Nevada Journal sports round-up: Kaden Weber wins HOIC wrestling title, Cub boys give R-S a scare
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The Nevada boys wrestling team produced a Heart of Iowa Conference champion at the conference meet in Perry Friday.
Nevada took sixth out of eight teams with 77 points. West Marshall won with a score of 257.5.
The Cub boys also dropped three duals in a quadrangular Jan. 17 at Nevada, falling to Ogden (57-17), Perry (39-24) and South Hamilton (36-30).
The Nevada girls wrestling team placed sixth out of 22 teams at the Colfax-Mingo Girls Tournament with an even 100 points Saturday. Osage easily won the tournament with 244 points.
The Cub girls also had seven wrestlers place in the top three at the Panorama Girls Scramble in Panora Jan. 16.
The Nevada boys basketball team gave Class 2A No. 4 Roland-Story a big scare Jan. 17 in Story City. But the Cubs fell just short of upsetting the Norsemen in their bid to move into a first-place tie in the Heart of Iowa Conference.
The Cub boys dropped an 85-80 thriller in falling to 9-4 overall and 7-2 in the HOIC.
The Nevada girls also put up a good fight in a losing effort against Roland-Story. The Cubs suffered a 50-39 loss as they went to 6-8 overall and 5-4 in the HOIC.
The Colo-NESCO boys basketball team picked up two victories during the week. The Royals demolished Meskwaki by a 90-10 score Jan. 17 in Colo and they edged North Tama in a 56-54 thriller Friday at Traer to run their winning streak to four and improve to 8-7 overall and 5-4 in the Iowa Star Conference South Division.
The Colo-NESCO girls basketball team picked up its second victory of the season with a 54-42 victory over Meskwaki. The Royal girls suffered a 46-23 loss at North Tama in going to 2-12 overall and 2-8 in the ISC South.
Here is what we learned from this week's Nevada Journal-area high school sports competition.
Kaden Weber claims HOIC boys wrestling title at 113 for Nevada
Kaden Weber repeated as a HOIC champion for the Nevada boys wrestling team Friday.
Weber, ranked No. 2 in 2A by IAwrestle.com, went 3-0 during the tournament to remain perfect on the season at 25-0. All three of his victories came by fall.
Weber won his quarterfinal match over Prairie City-Monroe's Charlie Sitzmann in 1:27 and he took down West Marshall's Landin Eggers in 2:57 during the semifinals. In the championship match Weber disposed of Perry's Thad Stewart in 1:31.
Six other wrestlers placed for Nevada during the tournament.
Jaden Grimm (126) and Payton Mosinski (170) both placed third.
After losing to Wets Marshall's Kinnick Greers in the quarterfinals, Grimm received a bye, pinned Saydel's Nathan Bailey in 1:05 during the consolation semifinals and defeated Greene County's Conner Crew by sudden victory, 4-2, in the third-place match. Mosinski lost to PCM's Griffin Olson by a 6-5 decision in the semifinals and received three byes during the tournament.
Carson Reed took fourth at 195 with a 1-2 record, defeating West Marshall's Wesley Thompson by fall in 1:23 during the consolation semifinals. Isaac Williams (145) and Nate Anderson (285) both placed fifth, with Williams going 1-2 with a fall over Perry's Tristyn Steil in 3:14 during the fifth-place match and Anderson going 0-2 with two byes.
Nicholas Lauritzen came in sixth at 220 with a 1-3 record. Lauritzen pinned Saydel's Cooper Hanasz in 27 seconds during the consolation first round.
In its dual with South Hamilton Jan. 17 Nevada recorded three pins and picked up two wins by forfeit. Weber moved up to 120 and stuck the Hawks' Holden Klein in 1:37, Mosinski pinned Johnathan O'neil in 3:11 at 160, Reed took down Kevin Gonzalez in 2:36 at 195 and Grimm and Anderson each received a forfeit.
The Cubs scored three falls and received one forfeit against Perry. Weber pinned Stewart in 1:53 at 113, Mosinski downed Alexander Cooper in 1:59 at 170, Anderson beat Jesse Rodriguez in 1:27 and Grimm picked up the forfeit.
