Sometimes when you are good, it’s hard to find teams that want to meet up in a dual.
That has been the life for Allen in recent years. Boys assistant coach Allan Hart said that a lot of talk it made to try to get some work in during the middle of the week.
There were times a team says they can’t because of a conflict on specific day and when the schedule comes out, there is no conflict on the date that Allen brought up.
On Tuesday, Nov. 25, the Eagles got a dual in with teams coming from Houston and Lubbock.
Allen beat Lubbock-Cooper, 71-7 and then defeated The Woodlands College Park, 56-17, in a battle the top two teams in Class 6A.
“The fact that those guys want to come up and scrap, I gotta tip my hats off to them,” Hart said.
In the win against College Park, Allen won 11 of the 14 matches. Neither Izayiah Chavez (No. 1 at 120) nor Carter Nekvapil wrestled for the Eagles for the second straight event.
Allen won three top-10 duals and had 10 ranked wrestlers win.
- No. 1 Oliver Pulliam by pin at 120 pounds — though he’s No. 1 at 113
- No. 4 Joshua Banks (126) beat No. 6 Victor Matos by a 17-3 major decision; Matos was ranked at 120.
- No. 1 Cayden Campbell (132) beat Mathew Schmitt by a pin in 42 seconds
- No. 1 Cayden Rios (132) got a 13-0 major decision against No. 5 Mason Milsaps — ranked at 138 pounds
- No. 2 Jair Jackson-Bey (144) won 8-4 against No. 3 Luca Rios
- No. 2 Shiloh Jackson-Bey (157) pinned Jonathan Alvarez in 1:06. Jackson-Bey is ranked at 150.
- No. 1 Steel Meyers won by forfeit
- No. 20 Anthony Bowers won 8-2 against Nicholas Fisher
- No. 1 Aiden “Cash” Cooley won by pin in 11 seconds
- No. 11 Faris Price won by forfeit
College Park had wins from three ranked wrestlers. No. 3 Nick Payne (106) won by a pin in 1:23, while Ethan Sanchez (No. 5 at 190, won by a pin in 1:11
Logan Milsaps, No. 3 at 150, posted a 16-1 tech fall over Cohen Olsen.
Allen 71, Lubbock-Cooper 7
The Eagles beat the Pirates, winning 12 of the 14 matches, to post a football-like score you’d expect from a Power 4 team vs. Name a Direction and Random State team.
Pulliam, Brooks, Campbell, Rios, Olsen, Jair Jackson-Bey, Sebasthian Hernandez (113), Connor Brown (175) and Emilio Perez (106) won by pins for the Eagles. Meyers won by a tech fall, while Cooley and Price won by forfeits.
This was the first match of the year for Campbell, who now sports a sleeve tattoo that took 13 hours to complete. And yes, he got it all done in the same day.
Instead of talking about that work, he talked about getting back on the mat.
College Park 45, Lubbock-Cooper 23
The Cavalier posted wins by a variety of ways — and almost every way you can — in the first dual of the day. Payne and Matos won by pins; Maxwell Marino (113), the Milsaps brothers and Luca Rios won by tech falls. Nicholas Fisher won by a major decision. Sanchez won by a decision. Raydel Guzman won by a forfeit.
Neither team had a 285-pounder.
Keegan Jones (157) had two wins for the Pirates. Against College Park, he beat Jonathan Alvarez by a 16-0 tech fall. He won 4-1 against John Roberts of Allen.
Mariano Villalobos (120), Isaiah Hough (126) and Ezekiel Hernandez (165) all had wins for Lubbock-Cooper vs. College Park.
Ryder Hatton, ranked No. 1 at 285 in Class 5A, did not wrestle for L-C.
