Cobras take team race over New London

SIGOURNEY - New London head coach Mark Chiri has said rankings are for grandma's refrigerator and there was a good example of that Saturday in the Class 1A Sectional 10 wrestling meet.

New London is ranked No. 7 as a team in the latest release of The Predicament, but the Tigers finished second to unranked Sigourney-Keota. An individual ranked seventh, Connor Golston (31-7) lost to eighth-ranked Jack Clarahan of SK on an 8-5 decision.

Individual winners and runners-up advance to Saturday's district meet in Pleasantville.

Team winners and runner-up wrestle Tuesday in regional dual meets. By winning, Sigourney-Keota ends up with a possible match against the top-ranked team and New London possibly meets No. 2. The Cobras will see Dyersville Beckman in Gilbertville with the winner meeting No. 1 Don Bosco. Chiri takes the New London team to Lisbon to face Alburnett then Lisbon takes on the winner. The Cobras defeated Beckman in this year's football playoffs, 35-14.

The Cobras were powered by champions Daniel McLaughlin, who now has a 29-17 record, at 126 pounds, Clarahan (40-5) at 160 and Cade Molyneux (21-11) at 170.

McLaughlin won with a pin in 58 seconds and a 9-5 decision. Clarahan pinned opponents in: 07 and 2:00 to get to the title match. Molyneux tallied a second-round pin and a third-round fall. At 132, Reid Molyneux (21-9) was second as was Aidan Schuster (34-11) at 182 with two pins totaling 31 seconds. Cade Streigle (35-11) was second at 195.

All of the Tigers' ranked wrestlers won. There was top-ranked Marcel Lopez (52-0) at 120, No. 2 Dominic Lopez (51-2) at 145, No. 8 Josh Glendening (47-5) at 152 and No. 8 Currey Jacobs (33-3) at 195.

Marcel Lopez rung up two tech falls, 23-8 in 3:07 and 25-10 in 5:15. Dominic Lopez scored a pin and a technical fall (25-8) in 4:04. Glendening notched two pins. Jacobs recorded an 11-4 decision, then a pin in 3:43.

Second places for New London were Boden Pickle (40-13) at 170 and Carter Allen (25-15) at 220.

Pekin's Micheal Jones (34-11) and eighth-ranked Mason Juhl (38-2) are sectional champions. Juhl recorded a pin in 18 seconds then a 12-1 major decision to win at 182. Jones won with two pins,: 41 and: 31. Cael Baker (29-8) was second at 152.

Van Buren County had a pair of titlists with Tyler Stoltz (17-14) at 132 and Brant Tedrow at 220. Tedrow won both matches in the first round while Stoltz recorded a pin in the first and one in the second. Korbin Camp (14-19 at 126) and T.J. Jirak (11-22 at 113) advance as well.

Class 1A Sectional 10

TEAM SCORES -

1. Sigourney-Keota 181, 2. New London 165.5, 3. Moravia 149, 4. (tie) Pekin and North Mahaska 136, 6. Van Buren County 120, 7. Wayne 77, 8. Cardinal 67