State-ranked Clyde blanks Bellevue, 73-0, in dual match

By BRAD FRANK
Gazette Sports Editor

Belle­vue junior Jake Wei­der, left, wres­tles Clyde junior Blake Miller in the 152-pound match Wednes­day in non-league var­sity wrestling action. (Gazette photo by Brad Frank)

It was going to be a tough night of wrestling for the Belle­vue Red­men enter­ing Wednesday’s dual match against their rival, the Clyde Fliers.

The night became even tougher for Belle­vue when Clyde clinched a 73–0 win with a pin in the final match of the night, in a meet­ing between the young and depth­less Red­men and the strong, vet­eran Fliers, who are ranked fifth in Divi­sion II in a poll by the Ohio High School Wrestling Coaches Association.

Clyde reg­is­tered six wins by pins, a tech­ni­cal fall, three major deci­sions and one other win by deci­sion. Clyde also won for­feits at 106, 113, 182 and 220.

As evi­dence for how Bellevue’s night went, the Redmen’s four return­ing let­ter­win­ners who wres­tled Wednes­day lost by pin, while six of Bellevue’s other matches were wres­tled by fresh­men and sophomores.

“The thing is, it’s a loss. A loss is still a loss, whether it’s by one or by a mil­lion,” Belle­vue coach Paul Zol­man said. “We told the kids, ‘it doesn’t come down to losses. It comes down to heart, com­pet­i­tive­ness and fight. You got a deci­sion: Are you going to go out there, con­cede the loss and pack it in? Or are you going to go out there, take this loss and build on it?’

“Hope­fully it ignites a fire in the kids, and they hope­fully never let that hap­pen to them again.”

The Red­men dropped to 0–1 in dual matches this season.

Belle­vue fresh­man Collin Adkins wres­tled his team’s clos­est match of the night, los­ing 9–5 in the 120-pound match to Chris Hicks.

“Collin looked good as a fresh­men,” Zol­man said. “He wres­tled hard. He tried to come away with a win and came up a lit­tle short. It wasn’t terrible.”

Zol­man acknowl­edged the effort of another fresh­man, Jared Hoy, typ­i­cally a 170-pounder who was wrestling at 195.

Hoy lost 12–4 to Clyde fresh­man Mar­shall Messer.

“I thought Jared Hoy looked good,” Zol­man said. “He was wrestling up two weight classes. He was a lit­tle sloppy but he wres­tled hard for three periods.”

Belle­vue won three of the four junior var­sity matches Wednesday.

Austin Guthrie and Tyler Griggs each earned wins by pin, while Gabe Smythe won his match by deci­sion. Nate Sochko was pinned for Clyde’s lone win.

Bellevue’s JV will wres­tle at the Clyde Invi­ta­tional at 9 a.m. Sat­ur­day. The var­sity will com­pete next in the West Jef­fer­son Invi­ta­tional on Dec. 27–28.

Clyde 73, Belle­vue 0
Var­sity
106: Lan­don Kiser © win by for­feit
113: Alex Nor­man © win by for­feit
120: Chris Hicks © dec. Collin Adkins, 9–5
126: Anthony Beier © major dec. A.J. Perry, 12–0
132: Austin Baker © pin Chris Har­ris, 3:31
138: Dakota Flo­res © major dec. Ryan Veliz, 14–4
145: Beau Min­nick © pin Zack Miller, 2:26
152: Blake Miller © pin Jake Wei­der, 3:59
160: Casey Flo­res © tech. fall Bran­don Veliz, 19–2
170: Chris Moore © pin Joey Marin, 1:56
182: Brad Smith © win by for­feit
195: Mar­shall Messer © major dec. Jared Hoy, 12–4
220: Xavier Corbin © win by for­feit
285: Collin Mange © pin Grant Moyer, 1:51

Junior Var­sity
126: Austin Guthrie (B) pin Dylan Duskin, 1:53
132: Gabe Smythe (B) dec. Con­ner Avalon, 10–8
138: Tyler Griggs (B) pin Trent John­son, 3:23
160: Blake Smith © pin Nate Sochko, 3:43

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