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The Warriors, 4-1 in the Central Lakes Conference, have hopes of sharing the conference title if not winning it outright thanks to a Little Falls Flyers upset over St. Cloud Tech Thursday.
To make those dreams reality, the Warriors need to beat all the remaining conference opponents on their schedule.
First up was the Sartell Sabres at the Brainerd High School.
One down. Three to go.
The Warriors flattened the Sabres 72-6. Three straight pins from seniors Greg Strand (145 pounds), Mike Wachsmuth (152) and Adam Hahnert (160) to seal the decision.
The Warriors finished with seven pins, four forfeits and two decisions in their most dominating performance of the season.
"Our goal going into the match wasn't about winning or losing against Sartell, it was about trying to improve," said Brainerd coach Bob Brakke. "We wanted our kids to keep working on their stuff and keep pushing the whole match.
The stat: The Warriors had seven pins.
Next: at St. Croix Falls Invitational, Saturday
Strand's pin came in 3:43 after the senior built a 5-0 lead. The win moved his season record to 16-8.
"I knew he was a ninth-grader so I just wanted to go hard and get as many takedowns as I could," said Strand, who bumped up from 140 to 145. "I wanted to go as aggressive as I could and bring it too him. I wanted to hammer down on his head as hard as I could. Just try to bring him down. Just try to get him scared because we had that edge on them."
Wachsmuth pinned his opponent at 3:10 followed by Hahnert's pin at 3:40. Nick Loreno (112) recorded a pin in 3:32. Tom Zelinske's (125) pin happened at 1:43 and Nate Rubin (130) pinned TJ Stang at the 3:41 mark. Grant Jaeche (189) ended the pinfest at 2:37.
"Obviously, Sartell has a lot of holes, but you always want to beat somebody as much as you can," said Strand. "That looks good later around section time.
"Next week we have Tech and that's a huge match for us. We should have beat Tech at the Kiffmeyer Duals (Jan. 10) but we ended up losing at the end. We were up by 20 and they came back, but I know we can beat them. That's going to be our biggest match."
The last time Brainerd won or tied for the conference title was 1994-95 when it tied with St. Cloud Tech and Rocori. If Brainerd continues its winning ways with a victory over the Tech Tigers Jan. 22 it could grab a share of the conference title with Rocori. Should Brainerd beat Tech and Tech beat Rocori Feb. 10, Brainerd would win the conference outright.
Brainerd 72, Sartell 6
103 -- Tyler Jensen (B) dec. Travis Lewellyn 8-5
112 -- Nick Loreno (B) pinned Jeff Stang 3:32
119 -- Jake Patnode (B) forfeit
125 -- Tom Zelinske (B) pinned Erick Freihammer 3:41
130 -- Nate Rubin (B) pinned TJ Stang 1:43
135 -- Kyle Dukowitz (B) dec. Andrew Demuth 11-5
140 -- Mitch Yager (B) forfeit
145 -- Greg Strand (B) pinned Christopher Yasgar 3:43
152 -- Mike Wachsmuth (B) pinned John Kelly 3:10
160 -- Adam Hahnert (B) pinned Patrick Hallerman 3:40
171 -- Steven Olson (S) pinned Brett Abrahamson 2:29
189 -- Grant Jaeche (B) pinned Stephan Herold 2:37
215 -- Kyle Wilshusen (B) forfeit
Hwt -- Ryan McKay (B) forfeit
Conference -- B 4-1, S 0-4. Overall -- B 8-5, S 0-7. Next meet -- Brainerd at St. Croix Falls Invitational Saturday.
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