The Janesville Craig Cougars Win Three Weights, Two With Repeat Winners, To Win Their Third Straight Big Eight Title in 2003 . Tony Ayala places 1^st, Diego Mireles places 2^nd and Sergio Mireles places 3^rd.

Sunday, February 9, 2003

Braden Radunzel and Justin Gutoski of Janesville Craig repeated as Big Eight Conference wrestling champions Saturday as the Cougars won their third straight conference title at Madison West High School.

Jeremy Harnack was the only other individual winner for Craig, which won the team title with 228 1/2 points. Official team results were not supplied to the competing schools, although it appeared Sun Prairie beat out Middleton in the battle for second.

Senior Jon Clark, a runner-up last season, was Sun Prairie's only champion, pinning Andrew Zeuske of Middleton in 3 minutes, 24 seconds. Kodey Feiner and Steve Butcher, conference champions last season, both finished second this year.

Mike Jackowski and Ryan Williamson each scored their second conference titles for Middleton. Madison Memorial's Tony Ayala captured his third conference title at 125 and teammate Jimmy Mack moved down from 160, where he finished second a year ago, to win his first title at 152.

Janesville Parker's Dan Jackson, a conference champion a year ago at 103, won at 112. Andy Kelley (119) was the lone Madison East champion, but the Purgolders -- in the hunt for the conference dual title before losing at Janesville Craig -- finished a disappointing sixth in the unofficial results.

Team scores:

Janesville Craig 228 1/2

Sun Prairie 168

Middleton 159 1/2

Janesville Parker 155 1/2

Beloit Memorial 132

Madison East 129

Madison La Follette 83

Madison Memorial 75 1/2

Madison West 32.

Championship matches\

103 pounds -- Clark, SP, pinned Zeuske, Mid, 3:24.

112 -- Jackson, JP, def Acker, Mid, 17-13.

119 -- Kelley, ME, def. Valery, BM, 10-1.

125 -- Ayala, MM, def. Feiner, SP, 6-3.

130 -- Harnack, JC, def. Diego Mireles, ME, 10-2.

135 -- Radunzel, JC, pinned Gigante, ME, 1:09.

140 -- Clendening, LAF, def. Blair, ME, 2-1 (OT).

145 -- Gutoski, JC, def. Stenberg, BM, 15-5.

152 -- Mack, MM, pinned Bakken, JC, 5:17.

160 -- Williamson, Mid, pinned Vogt, JC, 3:25.

171 -- Jackowski, Mid, won by technical fall over Loveland, JC, 15-0.

189 -- Jacobsen, BM, def. Schliem, JC,18-6.

215 -- Busfield, JP, pinned Klipp, Mid, 1:20.

Hwt. -- Vance, JP, def. Butcher, SP, 7-1.

Third-place matches\

103 pounds -- Livingston, JC, pinned Serrano, JP, 1:22.

112 -- S. Mireles, ME, Huschka, JC, 8-3.

119 -- M. Stephenson, Mid, def. Livingston, JC, 10-8.

125 -- Aguilar, BM, def. Carlson, ME, 9-4.

130 -- Steinhorst, MW, def. Schmidt, JP, 7-5.

135 -- Valery, BM, pinned Kubat, MM, 1:54.

140 -- Lauersdorf, SP, pinned O'Neill, JC, 5:04.

145 -- Wade, SP, def. Krueger, JP, 11-8.

152 -- Williams, ME, def. Hallmark, SP, 6-3.

160 -- Mayer, LAF, def. Kazmerzak, SP,14-2 .

171 -- Bethea, SP, def. John Jones, ME, 10-6.

189 -- J. Vance, JP, def. Edwards, SP, 15-4.

215 -- Shumaker, BM, pinned Johnson, LAF, 1:32.

Hwt. -- Reible, LAF, def. Dillner, JC, 1-0.