The Yellowjackets of Perham made the long haul down Highway 78 to Battle Lake to take on the OTC Bulldogs on Thursday night. It was a great dual, as this was a rescheduled event from a couple of weeks and the only gym available was the Battle Lake small gym. The place was packed for Parent’s night, but the Bulldogs couldn't secure the victory and lost 50-27.
The dual started off great for the Bulldogs as Mason Christianson was able to secure the opening bout of the night by defeating Dresden Wegscheid 11-5. “I had a good talk with the boys before the match about trying to secure bonus points whenever possible, Mason had a seven point lead. So we told him to give up an escape and go for the take down to try and get an 8 point victory, he just couldn’t quite secure that last take down,” stated Coach Rogers. This put the Bulldogs up 3-0. Next the Bulldogs sent out Tayden Soma who dominated his match and ended up with a 2nd period pin over Micah Bolderstron. This gave the Bulldogs a 9-0 lead. At 120 pounds the Yellowjackets finally got on the scoreboard with a 1st period fall by Chandler Mickelson over Julian Umlauf. This made the dual 9-6 in favor of the Bulldogs. At 126, Perham sent out Teigan Detloff versus Carson Roehl of the Bulldogs. After an early take down by Roehl, Detloff was able to comeback and secure the victory 9-2. This evened things up 9-9 for the duel. At 132, Perham was able to take its first lead of the night as Nick Peters pinned Levi Evavold. The dual would go back and forth after this, the Bulldogs and Yellowjackets kept trading pins. Brien Poser got a pin for the Bulldogs over Carson Byer at 138. Then Kaden Feldt pinned Tommy Ehlert at 145. This led to Logan Schleske getting a pin over Logan Guck at 152 pounds and the dual found itself in a tie once again 21-21.
This brought us to the 160 pound match-up, Jaxon Rich of the Bulldogs versus Blake Lorentz of the Yellowjackets. Lorentz ended up getting take down after take down, which led to a 23-7 victory and a tech fall for the Yellowjackets. This put the Yellowjackets up 26-21 and the Yellowjackets didn’t look back after this. At 170, Braylon Rach got a pin over Anibal Franco and at 182 Hugas Hames received a forfeit. This put the Yellowjackets up 38-21. At 195, Brian Ramos secured a pin over Jonny Fielding, giving the Yellowjackets 6 more points. Fortunately for the Bulldogs, Kale Rich was able to put an end to the Yellowjackets run as he got a pin at 220 over Rorey Lindquist. This made the score 44-27. Finally, Reese Willprecht received a forfeit at 285 and the Yellowjackets walked away with a 50-27 victory.
“I was very pleased with the way the boys wrestled tonight. Perham always brings a very good team and we were able to hang with them for quite a while. Unfortunately we don’t have a full lineup and that cost us a few points,” said Coach Rogers.
Next week the Bulldogs travel to Osakis for a triangular with Osakis and Long Prairie/Grey Eagle-Browerville on Tuesday. Wrestling starts at 5 pm.
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