WOLFPACK WRESTLING - Angell gets his second straight 215-pound title

WOLFPACK WRESTLING

Taydyn Angell won his second 215pound weight class championship in a row to start the wrestling season while earning the title at Saturday’s Auburndale Invitational.

Angell was one of four members of the Cornell-Gilman-Lake Holcombe wrestling team to enter the competition. The Wolfpack placed ninth out of 12 teams with 124 points, outscoring the Osseo-Fairchild Co-op (82.5), Bruce (62) and Thorp/Owen-Withee (36).

Angell was the top seed in a seven-man bracket at 215 pounds and drew a bye right into the semifinals. He pinned Flambeau’s Jakob Taylor in 1:40 to get to the championship, where he pinned Trenton Frye of Royall/Wonewoc-Center in 3:46.

Senior Lee Zagorski and sophomore Lucas Halida both earned their first varsity victories Saturday.

At 285 pounds, Zagorski lost his opening match by technical fall 16-1 to Auburndale’s Sawyer Malsin. But after that, he pinned Flambeau’s Jesse Jiskra in 3:06 and then pinned Manawa’s Charlie Muller in 32 seconds to win the ninthplace match.

At 132 pounds, Halida was defeated 9-3 in his first match by Eau Claire Memorial’s Caden Vincent. In his ninth-place match, Halida pinned Jordan Calverly of Black River Falls in 5:55.

Junior Sawyer Winger got his first matches of the season at 157 pounds and went 0-3. He was pinned in the quarterfinal round by Cole Schley of Flambeau in 33 seconds, was pinned by Pittsville’s Peyton Leigh in 1:56 in his consolation match and then lost by medical forfeit to Manawa’s Clayton Cheever in the seventh-place match.

Auburndale won the team championship with 482 points. The Eagles easily outscored Royall/Wonewoc-Center (344), Eau Claire Memorial (261.5), Pittsville (258), Black River Falls (241), Flambeau (208), Adams-Friendship (162) and Manawa (158.5).