Pete Moye’
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Off the heels of a recent homestand at Excelsior high school, the Cerritos College wrestling team placed sixth in the Lassen Tournament in Reno, Nev. on Saturday.

Ruben Orta at 155 pounds and Rudy Delgado at 133 pounds, both placed in fourth, which was the highest for the Falcons.

While two other wrestlers placed fifth, and one placed sixth.

At 174 pounds, Tyree Cox took one of the fifth place positions.

Whether or not the two home matches prepared him for the tournament, Cox said, “It was pretty good preparation.”

“There are some things that I could’ve worked on that I didn’t work on,” Cox said.

“Now I know what I need to work on so I’ll come back and do those things this week,” he said.

Voris Meeks, 149 pounder, took sixth place.

After the team’s first-out-of state tournament, the team implied that distance had to do with it’s failure.

Meeks said. “Part of me thinks so but I don’t know what happened. After that third match it just all went downhill. I don’t know what went wrong.”

George Knight, at 197 pounds, was unable to place.

He said, “I think I’m in the wrong weight class, I think I should’ve lost some more weight and gone down a weight class.”

Knight also adds that the team was missing some key wrestlers that would’ve helped the team to get a higher place.

“As a team, they show us everything, it’s just us not applying it. They teach us efficiently it’s just a matter of applying it,” he said.

The Falcons will have their next match away against Rio Hondo College on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

The Falcons have competed against Rio Hondo at regionals defeating them 43-9.

In the Lassen Tournament, Rio Hondo placed third.