By Staff
Two Niles wrestlers placed high enough at Saturday's Division 2 Individual District Tournament at Vicksburg to advance to next Saturday's Regional Tournament at Middleville Thornapple-Kellogg.
James Edwards finished second at 189 pounds, suffering a 19-4 technical fall to Matt Craig of Mattawan in the championship match.
Josh Henry took third place at 171 pounds, beating Andrew Reeder of Middleville 6-2 in the consolation round.
Championship round
103: Justin Agens (Lakeshore) beat R.J. Morgan (Hastings) 11-7; 112: Ryan Lucas (Three Rivers) beat Cameron Nevins (Three Rivers) 4-1; 119: Dalton Smith (Plainwell) beat Austin Lumbard (Gull Lake) 8-7; 125: Mike McKeown (Miiddleville) beat John Wright (Vicksburg) 20-4 (technical fall); 130: Chad Ferguson (Hastings) beat Clayton Butcher (Allegan) 12-4; 135: Ryan Dennis (Plainwell) beat Josh Bowerman (Middleville) 12-9; 140: Ryan Fletke (Middleville beat Ryan Lewis (Plainwell) 12-0; 145: Ryan Kolberg (Lakeshore) pinned Matt Lipstraw (Hastings) 1:03; 152: Scott Redman (Hastings) pinned Kalani Garber (Middleville) 5:42; 160: Dan Craig (Allegan) beat Dayne Fletke (Middleville) 11-3; 171: Eric Simaz (Allegan) pinned Matt Martin (Sturgis) 3:33; 189 Troy Thorington (Wayland) beat Dan Blair (Hastings) 11-6; 215: Matt Craig (Mattawan) beat James Edwards (Niles) 19-4; 275: Jake Haynes (Vicksburg) beat Domininck Busto (Allegan) 7-4.
Consolation round
103: Rusty Burgdorf (Hastings) beat Kyle Hemmermeister (Lakeshore) 9-6; 112: Jeffrey Steele (Plainwell) beat Tom Winright (Middleville) 13-5; 119: Justin Lewis (Middleville) 20-3 (technical fall); 125: Cameron Simaz (Allegan) beat Jeff Allen (Hastings) 6-0; 130: Nathan Broehm (Lakeshore) pinned Josh West (Gull Lake) 3:45; 135: Jay Pietras (Mattawan) beat Tom Rowse (Hastings) 8-1; 140: Chad Newman (Lakeshore) beat David Moore (Allegan) 7-5; 145: Aaron Gastananada (Allegan) beat Brian Cuneo (Middleville) 5-3; 152: Matt Wittmann (Lakeshore) beat Tagg Petersen (Vicksburg) 11-3; 160: Ben Ybema (Middleville) beat Justin Perry (Sturgis) 9-6; 171: Josh Henry (Niles) beat Andrew Reeder (Middleville) 6-2; 189: Matt Arend (St. Joe) beat Trevor Wright (Allegan) by injury default; 215: Nick Grenke (St. Joe) beat Chris Wooster (Sturgis) 10-4; 275: Dusty Shugars (Three Rivers) beat Matt Porter (Middleville) 5-4