Wrestlers go to 14-3 with flurry of dual wins over long weekend

Cardinal wrestlers were turning them over early and often in a busy weekend where they went 7-2 in team dual meets.

Like many teams this time of year, Coach Don Dight’s wrestlers are battling injuries at one of the busiest times of the season. Nonetheless, what might have been a 9-0 weekend with a City and Capital Duals championships still resulted in a very respectable 7-2 outcome and a pair of runner up finishes.

“I am very pleased with the way we wrestled considering we had to replace three wrestlers in our starting lineup.” said Ireton’s head coach. “Luis Hidalgo and Cullen Pointen, for example, gave us some strong matches and wrestled well when called upon to step into the starting lineup.”

The Cardinals opened the weekend with the Alexandria City Duals at Episcopal High School. While Ireton upended the host team and TC Williams, the Saints of St Stephens edged the redbirds for the title. The final tally looked this way:

Cardinals 40 TC Williams 37

Cardinals 51 Episcopal 18

Cardinals 36 SSSAS 45

At the Capital Duals Saturday at St Johns, the Cardinals continued to enjoy success in advancing to the championships with Baltimore’s Boys Latin.

Ireton 54 Sidwell Friends 27

Ireton 42 Bullis 39

Ireton 45 St. Mary’s Ryken 33

Ireton 33 Boys’ Latin 42

Capital Dual

Final Team Standings

Boy’s Latin (MD)4-0 – Team Champion

Bishop Ireton(VA) 3-1

St. Mary’s Ryken(MD) 2-2

St. John’s (DC) 3-1

Bullis (MD) 2-2

St. Anselm’s (DC)1-3

Sidwell Friends(DC) 2-2

Randolph Macon (VA)

Blue Ridge (VA)

Among the individual wrestlers that won all four matches for the Cardinals on Saturday were 138- Nick Womack, 182- Andrew Bladen, and at 220- Andrew Lutterloh. Lutterloh’s wins pushed his record on the year to 29-1 and helped earn him honors as the Athlete-of-the-Month from the Alexandria Sportsman’s Club.

The weary grapplers did have enough in the tank to finish the long weekend with a trip to Leonardtown where they again edged St Mary’s Ryken 45-33 but also drilled arch rival Bishop O’Connell 63-15 in the front half of the WCAC triangular meet. Make your plans to attend senior night, when the Cardinals entertain Gonzaga at 5pm and follow with DeMatha in the back end of the triangular.