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With three
individual weight champions, the Cerritos College
wrestling team took second place at the San
Francisco State Tournament on Saturday. The Falcons,
who compiled 68 team points, trailed only Fresno
City College, who had two champions, but finished
with 79 team points. Cerritos will resume South
Coast Conference action on Wednesday when they
travel to Palomar College for a 7:00 p.m. match.
Freshman
Joe
Cabanas (Canyon Springs HS)
went 4-0 at 125 pounds, as did 141-pound sophomore
Mike
Koehnlein (Marina HS) and
freshman 184-pound
Caleb Gerl
(Calvary Chapel HS). Cerritos would have
had enough team points to win the tournament, but
sophomore 285-pound
Juan
Enriquez (John Glenn HS) was
upset in his semi-final match, losing in overtime to
Nick Berry of Menlo College. Enriquez did rebound to
post a 2-0 win over Austin Garza (Fresno City) in
the third place match.
Cabanas, the
#2-seed at 125 pounds, received a bye in the first
two rounds and then shut out his next two opponents.
He advanced to the finals when his semi-final
opponent, Tym Quigg (Victor Valley College) was
injured and could not compete. Not affected by the
delay, Cabanas went on to defeat Brandon Benvenuti
(Sierra College), 4-3 in the finals. Koehnlein
breezed through his first three opponents by pinning
two of them and shutting out the other. In the
finals, he recorded a 9-6 win over Spencer Anderson
of Cuesta College. Gerl received a bye in the first
two rounds and opened with an 18-1 win and a win by
pinfall before defeating James Hammontree of Sierra
College, 11-3. He won the championship with an 8-6
victory over Derek Rottenberg of Shasta College.
Others who fared
well for the Falcons and earned the team points were
sophomore
Adam Hase
(Long Beach Millikan HS), who placed third
at 174 pounds and sophomore
Bryan
Mecinas (Santa Fe HS), who
placed fourth at 149 pounds. Mecinas opened with a
bye, but lost his next match to send him to the
consolation bracket, where he won five straight
matches before losing 13-10 to Arnold Arroliga of
Lassen College, who was the #3-seed. As for Hase, he
lost in the semi-finals, but won four consecutive
matches to come in third place. Three of those four
were pins, while he defeated Gerson Nikunu
(Sacramento City College), 6-3 in the third place
match. It was Nikunu who defeated Hase in the
semi-final match earlier in the day.
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