Halfway through their dual meet against Lake Forest, when the Milford High School wrestling team was down 18-9, it looked like it might be a tough fight to keep the Bucs' three-meet winning streak going. Then the pins started, and by the end of the night an 18-9 Spartan lead had turned into a 54-18 blowout for the Buccaneers, thanks to seven straight pins from the top of the lineup.
Quinn Abbott and Isaiah Fidderman opened the meet with back-to-back technical falls to put the Bucs up 10-0, but Brent Wingrove lost his match and cost the team a point for unsportsmanlike conduct, dropping the margin to 9-3. That quickly became 9-9 when Joe McIlvain had to forfeit due to a knee injury, and 18-9 when Colton Barr lost a 7-3 decision and Derek Chilicas, trying to nurse a lead in the third period of his match, let himself be flipped and pinned in a matter of seconds.
Then, just as quickly as thing had started to go south, it all turned around. Cat Lallier survived Nicole Dalious' comeback attempts to earn a 5-2 win, and from then on every single match ended in a Buccaneer pin. Brent McFarland, David Jordan, Alvontae Drummond, Anthony Bonville, Jordan Harris, Dustin Killinger and Chris Masten all pinned their opponents, at speeds ranging from Drummond's 1:17 to Harris' 4:51. When the smoke cleared, the Bucs had a 36-point victory and a 7-2 record.
The team travels to Middletown this weekend for the Canal Classic.
