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Take it to the mats: Huskies take down Marauders, 51-24

OBSERVER Photo by Roger Coda Dunkirk’s Kenny Pisa, left, looks to hold off Olean’s Icar Simon during Wednesday’s CCAA Division 1 wrestling meet.

Dunkirk dropped its Senior Night meet, 51-24, to CCAA foe Olean Tuesday, as the honored quartet went 2-2 on the night.

“Competing’s a decent word,” Dunkirk head coach Joe McMurdy said when asked how he’d describe his team’s effort Wednesday night. “We just get pinned too much. And I think that’s what makes these dual meets look a little bad, because I don’t think that we got 100 percent fight out of a couple of our guys that were on their backs. And that’s concerning, but I think the kids wrestled hard and Olean is third in Western New York and we can’t forfeit three or four weight classes.”

Earning wins were seniors Billy Seiders at 145 pounds and Nick Jones at 285 while Kenny Pisa (160) and Alton Ingram (170) suffered losses.

“That was good,” McMurdy said of getting his four seniors a match Tuesday night. “We have four seniors and we were hoping to get them all a match. The one who I think took it on the chin though was Alton. I don’t think anybody around here really realizes how good Alton is. I don’t think he even knows how good he is at times, so for him to kind of get caught and stuck was tough to watch. But he’s a tough kid, he’ll come back. I’m not worried about him.”

Ingram had a commanding 17-7 lead with 1:20 remaining in his match with Patrick Walsh when Walsh was able to earn the pin. Ingram worked his way to 10-1 lead in the first period, earning six points on near falls, then pushed the lead to 15-4 through two periods. However, 40 seconds into the final two minutes, Walsh was able to take advantage of the tiring Ingram to get the win.

“I think he was tired and he just got caught on the bottom,” McMurdy said of Ingram. “That happens. But you just can’t sit on the mat, you have to move. And I thought earlier in the match, the first and second periods, he had him on his back three or four times, but you’ve got to pin him. Finish it right there, then you don’t have to worry about it.”

Pisa fell behind 6-0 early to the Huskies’ Icar Simon, before eventually losing 9-2. The win gave Olean a 27-18 lead on the scoreboard and it never looked back, as it won all but one of the final five matches.

“This is a really fun group to work with,” McMurdy said. “They’re so, so inexperienced. And that’s what we keep trying to tell ourselves, that the inexperience we have — we have five or six first-year wrestlers — they’re going to put themselves in positions where they’re on their backs. So we were more concerned with the kids that needed to fight off their backs, but didn’t seem to.”

The lone match Dunkirk won down the stretch was Nick Jones, who easily pinned Olean’s Chris Russell in 53 seconds.

“Nick seems to do that a lot and it doesn’t seem to matter who else is out there,” McMurdy said of Jones, who is currently ranked as the No. 2 heavyweight in the state. “I think he just went to 23-0 this year. This weekend we’ll do a round-robin where we hope to get him five tough matches. Then we’ll get him ready for the Class Meet. It came in a hurry — if three months can go in a hurry, which it really has.”

Seiders, a senior at Silver Creek, also won pretty easily, as he pinned Tyler Crivelli in 1:37.

“Since we moved him down to 138 pounds, he’s looked very good,” McMurdy said of Seiders. “We weighed him in at 138 and bumped him up to 145 and he’s pretty much been doing that all year. If he weighs in at 145, we wrestle him at 152, but he actually hasn’t lost since the first week of December. He lost 1-0 to a kid, who at the time, was ranked No. 1 in Western New York. And that was at 152, but he’s right where he needs to be and hopefully we’ll get him a couple of more battles before the Class Meet. I think they all need it.”

At the time, Seiders’ win tied the meet 18-all, but Olean won six straight matches, with Grant Fox (152), Walsh, Devin Moore (182) and Dylan Vincent (195) all winning by pin.

In the early matches, Jake Bartlett edged Dunkirk’s Brad Yochum, 4-3, at 126 while his Husky teammate Gavin Kole pinned Adam Sanchez in 1:50 to win the match at 132. Elsewhere, at 138, Olean’s Jeremiah Crivelli earned a 12-5 decision over Dunkirk’s Cole Golumbieski.

“I thought that was a good, competitive match,” McMurdy said of Yochum’s loss to Bartlett. “I think every match was physical this time, but I think Bradley, once he realized he was in a match, started wrestling on his feet a little bit and controlling things on his feet and then he was fine.”

Dunkirk is back in action today at arch rival Fredonia, before traveling to participate in a tournament at Cattaraugus-Little Valley this weekend.

Olean 51, Dunkirk 24

99: Double forfeit

106: Nick Bierfeldt (OL) won by forfeit

113: Gabby Clark (DHS) won by forfeit

120: Hunter Larson (DHS) won by forfeit

126: Jake Bartlett (OL) d. Brad Yochum (DHS); S–4-3

132: Gavin Kole (OL) d. Adam Sanchez (DHS); P–1:50

138: Jeremiah Crivelli (OL) d. Cole Golumbieski (DHS); S–12-5

145: Billy Seiders (DHS) d. Tyler Crivelli (OL); P–1:37

152: Grant Fox (OL) d. David Hallmark (DHS); P–1:15

160: Icar Simon (OL) d. Kenny Pisa (DHS); S–9-2

170: Patrick Walsh (OL) d. Alton Ingram (DHS); P–4:40

182: Devin Moore (OL) d. Owen Fred (DHS); P–1:28

195: Dylan Vincent (OL) d. Brad Jones (DHS); P–:11

220: Jordan McGlaughlin (OL) won by forfeit

285: Nick Jones (DHS) d. Chris Russell (OL); P–:53

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