Wednesday, January 10, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Wrestlers make historic showing at invitational
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
The Outlaws wrestling
team finished third (124
points) out of 11 teams
who competed at the Bend
Invitational held Saturday,
January 6. The third-place
finish was the most successful
showing in Outlaws history.
Mt. View, which boasts
30 wrestlers, took first with a
score of 446.5, and Bend (24
wrestlers) was runner-up at
252. Also in attendance were:
Summit, Madras, Ridgeview,
Siuslaw, Ontario, Thurston,
Sunnyslope out of Arizona,
and Homedale out of Idaho.
Seventeen Outlaws
attended the tournament and
13 of them won at least one
match. Sisters recorded 23
wins, and 17 of them were
earned by a pin.
Sisters’ top placer for the
tournament was senior Dustin
Smith, who wrestled in the
160-pound weight class. This
was the first time in his career
that Smith wrestled in a first-
place finals match, and he
earned a second-place finish.
Sophomore Dylan
Vantress (106 pounds), who
according to Coach John
Downs had a great week at
practice, was focused and
determined, and took third.
Senior Casey Warburton also
earned a third-place spot.
Casey again gave up over 30
points to his opponent, and
battled hard throughout the
tournament.
Jake Stevens (senior)
competed for the first time
this season, and fought his
way to a fourth-place fin-
ish in the 170-pound weight
class. Downs told The Nugget
that watching Jake wrestle at
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the tournament has him con-
vinced he will only improve
throughout the rest of the
season.
Dalton Ford (132 pounds)
wrestled at 132 pounds and
recorded four pins, the most
pins of all wrestlers that com-
peted. The senior wrestler lost
his second match of the tour-
nament, but came back and
won his remaining matches to
finish fifth.
I was impressed with
many of the wrestlers on
the team, but our placing
wrestlers had impressive
improvements.
— Coach John Downs
Three Outlaws finished
sixth: freshman Jesse Peskin
(113 pounds), senior Damien
Wills (152 pounds), and soph-
omore Damien King (220
pounds).
Peskin had never wrestled
before he joined the squad
this year, and he won three
matches to fight all the way
back for a sixth-place finish.
Wills was gone for a majority
of the holiday break, but did
get in a couple of practices
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The Outlaws wrestling squad turned in the most successful showing in school history on January 6.
before the tournament.
Damien won three of his five
matches.
Downs told The Nugget
it’s been a rough road for
King at the bigger weights,
but he earned the starting
varsity spot at 220 pounds,
with wins over two of his
teammates.
Downs said, “I was
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match at home in Sisters
against Junction City on
Wednesday, January 10. The
match is scheduled to begin
at 6 p.m. On Thursday, the
squad will compete in the
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impressed with many of the
wrestlers on the team, but our
placing wrestlers had impres-
sive improvements. I’m proud
of all 17 that were at the tour-
nament, even those that did
not win a match, because they
are still the partners of those
that did win. It takes lots of
practice time, and a good
partner to be better every
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