East Central won its fourth consecutive EIAC wrestling title Saturday. The Trojans beat runner up and tournament host Franklin County 280.5-182. Greensburg placed third with 150.
The rest of the conference standings included: Lawrenceburg fourth (140 points), South Dearborn fifth (133), Batesville sixth (129), Connersville seventh (106) and Rushville eighth (90).
South Dearborn’s Isaiah Otto was voted as the EIAC MVP and was champion at 132 pounds.
East Central had seven individual conference champions: Blake Wolf at 126 pounds, Dylan Lengerich 138, Rider Searcy 145, Charlie Euson 160, David Nash 182, Ryan Bovard 195 and Brayden Rouse at 220.
Batesville had a pair of champs: Alex Murphy at 120 pounds and Josh Mobley at 170.
Lawrenceburg had two title winners as well: Corbin Walston at 152 pounds and Jackson Goodall at 285.
Franklin County’s Colin Troyer claimed the 106-pound class while Greensburg’s Bryant Merritt won at 113.
Please click on this link for complete EIAC Wrestling Individual Results.
Unedited Batesville report from coach Curtis Miller: BHS Wrestling ended their regular season competing in the EIAC Conference Tournament. Despite only having only 9 wrestlers, 8 placed with all 8 placers winning their last match of the day leading to a 6th place finish. The bulldogs were able to capture 2 individual titles with Alex Murphy winning the 120 pound weight class while Josh Mobley won the 170 pound weight class. Murphy went 3-0 with 1 forfeit, 1 pin, and 13-3 major decision. In winning his semi finals match Murphy recorded his 100th victory of his career being the second bulldog to reach that mark this year. Josh Mobley had 2 pins and won his finals match with a 4-3 decision with a last second takedown to win the match. In winning his finals match Mobley reached his 113th victory making him 3rd in BHS history in career wins. The Bulldogs had 3 wrestlers finish 3rd. Damien Dance finished 3rd at 152 going 3-1 with 3 pins. Jy’lil Chappell also finished 3rd at 182 going 3-1 with 2 pins and a 10-5 decision in his 3rd place match. Chase Hamilton finished 3rd at 195 going 3-1 with a forfeit, pin, and 3-0 decision. 3 wrestlers finished 5th on the day. David Maher went 2-2 at 138 with a forfeit and an injury default. Christian Garcia went 2-2 at 220 with 2 pins. Max Amberger went 2-2 at 285 with a forfeit and a pin. This meet wrapped up the regular season with the cancelation of their final dual that was scheduled for January 18th. The Bulldogs finished with a dual record of 19-9.
Unedited Rushville report from coach Jim Tush: Missing a few people because of illness and injury this week, the wrestlers headed to Franklin County to compete in our EIAC tournament.
Tuff Tackett started out the day beating Greensburg’s Shepherd and Lawrenceburg’s Payne. Payne had beaten Tuff earlier this year, but Tuff’s improved aggression on offense won him the match. Tuff finished the day as conference runner-up.
Also finishing as conference runner-up was Matthew Komlanc. Matthew beat Glandon from Batesville and Rorabacher from Lawrencburg to get to the finals.
Kian Nash and Aritz Gomez both had impressive wins earning them third place finishes, and Aaron Robinson earned a win against Gentry from South Dearborn.
There were many positive things that happened on the mat today. Our wrestlers are learning the importance of aggression in their matches. In all but two matches that we won today, we earned the first takedown. We were offensive on our feet instead of defensive. This comes with confidence that our young team is gaining with every match. I am excited to watch them continue to grow in tenacity for creating points on their feet.
Our next match is against Shelbyville, at Shelbyville, on Thursday, Jan. 20th, followed by sectionals at South Dearborn on Jan. 29th.
Go Lions!!
106 – FF
113 – FF
120 – Tuff Tackett – Greensburg-W-7-2, Lawrenceburg-W-8-5, Batesville-L-3-11
126 – Kian Nash – Lawrenceburg-W-Pin, East Central-L-Pin, Batesville-W-FF,
132 – Wyatt Jacobs – Greensburg-L-Pin, Batesville-W-FF, Connersville-L-Pin,
145 – Aritz Gomez Espinsosa – Greensburg-W-Pin, Lawrenceburg-L-Pin, South Dearborn-W-Pin,
152 – Edgar Fernandez – East Central-L-Pin, Greensburg-L-Pin
160 – Matthew Komlanc – Batesville-W-Pin, Lawrenceburg-W-18-5, East Central-L-Pin
170 – Alan Busche – Connersville-L-Pin, Franklin County-L-Pin, Lawrenceburg-W-FF, South Dearborn-L-Pin
182 – Aaron Robinson – East Central-L-Pin, South Dearborn-W-Pin, Batesville-L-Pin, Greensburg-L-Pin
195 – FF
220 – Mike Rohr – East Central-L-Pin, Batesvile-L-Pin,
HWT – Justin Foreman – Lawrenceburg-L-Pin, Connersville-L-5-9
Individual place winners:
120 – Tuff Tackett – 2nd
160 – Matthew Komlanc – 2nd
126 – Kian Nash – 3rd
145 – Aritz Gomez Espinsosa – 3rd
132 – Wyatt Jacobs – 6th
170 – Alan Busche – 6th
182 – Aaron Robinson – 6th
We thank Franklin County Denny Dorrel for the complete results and coaches Miller and Tush for their information.