BUTLER TWP —When Butler wrestlers won Monday night, they won big.

The Golden Tornado rode six pins and an injury default to a 55-20 triumph over Montour in a WPIAL Team Tournament preliminary match. That win puts Butler (9-5) into a first-round match at No. 2 seed Kiski Area Wednesday night.

“This was a good team performance,” Butler coach Scott Stoner said. “We came out aggressive and we won the matches we should have won.”

They even won a match they weren’t expected to win.

Butler junior Tom Greaves, 8-7 at 182 pounds, won by injury default over Colin Funkhouser (22-4) midway through the third period. Greaves had recovered from a 4-1 deficit to build an 8-6 lead when the bout was stopped.

Funkhouser is one of the top two matmen on Montour’s roster.

“Colin’s had a bad knee and I was contemplating not wrestling him tonight,” Montour coach Jason Bombardier said. “I didn’t want to see him aggravate that injury and it happened.”

Stoner was hoping the match could have gone the distance.

“It’s still a nice win for Tom, but I would have liked to have seen how it would have played out,” he said. “It’s a confidence builder, for sure.”

Tornado pins came from Braydon Hoffman at 106 pounds, Isaiah Christy at 113, Jack Codispot at 120, Sam Dietrich at 132, Hank Finan at 160 and Christian Sequete at 170.

Hoffman, Christy and Codispot registered successive pins after Butler forfeited at 285 pounds to start the dual, Saavon Mosby (13-10, 8 pins) is out of the lineup with a skin infection.

Finan (11-11) scored his seventh pin of the season after falling behind in his match, 2-1, through one period. His pin-fall occurred midway Period 2.

“When I see my opponent lift his leg up, I go for it,” Finan said. “It’s something I’m conscious of out there. I’ve gotten four or five pins that way this year.”

Sequete, a sophomore, improved to 24-2 on the year with his 13th pin of the campaign. He leads the Tornado in wins and pins this season.

“Christian has developed into one of our anchors,” Stoner said.

Sequete and Jacob Bombardier (19-8) wrestled to a scoreless first period. Sequete took a 3-1 lead into the final period and pinned Bombardier with 29 seconds left.

Junior Caleb Baxter improved to 18-4 with a 2-0 decision at 152. He took down Dante Presutti in the first period.

Senior 195-pounder Justin Johnson improved to 20-4 when he won by forfeit. Scott Dietrich moved to 14-5 with a 10-1 decision at 138. Montour’s Geno Silvat picked up his team’s only pin of the night at 126 pounds.

“Our strength is in the upper weights,” Coach Bombardier said. “We had to at least hold our own in the lighter weight classes to give ourselves a chance and we didn’t do that.”

Butler 55, Montour 20

(Match started at 285 pounds)

106-Braydon Hoffman (B) pinned Corey Shumann, 2:34; 113-Isaiah Christy (B) pinned Ryan Reconnu, 3:07; 120-Jack Codispot (B) pinned Mikel Battles, 1:21; 126-Geno Silvat (M) pinned Shane Culp, 4:58; 132-Sam Dietrich (B) pinned Anthony Schnepp, 1:39; 138-Scott Dietrich (B) dec. Jacob McCain, 10-1; 145-Nick Marsico (M) dec. Mike Vought, 12-1; 152-Caleb Baxter (B) dec. Dante Presutti, 2-0; 160-Hank Finan (B) pinned John Wegley, 3:07; 170-Christian Sequete (B) pinned Jacob Bombardier, 5:31; 182-Tom Greaves (B) by injury default over Colin Funkhouser, 4:54; 195-Justin Johnson (B) by forfeit; 220-Roman Macek (M) dec. Seth McCrea, 16-7; Hwt.-Zack Jablonski (M) by forfeit