Centralia Junior Austin Lucht yells after pinning his opponent with 0.2 seconds left in the match Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Centralia Junior Eddie Matias pins his opponent Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Centralia Senior Trevor Richey grabs his opponents leg during a match Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Centralia Freshman Alex Hicks-Avron catches his opponents ankle Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Centralia Junior Juan Gasper attempts to pin his opponent Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Centralia Junior Justin Lake attempts to pin his opponent Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Centralia Junior Juan Gasper attempts to put hi opponent on his back Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Montesano Junior Aaron Lano attempts to pin Centralia's Alex Hicks-Avron Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Montesano's Brent Hoolatz slams Centralia Senior Trevor Richey during a match Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Centralia Junior Caleb Hylton attempts to stand up during a match Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Centralia Junior Eddie Matias takes down his opponent Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Centralia Junior Austin Lucht attempts to pin his opponent Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
Centralia Junior Austin Lucht attempts to pin his opponent Wednesday night at Centralia High School.
It came down to the final match of the night in a non-league dual wrestling meet between Centralia’s Austin Lucht and Montesano’s Kenny Koorad at 285 pounds.
With 0.2 seconds remaining on the clock, Lucht pinned Koorad to help the Tigers earn a 40-39 team victory in Centralia on Wednesday.
Centralia’s Eddie Matias (132) won by pin over Lucas Salstrom and Justin Lake (145) pinned Montesano’s Joel Pine.
Caleb Hylton (170) also won by pin over Montesano’s Mason Lutz. Centralia’s Juan Gaspar (120) won 16-5 over Cooper Johnson. Daniel Tekle (152) and Mike Myer (220) each earned wins by forfeit for the Tigers.
Centralia coach Scott Phillips gave the Tiger of the match honors to Lucht for his big victory to give the Tigers the team win.
“He was giving up 70 pounds and kept up battling until he wore out the Montesano kid to pick up the pin with 2 tenths of a second left on the clock,” Phillips said. “We had a pretty decent crowd and they got loud when we needed them to. Caleb Hylton, Justin Lake, and Eddie Matias looked dominant tonight as well. We are happy with the overall effort of the team and we are going to work to improve every day.”
Alex Hicks-Avron (126) lost in a close match to Aaron Lano, 8-7. Yael Martinez (138), Trevor Richey (160), Elliot Nye (182) and Sawyer Vogel (195) all fell by pin for Centralia.
Centralia competes next at the Pat Alexander Invite at 9 a.m. on Saturday in Tumwater.
Eagles Edge Warriors in Dual
ROCHESTER — The Warriors had four wins by pin, but ultimately fell 42-36 to Elma in a non-league dual wrestling meet here on Wednesday.
Rochester’s Jayden Lancaster (152) won by pin in 1 minute, 59 seconds over Ben Sowers. Jakxen Wherry (182) pinned Elma’s Blake Foster in 59 seconds.
Rochester’s Tomas Ashton (220) won an exhibition match over Ben Bridge by pin in 3:30 and Braden McMillan (113) also won an exhibition match over Elma’s Jaden Martensen by pin in 2:58.
Rochester had four wins by forfeit.
The dual came down to the final match of the evening at heavyweight. Elma’s A.J. Hernandez pinned Elizjah Spitzer in 3:58 to help Elma earn the team victory.
“I don’t think we wrestled very well at all. I thought we underestimated Elma and we need to get back in the room and get to work,” Rochester coach Jason Dick.
Rochester wrestles again next Thursday at the Mount Baker Invitational.
