No. 14 Wawasee Wrestlers Rip No. 12 Goshen
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
SYRACUSE - The Wawasee Warrior wrestlers jogged circles around Goshen's grapplers during Tuesday's 10-minute warmup as Michael Buffer's "LLLLLet's get ready to rummmmmble" boomed over the loudspeakers.
Once the match started, the jogging stopped. The circles did not, as the No. 14 Warriors ran them around No.12 Goshen, 43-15.
The Warriors, wrestling their fourth Northern Lakes Conference match in two weeks - they have only two more left - improved to 8-0 overall and 4-0 in the conference. They wrestled 14 matches against Goshen and won 10 of them.
Wawasee, No. 14? Goshen, No. 12?
"First of all, I don't know how much stock you put in the polls," Wawasee coach Scott DeHart said.
Stock or no stock, DeHart used the poll as the iron to prod his grapplers.
"I told the kids we were the underdogs," he said. "I also told them the only poll we care about is the one at the end of the year."
Turns out Goshen coach Jim Pickard didn't put much credence in the poll, either.
"(Wawasee's) the team to beat in our conference," he said. "No matter what the rankings say or whatever else, they're a better team than us right now."
Going into the season, DeHart tabbed Goshen as one of the top teams standing in the way of Wawasee's repeat bid for the NLC title. If that's still the case, the Warriors are in control. Goshen dropped to 9-2 overall and 0-1 in the NLC with five conference matches left.
When Wawasee advanced deep into the tournament last season, a sophomore named Tyler Cline was one of the stars. DeHart promoted him to the varsity lineup late last season, and once there, Cline would do things like fall behind 13-5 only to pin his opponent.
Tyler Cline has not changed.
Cline's 140-pound match with Mark Oswald raised the most roars from the crowd as he again lived up to the nickname DeHart has tagged him with, "The Cardiac Kid."
Oswald jumped ahead of Cline 5-0, tossing him around the wrestling mat like yesterday's dirty laundry. The only thing that appeared to save Cline from being pinned in the first period was the buzzer that sounded to end the frame.
Oswald had his chance, and it slipped away as Cline chipped away. A reversal gave Cline two points. But he had no interest winning by decision.
Cline wanted the pin. He saw his opening. He locked Oswald's arm behind him and got the pin with 48 seconds left in the second period.
"I tell you what, Tyler is never out of a match," DeHart said. "He turned him at the right time. I don't try to figure Tyler out. He just has a knack for getting his hips off the mat. The less I coach him, the better off he is."
Indeed. When Oswald pushed around Cline in the first period, DeHart was over in the corner of the gym taking a sip out of the drinking fountain. DeHart never wavered.
Cline's win pushed Wawasee's lead from 15-6 to 21-6.
Before Cline's match, DeHart believed the Warriors picked up key wins in the 119- and 125-pound matches. Chet Wortinger improved to 8-0 by defeating Schuyler Barkes 9-5 in the 119 match, and Travis Coy beat Nick Cochran 6-2 in the 125 match. The two wins bumped Wawasee's lead from 5-3 to 11-3.
Once the Warriors got by the lighter weights with the lead, DeHart was confident because people like Ryan Johnson (135), J.J. Davis (152), Kevin A. Carr (160), Jason Carr (171) and Tom Bryan (189) had yet to wrestle. He would take his chances with them. The Carrs entered 7-0, Davis and Johnson 6-1 and Bryan 5-2.
All won. When Kevin A. Carr won a 14-3 major decision over Brian Goss, Wawasee went up 28-12. Officially, the match wasn't over. Unofficially, it was. Goshen had forfeited the heavyweight match during introductions. Count that and Wawasee led 34-12 after Carr's win with three matches left. Even if Goshen won all three on pins, the closest the Redskins could get is 34-30.
But Goshen didn't do that, and 43-15 - not 34-30 - was the final score.
"Turning point?" said Pickard. "Wawasee came out and wrestled. We didn't. That was the turning point. We don't have the three for four studs in our lineup that make everyone else better. They have that.
"We just have a lot of first-year guys in our lineup. Our guys basically went with one or two moves, then didn't show anything else."
Last Thursday the Warriors had a few tense moments in a 34-24 win over Warsaw. Not so against Goshen.
"I really liked the way we matched up," DeHart said. "We beat a good Goshen team tonight. I think we put together our most solid match yet against Goshen. The NLC is a brutal conference. The heat's turned up now. The mark of a championship team is to rise to the occasion when that happens."
