Two years removed from a Peninsula Athletic League Ocean Division dual meet championship, the El Camino Colts are now making headway in the PAL’s upper division.
Keanu Perez
The Colts (3-0 PAL Bay) improved to 3-0 on the PAL Bay Division boys’ wrestling dual meet docket with wins on back-to-back nights. With a 60-15 win Tuesday night at Hillsdale (1-2), El Camino has now swept all three San Mateo-based schools. Monday night, the Colts earned a 57-27 home win over San Mateo.
“We had a back-to-back,” El Camino head coach Japheth Aquino said. “It was kind of rough.”
Last week, the Colts claimed a 48-31 win over Aragon in the Bay Division opener.
San Mateo (0-2) made it interesting Monday. Despite forfeiting the first two matches of the night, the Bearcats won four straight matches from the 128-pound to the 146-pound divisions to take a 19-17 lead. That’s when middleweight Keanu Perez stepped onto the mat to swing the momentum of the match with a comeback thriller against Calvin Hutchison.
“I call my middleweights the bleeding stoppers,” Aquino said. “So, if we’re bleeding, I want them to stop the bleeding.”
Perez did just that, but had to overcome a 2-point deficit in the third period with a takedown to earn the 13-12 decision, pushing El Camino ahead 20-19 on the team scorecard.
The Colts went on to run the table from there, with James Newton-Busalacci earning the pin at 159, Anthony Cierra earning the pin at 167, and Cody Fulgencio (177), Lest Palacios (192s), Ethan Langi (217) and Davian Martinez-Bejarano (287) winning via forfeit.
Elias Selianitis (108) and Aiden San-Felipe (115) won the first two matches via forfeit for El Camino, and Sage Gon followed with a win via tech fall at 122.
San Mateo earned wins from Dylan Nagaya via decision at 128s, Liam Frandzel via major decision at 134s, Luis Gonzalez Molinero via tech fall at 140s, and Soren Voss via pin at 146s to give the Bearcats the 19-17 lead.
Tuesday, El Camino led wire to wire, with Selianitis, San-Felipe and Gon tallying consecutive pins.
Chase Alandt earned Hillsdale’s first win with a 5-0 decision at 134. Rouri White (146) and Troy Roser (192) won via pin for the Fighting Knights.
El Camino earned wins from Rodney Corpus (140) via pin, Perez (152) via pin, Newton-Busalacci (159) via major decision, Cierra (167) via 6-5 decision over Alex Mazariego, along with forfeit wins from Kaeyo Nadonza (128), Langi (217), and Martinez-Bejarano.
San Mateo (1-1 PAL Bay) evened up its PAL Bay Division girls’ wrestling dual meet record Monday night with a 60-13 win at El Camino (1-1). Mariah Lejender earned a pin at 120 for the Bearcats.
Carlmont (2-0 PAL Bay) stayed even with El Camino atop the PAL Bay boys’ wrestling standings Monday with a 58-18 home win over Sequoia (0-2). Freshman Kyler Golightly earned the pin at 120s for the Scots.
The Lady Scots (2-0) also won their second straight with a 30-27 victory over Sequoia (0-2).
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