WILLITS >> An anticipated home match with Point Arena never materialized for the Middletown High School wrestling team on Wednesday. Instead, the Mustangs and Pirates traveled to Willits where another Coastal Mountain Conference meet was taking place between Willits, Kelseyville and Upper Lake.
“Point Arena has only two wrestlers, so it didn’t make much sense to bring them all the way down here and pay for an official to work two matches,” Middletown coach Brian Hunt said. “Willits was kind enough to invite us up there.”
Those two matches both resulted in Middletown wins during a 11-0 victory over Point Arena. Jared Pyzer won at 182 pounds by a 15-0 technical fall while Evan Dodd won at 172 pounds after his opponent was disqualified for “illegal moves,” according to Hunt.
“Pyzer had faced the same kid twice before at Middletown (during the Dennis Jensen Invitational earlier this month),” Holt said. “He won both but the scores were a lot closer than a technical fall. He wrestled really well. He worked the kid pretty good.”
Middletown’s wrestlers return to action Saturday. The junior varsity and varsity boys compete in the King of the Mat tournament in Windsor while the girls compete in a tournament at Vallejo. The Mustangs resume CMC action next Wednesday against Willits and Fort Bragg at Fort Bragg.
