Caissons Wrestling Wins Again!
Caisson Wrestling Rolls to 3rd Win, Improving to 3 – 0 on the season
The Caisson Wrestling team took to the mat again last night in a home match against the Miller School to start a string of ten Virginia Independent Conference matches in a row prior to the VIC Championship tournament. The Team was showing a rather new line-up again last night as it’s getting later in the season and the kids are now settling into their weight classes. So with some new faces, and some in new weight classes, they were ready to start the night against a conference foe here at home.
Once again a nice sized crowd in the gym made for a lot of noise and a lot of excitement. So with that said, I urge you all to come out for the teams last home match on Thursday, 28 Jan. at 4:30 pm, when the Caissons will once again host the Miller School and Randolph-Macon Academy in a tri-match. It means a lot to the team members to see a packed gym cheering them on each night. So please come out and make some noise for the team! The scoring from last night went as followed…
103 – Michael Labianca went out to start the night off and did so in style as he came out hard and fast and on the attack. He took down the wrestler from Miller turned him over to his back and pinned him in :48 seconds.
Team Score FMS 6 Miller 0
112 Bevin Morrison Rodgers won a forfeit as the wrestler from Miller failed to make weight.
Team Score FMS 12 Miller 0
119 Kyle Harvey also took the mat hard and on the attack taking down his wrestler quickly, turning him to his back, and pinning him in :42 seconds.
Team Score FMS 18 Miller 6
130 Jonathan Vincent took to the mat tonight in his first duel match of the season and doing so at a new weight class. He took on the Miller Team C0-Captain and one of their best wrestlers. Giving a gallant effort and hard fight Vincent lost his match 10 – 3.
Team Score FMS 18 Miller 9
135 Joseph Forehand also took to the mat tonight in a new weight class as he moved down from 140 to his final spot at 135 for the rest of the season. Forehand was a nonstop scoring machine in his match tonight, he was unable to put his wrestler away but did rack up the points to stop the match early in the 3rd period with a Tech Fall winning by a score of 15 – 0.
Team Score FMS 23 Miller 9
140 Boston Berg also was moving down a weight class last night from 145 to his new spot in the line up at 140. He was not able to test himself at 140 as he won by forfeit.
Team Score FMS 29 Miller 9
145 Bryant Rigg stepped into the line-up for the fist time this season as the new starter at this weight and also won by forfeit.
Team Score FMS 35 Miller 9
152 Chris Sliger is another wrestler that moved down a weight class, and has now taken over the duties as the team starter at 152. Chris did not wrestler as the starter and Co-Captain for Miller had a skin rash and is unable to take to the mat until its cleared up.
Team Score FMS 41 Miller 9
160 Ben Drumm took over as the new 160 as he has now moved up a weight class to switch places with Sliger. Drumm did wrestle and was another one to go hard and on the attack Ben took his wrestler down and put him to his back for a pin in :38 seconds.
Team Score FMS 47 Miller 9
171 Tyler Lawson went hard after his wrestler in what looked like it was going to be a wild back and forth match as the score stood at 6 to 6 in the first minute of the match until Lawson took over and turned his wrestler over and finished the match in 1 min and :31 seconds.
Team Score FMS 53 Miller 9
189 Novak Porter took to the mat in his first Duel match of the season taking over the duties at 189 after winning his wrestle off for the job this past week. Porter was another wrestler that went hard and fast and on the attack and racked up an early lead of 5 – 0 in the first period. In the second period he kept on going where he left off and this time turned his wrestler over and pinned him in 2 min and :29 seconds for his first win.
Team Score FMS 59 Miller 9
215 Mike Innella coming off his outstanding performance at the LCA Tournament this past weekend was fired up only to take a forfeit as Miller has no big guys on their team.
Team Score FMS 65 Miller 9
285 Justin Bell also coming off of a great performance at the LCA Tournament took a forfeit to close out the match and scoring with the final Team Score FMS 71 Miller 9.
It was a great night for the team and the excitement is building as next week the Caisson Wrestling Team will travel to Blue Ridge on Tuesday to take on Blue Ridge and Covenant. On Thursday they will travel to VES for a Duel Match. As both dates will be very tough challenges for the team.
Make sure you take a minute and tell these kids how proud they make the people at the school for the job they are doing and the hard work they are putting in. For today the team is happy and enjoying the victory but tomorrow we’ll forget it and start to work even harder for the up coming matches.
Coach C
FMS Wrestling
