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Nature Coast Underachieves at CCC

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By JIM REDMILE

Hernando Today correspondent

Published: January 26, 2008

CLEARWATER – In a geodesic dome somewhat reminiscent of the top half of Epcot Center, Nature Coast showed up at the Clearwater Central Catholic Marauder Duals with only part of its team, and it came back to haunt it as forfeits cost it several points on its way to a fifth-place finish.
Clearwater Central Catholic, the 2006 Class 1A-10 champion, went undefeated on the day taking the first-place trophy Saturday evening knocking off Rockledge in the final match.
The Sharks finished fifth winning two matches against Calvary Christian and Sebring, and dropping two, one to host CCC and one to Satellite.
"I was looking forward to coming in and competing for first place, I think it would have fooled a lot of people if we would have done that," said Shark Head Coach Mike Lastra. "But I had one kid who all of the sudden had to work, one kid who went on vacation, another kid who's hurt, so going in with 10 people to a dual team tournament, you can't expect to compete with the teams.
"That being said, we wrestled CCC (Clearwater Central Catholic) who's wrestling for first place and in the matches we wrestled, they had one match over us," added Lastra. "We just wrestled Satellite and we beat them on the matches we wrestled; they beat us on a forfeit by six points."
How about the effort?
"I'm not satisfied at all," Lastra continued. "The coaching staff and I were looking forward to coming in here and coming home with a first-place trophy. The forfeits killed us, absolutely killed us. I think if we had no forfeits against Clearwater we would have possibly beat them. But no excuses, you go with what you got; we came in with a half-empty chamber and we ran out of bullets."

Lambert leads

Nature Coast's outstanding wrestler of the meet was junior Matt Lambert, who went 4-0 on the day with two pins and two decisions. "I wrestled two (matches) at 135, one at 140 and one at 145. It's more mental than physical," Lambert said. "We all know were physically ready, we've wrestled all year, but you got to psyche yourself up for it, you got to want it, you got to get aggressive on that mat. I noticed when I turn up that aggression I wrestle so much better and really dominate on the mat.
"This year my goal is to at least be the district champ, qualify for regionals, and I would really love to go to states and win as many matches as possible," said a joyful, but tired Lambert.
Coach Lastra commented on the team goals for the remainder of the season.
"This last week was our finals week. This year they did it a little different with finals right in the middle of January, so we had all half days and our schedule was kind of crazy," he commented. "But now we have two straight weeks to get back on schedule. Next week we have The Villages, an eight-team tournament with seven district teams that are going to be there, so it's a pretty good pre-tournament for the district. We want to come into districts and surprise a lot of people."

Marauder Duals Team Results
Tournament Totals
Team W L PF PA
CCC 4 0 227 83
Rockledge 3 1 220 103
PPHS 2 2 162 151
Satellite 3 1 183 127
Nature Coast 2 2 141 144
Sebring 1 3 101 180
Seminole 2 2 178 125
Leto 1 3 60 212
Calvary 0 4 75 222

Pool A
CCC 84, Calvary 0
CCC 51, Nature Coast 24
Nature Coast 54, Calvary 18

Pool B
Sebring 36, Leto 12
Rockledge 72, Sebring 11
Rockledge 71, Leto 12

Pool C
Satellite 42, Seminole 33
Pinella Park 40, Satellite 40
(P.P. wins by tiebreaker criteria H)
PPHS 59, Seminole 19

Round 2
Pool A
Rockledge 42, PPHS, 39
CCC, 51 PPHS 24
CCC 41, Rockledge 35

Pool B
Nature Coast 36, Sebring 30
Satellite 42, Nature Coast 30
Satellite 60, Sebring 24

