Bellevue’s Moyer onto semifinals after 1st day of sectional tourney

By BRAD FRANK
Gazette Sports Editor

BOWLING GREEN — The first day of wrestling action was com­pleted Fri­day in a Divi­sion II North­west Dis­trict sec­tional tour­na­ment at Stroh Cen­ter on the cam­pus of Bowl­ing Green State Uni­ver­sity. Action will con­tinue today start­ing with semi­fi­nal matches in the winner’s bracket and com­pe­ti­tion for the top six spots in the con­so­la­tion bracket.

The top four wrestlers in each weight class will advance to the dis­trict tour­na­ment Feb. 22–23.

The Belle­vue Red­men scored 16 points as a team Fri­day, rank­ing 11th out of 13 teams.

Only one Belle­vue wrestler, sopho­more heavy­weight Grant Moyer, remains in the winner’s bracket enter­ing today’s action.

Moyer beat Bowl­ing Green junior Timo Ander­son in the quar­ter­fi­nals Fri­day. Moyer will need one win today to secure a spot at districts.

Moyer, who entered the tour­na­ment with the second-most wins of any heavy­weight, will wres­tle St. Marys Memo­r­ial senior Logan Simons in his first match today. Simons won two matches Fri­day to move into the semifinals.

“It’s a very winnable match,” Belle­vue coach Paul Zol­man said about Moyer’s semi­fi­nal match. “(Moyer) has faced oppo­nents sim­i­lar to (Simons) in the past. Hope­fully (Moyer) will work hard and come away with the win.”

At 160 pounds, Belle­vue senior Joe Mag­yar was pinned in 39 sec­onds by Wauseon junior Aaron Schuette in the quar­ter­fi­nals. In the con­so­la­tion bracket, Mag­yar will await the win­ner of the match between Ross­ford sopho­more Andy Myers and Shelby junior Nate Durkovic today, two wins away from clinch­ing a dis­trict spot.

At 120, Belle­vue fresh­man Collin Adkins lost in the quar­ter­fi­nals in his only match Fri­day. He is sit­ting in the con­so­la­tion bracket, and after receiv­ing a bye, awaits the win­ner of Perkins senior Nick Wal­dron and St. Marys Memo­r­ial fresh­man Key­ton Lim­ing. Adkins will need two wins today to qual­ify for districts.

In the 132-pound bracket, Belle­vue senior Ryan Veliz pinned San­dusky junior Will Vanscoy in 33 sec­onds to advance to the quar­ter­fi­nals, where Veliz lost by pin at 5:31 to Perkins junior Nate Boggs. Veliz will wres­tle Port Clin­ton senior Rob­bie Peter­man in the con­so­la­tion bracket today. Veliz will need three wins to reach the dis­trict tournament.

At 126, after receiv­ing a bye, Belle­vue senior Zack Miller lost by pin at 1:24 to Wauseon senior Austin Yamell in the quar­ter­fi­nals. Miller dropped to the con­so­la­tion bracket, where he will face East­wood senior Bran­don Tefft today. Miller will need three wins to qual­ify for districts.

In the 152-pound bracket, Belle­vue sopho­more Alex Elswick topped Bowl­ing Green fresh­man Kaleb O’Brien with a pin in 24 sec­onds. Elswick was then pinned by Nor­walk senior Alex Doughty at 1:59 to fall into the con­so­la­tion bracket. Elswick will face Port Clin­ton senior Isaac Akins today, need­ing three wins to get to districts.

Belle­vue fresh­man Jared Hoy landed in the 170-pound con­so­la­tion bracket Fri­day after los­ing in a 39-second pin to San­dusky senior Kyle Palma on Fri­day. Hoy will wres­tle St. Marys Memo­r­ial junior Luke Lem­mer­men today, need­ing three wins to advance to districts.

At 182, Belle­vue senior Ethan Hart­ley is in the con­so­la­tion bracket after a pin at 1:34 against Lima Shawnee fresh­man Jacob Hix­en­baugh. Hart­ley will face Bowl­ing Green fresh­man Manny Car­rillo today, three wins away from get­ting to districts.

Zol­man explained what each of his wrestlers in the con­so­la­tion bracket should con­cen­trate on in today’s action.

“With some of these guys, this is their first expe­ri­ence with sec­tion­als,” he said. “It’s all or noth­ing. There’s no sense hold­ing any­thing back.”

Belle­vue junior Jake Wei­der was elim­i­nated from sec­tion­als after a pair of losses Friday.

Wrestling action will begin at 11 a.m. today at Stroh Cen­ter on the cam­pus of Bowl­ing Green State University.

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