT

132 Trevor Englebert SD won by FFT

138 Lucas Conard SD won by fall over Jeremy Dey TR 0:52

145 Thoms Grosbeier SD won by fall over Tyler Harrier TR 2:41

152 Connor Reed TR won by fall over Thomas Jackson SD 2:45

160 Hayden Jeanquart SD won by decision over Justin Klinker TR 8-6

170 Damien Gretz TR won by decision over Zack Lynch SD 4-1

182 Jonas Jandrin SD won by fall over Harper Shimanek TR 5:32

195 Riley Phillips SD won by FFT

Final Score Southern Door 57 Two Rivers 21

 

Big wins for this young team.  We are really bonding well and improving fast.  We'll look to take this momentum into Saturday's tournament, the last of the regular season.  This weekend we will be at the Dirk Sorenson Invitational in Sturgeon Bay.  Next Tuesday night at 5:30 we will be hosting Kewaunee, Bay Port, and Wrightstown.  The first match at 5:30 with Kewaunee will be for the Conference title.