The Paly wrestling team falls short to Oceana High School in a home meet on December 12th, resulting in a final score of 39-33.

The Vikings started strong but could not keep their lead for very long. The meet only consisted of one pin from Paly, by Troy Henderson (’16). James Giacca (’15) and Eric Oshima (’16) both wrestled up a couple of weights this meet. The team trailed behind Oceana throughout the whole meet and fell short coming back in the end. The lack of some key players resulted in the lost points that the Vikings needed and resulted in multiple JV players being pulled up to fill the roster. With injuries preventing players to compete and the team consisting of many new members the Vikings could not find the win tonight.

“We had a lot of young guys who probably won’t be wrestling varsity but that’s all we had today,” Coach David Duran said.

“People need to step up, we should have won, the team put in a good effort though,” James Giacca (’15) said.

The first league match will be held at home against Los Gatos on Thursday, December 19th at 5:30 pm.