Waverly-Shell Rock drops West Delaware in battle of top-ranked teams
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A pair of top five ranked teams will face off under the mat lamp tonight inside the Seedorff Gymnasium as top ranked West Delaware will host 5th ranked Independence. Tonight’s dual will be the 11th meeting of the “Highway 20 Clash” and 61st meeting overall between the Hawks and Mustangs as the two teams battle for the traveling Del-Buc Trophy. The top ranked Hawks enter with a 14-0 record as they defeated 7th ranked Williamsburg and South Tama last Thursday and concluded a perfect week in dual meets with a 4-0 performance to win the CP-U duals. The Hawks lead the overall series against the Mustangs 40-20 and have won the past two meetings after Independence had won the previous six duals. The Mustangs enter with a 25-5 in dual meets this season and finished 2nd last Saturday at Ankeny’s Dave Ewing Duals. West Delaware head coach Jeff Voss says any time these two teams get together, the rivalry makes for a fun night and a great atmosphere for high school wrestling:
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Iowa’s Spencer Lee wrestles Nebraska’s Liam Cronin in their 125-pound bout at an Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling dual with the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Lee won the match. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
After cruising to another win against a ranked Big Ten team in Minnesota, just how dominant are the top-ranked Hawkeyes? We won’t get to see a 1-vs.-2 dual Sunday with Michigan shut down due to COVID-19, but Iowa will still host Illinois on Sunday. The Gazette’s K.J. Pilcher, The Predicament’s G. Wyatt Schultz and former coach Dick Briggs discuss what we’ve seen from the Hawkeyes so far and how dominant they could be on this week’s edition of the Pinning Combination, a show about all things wrestling in the state of Iowa.
The West Delaware top ranked wrestling team dominated in their WaMaC conference opener last night at the Seedorff Gymnasium as they took down 10th ranked Solon 68-7. The Hawks opened the dual winning the first four matches and took a 21-0 lead heading into the 145 pound match which saw 6th ranked Caleb Ebert edging 4th ranked Logan Peyton 8-7 with a takedown and three point near fall as time expired. Jadyn Peyton got the Hawks back in the win column with a 21-6 technical fall over Jakobe Lahr before Solon two time state champion Hayden Taylor picked up a 9-1 major decision over Kyle Cole. Cole battled and put some pressure on the top ranked Spartan as he trailed just 1-0 going into the 3rd period but Taylor used a couple three point near falls and a takedown to pick up bonus points and the last win of the night as the Hawks won the final seven matches. One of those seven wins saw West Delaware’s 7th ranked 220 pounder Christian Nunley pin 6th ranked Gage Marty. Nunley trailed 5-3 l
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