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The North Penn-Liberty Mounties scored a 53-24 NTL wrestling win over rival Wellsboro on Tuesday, January 4 to improve to 3-1 on the season.

The match started at 215 with Liberty’s George Valentine scoring a fall at 5:45 over Justice Harlan. Wellsboro’s Wyatt Gastrock won by forfeit at 285, then the Mounties proceeded to take the next 4 matches.

Brayden Pequignot won by forfeit at 106, Riley Oaks pinned Alec Magli in 1:40 at 113, Trinity Robinson scored a forfeit at 120, and Cale Wagner pinned Ezra Lawton in 1:55 at 126.

The Hornets won back-to-back pins at 132 and 138 by Silas Mickey and Will Gastrock before the Mounties’ Ryan Roupp won by pin-fall in 5:15 at 145 over Jacob Dean.

Wellsboro’s final win came at 152 by forfeit for Aden Tom, then the Mounties took the next 3 weights. At 160, Easton Pequignot pinned Evan Ingerick in 1:07, followed by a Gaven Sexauer pin of Aiden Jones in 28 seconds at 172, and in the final bout of the evening, Kohen Lehman won an 18-3 tech fall over Joe Brown.

Next up for the Mounties (3-1, 3-1 NTL) are this weekend’s Flynn Duals while Wellsboro (2-5, 1-3 NTL) hosts Lewisburg this Friday evening.