10:00 AM, Jan. 27, 2012
| HURRICANE - The surest way to earn a team win in wrestling is simple - score pins.
The Canyon View Falcons did just that Thursday night in Hurricane, registering six pins to the Tigers' three as part of a 42-31 win.
The night started with Hurricane forcing the first downed shoulder when 152-pounder Zach Prince worked a second-round pin over Dallin Tripp. Prince put the Tigers up 6-0, but the Falcons responded by tallying three pins in a row after that.
Eli Hanson (160 pounds), Alvino Baldivino (170) and Vince Lopez (182), who made his varsity debut, gave their team an 18-6 lead after their respective three counts. The early pins gave the Falcons enough wiggle space to eke out the win. Ten matches remained after the Falcons jumped out to the 12-point lead. Hurricane won six of them, but the Falcons scored three more pins in those final 10 bouts to come away victorious.
Canyon View coach Dallas Lowry wouldn't dish out compliments about one Falcons' wrestler when asked to talk about the win.
"I can't really single one kid out, I think they all wrestled great," Lowry said. "I can't say that one kid wrestled any tougher than the others."
Hurricane's Daniel Bulloch and Brian Scott leveled the score at 18 with pins for the home team, but the Tigers only scored one more pin the rest of the way.
Hurricane coach Kerry Prince pointed out that the Tigers won half of the matches, but they just didn't get enough of the overpowering variety.
"We won seven of the 14 weights, we just didn't pin enough," Prince said. "That's how duals go sometimes."
The dual was not decided until the last match when Canyon View's Cody Miller and Hurricane's Tyler Stout faced off at 145 pounds. Miller got out to a 2-0 lead after the first round, then built his slight advantage to 4-0 after two rounds. Stout scored a couple of points, but Miller sealed the win for his team with a pin with only eight seconds remaining on the third-round clock. Miller used an unfavorable incident to inspire his performance.
"It was good, first round, he was going strong," Miller said about his opponent. "I got poked in the eye, and I got my tooth knocked back in again. I'm gonna have to go to the dentist. It made me a little bit angry. I think it helped me wrestle. It got me a little more fired up."
Coach Lowry sold his wrestlers the idea that winning at Hurricane was for the taking.
"I told them they've earned this right," Lowry said. "I told them we'd have the conditioning edge."
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