The Crookston Pirate Wrestling team wrestled in the Minnewaska Area Invite today and finished fifth place out of eight teams with 104 points. Scott West won the team title with 196 points, 19.5 points better than Canby. The team and individual results are below.
TEAM SCORES –
1. Scott West – 196
2. Canby – 176.5
3. Minnewaska Area – 170
4. Morris Area – 127.5
5. Crookston – 104
6. Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City -86
7. Albany – 63
8. Badger-Greenbush-Middler River – 57
PIRATE INDIVIDUAL RESULTS –
CHAMPIONS –
Carter Coauette had a great day by going 3-0 to win the championship at 160 pounds. Carter won the first round by a pin in just over one minute. In the semi-finals, he won by a pin in the second period. The championship was a great match, and Carter came away with a 7-6 victory. In the first period, Carter trailed 2-0 before he got an escape before he was taken down and trailed 4-1 halfway through the period. Carter followed with another escape and got a takedown to tie the match at 4-4. With a few seconds left in the period, Jevon Williams scored an escape for a 5-4 lead. In the second period, Carter tied the match with an escape and had a takedown with 12 seconds left for a 7-5 lead. Williams had an escape with three seconds left in the period, and Coauette took a 7-6 lead into the third period. In the third, nobody scored, and Carter won the match 7-6.
Ethan Boll won the championship at 220 pounds. He received a first-round bye before winning the semi-final match by pin in the second period and won the championship by pin in 40 seconds.
SECOND PLACE –
Gavyn Hlucny finished runner-up at 126 pounds. Gavin dominated the first round by building a 9-1 lead before getting a pin with 13 seconds left in the match. In the semi-finals, Gavyn built a 4-0 lead in the second period before pinning Elliot Isane of BGMR. In the championship, Gavyn ran into a tough opponent, Grayson Gibson of Morris Area, and lost 7-0 to finished second place.
All the Pirate results are listed below –
| # | Crookston | Opponent | Place |
| 106 | OPEN | ||
| 113 | Evin Trudeau | Bye L Eli Greenman (Can) 10-1 W Brennan Giese (Unat) 13-3 W Nathan Kollmann (Alb) 3-1 |
3rd |
| 120 | OPEN | ||
| 126 | Gavyn Hlucny | W Clayton Drietz (Can) Pin 5:47 W Elliott Isane (BGMR) Pin 2:57 L Grayson Gibson (Maha) 7-0 |
2nd |
| 132 | Lucas Perala | L Isaac Williams (SW) Pin 1:21 L Tallen Merritt (Can) Pin :57 |
DNP |
| 138 | OPEN | ||
| 145 | Ethan Bowman | W Andrew Marty (Maha) Pin 4:48 L Lane Fink (Can). DQ for unsportsmanlike (affects the rest) L Owen Carlson DQ’d L Jayce Kovarik DQ’d |
DNP |
| 152 | OPEN | ||
| 160 | Carter Coauette | W Ace Donabauer (Alb) Pin 1:19 W Daniel Callahan (SW) Pin 2:41 W Jevon Williams (ACGC) 7-6 |
1st |
| 170 | OPEN | ||
| 182 | Hunter Knutson | W Connor Olson (Maha) 10-3 L Chase Boelke (Minn) 2:29 Bye L Isaiah Renne (ACGC) Pin 2:18 |
4th |
| 195 | OPEN | ||
| 220 | Ethan Boll | Bye W Luke Meriweather (SW) Pin 2:29 W Brock Marty (Maha) Pin :40 |
1st |
| 220 | Hunter Kresl | L Terrell Renne (ACGC) Pin 5:31 Bye L Luke Meriweather (SC) 2-1 Bye |
5th |
