Peck's Pin Lifts Taconic Over Mount Greylock
PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- At this point in the season, Taconic wrestling coach Jeremy Tetreault knows his team well enough -- and has seen enough of Mount Greylock -- to know what to expect in Tuesday's dual match.
But he could not have expected this.
"I didn't think it would come down to the heavyweight match and my guy needing a pin to win by a point," Tetrault said.
That is what happened, and Dalton Peck rose to the occasion.
Peck, a first-year wrestler at Taconic, earned a pin 2 minutes, 47 seconds into the 285-pound match to give his team a 40-39 win over the Mounties.
"[Peck] has improved a lot since the beginning of the year," Tetreault said. "He's light. He's really light. He only weighs like 205 pounds.
"But he's coming around where he's keeping his body away from big guys and doing what he has to do."
He did exactly what the team needed on Tuesday, capping a comeback win from a 33-22 deficit.
Down the stretch, Taconic got the points it needed from Austin Houghtaling (182) and Peck -- wrapped around a forfeit win at 195 -- to secure its second win of the season against Mount Greylock.
The victory kept Taconic firmly in the driver's seat for an undisputed Berkshire County title.
With the win, Tetreault's team completed a season sweep of Mount Greylock, which it beat, 39-36, in Williamstown last month, and remained the only unbeaten team in the county.
The Mounties jumped out to an early lead when Adam Cohen earned a pin at 113 to tie the match at 6-0, Robert Suter picked up a forfeit win, and Cam Honiker recorded a 59-second pin to give Mount Greylock an 18-6 lead.
The pivotal match came at 132, where Taconic's Zabion Powell recorded a takedown with 15 seconds left in the bout to wrap up a 13-1 win. The fourth point for the major decision ended up looming large in the end.
Mount Greylock conitnued to hold a narrow lead, which it extended to 11 points when Devin Pelletier earned a pin midway through the second period of the 170-pound bout.