Walker Valley’s Lawrence Cotton, right, and Soddy-Daisy’s Gage Richmond wrestle in December at Walker Valley.Securing its second 20-win season in school history, the Walker Valley wrestling team manhandled Hixson on Tuesday. The Mustangs’ 48-17 victory over the host Wildcats made them 20-3 for 2012-13.
“We had a guy out, but this is probably as close as we have come this season to having our lineup like we want it for the postseason,” Walker Valley coach Alan Morris said.
While Micah Langford returned to the lineup at 160 pounds, the Mustangs are without 195-pound Billy Raulston for the next week or so with a shoulder injury.
Walker Valley, ranked 11th in the latest Tennessee prep coaches’ poll, made an argument for promotion by winning 10 of the 14 bouts and earning bonus points in seven.
Leading the charge with the match’s quickest pin was 220-pound Zach Miller. Recently returned from the U.S. Army football combine for juniors in San Antonio, he took just 18 seconds to stick Anthony Kring. Miller, who rushed for more than 400 yards in one game this past fall for Polk County, wrestles for the Mustangs as part of the schools’ co-op program.