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Havre High's Dominic Perkins, right, battles a Lewistown foe during Saturday's Eastern A dual in the HHS gymnasium. The Blue Ponies lost to the Eagles in their home debut, but they'll be right back at home this Friday and Saturday.
Zake Thomas, right, battles during Saturday's dual against Lewistown.
Kendall Pleninger battles Havre High's Dominic Perkins, right, battles a Lewistown foe during Saturday's Eastern A dual in the HHS gymnasium. The Blue Ponies lost to the Eagles in their home debut, but, they'll be right back at home this Friday and Saturday. For more photos, go to www.havredailynews.com.
Riley Pleninger Havre High's Dominic Perkins, right, battles a Lewistown foe during Saturday's Eastern A dual in the HHS gymnasium. The Blue Ponies lost to the Eagles in their home debut, but, they'll be right back at home this Friday and Saturday. For more photos, go to www.havredailynews.com.
Mick Chagnon gets the takedown Havre High's Dominic Perkins, right, battles a Lewistown foe during Saturday's Eastern A dual in the HHS gymnasium. The Blue Ponies lost to the Eagles in their home debut, but, they'll be right back at home this Friday and Saturday. For more photos, go to www.havredailynews.com.
The Havre High wrestling team was certainly fired up for its first home dual of the belated 2021 season. But, their opponent was equally hyped.
Saturday morning, Havre went head-to-head with Eastern A rival Lewistown for the first time this season, and while things were tight for much of the match, the Eagles would end up pulling away for a 41-27 win inside the HHS gymnasium.
And while the final team score turned out to be a bit lopsided in Lewistown's favor, the day was much closer than it looked.
Havre was open at 103, and the Ponies did fall behind 11-0 after the 113-pound match. From there, though, Lewistown was open at 120, and Blue Pony senior Mick Chagnon jump-started the Ponies with a move up to 126. Chagnon fought off an early near fall from Lewistown's Kason Olson, and eventually earned a pin in the second period to put Havre ahead 12-11 and stay unbeaten on the season.
"I think I was a little nervous because it was the first time wrestling at home," Chagnon said. "But I stayed composed. I stayed calm and eventually turned the match around."
The win also stemmed the tide for a time for Havre.
Dominic Perkins kept things going with a 7-0 decision at 132 pounds, before Lewistown star senior Cooper Birdwell answered with a third-period pin of Riley Pleninger. Pleninger fought Birdwell, who is headed to Oklahoma State next fall, hard for much of the match, and wrestled really well, but the fall did put the Eagles back in front at 17-15, and then Kendall Pleninger lost a hard-fought 3-1 decision at 145 in overtime which advanced the Eagles lead to 20-15.
HHS sophomore Kale VanCampen, who has been on a roll so far in 2021, did stop the Lewistown momentum for a time with a :25 pin at 160 pounds, but in the match of the dual, Havre's Orion Thivierge came up just short against Keaton Potter at 170 pounds. Thivierge fell behind 5-1 in the first period, but battled all the way back, and late in the third, was looking for a tying take down, but Potter was able to evade in the final seconds and hold on for an 8-6 decision which gave the Eagles a 29-21 lead, and with Havre being open at 205, it clinched the dual. The Ponies did get an exciting win from Zale Thomas at heavyweight, but the Eagles' lead was too much to overcome by then.
There were supposed to be three duals Saturday with both Havre and the Eagles taking on Hardin, but the Bulldogs couldn't make the trip because of COVID-19 issues, so the Ponies and Eagles put together as many exhibition matches as they could.
On those exhibitions, Havre got tons from Hunter Velk at 132, Maleigha Fuzesy at 126, Riley Pleninger at 138, Tristian Stygles at 138, Carson Harris at 113 and Randy Tommerup at 205.
Havre also gets to stay home for a time, too. The Ponies host Corvallis and Ronan this Friday at 2 p.m. and then welcome in Libby and Frenchtown Saturday morning.
Lewistown 41, Havre 27
103 - Jake Simas, L, wins by FFT; 113 - Damon McCord, L tech. fall Carson Harris, 15-0; 120 - Brayden Knowles, H won by FFT; 126 - Mick Chagnon, H pinned Kason Olson, 4:00; 132 - Dominic Perkins, H dec. Colton Picco, 7-0; 138 - Cooper Birdwell pinned Riley Pleninger, 5:59; 145 - Wyatt Elam, L dec. Kendall Pleninger, 3-1 in SVO; 152 - Ashton Grover, L pinned Wyatt Hansen, 5:59; 160 - Kale VanCampen, H, pinned Carson Nelson, :25; 170 - Keaton Potter, L: dec. Orion Thivierge, 8-6; 182 - Chase Farrar, L pinned Randy Tommerup, 2:56; 205 - Christian Wolf, L won by FFT; 285 - Zale Thomas, H pinned Carson Lotan, 5:38.
Exhibition Matches
132 - Hunter Velk won by 6-3 dec; 113 - Braydon Knoles pinned in :34; 126 - Maleigha Fuzesy dec. Brooklyn Nelson, 5-4; 145 - Tristian Stygles lost dec. 12-4; 152 - Mason Wilting pinned in :49; 285 - Zale Thomas pinned in :41; 132 - Hunter Velk lost tech. fall; 138 - Kendall Pleninger pinned in 3:34; 138 - Riley Pleninger pinned in :31; 138 - Jacob Kunz pinned in 1:06; 138 - Tristian Stygles won by pin in 1:11; 152 - Clara Laird pinned in :34; 170 - Kale VanCampen pinned in 1:28; 113- Carson Harris won by pin in 1:14; 205 - Randy Tommer won by pin in 1:08.
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