East Mills shines at Corning meet

 CORNING — The East Mills wrestling team got off to a fast start Thursday when they went undefeated as part of a quadrangular at Southwest Valley High School in Corning.

East Mills handily won all three of their duals, defeating Mount Ayr, Southwest Valley and Clarke.

The first dual win was against Mount Ayr 56-18. The Stortenbeckers, Luke and Lane, were the first to pick up pinfall wins. Luke Stortenbecker (132 lbs.) defeated Trevor Anderson, while Lane (138 lbs.) defeated Ben Saville.

Josh Hopkins (152 lbs.) picked up the next win when he won a 19-6 decision over Jacob Beamgard. Cavin Darnold (160 lbs.) followed up with a 21-7 decision win against Jacob Vanbuskirk.

Colby Jennings scored the next win with a 46 second pinfall against Wyatt Jackson in the 170 lbs. match.

After a couple of forfeit wins by Colton Story (182 lbs.) and Nick Perkins (195 lbs.), Trey Byers secured the next win with a second period pinfall over Logan Kelley in the 220 lbs. bout. Ben Christensen (106 lbs.) also had a forfeit win.

After a short break, East Mills took on and defeated host school Southwest Valley 69-6. The lone loss for East Mills was a forfeit.

Alec Moorman started the dual by squeaking out a 6-5 decision over Logan Wood in the 126 lbs. match.

After another forfeit win, East Mills scored five straight pinfalls to take a commanding lead in the dual.

The first pinfall came courtesy of Lane Stortenbecker when he pinned Nick Frederick with a second left in the first period.

Clarence Frame (145 lbs.) continued the streak with his second period pinfall win over Sean Haffner. Hopkins pinned Spencer Calkin in 40 seconds, while Darnold got his pinfall over Buck Schafroth with 12 seconds left in the first period.

Jennings pinned Blake Haidsiak-Riggle with less than a minute left in the first period.

Also securing pinfall wins were Perkins over Sammy Richey, Byers over Scott Palmer and Austin Hatcher (285 lbs.) over Isaac Huber.

East Mills then defeated Clarke 70-12. Christensen, Moorman, Dawson Spurgis (126 lbs.), Frame, Hopkins, Darnold, Jennings and Perkins all picked up pinfall wins. Both Stortenbeckers had wins, but came via decision.

Southwest Valley

Southwest Valley lost all three of their matches during the quadrangular Thursday night. In addition to the loss to East Mills, the Timberwolves also lost to Mount Ayr 36-30 and Clarke 48-27.

Against Mount Ayr, Wood, Frederick and Schafroth picked up the non-forfeit wins.

Wood pinned Trevor Anderson in 38 seconds, while Frederick pinned Ben Saville. Schafroth got his win in a 48 second pinfall versus Wyatt Jackson.

Zach Barton and Sammy Richey both got forfeit wins.

Against Clarke, Southwest Valley picked up four of their five wins on non-forfeits.

Wood got a pinfall win in the third period over Bret Moffett. Schafroth and Barton had the other pinfall wins. Schafroth pinned Gable Reece in the second period, while Barton pinned Ulises Yanez in 31 seconds.

Haffner had a 12-5 decision win over John Cutshall.

East Mills at Treynor Tournament

The Wolverines took first at the Treynor Tournament Saturday.

Christensen (106), Moorman (120), Lane Stortenbecker (138), Hopkins (152), Perkins (195) and Austin Hatcher (285) all walked away as champions at the tournament.

East Mills is home Thursday for a varsity meet versus Southwest Valley and SWI.