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Crusaders' eight falls leads to 51-24 domination of Holy Cross

January 10th, 2021 | Written by: Staff Writer

Brother Martin	Holy Cross

51*	24

[* One point deducted from Brother Martin's total for misconduct.]

Brother Martin went into Holy Cross Wednesday night as the favorite, ranked #1 vs. the #4 Tigers in somebody's tally. They certainly emerged as the better overall team by winning nine of the 14 matches, eight via falls, in a 51-24 win. Dylan Moser, Mason Elsensohn, Eli Hope, Rocco Horvath, Luke Ohler, Anton Brown, Aiden Moulliet and John Sheridan scored falls for the Crusaders. Quinn Williams was the only Crusader to win by a decision, albeit it was an 11-0 major decision.

The four-match win streak for the Tigers started with a 7-1 by Dylan Lauriano at 120 lbs. That was followed by a surprise match between Tiger senior Charles Sauerwin, III and Crusader senior Ethan Castex.

Both were undefeated against Louisiana competition, but it is a safe bet most people would have bet on Castex to remain that way. Castex was a runner-up at 126 lbs. in 2020. He was a runner-up to Evan Frost of Holy Cross in 2019 and placed fourth in 2018. Sauerwin placed fifth in 2020 at 132 lbs. Castex earned a first period takedown and chose to start the second period on the bottom. Sauerwin saw and took a shot at a cross-face cradle, and when opting to roll over his own back rather than getting parallel to Castex to pull the Crusader to his back, almost paid the ultimate price. Castex was able to briefly stop Sauerwin's roll and came close to breaking the Tiger's grip when Sauerwin was on his back. Sauerwin, however, retained his grip and was able to pull Castex over and score a fall at 2:51.

[The writer hopes Castex realizes that if his losing is newsworthy, then he is obviously doing something very right overall!]

The next two matches included the Frost twins, Evan and Jacob. Evan pinned Chase Scott in 2:51 and Jacob did the same to Ty Duncan in 4:52.

The Tigers held the lead for three matches after the Evan Frost win, maxing at 21-12. The Crusaders, however, were just too strong. Two matches later the Tiger lead was gone for good via six Crusader pins and a major decision.

The second-to-last match was the first of the season for Tiger junior Cole Baiamonte, and the 2020 5th-place finisher at 285 lbs. looked stalwart at 220 lbs. TrackWrestling gives Baiamonte a fall in 5:58 in the "Brother Martin 51-Holy Cross 27" dual meet page but looking at matches on the Holy Cross team page (also on TrackWrestling) shows a 7-3 Baiamonte win, which coincides with the writer not recalling a pin nor having any photographs of one. Baiamonte gave more seasoned wrestlers fits last season at 285 lbs. He does not appear to have lost any of his power or spunk so expect see a lot of him in the next seven weeks.

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