Wawasee gets a break from the NLC's heat by competing at Bremen at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
NO. 14 WAWASEE 43, NO. 12 GOSHEN 15
Weight, Individual records/results, running team scores
103 pounds -ÊGerardo Quiroz (GOS/8-3) def. Josh DeGood (7-1) 6-0; 3-0 GOS
112 - Kevin M. Carr (WAW/6-2) def. Kevin Russell (N/A) 17-2 (technical fall); 5-3 WAW
119 -ÊChet Wortinger (WAW/8-0) def. Schuyler Barkes (8-3) 9-5; 8-3 WAW
125 -ÊTravis Coy (WAW/6-2) def. Nick Cochran (N/A) 6-2; 11-3 WAW
130 - Colby Barkes (GOS/10-1) def. Jacen Hendricks (6-2) 6-0; 11-6 WAW
135 - Ryan Johnson (WAW/7-1) def. Eli Asta (6-5) 13-2 (major decision); 15-6 WAW
140 -ÊTyler Cline (WAW/7-1) pinned Mark Oswald (7-4), 3:12; 21-6 WAW
145 - Andrew Yoder (GOS/11-0) pinned Shane Heimann (3-3), 2:22; 21-12 WAW
152 - J.J. Davis (WAW/7-1) def. Matt Blosser (3-1) 10-5; 24-12 WAW
160 -ÊKevin A. Carr (WAW/8-0) def. Brian Goss (9-2) 14-3 (major decision); 28-12 WAW
171 -ÊJason Carr (WAW/8-0) def. Steve Keener (7-2) 14-7; 31-12 WAW
189 - Andy Slagel (GOS/5-5) def. Jesse Leonard (5-3) 7-4; 31-15 WAW
215 -ÊTom Bryan (WAW/6-2) pinned Jeremy Pries (5-5), 2:58; 37-15 WAW
275 - Jamie Salazar (WAW/8-0) won by forfeit; 43-15 WAW
Team records: Wawasee 8-0 overall, 4-0 NLC; Goshen 9-2 overall, 0-1 NLC
JV: WAWASEE 42, GOSHEN 27
Weight, Individual results
103 pounds - Steve Mikolajczak (WAW) won by forfeit
112 -ÊRob Chalfant (WAW) pinned Alicia Fox, 5:06
119 - None
125 -ÊKen McIntosh (WAW) pinned Quinn Hunter, 1:43
130 -ÊNick Miller (GOS) def. Nathan Goldenberg 6-4
135 -ÊBrian Miller (GOS) won by forfeit
140 -ÊChris Cline (WAW) pinned David Stump, 1:43
145 -ÊAndrew Waugh (WAW) pinned Max Paulson, 2:24
152 -ÊJason Simmons (GOS) pinned Jason Dewart, 2:47
160 -ÊJustin Gerber (WAW) pinned Mark Ulfig, :34
171 -ÊAlex Esparza (GOS) won by forfeit
189 -ÊEric Hershberger (GOS) pinned Craig Jensen, 3:19
215 - None
275 - None
Team records: Wawasee 3-0 overall, 3-0 NLC; Goshen N/A [[In-content Ad]]
SYRACUSE - The Wawasee Warrior wrestlers jogged circles around Goshen's grapplers during Tuesday's 10-minute warmup as Michael Buffer's "LLLLLet's get ready to rummmmmble" boomed over the loudspeakers.
Once the match started, the jogging stopped. The circles did not, as the No. 14 Warriors ran them around No.12 Goshen, 43-15.
The Warriors, wrestling their fourth Northern Lakes Conference match in two weeks - they have only two more left - improved to 8-0 overall and 4-0 in the conference. They wrestled 14 matches against Goshen and won 10 of them.
Wawasee, No. 14? Goshen, No. 12?
"First of all, I don't know how much stock you put in the polls," Wawasee coach Scott DeHart said.
Stock or no stock, DeHart used the poll as the iron to prod his grapplers.
"I told the kids we were the underdogs," he said. "I also told them the only poll we care about is the one at the end of the year."
Turns out Goshen coach Jim Pickard didn't put much credence in the poll, either.
"(Wawasee's) the team to beat in our conference," he said. "No matter what the rankings say or whatever else, they're a better team than us right now."
Going into the season, DeHart tabbed Goshen as one of the top teams standing in the way of Wawasee's repeat bid for the NLC title. If that's still the case, the Warriors are in control. Goshen dropped to 9-2 overall and 0-1 in the NLC with five conference matches left.
When Wawasee advanced deep into the tournament last season, a sophomore named Tyler Cline was one of the stars. DeHart promoted him to the varsity lineup late last season, and once there, Cline would do things like fall behind 13-5 only to pin his opponent.
Tyler Cline has not changed.
Cline's 140-pound match with Mark Oswald raised the most roars from the crowd as he again lived up to the nickname DeHart has tagged him with, "The Cardiac Kid."
Oswald jumped ahead of Cline 5-0, tossing him around the wrestling mat like yesterday's dirty laundry. The only thing that appeared to save Cline from being pinned in the first period was the buzzer that sounded to end the frame.
Oswald had his chance, and it slipped away as Cline chipped away. A reversal gave Cline two points. But he had no interest winning by decision.
Cline wanted the pin. He saw his opening. He locked Oswald's arm behind him and got the pin with 48 seconds left in the second period.
"I tell you what, Tyler is never out of a match," DeHart said. "He turned him at the right time. I don't try to figure Tyler out. He just has a knack for getting his hips off the mat. The less I coach him, the better off he is."
