It has been a while since Joliet West has lost a Southwest Prairie Conference East dual wrestling meet.

On Wednesday, the Tigers beat Plainfield South 52-19 to rack up their 26th straight SPC East win.

The meet started at 106 pounds, and the first three West wrestlers - Casey Koerner at 106, Cash Ocampo at 113 and Nick Murdock at 120 - all played the take-them-down, let-them-up game with their opponents.

Koerner won by technical fall, 20-2, over Alan Cortez, Ocampo held a 19-6 lead over Quan Hamilton before pinning him at the 4:31 mark and Murdock was ahead 13-2 before he pinned Islom Ismanaliev at the 1:49 mark.

Jacob Crandall decided to do it differently.

Crandall only took down Jose Rivas, Jr. once in the 126-pound bout. He then scored four points on a near fall before winning

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