01 February 2014

Wrestling: Tigers spilt at Mayo

Taylor Venz went 2-0 at the Mayo triangular (photo by Jim Lindquist)
After three head-to-head meets at Northfield on Thursday night the Tigers got back on the bus and traveled to Rochester Friday for a triangular meet with Section 1AA rivals Owatonna and Rochester Mayo.

The meet produced mixed results, a one-sided 50-18 win over Mayo and a 36-15 loss to the No. 6-rated (Class 3A) Huskies.

Farmington piled up pins like cord wood in the win over Mayo with seven Tigers scoring six-point falls: Victor Gliva (106 pounds), Skylar Raymond (113), Jamin LeDuc (120), John Walz (170), Joe Hoeve (182), Godfrey Mpetey (225) and CJ Wynings (285).

Taylor Venz added five points with a technical fall in the 126-pound bout and Brayden Chapman scored a decision in the 145-pound match.

Victories were scarce in the loss to Owatonna who won 10 of the 14 individual match-ups.

Hoeve logged a tech fall to run his season record to 26-6 and Matt Rustad scored a major decision in the 132-pound contest. The other six Farmington points came on decisions by Venz and Wynings.

LeDuc, rated No. 3 in the state at 113 lbs, lost for just the third time this season, a 7-4 decision to second-ranked Tanner Cole.

The Tigers close out their regular season next Thursday and Friday with road dual meets at Stillwater and Anoka. The Section 1AA post-season tournament begins the following week.