Jefferson Wrestling

J-Hawks fall to Linn-Mar, smash East

Linn-Mar ran off five straight wins, including three pins, en route to a 46-18 pasting of Jefferson Thursday (Dec. 9) in a Mississippi Valley Conference wrestling meet.

Both teams also swamped Waterloo East. Linn-Mar whipped the Trojans, 75-6.  Jefferson won, 72-3.  East only had four wrestlers.

Spencer Clabough’s 6-5 overtime win over Jefferson’s Michael Smith at 135 pounds got Linn-Mar off to a 3-0 start.  The Lions led 6-3 when they began their onslaught.

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Briggs begins 28th year with J-Hawk matmen

Dick Briggs likes to jump out of airplanes. He also likes to wrestle with the guys on his team at Jefferson.

“Not as much as I used, but I do,” he said. “It takes longer to recover, you know? Instead of being like 10 minutes, it takes like a couple of weeks now.”

Briggs is 54 years old now. He has to be more careful, at least on the mat. He has no plans to quit sky-diving and probably will make his 2,000th jump next year.

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J-Hawks pin 2 MVC foes

IOWA CITY — P.J. Rashad, Bruce Lukasko and Conner Herman pinned Jefferson to victory Thursday night (Dec. 2) in Mississippi Valley Conference dual wrestling meets.

Jefferson topped Cedar Falls, 42-34, and squeezed by Iowa City High, 37-36, on criteria. Cedar Falls topped City High, 40-30.

Rashad (119), Lukasko (125) and Herman (215) had two pins apiece in the double-dual.

Blake Carson (130) and Riley Welsh (heavyweight) both collected a pin and a decision for the J-Hawks.

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