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Bruised Bombers win North tournament
The Kenston wrestling team walked away from the 10th annual Matteucci Memorial Classic with more than it bargained for on Saturday night.
While the Bombers were happy to have departed Eastlake with the championship trophy in their first appearance in the tournament, they could have done so without leaving town with so many injuries.
With the Chagrin Valley Conference tournament a week away and the Division I sectional tournament looming, the Bombers lost 106-pounder Jacob Georgian (knee) and 138-pounder Dennis DeSanto (shoulder) for an unspecified amount of time.
Pins produce winning points for Bombers
The Kenston wrestling team only won six of its 14 matches against a visiting Toledo St. John's Jesuit team last Friday, but bonus points from pins enabled the Bombers to edge a one-point victory.
Kenston had four pins in its six triumphant matches, while the St. John's Titans only mustered two pins in their eight weight-class victories. Kenston won the meet, 32-31.
Getting the bonus points from pins certainly helps, head coach Brian Malloy said.
"The fans in a dual meet definitely are a bonus as well, and keeping our guys only losing by a point or so in our losses, that's a three-point difference in all the matches," he said. "And we had four pins, so that's 24 points right there."
Bombers cross bridge
Nathan Lewis knew it was time for him to take matters into his own hands.
With Kenston clinging to a 30-25 lead over host Lake Catholic and needing only one more victory to clinch the dual-meet win, the Bombers' junior 220-pounder figured it was his duty to clinch the match rather than heap all the pressure on a freshman.
So with ninth-grader Mike Kruger waiting in the wings for his first varsity wrestling match at heavyweight, Lewis pinned Lake Catholic's William Sowers midway through the second period to clinch a 42-25 win for Kenston.
Kenston Bombers Do Well at Solon
On December 2 and 3, the Kenston Bombers Wrestling team wrestled at the Solon Comet Classic at Solon High School. This tournament was a two day tournament, and the wrestlers had to make weight both days. The Kenston Bombers took eighth out of twenty-five teams. This tournament is one of the hardest tournaments the Kenston Bombers will wrestle in all year. Visit the wrestling page for the results of the tournament.
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