Warriors top Wilmington and Saugus

JACK SPICER, a senior (top), earned a pair of victories in Wakefield’s tri-meet against Wilmington and Saugus on Saturday at the Charbonneau Field House. (Donna Larsson File Photo)

JACK SPICER, a senior (top), earned a pair of victories in Wakefield’s tri-meet against Wilmington and Saugus on Saturday at the Charbonneau Field House. (Donna Larsson File Photo)

Published in the January 24, 2017 edition.

WAKEFIELD — While the Warrior wrestling team entered Saturday’s dual meet competition with 14 victories, it hadn’t earned a win against a Middlesex League Freedom division squad.

That all changed on Saturday morning at the Charbonneau Field House as Wakefield earned a 46-21 triumph over Wilmington in a tri-meet with Saugus. The Warriors also added another non-league win with a 42-30 victory over the Sachems.

Wakefield is now 16-4-0 overall on the season and 1-1-0 in the M.L. Freedom division.

Wilmington Meet

The Warriors dominated in the lighter weight classes as they defeated the Wildcats in a league meet.

Wilmington’s Jacob Bernard accepted a forfeit at the 106 weight class then Chris Alves, a junior, accepted a forfeit at 113.

At 120, Aidan Armstrong, a sophomore, pinned Ryan Martin at 1:06. At 132, junior Jake Goodchild pinned Josh Fitzler at 1:56.

In between at 126, Brock Johnson, a freshman, scored a 7-4 decision over Ethan Karnesky.

Senior captain Jack Spicer then earned a victory by major decision (13-4) over John Cox at the 138 lb. weight class.

Wilmington’s Patrick Carroll accepted a forfeit at 145. Then junior Kevin Tran and senior captain Joe Marinaccio accepted forfeits for Wakefield at the 152 and 160 weight classes.

The match of the night was at the 170 bout between Warrior sophomore Mike Yirrell and Wilmington senior Sam Jennings. In a match that went four overtimes, Yirrell was edged, 5-4.

At 182, Ben Piercy, a senior captain, prevailed by fall at 1:20 as he took down Nick Kulman.

There was no contest at 195 before Aiden Coleman, a junior, scored a 3-1 decision over Jimmy Carroll at the 220 weight class.

At 285, senior Dan Dimeglio was pinned by Paxton Cook at 2:29.

Saugus Meet

Every contested weight class was won by pin in the Saugus meet. The difference is that Wakefield won seven while the Sachems prevailed in five.

There was no contest at 106 and the first two contested bouts at 113 and 120 were won by Saugus. At 113, Alves was pinned by Mike Titus at 1:29. At 120, Armstrong was taken down to the mat by Nick Franko at 1:23.

Johnson got Keith Manto on his back pretty quickly as he prevailed 40 seconds into the 126 lb. weight class. At 132, Goodchild pinned Travis Fraser at 3:22 to even the meet.

At 138, freshman Steven McDonough lost by fall at 44 seconds to Dan McCullough.

The Warriors then won the next three weight classes.

Spicer defeated Spencer Frolin at 25 seconds of the 145 bout. Senior Matt Murdocca took down Joe Alba at 3:45 of the 152 contest. At 160, Marinaccio pinned Will Clark at 30 seconds.

Saugus got six points when Piercy lost by fall to Dom Clark at 2:42 of the 170 bout.

At 182, Yirrell won by pin over Anthony Trang at 4:30.

Coleman got Wakefield’s last six points as he took down Davis Trang at 1:20.

Sophomore Derek DiMascio wrestled at the 220 weight class and he was defeated by Nick Laspada at 3:25.

The 285 weight class wasn’t contested and the final score was 42-30.

Wakefield takes on Burlington in another league match tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at the Charbonneau Field House.

Correction: In the Tuesday, Jan. 10 edition of the Wakefield Daily Item sports section, there was a wrestler misidentified in the photo. The wrestler was Mike Yirrell, a sophomore.