Nevada recorded one pin and two forfeits against Ogden. The Cubs lost one team point due to a violation for throwing headgear.
Weber picked up the fall over Ogden's Caleb Wisecup in 4:30 at 113. Caiden Woten (182) and Reed received the forfeits.
McKenzie Arends places first twice for Nevada girls
McKenzie Arends, the No. 5 girls wrestler at 190, claimed a championship at Colfax and also took first at the Panorama Girls Scramble for the Nevada girls wrestling team.
Arends went 4-0 at Colfax to improve to 30-0 on the season. She pinned Ankeny's Madeline Seeber in 1:44, Ames' Caroline Orr in 1:53 and Raccoon River-Northwest's Aleah Johnson in 2:16 to reach the finals, where she edged Iowa Valley's Breanna Peach by a 4-0 decision.
At Panora Arends received a bye then pinned Colfax-Mingo's Kaydence Andersen in 23 seconds and I-35's Ciera Hutton-Spieker in 3:51.
Four other Nevada girls placed at Colfax and six others placed at Panora.
At Colfax Ashlyn Leslie placed second at 110, Gracie Leslie third at 130, Miah Huff fourth at 105 and Haley Jones eighth at 170.
Ashlyn went 3-1, pinning Raccoon River-Northwest's Kelsey Greenslade in 57 seconds, Ankeny's Kira Malloy in 1:07 and WACO's Rylee Rice in 48 seconds before losing by fall to Osage's Jalynn Goodale by fall in the finals. Gracie stuck BGM's Halina Hershey in 4:20 and Osage's Jazzmine Olsen in 1:48 before losing to Pella's Jasey Olson by a 5-3 decision in the semifinals, but she came back to down BGM's Kyla Andrew by fall in 3:12 during the third-place match.
Huff received two byes and suffered two losses by fall. Jones went 1-2 with a win by fall over Ankeny's Maddy Dietz in 2:43 during the second round.
At Panora Mia Reichart placed second at 135 and Dakota Hastings (125), Gracie Leslie, Kennedy Long (135), Graci Schiller (145), Krystal Rickman (155) each came in third.
Reichart was 1-1 with a fall over Ballard's Liberty Boettger in 2:31, Hastings finished 2-1 with a 5-3 victory over Pleasantville's Brooke Smith and a win by fall over Panorama's Jacie Baker in 3:30 and Gracie Leslie went 3-1 with three pins. Long was 1-1 with a pin over Colfax-Mingo's Lillie Jones in 1:25 during the third-place match, Schiller finished 3-1 with three pins and Rickman was 2-1 with a pair of falls.
Nevada boys push No. 4 Norsemen to the limit
The Nevada boys basketball team came to play against Roland-Story Jan. 17.
After getting thumped in their first meeting with the Norsemen by a 79-56 score, the Cubs shot out to a 12-6 Tuesday. Roland-Story countered with a big run in the second quarter, but Nevada hung tough, only trailing 40-36 at the break. It looked as if Roland-Story was going to break the game open after its big run early in the fourth quarter, but Nevada refused to go away.
The Cubs cut the Norse lead from 13 down to five in the final seconds and that turned out to be their final margin of defeat.
"The key for us was sticking to the game plan," Nevada coach Tyler Struck said. "We obviously wanted to know where (Isaiah) Naylor and Jonovan (Wilkinson) were at all times and I thought we did a really good job with that. They had other guys make plays. But I give our guys a lot of credit because we kept answering the bell."
Nevada shot 45.5% from the field, made 12 of 31 3-pointers and 8 of 9 free throws. The Cubs lost the rebounding battle by a 37-31 margin, allowed the Norsemen to shoot 49.3% from the field and both teams had nine turnovers.
Jacob Khounsourath scored a game-high 26 points and added eight assists, five rebounds, two steals and one block for Nevada in a losing effort.
"Talking about guys that are special, Jacob showed it tonight," Struck said. "The first game (against Roland-Story) he settled for 3s and didn't want to get into the lane tonight, but he did that (attacked the lane) a ton tonight."
Alec White added 19 points and seven rebounds off the bench.
"Alec has had a rough year battling some injuries," Struck said. "Luckily tonight that didn't bother him at all. It was huge to have him back making plays."
