NIACC, tied for seventh in the most recent NJCAA poll, heads to Grand Rapids, MN, for a quadrangular meet at Itasca Community College on Saturday. The Trojans are 3-3 in duals this season. Labette, rated third in the NJCAA, won seven of the 10 matches, three of them by four points or less, in Monday's dual meet.
Perkins, fresh off winning the Central College Open 157-pound title last Saturday, edged Labette's Joe Cornejo 2-1 in one of a handful of close matches. White dominated Aaron Hynick from the start, winning by fall in just 39 seconds. Glenn Rhees, NIACC's seventh-rated 174-pounder, used a strong third period to beat sixth-rated Joe Yust 10-4 for the Trojans' other win.
Labette helped its cause with a pair of narrow wins at the lower weights. Scott Berens beat NIACC's Cody Hogan 5-3 at 133 pounds and Derek Ward edged NIACC freshman T.J. Moen 9-8 in a battle of the fourth- and fifth-rated 141-pound wrestlers in the NJCAA. The Berens-Hogan matchup was tied at 3-all midway through the third period while Ward trailed 8-7 before scoring the final two points of his match with Moen.
Two other NIACC wrestlers competed well in a losing cause. At 165 pounds, Aaron Hancock battled closely with third-rated Mikey Morgan of Labette in a 12-7 match. At 197 pounds, Brad Theilen, who has only been out for the team since December, was edged 9-5 by nationally-rated Chance Rencountre of the Cardinals.
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