Tigerhawk grapplers place sixth at BGM

BROOKLYN — A trio of Tigerhawks won their weight brackets and combined for five pins and the Colfax-Mingo boys wrestling team placed sixth in the 12-team field at the Corky Stuart Invitational on Saturday.

Colfax-Mingo entered nine wrestlers and scored 100 points in sixth. Jayden Cherveny and Allan Bregar were the other top-five finishers for the Tigerhawks.

Iowa Valley won the tournament with 200.5 points. The rest of the top five featured host BGM (143), Center Point-Urbana (137.5), the Norwalk JV (137) and Independence (109).

Colfax-Mingo led the next group in sixth followed by the Cedar Rapids JV (84), Wapello (75), Lone Tree (74.5), HLV (63), the Davenport JV (53.5) and Des Moines North-Hoover (15).

Caden Sykes won three times to claim the 175-pound bracket, while Cason Fitch and Teagan Dybevik grabbed individual titles at 126 and 285, respectively.

Sykes (22-4) registered pins of 22 and 59 seconds and won the championship match, 6-2, over top-seeded Nolan Kriegel of Iowa Valley.

Dybevik (9-1) was 2-0 with two pins at 285 and Fitch (22-2) was 2-0 with one pin at 126. Fitch improved to 98-18 in his career.

Bregar and Cherveny were the Tigerhawks’ next best finishers as they both were fourth at their weights. Bregar (16-10) was 2-2 with two pins at 215 and Cherveny (14-11) finished 2-3 at 120.

Alex Hartson won twice by fall and was seventh at 190, Tanner Miller claimed a win and took seventh at 150 and Willie Fitzgerald placed eighth at 165.

C-M wrestlers finish 2-1 in road quadrangular

A dominating performance on the mat from Fitch led the Tigerhawks to a 2-1 night during a road quadrangular hosted by BGM on Thursday.

Colfax-Mingo was 4-3 in contested matches in its team wins over South Iowa Cedar League rivals BGM and Montezuma, and the Tigerhawks won four matches in their loss to Pleasantville.

Colfax-Mingo opened its night with a 52-27 loss to the Trojans and secured second place in the quad with a 42-35 win over the Braves and a 45-35 victory over the Bears.

Fitch was 3-0 with three first-period pins. Kyle Wood also scored a win by fall at 157 against BGM, while Sykes won 16-1 at 175 and Bregar scored a 15-2 victory at 215.

Colfax-Mingo had a 4-3 advantage in forfeits. Those were accepted by Logan Roam at 106, Xavier Cross at 144, Nathan Endersbe at 190 and Dybevik at 285.

The Tigerhawks were 3-3 in forfeits against Montezuma and had a 4-3 edge in contested wins. The forfeits were taken by Roam, Sykes and Bregar, while Fitch, Wood, Cherveny and Fitzgerald all won by fall.

Pleasantville had 4-1 advantage in forfeits against a C-M and won five of the nine contested matches. Sykes took a forfeit at 175 and Fitch, Bregar and Dybevik all won by fall, while Roam won 14-11.

Roam (14-5) and Sykes finished 3-0 with two forfeits for the night, while Bregar was 3-0, Wood was 2-0 with two pins and Dybevik was 2-0. It was Dybevik’s first match since Dec. 7.