Monroeville's Evans earns MVW at Anthony Wayne
Jan. 22—WHITEHOUSE — State-ranked Monroeville sophomore Brencyn Evans earned Most Valuable Wrestler honors on Saturday at the Anthony Wayne duals tournament.
The Eagles — ranked No. 5 in the team standings in the latest borofanohio.net rankings — finished 2-3 as a team while facing schools in higher divisions.
Monroeville beat Sylvania Northview (63-9) and Norwalk (42-41); then fell to Bellevue (47-30), Fremont Ross (39-33) and host Anthony Wayne (43-29).
Evans — ranked No. 8 at 157 pounds — finished 5-0 on the day with five victories via pin. No. 2-ranked (132) Hunter Vogus was also impressive with three pins, one technical fall and a forfeit to also finish 5-0.
Also for the Eagles, Landen Roeder, Peyton Barnhart and Ben Seitz each finished 4-1, while Ian Patchen was 3-1.
Monroeville will be among the area teams at the Divi. III duals hosted by St. Mary Central Catholic in Sandusky.
Meanwhile, Norwalk also went 2-3 at the tournament. The Truckers topped Berea Midpark (47-33) and Northview (60-17). Along with the one-point loss to Monroeville, Norwalk fell to Toledo St. John's (45-32) and Perrysburg (59-18).
Aldynn Metzger (106) went 5-0 with four pins and one major decision to pace the Truckers. Gavin Lepley (132) finished 3-2 with a pair of losses to state-ranked opponents, including a defending state champion from Div. I Perrysburg.
"We wrestled OK today," Norwalk head coach Erich Metzger said. "Some good some bad. Aldynn and Gavin really impressed me. We really need some of our veterans to step up and perform at the level they are capable of going into that back half of the season.
"All and all, it was a pretty good weekend for Norwalk wrestling."
