FRANKLIN — Warren’s wrestling team grabbed a 34-30 nonregion road win over Franklin on Tuesday.

The Dragons were trailing 21-0 after four matches, but five straight wins put them up 28-21 and Warren held on, winning one more match that would be the difference.

“Call them the comeback kids,” said Warren coach Glenn Baldensperger. “Cole Fitzgerald, a freshman seeing his first varsity action, received a forfeit. Next up at 114, Adian Sweet, also a freshman seeing his first varsity action, secured a takedown for 3 points and then a big pin at the 1:07 mark. … At 127, Cameron Hagg got his first varsity win via forfeit. At 133, senior captain Adika Fiscus looked awesome with a takedown, 4 near-fall points and then a pin at the 52-second mark. Next up, senior captain Cameron Williams wrestled a hard-fought match, and with 25 seconds left in the match, Cam let his opponent go and took him down in the waning seconds to secure a 4-point major decision.”

After a loss, “with the Dragons needing a pin to secure the match, Carter (Campbell) was in complete control all of the match, but going into the second period with a 14-0 lead over his opponent, the Knights took the top position, hoping Carter would just get an escape and tech fall (victory) instead of a pin,” said Baldensperger. “Carter had other plans; he caught his opponent’s head and reversed him to his back for the fall. But not to be outdone, senior captain Conner Zaffino, after being down 11-0 going into the third period, found his groove and mounted a stellar comeback, just missing a pin and finally falling 15-12.

“It was an awesome team effort tonight,” added Baldensperger, “guys making their weights to bumping around and getting it done. Very proud of our effort. We fell to them in a close match last year. The other good news is we definitely didn’t wrestle our best and we realize that.”

Ryan Letko and Blake Albaugh had junior varsity pins for Warren.

WARREN 34, FRANKLIN 30

172: Hart (F) md. Zinger, 11-1

189: Kockler (F) tf. Oyola, 17-2

215: GKiselka (F) p. Krall, 1:48

285: KKiselka (F) p. Harkins, 5:36

107: Fitzgerald (W) won via forfeit

114: Sweet (W) p. Moyer, 1:07

121: Double forfeit

127: Hagg (W) won via forfeit

133: Fiscus (W) p. Henry, :52

139: Williams (W) md. Davis, 11-2

145: Rice (F) p. Nelson, 1:07

152: Campbell (W) p. Sheatz, 3:16

160: Adams (F) d. Zaffino, 15-12