CROOKSTON WRESTLERS FALL TO FRAZEE AND UNC IN TRIANGULAR

The Crookston Pirate Wrestlers wrestled well but came up a little short in a 42-33 loss to Frazee and a 36-33 loss to United North Central at the Frazee triangular on Thursday evening. 

CROOKSTON vs FRAZEE
The Pirates started the evening with Frazee and the Hornets won the first match by a decision to take a 3-0 lead. 
Crookston bounced back with Nolan Dans winning by pin late in the second period. “Nolan had a really good night of wrestling and he has established himself as one of the top 113-pounders in the section,” said Pirate Coach Wes Hanson. “He had a good performance and a nice win.”
Zach Brown followed with a pin 40-seconds into his match to give Crookston a 12-3 lead. “Zach knows the importance of bonus points,” said Coach Hanson. “He was quick to get after it.”
Ethan Bowman won at 126 pounds with a 10-6 decision. “Ethan was in control and gave up a reversal and it got a little closer than it would be,” said Coach Hanson. “Ethan did a great job of battling through it and picked up some points to get the win.”
With Crookston leading 15-3, Frazee rattled off five straight wins.  Three by pins, one by a forfeit, and one by decision, and the Hornets took a 30-15 lead. 
Crookston’s Hunter Knutson stopped the Frazee winning streak with a pin at 170-pounds. “Hunter is coming on and firing off his attacks and staying in good position,” said Coach Hanson. “He is wrestling with a lot of confidence right now.”
Frazee solidified a victory with two more wins by pin to take a 42-21 lead with two matches remaining. 
Ethan Boll won by a pin at 220-pounds, and Greg Gonzalez finished the match with a pin at heavyweight.  “Ethan went out there and got to his offense and did a good job,” said Coach Hanson. “Greg did a nice job to finish off the match with a pin to finish the dual.”
Frazee won the match 42-33.  

#	Crookston-33	Frazee-42	Win	Results
106	Evin Trudeau	Cade Nagel	FRA	8-2
113	Nolan Dans	Sebastian Sonnenberg	Crox	Pin 3:50
120	Zach Brown	Bailey Peichel	Crox	Pin :40
126	Ethan Bowman	Christian Carlson	Crox	10-6
132	Carter Coauette	Jake Nagel	FRA	Pin :59
138	Braxton Volker	Kaden Heimenz	FRA	5-2
145	Cam Weiland	Tyler Moe	FRA	Pin 3:49
152	Spencer Ness	Preston Mayfield	FRA	Pin 4:39
160	OPEN	Brock Barlund	FRA	Forfeit
170	Hunter Knutson	Max Rue	Crox	Pin 3:50
182	Cade DeLeon	Danielle Grahm	FRA	Pin 2:23
195	Hunter Kresl	Howard Solem	FRA	Pin 1:38
220	Ethan Boll	Bryon Kropuenske	Crox	Pin 1:10
285	Greg Gonzalez	Xander Kohler	Crox	Pin 4:35

 

CROOKSTON vs UNITED NORTH CENTRAL
Crookston started the match by winning the first four matches to take a 20-0 lead.  Evin Trudeau won his match at 106-pounds by an impressive 13-0 score. “Evin was moving and getting fakes,” said Coach Hanson. “He had a good performance.”
Nolan Dans won at 113-pounds by a 14-6 decision. “Nolan had some good defense,” said Coach Hanson. “He hit a couple of big moves and got a big win for us.”
Zach Brown won by a forfeit and Ethan Bowman won by a pin in 44 seconds at 126-pounds to give Crookston a 20-0 lead. “Ethan had a nice upper body move,” said Coach Hanson. “That was a big six points for the team at that point in the match.”
UNC won the next three matches to get within a 20-12 deficit.  
Crookston bounced back with a win at 152-pounds when Spencer Ness won by a 6-4 decision. “Spencer was getting in on leg attacks early,” said Coach Hanson. “He was able to pick up a couple of takedowns late and won in overtime and that was huge for us.”
UNC won by a forfeit at 160-pounds and Crookston led 23-18 when Hunter Knutson won by a pin at 170-pounds. “Hunter was attacking and he looked really good tonight,” said Coach Hanson. 
UNC won the next match before Ethan Boll won by an 11-3 decision at 195-pounds. “We knew we had to extend the lead and Ethan was able to get a bunch of takedowns to get some bonus points with a major decision,” said Coach Hanson. “That was huge for us.”   Crookston had a 33-24 lead with two matches and a maximum of 12 points possible.  
UNC won the final two matches by pin and won the match 36-33. “It was a big section matchup and it was a lot of fun,” said Coach Hanson. “It isn’t as much fun when it doesn’t go your way, but luckily we are in the regular season and will be changing to the regular season on Monday.”

Crookston drops to 19-10 in duals and they will likely be hosting Fosston-Bagley on Monday night in the first round of the Section 8A Team wrestling tournament.
Frazee beat United North Central so Frazee improves to 11-10 in duals and will likely be the top seed in the team tournament.  UNC is now 16-7 in duals.

The Section 8A Wrestling team tournament seeding meeting will be on Friday.

#	Crookston-33	UNC-36	Win	Results
106	Evin Trudeau	Fordyce Johnson	Crox	13-0
113	Nolan Dans	Reid Pinoniemi	Crox	14-6
120	Zach Brown	OPEN	Crox	Forfeit
126	Ethan Bowman	Wyatt Olson	Crox	Pin :44
132	Carter Coauette	Hunter Skaro	UNC	6-1
138	Cam Weiland	Ethan Hendrickson	UNC	Pin 3:42
145	Braxton Volker	Dylan Rasmussen	UNC	13-11
152	Spencer Ness	Joel Isaacson	Crox	6-4
160	OPEN	Dakota Meech	UNC	Forfeit
170	Hunter Knutson	Logan Torma	Crox	Pin 2:33
182	Cade DeLeon	Shawn Hendrickson	UNC	Pin 5:16
195	Ethan Boll	Torrey Carlson	Crox	11-3
220	Hunter Kresl	Cooper Hasbargen	UNC	Pin :40
285	Greg Gonzalez	Marcus Peterson	UNC	Pin 3:40