Rochester sports briefs: Zebras get 5 falls, knocks off Northwestern

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Wrestling

Rochester 54, Northwestern 24 (Tuesday): The Zebras got five five falls and two decisions in a road dual win over Northwestern Tuesday.

Brady Beck

Aaron Swango (126), Wade Shafer (152), Kaleb Shaffer (170), Brady Beck (220) and Marshall Fishback (HWT) won by fall. Greyson Gard (145) and Noah Swango (160) won by decision.

Ethan Holloway (113), Joey Spencer (120) and Eli Swango (195) won by forfeit.

RHS-Valley dual to be held in aux gym: The Rochester-Tippecanoe Valley wrestling dual scheduled for Jan. 13 will start at 6:30 p.m. in the Valley auxiliary gym.

Valley will host a boys basketball game against Whitko in the main gym at 7:45 p.m. that night.

IndianaMat.com recognizes 4 Zebras: The Rochester wrestling team is ranked No. 6 in this week’s IndianaMat.com Class 1A poll.

IndianaMat.com also ranked four Zebras in its rankings covering wrestlers that feed into the Fort Wayne semistate. Ethan Holloway is ranked No. 4 at 113, Alex Deming is No. 7 at 182, Brady Beck is No. 5 at 220, and Marshall Fishback is No. 7 at heavyweight.