Todd Beamer High School began their boys wrestling duel season Dec. 7 at Kentlake High School. The Titans took down the Falcons by a final score of 46-27. Beamer won eight of the 13 matches including the last four wrestling matches.<\/p>\n
“It feels great. It has been a long time coming,” said Head Coach Brett Lucas.<\/p>\n
Kentlake got out to an early lead in the overall duel, scoring on a pin and points victory, 10-0. Santiago Manzo-Figueroa stopped the bleeding, winning his match by a score of 10-1, and getting Beamer on the board 10-4.<\/p>\n
“He has just come on. He was pretty good last year. And this year has made that difference to do better,” said Lucas.<\/p>\n
Nazar Kharlanov won his match with a pin followed by an excellent match by Titan junior Miguel Serrato, who won via pin as well.<\/p>\n
Kentlake’s Ryan Roseth would be the only other victorious Falcon on the mat in the competition. He was down 14-2 on points, but was able to pin the Titans’ Joey Gartland for the victory.<\/p>\n
“We talked to the guys before about how it was different from a tournament, and how important it was to stay off your back and get the pin,” said Lucas.<\/p>\n
For the rest of the contest they did just that: Yarema Solomko, Preston Vannoy, Adam Turner and Sekou Bangoura all won their matches by a pin in the first round except for Solomko, who got his in the 2nd.<\/p>\n
Beamer’s Andrew Zierath and Kentlake’s Kereti Tupatoa got their teams points via forfeit in the 220-pound and 285-pound weight classes.<\/p>\n
There are three Titan returners who competed in state last season — those veterans combined with wrestlers taking strides of improvement this season. Beamer will look to have even more representation at the year end tournament in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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