Wrestling from Friday, December 5th

The Oak Harbor Wrestling team opened their season last Friday with a double-dual meet at Mariner High school, competing against Kamiak and host Mariner.
Unfortunately, the team didn’t do well. True, the team was missing to of the better wrestlers in John Tuttle and Connar Zimmerman, but it still was an ugly day of wrestling for Oak Harbor.
On the plus side, Colton Elliot at 130 pounds won both his matches, winning with a 12-4 Major Decision, and pinning his other opponent in just 17 seconds.
Other varsity winners were:
vs Mariner
103 Corey Trimbur – pin over Parker in 2:24
125 Royce Cardwell – tech fall over Koltsav 17-2
135 Brandon Stratton – pin over Johnson in 1:50
vs Kamiak
215 Chris Neumiller – won 11-6 over Lucy
285 Brian Howard pinned Clarkson in 1:54
Due to the injuries and low turnout numbers, out of 28 matches wrestled, the Wildcats were forced to forfeit 4 of them, and out of the 24 matches wrestled, 18 resulted in pins. It just was not a good day of wrestling for Oak Harbor.
On the JV side there was also little success and lots of pins.
JV winners against Kamiak were:
152 Nick Farrell pinned Hooper in the 1st period
215 Alec Castillo pinned Hatziliadis in the 1st
103 Corey Trimbur pinned Apollo in 15 seconds
135 Josh Barton pinned Day in 1:22
vs Mariner
135 Ian Cardwell pinned Auker in 4:25
152 Justin Everett pinned M. Oliferodsky in 1:19
160 Steve Souza win 14-3 over Ladsen
215 Castillo pinned Brunswick in 4:41
Next for the wrestlers is their home opener against Stanwood on Thursday, December 11th, then their first tournament on December 13th at Sedro-Woolley HS.