Wrestling starts season 1-3 at Lakeland Duals
Freshmen Renon and Hildebrandt start seasons 4-1
Danny Spatchek
Issue date: 11/12/09 Section: Sports
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Freshman Ryan Renon wrestled at 157 and finished the day undefeated with a 4-0 record. Renon's freshman teammate Cory Hildebrandt lost one match to Concordia Morehead at 125 and finished 3-1.
"Ryan Renon went 4-0, which is outstanding for anyone to do, let alone a freshman. He had a great day for anyone wrestling against that type of competition," Lakeland wrestling coach Pete Rogers said. "Cory went 3-1 at 125, which is impressive as a freshman. Believe it or not, he was actually outsized in some of his matches at 125 and still was able to do very well."
Senior Jake Frias also went 3-1 for Lakeland, losing only match to Concordia Morehead's Lane Lunde at 165.
"Jake had a great day; his only loss came to Concordia Morehead and that was a tight match as well. As the season goes on Jake will improve and that's a match I expect him to get back when we play them again this year," Rogers said.
Frias scored a 17-4 victory in Lakeland's final match of the day versus Wabash to put the Muskies ahead 16-10 overall. The Little Giants heavyweights pinned Lakeland's Rob Forgette and Brad LeClair at 197 and HWT, respectively, to close out the Muskies. Forgette and Leclaire were forced to move up in weight class on Saturday as senior All-American returnee Adam Sutter was injured at heavyweight.
Rogers said his team performed well despite the absence of Sutter. Junior mainstay Isaac Roberson and sophomores Jake Montie and Robbie Frias were all unable to compete due to injury.
"Considering the amount of injuries, I thought the team did very well. Everyone wrestled their hearts out and left everything they had on the mat today," Rogers said. "I'm hoping we've gotten all our injuries out of the way at the beginning of the year and that we'll be ready to wrestle at the end of the season when it counts."
The Muskies started the day strong, getting a pin from Forgette among eight other wins on the way to a 37-9 victory over UW-Eau Claire. Lakeland then lost two matches to nationally ranked North Central 31-12 and Concordia Morehead 46-3. Rogers said his squad should have been more competitive in the loss to Morehead.
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