By Chad Koenen

Publisher

The New York Mills wrestlers picked up a pair of wins against Park Rapids Area and United Clay Becker last week, while also dropping a tough match to Frazee. 

The Eagles will travel to Bertha-Hewitt on Thursday to take on the Raiders and Long Prairie-Grey Eagle/Browerville Wolves,  before hosting Pelican Rapids in a dual in NY Mills on Friday night. 

Tuesday

All eight wins for New York Mills came by pin as the Eagles blew past Park Rapids Area 48-28 on Tuesday night. The Eagles won four of the final five matches of the night by fall as they picked up a big win against the Panthers as they head into the final few weeks of the regular season.

Jagger Zutter and Elijah O’Dea got the Eagles on the scoreboard as they picked up back-to-back first period pins at 114 lbs. and 121 lbs. Carlyle Tumberg secured a pin at the 3:41 mark of his match against Hunter Krings at 127 lbs. to give the Eagles an 18-5 lead.

Following a Panther pin at 133 lbs., Creed Mursu quickly pinned Cesar Gutierrez at 139 lbs. to put the Eagles in front 24-11.

Park Rapids cut the score to 24-22 with a pin and technical fall, before the Eagles took charge with a Weston Simpson pin at 160 lbs., Austin Geiser pin at 172 lbs. and a Blake Unger pin at 189 lbs. to give NY Mills a 42-22 led.

Park Rapids picked up a pin at 215 lbs, before Grady Roberts closed out the match with a pin at heavyweight at the 4:42 mark of the match to ice the Eagles win. 

New York Mills 48 Park Rapids Area 28

107- Kaiden Dykhoff, PR, technical fall over Joivo Mursu 16-0

114- Jagger Zutter, NYM, pinned Tygan Miller 1:14

121- Elijah O’Dea, NYM, pinned Heath Safratowich 1:39

127- Carlyle Tumberg, NYM, pinned Hunter Krings 3:41

133- Leo Kueber, PR, pinned Sean Geiser 1:15

139- Creed Mursu, NYM, pinned Cesar Quixan Gutierrez :46

145- Jarrett Galzki, PR, technical fall over Tony Nichols 26-11

152- Cooper Ackerman, PR, pinned Royce Lorentz :28

160- Wesston Simpson, NYM, pinned Tucker Warmbold 1:07

172- Austin Geiser, NYM, pinned Andrew Johanning 3:21

189- Blake Unger, NYM, pinned Alex Holmer 3:41

215- D’Andre Johnson, PR, pinned Ashton Lehmann 1:05

285- Grady Roberts, NYM, pinned Zamareon Oliver 4:42

Thursday

The NY Mills Eagles were unable to overcome five open weights as they fell to Frazee by a score of 45-23 on Thursday night. The Eagles picked up five wins compared to three wins for the Hornets in the matches actually wrestled with Elijah O’Dea securing a tech fall over Josiah Drewes at 121 lbs., before Creed Mursu secured a 5-2 decision over Liam Hamm at 133 lbs.

Austin Geiser picked up an exciting 18-13 win over Blake Sonnenberg at 160 lbs., while Blake Unger and Grady Roberts secured pins at 172 lbs. and 285 lbs. respectively.

In addition to their loss to Frazee, the Eagles bounced back and defeated United Clay Becker 48-24 on Thursday night. During the triangular, NY Mills senior Blake Unger picked up his 100th career win. 

Frazee 45 New York Mills 23

107- Ashton Reller (FRAZ) over (NYM) (For.)

114- Christian Peichel (FRAZ) over (NYM) (For.)

121- Elijah O’Dea (NYM) over Josiah Drewes (FRAZ) (TF 17-1 0:00)

127- Gabe Schermerhorn (FRAZ) over (NYM) (For.)

133- Creed Mursu (NYM) over Liam Hamm (FRAZ) (Dec 5-2)

139- Cash Osterman (FRAZ) over (NYM) (For.)

145- Bailey Peichel (FRAZ) over Tony Nichols (NYM) (Fall 0:57)

152- Hunter Malone (FRAZ) over Weston Simpson (NYM) (Dec 7-3)

160- Austin Geiser (NYM) over Blake Sonnenberg (FRAZ) (Dec 18-13)

172- Blake Unger (NYM) over Joey Heisler (FRAZ) (Fall 1:25)

189- Tanner Moe (FRAZ) over (NYM) (For.)

215- Cade Nagel (FRAZ) over Ashton Lehmann (NYM) (Fall 3:04)

285- Grady Roberts (NYM) over Gavin Pope (FRAZ) (Fall 1:53)