Black Edges Gold In Wrestlling's Black and Gold Scrimmage
Nov. 2, 2006
The Fort Hays State wrestling squad held their annual Black and Gold Scrimmage Thursday night at Gross Memorial Coliseum. A nice crowd was on hand to see some of the wrestlers in action for the first time this year. The Black team would edge the Gold team in the final match-up of the evening by a final score of 16-15.
The event got started with the 125-pound weight class with pitted the Black's Kory Lira against the Gold's Devin Schwartz. Both individuals are seniors on this year's squad. The match was tight throughout as the wrestlers found it hard to score points on each other early. Lira had a 2-1 lead with just over 30 seconds remaining when Schwartz managed to reverse control in his favor taking a 3-2 lead. Schwartz took the match by that score giving the Gold team an early 3-0 lead.
The 133-pound match would be tight throughout as well as the Black's Derek Patterson met the Gold's James Annon. Patterson would slowly gain control of the match and held Annon off down the stretch winning 5-3. The win evened the team scores at 3-3.
At the 141-pound weight class, the Black's Bryce Bahe met the Gold's Josh Pfannenstiel. Bahe got out to an early lead in this match but Pfannenstiel would chip away at his lead and finally overtake him in the third period by a score of 8-7. This put the Gold in favor by a count of 6-3.
The 149-pound match pitted the #1 pre-season ranked wrestler at this class, Mikel Delk of the Gold, against Josh Peterson of the Black. Delk would score three takedowns before pinning Peterson in a time of 2:35. The fall gave the Gold a commanding 12-3 lead at that point.
At 157 pounds, the Black's Danny Grater matched up against the Gold's Patrick Keane. Both wrestlers had a difficult time scoring any points in this match as both scored an escape point from the other after each had control at the beginning of the second and third periods. Grater would get the deciding point in this match after scoring a caution point off of Keane with only about 20 seconds remaining in the third period. Grater won 2-1 pulling the Black back within six points.
The 165-pound weight class was open for both squads on the evening, making only a total of nine matches wrestled out of the possible 10.
At 174 pounds, the Black's Blake Malloy matched up against the Gold's Nick McGovern. Both picked away at each other throughout the match, but Malloy would come away with a 7-4 win. It pulled the Black within three points of the Gold.
In the 184-pound match, the Black's Troy Medill met the Gold's Justin Stevens. Medill was dominant throughout this match as he scored the go ahead point for his team with an 11-3 major decision. This made the score 13-12 in favor of the Black.
At 197-pounds, the Black's Tyler Gonzales met the Gold's Dustin Trego. Gonzales was in control of the match at 3-2 from midway through the second period all the way through to late in the third period when Trego reversed Gonzales' advantage and then scored three back points on top of the reversal. Trego would win the match 7-3, giving the lead back to the Gold 15-13.
In the final match of the evening at heavyweight, the Black's Andrew Ubben, ranked #3 in the pre-season national poll, matched up against Lyndon Wagner of the Gold squad. Ubben was controling the match fairly well, racking up riding time througout, but Wagner would not give up without a fight in the third period. Ubben led 6-3 when Wagner scored an escape point making it 6-4, and then scored two takedown points evening the match at 6-6. As time expired though, Ubben had more than two minutes of riding time in his favor giving him the 7-6 win.
Ubben's decision put the Black over the top of the Gold by one point at 16-15. The Black won five of the nine matches on the evening, but the Gold made it close mainly thanks to Delk's fall at 149 pounds.
FHSU gets its tournament season started at the University of Central Missouri on November 12.
