Hawks’ duo still alive, Tigerhawks’ bows out
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| Lynnville-Sully sophomore Caden Doll controls Woodbine junior Josh Matusik during a 152-pound consolation first round match at the Iowa state wrestling tournament Thursday night at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. (Mike Hockett/Daily News) |
DES MOINES — “We’re not going home yet.”
That’s what Lynnville-Sully 285-pounder Kyle Terlouw exclaimed to his coaches as he left the mat at Wells Fargo Arena late Thursday night, referring to having at least one more match left in him.
The senior had just earned an 8-4 decision in the Class 1A consolation first round to keep his season, and prep wrestling career alive for at least one more day.
Terlouw, along with sophomore 152-pound teammate Caden Doll, both won consolation matches to stay alive and advance to this afternoon’s session. Both fell in the championship first round, but rebounded nicely with wins via decision in their second match.
“We told them that how they wrestled in their wrestleback defines the kind of kid they are,” Lynnville-Sully coach Steve Northcutt said. “I’m very pleased.”
Doll’s first match was against third-ranked Christian Miller of Nashua-Plainview (35-7), and it was a rough go as Miller led 4-0 after one period and then 9-0 in the second before using a cradle hold to pin Doll midway through.
That put him in the consolation round, where he was up against Woodbine junior Josh Matusik (38-13). Doll (27-8) used a takedown and four nearfall points to take a comfortable 6-0 lead and led 7-2 after one period. Both wrestlers scored reversals, with Doll’s coming with 1:10 left in the match and he was able to hold on for a 9-4 win.
“With that lead, you don’t want to get caught, so my coaches were yelling just to be smart,” Doll said. “It feels really good knowing I still have a chance to place. I think I have a pretty decent shot at placing now that I won my second match. I’ll get some food in my belly, get a good night’s rest and we’ll come back and see how I do tomorrow.”
“He wrestled a very smart match,” Northcutt added about Doll’s win. “He got some points early and was in control of the match from the get-go.”
At 285, Terlouw (37-6) was matched up against East Mills’ David Howell in the first round, and the two were tied 1-1 early in the third period. But Terlouw was taken down with 1 minute left, and wasn’t able to get a tying reversal and fell 3-1. In his consolation match, he trailed 4-3 and then scored five straight points on Regina senior Zach Ries (19-5) to win 8-4. He scored a big takedown with 10 seconds left in the second period to go up 6-4, and got another with 1:25 left in the match.
“I think it helped Kyle to see Caden win his wrestleback. It got him jacked up,” Northcutt said. “There was no way he was going to let his season end tonight. Good conditioning and his hard work paid off. He was in better shape and it worked out for him.”
Both Doll and Terlouw will wrestle the loser of this afternoon’s quarterfinal matches in the consolation second round. They’ll need to win two matches today to guarantee a spot on the podium and two more matches on Saturday. If they lose a match today, it would end their season.
Tigerhawks’ Abell, Albright bow out
While Lynnville-Sully’s duo lived to fight another day, the same couldn’t be said for the Colfax-Mingo pair of freshman Jimmy Abell and junior Dylan Albright, who were eliminated from the tournament with two losses at 106 and 170 pounds.
Both suffered first-period pins to top-5 ranked wrestlers in the championship first round, and then lost via decision in the consolation round.
At 106, Abell (23-4) took on second-ranked Blake Dietz of Nashua-Plainview. Abell got in on a single-leg takedown attempt early, but Dietz defended it, took Abell down and then pinned him 48 seconds into the first period. In the consolation match against eighth-ranked Durant junior Chase Exline (41-9), Abell found himself down 7-2 after two periods. He got a reversal midway through the third to pull within 7-4, but then Exline efficiently stalled out the rest of the match, hardly making an effort to get out from under Abell the rest of the way. Abell was awarded a stalling point with 25 seconds to go, but Exline held on for a 7-5 win. Had stalling been called again, it would have tied the match.
“I hate it when kids just sit there like that,” Abell said. “If he’s going to win, he should have to earn it and not just sit there. If he’s just going to stall the whole time, I can’t really do anything.”
“He was very upset,” Colfax-Mingo coach Bryan Poulter added of Abell. “He felt that the kid shut down and he ran out of time. Unfortunately, he got behind and that other kid had some leeway to play with.”
At 170, Albright (36-9) took on fifth-ranked Kory Schmelzer (39-2) of Corning in the championship first round. Albright got an early takedown, but was reversed to his back and stuck for a pin with 39 seconds left in the fist round. Things didn’t go much better for him in the consolation round against West Hancock’s Ryder Clark (33-5), who led 5-0 after one period and got a takedown in the second and third to end up with 9-0 major decision.
While it may have been a disappointing end to the season for the two underclassmen, Poulter knows that the state experience both gained was invaluable for the future.
“Very few people come here and place their first year,” he said. “These two young men will have at least another year at it. That experience is going to pay off dividends. It’ll motivate them for next year.”
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