Calvary Chapel Holds Off No. 2 Santa Ana in Wrestling

Don Garcia just needed to pick up four points. He grabbed two more for good measure.

Top-ranked Calvary Chapel got a pin in the heavyweight match to hold off second-ranked Santa Ana, 32-29, in nonleague wrestling Wednesday at Calvary Chapel.

The Eagles picked up the points in Garcia’s victory over Eddie Barrios at 1 minute 42 seconds.

“I didn’t tell him [Garcia] anything,” Calvary Chapel Coach John Azevedo said. “He knew what he had to do and he went out there and did it.”

Led by No. 1-ranked Tony Perez at 103 pounds, Santa Ana had little trouble in the lower and middle weights, winning the first eight matches.

“I was counting on winning a couple of those early matches, but it didn’t work out that way. After a while, it started to look pretty grim for us,” Azevedo said.

Calvary Chapel began to turn things around at 152 pounds, where Jay Quinonez defeated Santa Ana’s Rudy Rosell. The Eagles made it two victories with Dave Wall’s pin of Juan Perez at 1:54.

The Eagles would not lose another match.

Mike Bigrigg scored a technical fall at 189 pounds and Arsen Aleksanyan (171) and Josh Saul (215) produced pins, setting up the decisive match.

After the meet, Santa Ana Coach Scott Glabb looked as if his team had won.

“I can’t tell you how proud I am of these guys,” he said. “To get eight wins against Calvary Chapel in their own gym. Well, that will give us some real confidence going into Five Counties this weekend.”