Week Seven: Results

Week seven was not very kind to the Panther wrestling team. We traveled out to Mentor to take on the Maple Heights Mustangs and the host Cardinals. The team first took on Maple Heights in an exact repeat of their dual a few weeks earlier. This time we lost 54-18. Last time we lost 57-21. We won the same matches again, 103, 145, 160, and 171. Deja vois.
While Mentor was taking on Maple, there was another mat of JV wrestlers. 140 Kevin Leonard recorded his first pin of the year against the host team. For that he was awarded the upset match of the week award. Great job Kevin! Keep practicing hard.
The last match of the night pitted the Panthers versus the Cardinals in their last year in the same conference. It did not start well for the Panthers, as they dropped the first 10 matches. Rynell Roper lost a tough 3-2 decision to Zack Forro who is ranked higher than him in the Brakeman Report. Zak Adkins lost a 3-0 decision to a wrestler also ranked higher than him too. Dylan Norwood got us on the board with a 10-4 decision over his opponent. The coaches have begun calling him the King of Lake County, because he still has not lost there and runs his record to 14-0 in Lake County. He is 31-4 overall. After dropping the next two matches, we ended the night with a forfeit win at Heavyweight. Final score, Mentor 63, Euclid 9. Not how we wanted to send our long-time rivals away from the L.E.L.