By Mike McGraw
Executive Director
GREENCASTLE
– If there is such a thing as a wrestling team peaking, Perry Meridian is sitting on the top of Mount Everest right now. Four days after a stunning sectional performance, the fifth-ranked Falcons breezed through the Greencastle Regional.
Breezed is an understatement. The Falcons blew through it like a tornado.
Perry Meridian started the evening Feb. 4 by demolishing highly regarded Avon, 44-13, in the team semifinals. The Falcons then faced Conference Indiana foe Bloomington South in the championship round. That test was set when Bloomington used a final-match pin to defeat Martinsville in its opening match of the evening.
The championship match was a wrestling clinic on the part of the Falcons. Consider these facts. Perry Meridian downed the Panthers 45-6. They won 12 of the 14 matches. The Falcons won 10 of their 12 victories by decision, pinning only two Bloomington wrestlers during the evening.
ere is the capper. Bloomington South not only scored a scant six team points, the Panthers only managed a TOTAL of 13 individual match points! Perry Meridian won six matches by shutout.
In the video players on this page are highlights from two of the matches. The first is Cory Hudgins’ overtime takedown of Bloomington South’s Terry Terrell at 160 pounds. The other is Jacob Tonte’s pin at 140, which ended the match.
Perry Meridian now advances to the eight-team state finals that will take place Feb. 28, the Saturday after the individual state finals. Thr Falcons will face No. 6 nemesis Bellmont in the quarterfinals at Center Grove.
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