By John Rittenhouse
The Luverne-Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth wrestling team was unable to record a win while hosting a pair of Southwest Conference matches late last week.
Windom-Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin handed the Cardinals a 51-point setback Thursday. Redwood Valley topped L-H-BC-E by 23 points Friday.
The 2-16 Cardinals will attempt to snap a seven-match losing skid when they host Jackson County Central tonight.
RWV 51, L-H-BC-E 28
A late surge by visiting Redwood Valley gave it a 23-point win over the Cardinals in Luverne Friday.
L-H-BC-E trailed 24-22 after Anthony Boyenga pinned Anthony Bongard in 57 seconds at 119 and Kerry Fink covered Tony Iverson in 49 seconds at 125, but RWV won five of the final six matches of the night to win handily.
RWV, which received 24 points worth of forfeits during the duel, outscored the Cards 27-6 in the final six weight classes.
The run featured pins from Ross Gewerth (3:49 over Ruston Aaker at 130), Tom Anderson (52 seconds over Justin Mann at 145) and Dusty Myers (1:00 over Matt Goembel at 160). A forfeit at 135 and Bo Hagert’s 5-4 decision win over Canaan Petersen also padded RWV’s late run.
Dusty Seachris kept RWV from winning the final six matches of the night when he pinned Nate Bernardy in 5:02 at 140.
RWV drew forfeits at 171 and 189 to open the match before L-H-BC-E pulled to within two points (12-10) with a major decision from Joel Evans (10-2 over Paul Panitzke) and a pin from heavyweight Cody Jagow (17 seconds over Jammie Gegner).
A forfeit at 103 and a pin by Brady Myers (52 seconds over Mike Van Wyhe at 112) gave RWV 24-10 cushion before L-H-BC-E received its wins from Boyenga and Fink.
Match wrap-up
171 (R) Dahmes by forfeit.
189 (R) Heiling by forfeit.
215 (L) Evans m.d. Panitzke.
275 (L) Jagow pins Gegner.
103 (R) Hodgson by forfeit,
112 (R) Myers pins Van Wyhe.
119 (L) Boyenga pins Bongard.
125 (L) Fink pins Iverson.
130 (R) Gewerth pins Aaker.
135 (R) Gewerth by forfeit.
140 (L) Seachris pins Bernardy.
145 (R) Anderson pins Mann.
152 (R) Hagert dec. Petersen.
160 (R) Myers pins Goembel.
W-ML-B-O 63,
L-H-BC-E 12
The Cardinals were unable to hand the Cobras their first Southwest Conference loss of the season when the teams squared off in Luverne Thursday.
W-ML-B-O dominated the match by scoring the first 45 team points in what ended as a 51-point victory for the visitors.
Along with scoring 24 points with four forfeits, W-ML-B-O scored 36 points with six pins.
Travis Elg (1:03 over Mike Van Wyhe at 112), Nick Kulseth (1:38 over Kerry Fink at 125), Jeff Stuckenberg (44 seconds over Anthony Boyenga at 130), Travis Winters (3:25 over Dusty Seachris at 135), Jason Kruger (3:29 over Jesse Saravia at 140) and Cody Anderson (2:46 Jose Saravia at 189) won by fall for the Cobras.
W-ML-B-O’s John Kremmin topped Justin Mann 8-2 at 145 to pick up his team’s lone decision win.
L-H-BC-E received a pin from heavyweight Cody Jagow, who stuck Kevin Zschetzsche in 1:25.
Cardinal Canaan Petersen edged Ryan Fast 5-4 at 152, and Joel Evans downed Brady Jansen 10-4 at 215.
Match wrap-up
103 (W) Bergendahl by forfeit.
112 (W) Elg pins Van Wyhe.
119 (W) Bergendahl by forfeit.
125 (W) Kulseth pins Fink.
130 (W) Stuckenbroker pins
Boyenga.
135 (W) Winters pins Seachris.
140 (W) Kruger pins Je.Saravia.
145 (W) Kremmin dec. Mann.
152 (L) Petersen dec. Fast.
160 (W) Hall by forfeit.
171 (W) Winters by forfeit.
189 (W) Anderson pins Jo.Saravia.
215 (L) Evans dec. Janzen.
275 (L) Jagow pins Zschetzsche.