Eagles wrestling splits with MMA, Tolton

The SoBoCo Eagles won their second dual meet of the season on Thursday night at the SoBoCo Middle School, defeating MMA 45-30. The Eagles dropped their second match of the night to Father Tolton, falling 42-36.

It was a “pin-or-be-pinned” evening as the Eagles showed rapid improvement over their opening matches of the season, but still finding themselves in positions which, due to their inexperience, got them on their back.

Tyler Lutz won both of his matches for the Eagles, pinning his tough MMA opponent with 1-second left in the third period. It was a back-and-forth match which Lutz led 7-4 going into the final two minutes. Lutz drilled his Trailblazers opponent, getting the pin in dominating fashion in 1:19 of the first period.

Blake Schmidt at 132-lbs for the Eagles remained unbeaten with a 2nd period pin and a forfeit.

See the complete individual results in Wednesday’s Journal.

The Eagles will participate in this weekend’s Moberly Duals Tournament today and Saturday.

• The SoBoCo boys basketball team will put their unbeaten streak on the line as the California Pintos will visit tonight. The JV game starts at 6 p.m with the varsity game following.

• There is no word yet on how the Tri-County Conference will re-align after Warsaw leaves the conference next year. Boonville High School has been invited to join, however, Versailles has been discussing leaving the conference.

One school which won’t be among contenders to participate will be the Father Tolton Trailblazers. Along with Helias High, it was announced this week that Tolton and the Crusaders will be joining the Archdiocesan Athletic Association. The 11 other members of the conference are St. Louis-area schools.