Indeed. When Oswald pushed around Cline in the first period, DeHart was over in the corner of the gym taking a sip out of the drinking fountain. DeHart never wavered.
Cline's win pushed Wawasee's lead from 15-6 to 21-6.
Before Cline's match, DeHart believed the Warriors picked up key wins in the 119- and 125-pound matches. Chet Wortinger improved to 8-0 by defeating Schuyler Barkes 9-5 in the 119 match, and Travis Coy beat Nick Cochran 6-2 in the 125 match. The two wins bumped Wawasee's lead from 5-3 to 11-3.
Once the Warriors got by the lighter weights with the lead, DeHart was confident because people like Ryan Johnson (135), J.J. Davis (152), Kevin A. Carr (160), Jason Carr (171) and Tom Bryan (189) had yet to wrestle. He would take his chances with them. The Carrs entered 7-0, Davis and Johnson 6-1 and Bryan 5-2.
All won. When Kevin A. Carr won a 14-3 major decision over Brian Goss, Wawasee went up 28-12. Officially, the match wasn't over. Unofficially, it was. Goshen had forfeited the heavyweight match during introductions. Count that and Wawasee led 34-12 after Carr's win with three matches left. Even if Goshen won all three on pins, the closest the Redskins could get is 34-30.
But Goshen didn't do that, and 43-15 - not 34-30 - was the final score.
"Turning point?" said Pickard. "Wawasee came out and wrestled. We didn't. That was the turning point. We don't have the three for four studs in our lineup that make everyone else better. They have that.
"We just have a lot of first-year guys in our lineup. Our guys basically went with one or two moves, then didn't show anything else."
Last Thursday the Warriors had a few tense moments in a 34-24 win over Warsaw. Not so against Goshen.
"I really liked the way we matched up," DeHart said. "We beat a good Goshen team tonight. I think we put together our most solid match yet against Goshen. The NLC is a brutal conference. The heat's turned up now. The mark of a championship team is to rise to the occasion when that happens."
Wawasee gets a break from the NLC's heat by competing at Bremen at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
NO. 14 WAWASEE 43, NO. 12 GOSHEN 15
Weight, Individual records/results, running team scores
103 pounds -ÊGerardo Quiroz (GOS/8-3) def. Josh DeGood (7-1) 6-0; 3-0 GOS
112 - Kevin M. Carr (WAW/6-2) def. Kevin Russell (N/A) 17-2 (technical fall); 5-3 WAW
119 -ÊChet Wortinger (WAW/8-0) def. Schuyler Barkes (8-3) 9-5; 8-3 WAW
125 -ÊTravis Coy (WAW/6-2) def. Nick Cochran (N/A) 6-2; 11-3 WAW
130 - Colby Barkes (GOS/10-1) def. Jacen Hendricks (6-2) 6-0; 11-6 WAW
135 - Ryan Johnson (WAW/7-1) def. Eli Asta (6-5) 13-2 (major decision); 15-6 WAW
140 -ÊTyler Cline (WAW/7-1) pinned Mark Oswald (7-4), 3:12; 21-6 WAW
145 - Andrew Yoder (GOS/11-0) pinned Shane Heimann (3-3), 2:22; 21-12 WAW
152 - J.J. Davis (WAW/7-1) def. Matt Blosser (3-1) 10-5; 24-12 WAW
160 -ÊKevin A. Carr (WAW/8-0) def. Brian Goss (9-2) 14-3 (major decision); 28-12 WAW
171 -ÊJason Carr (WAW/8-0) def. Steve Keener (7-2) 14-7; 31-12 WAW
189 - Andy Slagel (GOS/5-5) def. Jesse Leonard (5-3) 7-4; 31-15 WAW
215 -ÊTom Bryan (WAW/6-2) pinned Jeremy Pries (5-5), 2:58; 37-15 WAW
275 - Jamie Salazar (WAW/8-0) won by forfeit; 43-15 WAW
Team records: Wawasee 8-0 overall, 4-0 NLC; Goshen 9-2 overall, 0-1 NLC
JV: WAWASEE 42, GOSHEN 27
Weight, Individual results
103 pounds - Steve Mikolajczak (WAW) won by forfeit
112 -ÊRob Chalfant (WAW) pinned Alicia Fox, 5:06
119 - None
125 -ÊKen McIntosh (WAW) pinned Quinn Hunter, 1:43
130 -ÊNick Miller (GOS) def. Nathan Goldenberg 6-4
135 -ÊBrian Miller (GOS) won by forfeit
140 -ÊChris Cline (WAW) pinned David Stump, 1:43
145 -ÊAndrew Waugh (WAW) pinned Max Paulson, 2:24
152 -ÊJason Simmons (GOS) pinned Jason Dewart, 2:47
160 -ÊJustin Gerber (WAW) pinned Mark Ulfig, :34
171 -ÊAlex Esparza (GOS) won by forfeit
189 -ÊEric Hershberger (GOS) pinned Craig Jensen, 3:19
215 - None
275 - None
Team records: Wawasee 3-0 overall, 3-0 NLC; Goshen N/A [[In-content Ad]]