The Whitewater Girls’ Wrestling team followed up their Janesville Craig Invite title with a busy week of wrestling the week of January 19th.
On Tuesday, January 20, the girls traveled to Edgerton to compete in two dual meets against the Tiders of Edgerton and the Trojans of Beloit Turner. The girls wrestled extremely well dropping only one match on the evening. This loss was a rematch for the girls from a previous loss by pin. This was a tough battle with De Porter winning at one point 12-9 but coming up short in the end.
The ladies opened the night with a 66-0 victory over a very short-handed Edgerton team The team then followed with a 56-12 victory over Beloit Turner.
Wednesday night, January 21, the team hosted their only dual meet at home against Madison Memorial and Big Foot in which our Seniors (Isabelle Cantu, Silvia Harris, and Atreya Wilson) were honored as well as parents recognized for their support of our students.
The girls wrestled extremely well on the evening with an opening dual meet victory over Madison Memorial 48-21. A big turning point was a victory by Aubrey Fuoco (145) who was able to wrestle through a scramble position and put her girl on her back for the pin.
In the closing dual of the night the Lady Whippets came out victorious against the Lady Chiefs of Big Foot 42-19. Coming up with the big pin for the Whippets was Emma Maas (114) with her first period pin, running her pinning combination extremely well in the victory. Also with a big pin on the night in the nightcap dual was Storm De Porter (132) pinning her opponent early in the first period. Likely the most exciting match of the night belonged to Atreya Wilson (138). There was a lot of action in this match with both ladies going with big moves. Unfortunately, Atreya dropped the match 13-17.
The victories this week pushed the Whippets’ Team record to 4-0 on the season.
The girls are next in action with three dual meets on Tuesday night, January 27, at Beloit Turner. They will wrestle Beloit Turner, Janesville Craig, and Jefferson. These should all be very good dual meets for all the teams involved! Wrestling begins at Beloit Turner High School at 5:00 pm Tuesday night.
Article and Photos Courtesy of John Schimming
Whitewater High School Head Wrestling Coach
jschimming@wwusd.org
