Key win, bonus points lift Bulldogs
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By Jon Gremmels | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
(John Schultz/QUAD-CITY TIMES) Bettendorf’s Nick Trizzino gets ready to pin North Scott’s Luke Wilson during their 112-pound match. Trizzino got the pin in 1:37, and Bettendorf won the duel meet 38-28.
Alex Schwerdtfeger figured he’d have a key match when he stepped on the mat to face North Scott’s Garrett Hamilton on Thursday night.
After all, his Bettendorf wrestling team was ranked third in the state, while North Scott was fourth; both he and Hamilton had been ranked in the top 10 at their weight; and he never had beaten Hamilton.
“Even if we were dominating in the dual, it was going to be huge,” he said.
With the Bulldogs holding a slim, 12-10 lead, it just set things up that much better for the 215-pound wrestlers who went into quadruple overtime the last time they met.
Although Schwerdtfeger dropped out of the rankings that were released Thursday, he might not be out for long as he beat Hamilton for the first time, and his 5-2 decision helped Bettendorf to a 38-28 victory in front of a large home crowd.
“It felt really good to beat him,” Schwerdtfeger said. “It made it a lot better to be in the middle of the dual.”
Schwerdtfeger, who said he believed he had an advantage because Hamilton has been nursing an injury, scrambled into a clinching takedown with 13 seconds left to seal the win.
“I knew he needed to score, and I had been warned for stalling so I couldn’t sit back,” Schwerdtfeger explained. “I didn’t want to get called for stalling and have another overtime. In the third period, I was in better shape, and I felt like I controlled the match.”
Bettendorf coach Dan Knight said a key was wearing down Hamilton, who hadn’t practiced in two weeks because of a knee injury.
“We knew we had to get on him and get him tired,” he said. “We knew it was going to be close.”
In fact, Knight expected things to be close the whole night.
“Anytime you can wrestle a team of that caliber and come away with a win, it’s good,” he said.
The Bulldogs (12-1) came into the dual ranked third in the state, the Lancers (13-3) fourth, and each team won seven matches in the dual.
“Looking at it, we were saying it would be 7-7 or hoped to win at 215 to make it 8-6,” North Scott coach Dan Mashek said. “Our problem is we’re more inexperienced going up against their guys who are ranked (high in state).”
That showed after Schwerdtfeger’s win.
Jordan Johnson, ranked No. 1 in the state at 285 pounds, followed with a technical fall. After a forfeit win for the Lancers — which helped because their regular 103-pounder Landon Williams didn’t make weight — the Bulldogs got pins from the third-ranked duo of Nick Trizzino at 112 and Tyler Clark at 119 to stretch their lead to 32-16.
“We knew we had our strong points coming up,” said Trizzino, who took down Luke Wilson four times before pinning him in 1 minute, 37 seconds. “Usually if you take them down and let them up, they get sloppy and the pins open up.”
Bonus points were the difference, too, as Bettendorf got three pins — Mike White added another one at 130 pounds — along with Johnson’s technical fall and two forfeits, while the Lancers’ only bonus points came via the forfeit, an injury default at 125, when Matt Meyer suffered an elbow injury and a major decision by Brooks Smith at 152 pounds.
Jon Gremmels can be contacted at (563) 383-2294 or at jgremmels@qctimes.com.
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