Wednesday, January 13, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Wrestlers compete at Bend Invitational
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
The Outlaws wrestlers
competed at the Bend Invita-
tional on Saturday, January 9.
Bend High took top honors
with a first-place finish (315.5
points), Mt. View was runner-
up (240 points), and Summit
took third with 178 points.
Sisters finished eighth.
The 10-team tournament
proved to be tough for the
Outlaws, as many of the wres-
tlers had a weight issue after
the holidays, and had to wres-
tle up a weight class.
“The tournament had
16-man brackets this week-
end, which gave the opportu-
nity for teams to put more than
one wrestler in a weight class,”
said Coach John Downs. “We
had two wrestlers place in the
145-pound weight class.“
Senior Clayton Darst was
Sisters’ outstanding wres-
tler for the day, and took
home a silver medal in his
second-place finish. Clay-
ton was seeded second in the
170-pound weight class, and
proved he deserved that seed.
Darst pinned his way to the
championship finals match.
Clayton pinned Tristan Wat-
son from Heritage High in
2:58, and went on to pin Luke
Schulz from Mt. View in 1:22.
In the championship finals,
Darst faced the tough No.
1-seeded Jacob Dupuis from
Bend, who’s current season
record is 22-3.
“Clayton stepped out onto
the mat just like he always
does — with no emotion,”
said Downs. “He wasn’t
intimidated by Dupuis. He
wrestled his toughest match,
and Dupuis didn’t expect to
have to work as hard as he had
to to beat Darst. I was very
proud of Darst, and I know he
would love to have a re-match
with Dupuis.”
Zach Reid (senior) wres-
tled up from 132 pounds to
138 pounds, and earned a
third-place finish and a bronze
medal.
Reid pinned Travis Martin
from Mt. View in 5:51 in his
first match of the tournament,
and then faced Chance Beu-
tler from Bend, the eventual
tournament champion. Reid
wrestled tough and was deter-
mined to not get pinned by
Beutler. The match went three
rounds and Beutler won by a
tech-fall.
Reid went into the conso-
lation third-and-fourth place
match, where he matched up
against Chaunze Lancaster
from Mt. View. This match
also went all three rounds, and
Zach prevailed 8-7.
“Zach showed lots of heart
by not getting pinned by Beu-
tler, who’s a larger and very
tough opponent,” said Downs.
“His final match was one of
the battles you love to see your
wrestler win. He deserved his
medal this weekend.”
Sophomore Jake Stevens
earned a fourth-place finish in
the 145-pound weight class.
Stevens’ first match was a
big motivator for him, as he
got his quickest pin ever. Jake
pinned Isaac Van Tassel from
Burns in 20 seconds. Jake
went on and pinned Holden
Kingery from Mt. View in
5:34. Jake then matched up
against Sage Farnworth from
Bend, who went on to take
first place.
“Jake didn’t last long in his
match against Farnworth, but
I think the loss made him real-
ize as a sophomore what cali-
ber of a wrestler he needs to
become,” said Downs.
In the third-fourth place
match, Stevens went up
against Cyrus Tadijki from
Bend. The match was a barn-
burner and points went back
and forth the entire time,
until Tadijki was finally able
to reverse Jake and eventu-
ally earn three more near-fall
points. Tadijki came out on
top with a final score of 11-6.
“I was very impressed with
Jake today,” said Downs. “He
had four matches today, and
they were all great ones.”
Freshman Parker Ford
(106 pounds) and senior Dyut
Fetrow (145 pounds) both
were sixth-place finishers.
Ford lasted almost all
three rounds in his first match
against Noah Rossi from Bend
High, but lost in the final sec-
onds in the third round by a
pin. In the consolation, Parker
earned himself a spot in the
fifth-sixth place final against
Matthew Morales from Siu-
slaw. Ford wrestled tough,
but was pinned by Morales in
2:46.
Fetrow rounded out the
Outlaws’ top finishers in the
tournament.
Dyut beat Lane Johnson
from Ridgeview handily with
a pin the second round in his
first match of the tourney.
From there, Fetrow had to
wrestle Evan Gunderson from
Burns, who went on to earn a
second-place finish. Gunder-
son wasn’t able to pin Fetrow,
but won with a tech-fall 17-0.
“This was a tough loss for
Dyut, but he used this frustra-
tion to battle through the con-
solation rounds,” said Downs.
In his next match, Fetrow
pinned Hayden Love from
Summit in 50 seconds. Dyut
knew he had to win his next
match against Leslie Combs
from Mt. View in order to earn
a spot in the fifth-and-sixth
place match. Dyut showed
how bad he wanted the win,
and pinned Combs in 1:24. In
the fifth-and-sixth place final,
Fetrow faced Holden Kingery
from Mt. View, and lost 15-6
in a tough-fought match.
“This was a tough meet for
the Outlaws because many
of them had to wrestle up,”
said Downs. “But each wres-
tler definitely wrestled harder
this weekend because of the
weight differences, and I was
proud of all of them.”
The Outlaws were to wres-
tler at Sutherlin on Tuesday,
January 13.