LOWER LAKE >> Middleweight Adam Deleon won both of his matches for Lower Lake on Wednesday night as the Trojans opened the Coastal Mountain Conference season with a 39-12 win over Fort Bragg and a 30-3 victory over Clear Lake at Lower Lake High School.
Fort Bragg also beat Clear Lake 36-6.
The Trojans (2-0) narrowly missed winning a third straight CMC championship a year ago when they were edged out by the Willits Wolverines, and the same two teams are the big favorites again this season. They don’t meet until Feb. 7 in Willits, the CMC finale for both schools.
“We could both be 6-0 going into that,” Lower Lake head coach Ed Fuchs said. “Hopefully we have everybody healthy and ready to go for that one.”
There were only a grand total of eight contested matches on Wednesday – Fort Bragg sent five wrestlers out onto the mat to face their Lower Lake counterparts while Clear Lake sent just three. Lower Lake went 6-2 in those matches with five pins.
“I’m excited how we looked tonight,” Fuchs said.
Fort Bragg
Against Fort Bragg, Lower Lake winners were Pedro Garrido by 12-8 decision at 122 pounds, Deleon by first-round pin at 134 pounds, Carlos Avelar by first-round pin at 172 pounds, and heavyweight Michael Jamsion by second-round pin.
Fort Bragg did win the 128-pound match as junior Kyle Paoli pinned Lower Lake freshman Julius Brown in the second round.
Brown was putting up a pretty good battle and was trailing only 7-3 when Paoli pinned him.
“I was very impressed with how our freshman wrestled,” Fuchs said.
Clear Lake
Lower Lake’s two wins against Clear Lake came courtesy of Deleon at 140 pounds by first-round pin, and at 220 pounds where Peerliss Brooke won by second-round pin. Clear Lake picked up its only three points of the match at 147 pounds where Brandon Dickey beat Kyle Lynn by 7-1 decision. It was the second meeting this season between the two, the last one taking place at the Dennis Jensen Invitational earlier this month in Middletown where Dickey prevailed 5-1 in the third-place match.
Upcoming
Lower Lake’s varsity squad and two junior varsity wrestlers head north to Eureka on Saturday to participate in the North Coast Classic. The Trojans return to their CMC schedule next Wednesday with a tri-meet involving Point Arena and Upper Lake at Upper Lake. Clear Lake’s boys travel to the King of the Mat Invitational on Saturday in Windsor while the girls participate in the Del Oro Tournament in Loomis. The Cardinals resume CMC action next Wednesday in Kelseyville.
