Wrestling: 3 Tigers earn all-Missota honors

Joe Hoeve 100th career win and all-Missota Conference (photo by Jim Lindquist)

The Tigers win one and lost two at a de facto Missota Conference meet held Thursday night in Northfield. The quadrangular featured all four members of the conference offering wrestling as a varsity sport.

Farmington routed host Northfield 64-9, lost 29-28 to New Prague on a tie-breaker and fell to state-ranked Shakopee 43-20.

"We wrestled well, just came up on the short end," Tiger coach Chad Olson said.

Jamin LeDuc (113 pounds), Joe Hoeve (182) and Godfrey Mpetey (285) each finished a perfect 3-0 for the night to earn all-Missota Honors.

Two Tigers, Hoeve and Brayden Chapman, also reached personal milestones at the meet. Hoeve became the second Farmington grappler to post his 100th career win this season and Chapman reached the 60th career win plateau.

Jamin LeDuc All-Missota Conference (photo by Jim Lindquist)

The New Prague match was a close as the final score indicated with the teams actually tied 28-28 after the 14 matches with the Trojans granted the deciding extra point for having more six-point wins (2-1).

Hoeve recorded the Farmington fall and Taylor Venz (120) scored a five-point technical fall. Victor Gliva (106) and LeDuc each won major decisions and Chapman (138), John Walz (170) and Mpetey won by decision.

In the lopsided win over Northfield, The Tigers won 12 of the 14 matches, eight of them by fall.

Gliva, LeDuc, Venz, and Brian Caravantes (126) opened the meet with pins for a quick 24-0 lead. Joe Liden (160), Trevor Frost (195), Walz and Mpetey later supplied six-point falls.

Jake Rudeen (152) scored a major decision and Hoeve and CJ Wynings (220) each won by decision.

Shakopee scored only two falls against the Tigers but the 11th-ranked Sabers won 10 of the 14 bouts to score an impressive win.

The Farmington points came on pins by Hoeve and Wynings and major decisions by LeDuc and Mpetey.

Friday the Tigers head to Owatonna for a triangular meet against a couple of Section 1AAA rivals, Owatonna and Rochester Mayo.

Godfrey Mpetey all-Missota Conference (photo by Jim Lindquist)