Pool C
Leto 36, Calvary 30
Seminole 51, Calvary 24
Seminole 75, Leto 0

CCC 51, Nature Coast 24
103 - List (CCC) pin Forand, 2:51
112 - Simonsen (NCT) dec. Hilpl, 10-7
119 - McAllister (CCC) dec. Cronin, 11-5
125 - Toups (CCC) pin McLean, 4:42
130 - Richardson (NCT) dec. Quieroz, 12-9
135 - Lambert (NCT) pin Ryan, 1:24
140 - Owens (CCC) pin Brenton Nuby, 1:00
145 - Zagers (CCC) pin CJ Baker, 3:00
152 - Alberdi (CCC) won by forfeit
160 - Dierlam (CCC) won by forfeit
171 - Paige (CCC) won by forfeit
189 - Baird (CCC) won by forfeit
215 - Greene (NCT) pin Vaughan, 2:43
285 – JJ Baker (NCT) pin Sarra, 0:48

Nature Coast 54, Calvary 18
103 - Forand (NCT) pin Roeder, 4:27
112 - Henn (NCT) won by forfeit
119 - Cronin (NCT) won by forfeit
125 - McLean (NCT) won by forfeit
130 - Richardson (NCT) pin Rogers, 1:49
135 – Brenton Nuby (NCT) won by forfeit
140 – CJ Baker (NCT) pin Flammer, 3:51
145 - Lambert (NCT) dec. Allen, 3-1
152 - Eudy (CAL) won by forfeit
160 - Hutchenson (CAL) won by forfeit
171 - Ray (CAL) won by forfeit
189 - Greene (NCT) dec. Moon, 11-8
215 – double forfeit
285 – JJ Baker (NCT) pin Drapolski, 0:13

Nature Coast 36, Sebring 30
103 - Forand (NCT) won by forfeit
112 - Simonson (NCT) won by forfeit
119 - Cronin (NCT) won by forfeit
125 - Drummond (SEB) pin McLean, 1:32
130 - Richardson (NCT) pin Polatty, 1:36
135 - Lambert (NCT) pin Vuliano, 1:36
140 - Hunter (SEB) pin CJ Baker, 4:49
145 - no match
152 - Spiegel (SEB) won by forfeit
160 - Polatty (SEB) won by forfeit
171 - double forfeit
189 - double forfeit
215 - Crump (SEB) pin Greene, 5:45
285 – JJ Baker (NCT) won by forfeit

Satellite 42, Nature Coast 30
103 - Ubl (SAT) dec. Forand, 13-7
112 - Simonson (NCT) dec. Nichols, 11-1
119 - Cronin (NCT) tech. fall Rodriguez, 16-1
125 - McLean (NCT) pin Yelvington, 1:19
130 – Brenton Nuby (NCT) pin Chudkosky, 3:02
135 - Raymo (SAT) pin Richardson, 3:57
140 - Lambert (NCT) dec. Lambert, 4-1
145 – CJ Baker (NCT) pin Mason, 1:07
152 - Lee (SAT) won by forfeit
160 - Thornton (SAT) won by forfeit
171 - Hefner (SAT) won by forfeit
189 - Yelvington (SAT) dec. Greene, 15-11
215 - Walker (SAT) won by forfeit
285 - Lee (SAT) pin JJ Baker, 1:59

Nature Coast Tourney Results
WGT Name W L Pins
103 Forand, Tyler 2 2 1
112 Simonson, David 3 0 0
112 Henn, Matt 1 0 0
119 Cronin, Scott 3 1 0
125 McLean, Tyler 2 2 1
130 Richardson, Steven 3 0 2
130 Nuby, Branton 1 0 1
135 Lambert, Matt 2 0 2
135 Nuby, Branton 1 0 1
135 Richardson 0 1 0
140 Nuby, Branton 0 1 0
140 Baker, CJ 1 1 1
140 Lambert, Matt 1 0 0
145 Baker, CJ 1 0 1
145 Lambert, Matt 1 0 0
189 Greene, Rockheem 1 1 1
215 Greene, Rockheem 1 1 1
285 Baker, JJ 3 1 2
TOTALS 27 11 14

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