No. 7 Manchester Valley wrestling battles back to top No. 8 C. Milton Wright, 49-29
As the new wrestling season begins, many top teams are stepping out of their home conferences, looking for matches and opponents to use as measuring sticks to see how good they are. Wednesday night, Manchester Valley was impressive by any measure.
After losing the first two matches and getting behind early, the seventh-ranked Mavericks came roaring back. Manchester Valley won five straight matches to take a commanding lead and never looked back in a 49-29 victory over eighth-ranked C. Milton Wright.
“They’re a good wrestling team,” Mavericks coach David Dodson of the visiting Mustangs. “They’re going to continue to improve and be something to be reckoned with in the postseason. I feel good about the effort our team put together tonight. You can’t really ask for a better effort than that.”
The key to the dual was the 50-50 matchups where either wrestler could have won. Those matches, in almost every case, went for Manchester Valley (2-0).
“Seems like it’s the same story every time,” CMW coach Jon Thornton said. “Our guys get our pins, their guys get their pins, and it’s really the 50-50 matches where we’re not executing. We talked all week about the difference in a match being the little things and how you can’t give up bonus points. That’s exactly what we did.”
The Mustangs started out well. In the first match at 190 pounds, Wright’s Aaron Moccia wasted little time, pinning Manchester Valley’s Aidean Traenkner just 1:37 in to their match. That win was followed up by another Wright win at 215 pounds when Jaxon Simms pinned Ryder Onskt at 1:38.
The tide began to turn in the heavyweight match, where Cru Boog scored points in all three periods and decisioned Nathan Whetzel, 6-1, to cut the team score to 12-3 for the Mustangs.
Manchester Valley picked up a forfeit at 103 before Joey Day earned six more points for the Mavericks by pinning CMW’s Roy Sweeney in the second period of their 113-pound bout. That win gave Manchester Valley a 15-12 lead, and the Mavericks began to widen it from there.
Kyle Reid and Chase Reis earned pins at 120 and 126 to escalate the team lead to 27-12.
C. Milton Wright’s returning state-placer Kane Desch won his match at 132 with a technical fall, and his teammate Mitchell Nguyen pinned his opponent in just 1:12 at 138. That cut the margin to 27-23, but the Mustangs could get no closer.
Beau Snell (144), Bradyn VanDerVoort (150) and Luke Bourg (157) all recorded pins for Manchester Valley to put the match out of reach.
“This is huge for us,” said VanDerVoort, who finished third in the individual state tournament last year. “It’s always important to get off to a good start, and I think we did that against a good team tonight.”
The Mavericks have come very close in the state dual tournament the last few years. They have dropped matches to eventual champions Damascus and Middletown by just a few points. This team hopes that narrative will read a little different this year.
“Everybody should have the mindset every day to come out and wrestle your hardest,” Boog said. “This match told us a lot about our flaws and also what we’re good at. We’ll get back in the room tomorrow and continue to work toward that state championship.”
Manchester Valley 49, C.M. Wright 29
190: Moccia (CMW) p Traenkner, 1:37; 215: Simms (CMW) p. Oncst, 1:38; Hvy: Boog (MV) and Wetzel, 6-1; 106: Reid (MV) won by forfeit; 113: Day (MV) p R. Sweeney, 3:13; 120: Ky. Reid (MV) p Fender, 1:05; 126: Ries (MV) p Cox, 4:42; 132: Desch (CMW) tf Hydorn, 16-0; 138: Nguyen (CMW) p Barnard, 1:19; 144: Snell (MV) p Tyminski, 1:39; 150: Van Der Voort (MV) p Peters, 5:45; 157: Bourg (MV) p Roche, 3:33; 165: Brown vs. Windesheim, 11-0; 175: D. Sweeney (CMW) p Fourhman, :16.
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