Neosho County Community College Wrestling Release
Released by Aaron Sweazy
Assistant Wrestling Coach

Nov. 13, 2008

The 20th ranked Pratt Beavers came to Neosho on Thursday night for a dual between two teams ranked in the top 20 Nationally. Neosho ranked 13th in the NJCAA poll got out to an early lead at 125 lbs when Alex Gorton had 5 takedowns before pinning his foe. Up 6-0, Stephen Kendrick was in cruise control, his superior conditioning was too much for his opposition who became ill midway through the bout and the referee declared Kendrick the winner by a medical forfeit. Neosho was anticipating an even wider margin of leading, but Montana Carson was caught in a scramble and then subsequently pinned shortly thereafter, making the dual 12-6, but that would be as close as it would get for the duration of the dual in the team scores.
Over the next 3 weights, Caleb Van Lue, Justin Ringgold, and Tucker Rutherford would all pull out a victory with Van Lue's coming vie way of a 10-1 major decision, and Ringgold and Rutherford's by regular decisions. Ringgold's victory was especially sweet, as his narrow 6-4 triumph over Cameron Riojas of Pratt marked the first time in 5 tries that Ringgold has defeated Riojas, Tucker Rutherford weighing in for the 157 weight, bumped up and pulled off a huge win as well with a late takedown over Pratt's Travis Budke in winning a 5-4 matchup. At 174 Pratt fired back with another fall to again narrow the gap, however, Neosho now up only 22-12, could put the dual out of reach with 1 more win in one of the 3 last matches of the night. Thankfully, for the Panthers they didn't have to wait long for that win, in more ways than one, as Derek Heckel went out at 184 and dispatched of his opponent in a mere 45 seconds.
Although Neosho had the dual locked up there was still two weight classes to be wrestled, at 197 the two wrestlers each had an escape which would have tied it up 1-1, however it was the lack of offense resulting in 5 combined stalling calls between the two wrestlers that would prove to be the difference, as the Pratt wrestler was called one less time, thus giving him the 1pt edge to squeak out the victory. Finally at 285 the big boys took to the mat with Neosho's Kris Powell losing by fall.
The Panthers improve to 4-2 on the young year and will be at the Central Missouri Open on Sunday, then will be on the road against 4th ranked Labette in a conference showdown on Wednesday.
Neosho County Community College 28
Pratt Community College 21
11/13/2008

Individual Matches
Wt Full Name School Opponent Name Opponent School Result WinType Score
125 Alex Gorton Neosho Harshman, Brendan Pratt Community College W FALL 3:14
133 Stephen Kendrick Neosho Riffel, Colby Pratt Community College W Mfor
141 Montana Carson Neosho Wright, Chris Pratt Community College L FALL 3:43
149 Caleb VanLue Neosho Cress, Eric Pratt Community College W MD 10 - 1
157 Justin Ringgold Neosho Riojas, Cameron Pratt Community College W DEC 6 - 4
165 Tucker Rutherford Neosho Budke, Travis Pratt Community College W DEC 5 - 4
174 Matt McNabb Neosho Cabbage, Paul Pratt Community College L FALL 2:52
184 Derek Heckel Neosho Major, Ralph Pratt Community College W FALL 0:45
197 Jeff Kirwan Neosho Downs, Tyler Pratt Community College L DEC 2 - 3
285 Kris Powell Neosho Rodriguez, Josh Pratt Community College L FALL 1:18