Post by Alumni on Dec 18, 2006 22:18:27 GMT -5
By Keith Trout
The Yerington Lions finished sixth among 16 teams at last weekend’s Stockman’sWilkens Memorial Tournament in Fallon, with nine wrestlers coming home with winning records.
This weekend the team will also feature individual competition as Yerington competes at the Winnemucca Invitational, an individual bracket tournament. With several openings in the lineup still, coach Rod Lemos feels his team is now stronger as a team competing in a bracket tournament, so he feels the Lions should do well.
Next week YHS competes in the ROP Winter Games on Tuesday.
As a team the Lions finished 3-2 at Fallon, opening with a 54-12 win over Round Mountain before falling to eventual runner-up Carson High (fell by one point in finals to host Fallon) 40-29. Next the Lions thrashed Pershing County 54-24 and edged South Tahoe 36-31. But against a Lowry team that had several wrestlers drop weight classes to reverse earlier results, the Buckaroos concluded the day with a 55-16 win over YHS.
Stephen Skroch, wrestling all but one match at 215, was the only unbeaten grappler, going 5-0 with two pins and three forfeits (but also pinning two exhibition foes).
Three others finished with 4-1 marks, with Derek Gutierrez losing only to a strong Carson foe at 135 pounds, Jacob Monahan losing only in his final match to a Lowry opponent, Trevor Grant, who was a top finisher at state last year, and Sean Watson falling only to another strong Carson wrestler (a 4A state placer) in overtime.
That may have been the most exciting match of the day as Travis Lamborn won the 171 match with the overtime takedown for the 12-10 win.
Finishing with 3-2 records were Matt Bevington at 140, David Dixon at 152 (down from 160 the week before), David Holloway at 160, Daniel Bauer at 189 and Jared Neely at 275.
Lemos said he enjoyed watching Daniel Bauer’s match at 189 against Carson City. “It was a good match to watch,” he said, as the score was 8-8 until the Carson grappler got a late second-period pin. He said it was good conditioning for Bauer.
Lemos said he was impressed with freshman David Holloway, who originally was to wrestle as a JV with another team (but Miah Ketelaar missed making weight by less than a pound). He had two pins (one exhibition) and lost one 6-5. “He held his own.”
The coach said Dixon wrestled really hard, not giving up when behind. He fell only 5-3 in overtime to his Lowry opponent.
He also noted Bevington, who moved up to 140 (135 week before) also wrestled really hard, doing well against some tough opponents (Carson and Lowry).
Neely saw his first action and the coach said they need to work more on conditioning but once he gets more matches under his belt he should continue to improve.
“I think all of our kids, the conditioning is starting to step up a little bit,” Lemos said.
However, he’d still like to see some wrestlers drop weight classes. “We still don’t have athletes where we want them to be far as (weight classes).”
He noted some tried to drop weights at Fallon but didn’t make weight, with two going the JV route among three missing their target weights (Wes Taliaferro missed in an attempt to go to 145 and Monahan missed trying for 145).
The Yerington Lions finished sixth among 16 teams at last weekend’s Stockman’sWilkens Memorial Tournament in Fallon, with nine wrestlers coming home with winning records.
This weekend the team will also feature individual competition as Yerington competes at the Winnemucca Invitational, an individual bracket tournament. With several openings in the lineup still, coach Rod Lemos feels his team is now stronger as a team competing in a bracket tournament, so he feels the Lions should do well.
Next week YHS competes in the ROP Winter Games on Tuesday.
As a team the Lions finished 3-2 at Fallon, opening with a 54-12 win over Round Mountain before falling to eventual runner-up Carson High (fell by one point in finals to host Fallon) 40-29. Next the Lions thrashed Pershing County 54-24 and edged South Tahoe 36-31. But against a Lowry team that had several wrestlers drop weight classes to reverse earlier results, the Buckaroos concluded the day with a 55-16 win over YHS.
Stephen Skroch, wrestling all but one match at 215, was the only unbeaten grappler, going 5-0 with two pins and three forfeits (but also pinning two exhibition foes).
Three others finished with 4-1 marks, with Derek Gutierrez losing only to a strong Carson foe at 135 pounds, Jacob Monahan losing only in his final match to a Lowry opponent, Trevor Grant, who was a top finisher at state last year, and Sean Watson falling only to another strong Carson wrestler (a 4A state placer) in overtime.
That may have been the most exciting match of the day as Travis Lamborn won the 171 match with the overtime takedown for the 12-10 win.
Finishing with 3-2 records were Matt Bevington at 140, David Dixon at 152 (down from 160 the week before), David Holloway at 160, Daniel Bauer at 189 and Jared Neely at 275.
Lemos said he enjoyed watching Daniel Bauer’s match at 189 against Carson City. “It was a good match to watch,” he said, as the score was 8-8 until the Carson grappler got a late second-period pin. He said it was good conditioning for Bauer.
Lemos said he was impressed with freshman David Holloway, who originally was to wrestle as a JV with another team (but Miah Ketelaar missed making weight by less than a pound). He had two pins (one exhibition) and lost one 6-5. “He held his own.”
The coach said Dixon wrestled really hard, not giving up when behind. He fell only 5-3 in overtime to his Lowry opponent.
He also noted Bevington, who moved up to 140 (135 week before) also wrestled really hard, doing well against some tough opponents (Carson and Lowry).
Neely saw his first action and the coach said they need to work more on conditioning but once he gets more matches under his belt he should continue to improve.
“I think all of our kids, the conditioning is starting to step up a little bit,” Lemos said.
However, he’d still like to see some wrestlers drop weight classes. “We still don’t have athletes where we want them to be far as (weight classes).”
He noted some tried to drop weights at Fallon but didn’t make weight, with two going the JV route among three missing their target weights (Wes Taliaferro missed in an attempt to go to 145 and Monahan missed trying for 145).