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Craig, Parker win Big Eight finales

Janesville Craig hammered Verona, 57-21, in the final Big Eight Conference dual wrestling match of the season Thursday to finish second in the dual-meet standings.

The Cougars (8-1) won despite using four freshmen and one first-time varsity wrestler due to several injuries.

“Usually Verona is pretty tough,” Craig coach Jeff Kaster said.

Siven Furseth stepped up a weight class and registered a pin at 119 to improve to 32-1. Chris Pierce (25-3) at 130 and Kyle Uppman (23-8) at 103 also earned victories.

Craig finished behind Sun Prairie (9-0) in the final dual standings. The Cardinals edged Beloit, 38-36, on Wednesday night.

The conference meet will be next Saturday, Feb. 7, at Beloit.

CRAIG 57, VERONA 21

103—Kyle Upmann (JC) pinned Alex Stanford, 3:30. 112—Ben Rolon (JC) dec. Dan Harper, 13-7. 119—Siven Furseth (JC) pinned Devan Daniels, :57. 125—Jared Kissinger (V) pinned Sam DePoutiloff, 1:44. 130—Chris Pierce (JC) pinned Colton Stetzer, :52. 135—Chris Schmid (V) def. Chris Simonson, 9-1.

140—Brian Woods (V) tech. fall Travis Davis, 19-4. 145—Ryan Coleman (JC) pinned Robert Roberts, 1:48. 152—Nathan Mather (JC) won by forfeit. 160—Zak Kurtz (JC) won by forfeit. 171—Vaughn Garza (JC) pinned Zach Coons, 1:22. 189—Drilion Grajcevce (JC) pinned Mark Nyhus, :42. 215—Mike Spaulding (JC) pinned Nate Gibbs, 2:28. 285—Max Struck (V) pinned Andrew Madden, 1:59.

Junior varsity—Craig 15, Verona 4.

n Parker 51, Middleton 21—The Vikings fell behind early but stormed back to win their Big Eight Conference dual meet finale.

Parker (7-2) got pins from Adam Cavey, Kate Perkins, Brandon Zeilinger, Matt Houchin and Alex Craker. David Arndt, Evan Cavey, Brennan Casey-Schmidt and Josh Lindaas also won for the Vikings.

Adam Cavey finished 9-0 in the Big Eight at 103.

PARKER 51, MIDDLETON 21

103—Adam Cavey (P) pinned R. Raasch, :33; 112—Kate Perkins (P) pinned C. Romero, 1:35; 119—Evan Cavey (P) dec. N. Misenheimer, 8-3; 125—Brandon Zeilinger (P) pinned K. Berry, 3:54; 130—Brennan Casey-Schmidt (P) dec. D. Lindeman, 9-3; 135—Z. Bordeau (M) pinned A. Serrano, 1:56; 140—Travis Rucinski (P) won by forfeit.

145—Josh Lindaas (P) major dec. over J. Freber, 10-1; 152—K. Lindeman (M) dec. Cody St. Michael, 17-10; 160—David Arndt (P) tech. fall over B. Dresen, 17-2; 171—Ben Brummel (M) pinned Jacob Bailey, 2:37; 189—T. Christensen (M) pinned Aaron Polzin, 1:26; 215—Matt Houchin (P) pinned K. Intsiful, 1:59; 285—Alex Craker (P) pinned G. Harper, :56.

n Starting weight: 160.