Carson Rhodes chipped in 12 points, seven rebounds and one block, Easton Gray 9 points, Kyle Kingsbury 6 points and four rebounds and John Nelson 5 points and four boards. Wilkinson had 19 points and six rebounds, Naylor 15 points, Luke Patton 15 points, nine rebounds and five assists and Boaz Clark 14 points and five assists for Roland-Story.
Fast start doesn't hold up for Cub girls
The Nevada girls basketball team was unable to overcome an 18-0 Roland-Story run in the second quarter Jan. 17.
The Cub girls raced out to a 17-9 to start the game. Then the Norse went on their tear and Nevada couldn't recover.
"We got a little bit out of who we are," Nevada head coach Jordan Bentley said. "We just rushed some shots in that sequence. We don't want to play at that pace. We've got to know when to hit the breaks and keep doing what we're going and get good shots."
Nevada did hang around in the fourth quarter. The Cubs pulled within eight on a Reagan Davis basket in the final two minutes, but they couldn't make up any more ground.
"We haven't played a lot of man-to-main, but we held them to a five-point fourth quarter," Bentley said. "We kept hanging around and gave ourselves opportunities. We did a good job of staying in the game."
The Cub girls only shot 27.1% from the field and they had 19 turnovers. They held Roland-Story to 38.3% shooting, but gave up seven 3-pointers.
Emma Strottman had 10 points and three rebounds for Nevada. Isabelle Nelson added 4 points and 12 boards, Bridget Cahill 7 points, Avery Hinson and Cinamon Hazlitt 6 points apiece, Davis 4 points and three boards and Dakota Hendricks 2 points.
Colo-NESCO boys get exciting win
The Colo-NESCO boys won a thriller over North Tama Friday.
The Royals rallied from a 28-23 halftime deficit to get the win. They outscored the Redhawks 20-17 in the fourth quarter to just do enough to pull off the victory.
Colo-NESCO shot 47.7% from the field in the win. The Royals made 7 of 18 3-pointers and 7 of 14 free throws.
Gannon Short stepped up with 17 points and four rebounds for Colo-NESCO in the win. Lucas Frohwein added 14 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, Spence Hansen 8 points and five rebounds, Drew Banks 7 points and three assists, Mark Bower 6 points and three rebounds and Nathan McFarland 4 points.
The Royals built a colossal 54-4 lead at the half and coasted to victory Jan. 17 against Meskwaki. They shot 57.4% from the field and had 22 offensive rebounds and 24 steals.
Frohwein finished with 22 points, nine rebounds and four steals against the Warriors. Short had 10 points and four steals, Jack Angell 10 points and four assists, Spencer Hansen 8 points, Breckin Clatt seven steals and five assists, McFarland 8 points, Bower 7 points and Brady Handsaker 6 points and four rebounds.
Colo-NESCO girls top Meskwaki for second victory
The Colo-NESCO girls basketball team used a big second quarter to earn its victory over Meskwaki Jan. 17.
The Royals outscored the Warriors 18-4 in the second quarter to build a 33-18 halftime lead. They went up by 20 points after three quarters and cruised to victory.
Colo-NESCO outshot Meskwaki 47.8% to 28.6% from the field. The Royals were an impressive 7 of 11 from 3-point range and they held a 31-25 rebounding advantage, which helped them overcome 29 turnovers.
Gemma Bower had 13 points and five assists off the bench and Jessica Duran added 13 points, three assists and three steals for the Royal girls. Callie Kohlwes tacked on 8 points seven rebounds and five assists, Abigail Hostetler 5 points and seven boards, Jasmine Johannes 5 points and Abigail Kettwig 2 points and seven rebounds.
The Royals hung with North Tama for a half during Friday's loss. They only trailed 18-14 at the break, but the Redhawks went on a 28-9 run over the final two quarters.
Bower had 7 points and three steals, Sydney Ingle 5 points, 7 rebounds and four assists and Duran and Hannah Matteson 4 points apiece in the loss.
This article originally appeared on Ames Tribune: Nevada's Kaden Weber wins HOIC wrestling title at 113 pounds
