Marshall’s Tate Condezo (left) wrestles Redwood Valley’s Zachary Guggisberg during a dual meet between the Tigers and Cardinals at Marshall High School on Thursday night.

MARSHALL — After leading 12-10 through the first four matches, the No. 9 Marshall boys wrestling team put together nine straight match victories to capture a 66-10 win in its dual against Redwood Valley on Thursday night.

“We knew they had a couple of forfeits in there so we knew that we were going to get some points. Redwood is a team that works really hard, they’ve been in our section before, obviously in our conference. They just went down to single-A, so there’s a little bit of a difference there, but our kids wrestled really well and it’s nice to bounce back after a hard dual against Jackson,” Marshall head coach Ethan Hoppe said.

In the Tigers’ last triangular, they swept their way through Worthington for a 73-0 win before falling just shy against Class A’s No. 2 team, Jackson County Central, by a score of 37-31. Hoppe said he felt the team wrestled well but not quite well enough in the meet. He added that with some injured wrestlers returning after the holidays, Marshall hopes to come back after the break even better.

Eighth grader Gavin Williams set the tone in the night’s first match with a pin 90 seconds into the second round. From there, Lincoln Christenson continued the Tiger momentum with a pin in the first minute of his 114-match against Gabriel Romero.

Andrew Yang was bumped up a weight class for his 121-pound match and was pinned in the third round. Redwood Valley nearly picked up pins in consecutive matches when Ashton Panitzke had Vince Tran on the mat near the edge of the circle in the third period. Yet, Tran was able to keep his shoulder up to prevent the pin and save 2 points for the Tigers.

“Shout out to those underclassmen. We’ve got a lot of seniors and juniors on the team right now. Those kids that come out like Gavin Williams, Andrew Yang, Levi Kraft has been in there, Brayden Chandler, those underclassmen kids really step up and they follow that upperclassmen group, which is a lot of fun,” Hoppe said.

From there, the momentum shifted rapidly. Landon Marthaler, Dylan Louwagie and Tyson Louwagie each won consecutive matches via forfeit. When Duran Kramer stepped up for Redwood Valley in the 152-pound division to end the run of forfeits, Brayden Chandler picked up another 6 points for the Tigers by quickly putting Kramer on the ground and securing the win by fall less than 90 seconds into the match. The victory gave the freshman his 25th career pin.

“He works hard. He’s a kid that enjoys wrestling and a kid that does what’s asked of him,” Hoppe said. “He’s obviously got some natural talent there. We’re just excited to watch him to continue to develop.”

Tate Condezo got down in a 5-0 hole early in his 160-pound match against Zachary Guggisburg after Guggisburg got a pair of near-pins at the end of the first round. After the reset, Condezo almost instantly got a pair of points for a near-pin of his own before coming away with the win by fall.

Tucker Fiene, coming off his 100th career win in Jackson on Tuesday, came away with yet another pin in the second round against Max Bentson.

Aidan Mattison picked up two points to start his 189-pound match against James Hennen with a quick takedown. He was credited with a near pin to go up 5-0 before Hennen came away with a reversal to keep the match in reach if it came down to a decision. Yet, Mattison came up with a reversal of his own just moments later and turned that reversal into a pin at the 4:15 mark.

Gavin Schaefer and Andrew Cowden closed out the match with Marshall’s 10th and 11th pins of the day, Schaefer taking down Adam Mohr in 1:57 and Cowden defeating Andrews Vetsouvahn in 3:01.

“Just that hard wrestling, we stressed that at practice yesterday. When you come out, your ties are hard, we’re moving our feet, we’re active with our hands and we’re aggressive. We’re not sitting back and waiting for someone else to come at us. We’re going to take it to them,” Hoppe said. “Have a plan when you go out there. When I tie up with somebody, I should know or have an idea of what I’m going after. There’s a reason for what we do. When we put hands on somebody, we’re moving somebody, everything is done with a purpose. Everything is done with further reason. We really stressed that at practice and the kids took that and did a really good job with it.”

Marshall will next compete in a triangular at New Ulm, along with Worthington, on Tuesday, Jan. 2 at 5 p.m.

“The big thing for me right now is to build off the aggression and to use it with a purpose,” Hoppe said. “There’s a difference between being chippy and being aggressive. We tell the kids to have a plan when you go out there and execute that plan. If the plan doesn’t go the way we want it to go, don’t falter. We might stumble a little bit but strap your shoes on, let’s keep going. Just keep moving forward with a positive attitude and positive mindset,” Hoppe said.

107: Gavin Williams (MARS) over Nolan Ourada (RWV) (Fall 3:32) 114: Lincoln Christenson (MARS) over Gabriel Romero (RWV) (Fall 0:39) 121: Isaiah Nelson (RWV) over Andrew Yang (MARS) (Fall 6:07) 127: Ashton Panitzke (RWV) over Vince Tran (MARS) (MD 12-2) 133: Landon Marthaler (MARS) over (RWV) (For.) 139: Dylan Louwagie (MARS) over (RWV) (For.) 145: Tyson Louwagie (MARS) over (RWV) (For.) 152: Brayden Chandler (MARS) over Duran Kramer (RWV) (Fall 1:26) 160: Tate Condezo (MARS) over Zachary Guggisburg (RWV) (Fall 1:59) 172: Tucker Fiene (MARS) over Max Bentson (RWV) (Fall 3:15) 189: Aidan Mattison (MARS) over Jamen Hennen (RWV) (Fall 4:15) 215: Gavin Schaefer (MARS) over Adam Mohr (RWV) (Fall 1:57) 285: Andrew Cowden (MARS) over Andres Vetsouvahn (RWV) (Fall 3:01)