Blaze wrestlers take five medals home from Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK — The Quad County Northeast wrestlers came home with five medalists and one champion from Saturday’s Battle Creek Invitational.
Tie Hollandsworth ran the table in the 152-pound weight bracket, winning all five of his matches and finishing with a second-period pin of Cedar Catholic’s Conner Hochstein to claim a first-place medal for the second time in as many weeks.
Kolby Casey was a third-place medalist for the Blaze at 195 pounds, finishing the day with a first-period pin in the consolation finals to take the bronze.
Colby Wathor (182) and Fischer Carson (285) both earned fourth-place medals for the Blaze, and Carter Olson was a sixth-place finisher at 120 pounds in the 19-team tournament.
QCNE will see two meets in three days this week, starting with Thursday’s Lewis & Clark Conference tournament in Ponca.
They will also compete in the Oakland-Craig Invite on Saturday.
The post-season is just around the corner for the Blaze. This year the local LCC-Randolph wrestling co-op will compete in District C2. That meet will take place Feb. 13 in Battle Creek. Other teams competing in that District meet include: Fremont Bergan, Battle Creek, Wahoo Neumann, Conestoga, Cedar Catholic, Lutheran High NE, Oakland-Craig, Raymond Central, Sutton, Syracuse, Wakefield, Wilber-Clatonia, Winnebago, and Yutan.
Battle Creek Invitational Team Standings
Crofton/Bloomfield 166, Yutan 165, Battle Creek 157, Elkhorn Valley 127.5, Summerland 98, Howells-Dodge 96, Quad County Northeast 96, Oakland-Craig 65.5, Hartington CC 63, Ponca 61, Archbishop Bergan 53, Lutheran High NE 50, Madison 48, Creighton 37, Wakefield 35.5, Battle Creek JV 31, Winnebago 31, Stanton 30, Niobrara/Verdigre 18
Ȧrea Medalists
120: 5. Ladanian Free, Winnebago, pinned Carter Olson, QCNE, 2:14. 152: 1. Tie Hollandsworth, QCNE, pinned Conner Hochstein, HCC, 3:34.182: 3. Tyler Bellar, Summerland, dec. Colby Wathor, QCNE, 7-4. 195: 3. Kolby Casey, QCNE, pinned Clay Hedges, Bergan, :49. 285: 3. Chantz Ames, LHNE, pinned Fischer Carson, QCNE, 1:14.
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