By John Rittenhouse
Hills-Beaver Creek High School athletes posted a combined 2-6 record during the Cardinal Wrestling Tournament in Luverne Saturday.
Dusty Seachris and Kerry Fink wrestled for the Luverne-H-BC-Ellsworth squad during the event.
Seachris went 2-2 at 135 and 140 pounds for the Cardinals. Fink was 0-4 at 125.
Seachris opened the tournament by drawing a forfeit from Sioux Falls Lincoln before being pinned by Wabasso’s Chad Altermatt and Montevideo’s Leighton Reuss at 3:04 and 2:53 respectively.
Seachris bounced back in his final match to hand Worthington’s Alex Solem a 22-8 major decision setback.
Saturday was rough for Fink, who was pinned by Lincoln’s Mike Wratz (3:16) and Wabasso’s Derek Geutter (1:08) to start the tournament.
Fink wrestled better while dropping 7-5 and 4-3 decisions to Montevideo’s Tallen Wald and Worthington’s Brandon Rall respectively.
L-H-BC-E went 1-3 and placed sixth as a team during the tournament.
The Cardinals beat Lincoln 38-36 in the opener before dropping respective matches to Wabasso (63-14), Montevideo (40-34) and Worthington (39-36).
L-H-BC-E, 2-12 for the season, wrestles in Tracy tonight and in Adrian Tuesday.