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Wednesday, February 21, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 23 Senior wrestlers compete at state By Rongi Yost Correspondent The Outlaws took three senior wrestlers, Damien Wills, Dustin Smith, and Casey Warburton, to the OSAA Oregon Wrestling State Championships held at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland on Friday and Saturday, February 16 and 17. D a m i e n Wi l l s ( 1 4 5 pounds) faced No. 2 seeded Kade Van DeHey from Cascade in his first match of the tournament, and lost by a fall at the end of the first round. In his second match, he wrestled Ruben Chavez of Ontario, fought all three rounds, and lost in a 13-2 decision. “I knew all weekend that Damien was fighting the left- over of a stomach flu, and nursing an injured knee from last weekend’s regional tour- nament,” said Coach John Downs. “I was proud of him not giving in to those issues, and fighting until the end.” Dustin Smith (152 pounds), also had two tough matches. Dustin lost by a pin to No. 1 seeded Garrett Lefevre from Marshfield in his first match of the tourney. In his next match, he wres- tled Bryce Anderson from Sutherlin, and was down 3-0 in the third round. Downs described what happened next. “With 30 seconds left in the match, Anderson took Dustin backwards, and Dustin placed his hand out and dis- located his pinky finger as he hit the mat,” said Downs. “There was an injury time out, and the trainer looked at his finger, and while on the mat the trainer pulled the joint back into place.” Although Smith was in severe pain, he wanted to finish the match. The trainer wrapped up Smith’s finger, and although he didn’t win, he battled to the end. “Dustin wrestled with pain and heart to finish his last match of his high school career,” said Downs. “It was a tough end for him during those last 30 seconds, not being able to use his hand fully, but he was determined to finish strong.” Casey Warburton (185 pounds) wrestled some great matches. Casey matched up against No. 4 seeded Dallas Lamphere from Henley in his first match of the tournament and won in a 6-5 decision. “This was Casey’s best match of his high school c a r e e r, ” s a i d D o w n s . “Lamphere was a tough opponent, but Casey wrestled perfectly. He listened to his coaches, and executed his moves at just the right time for all three rounds.” His next match against Maxwell Merritt from Banks was another long match that went all three rounds. Merritt beat Casey 15-11. From there, Warburton went into the consolation rounds. Casey matched up against DeLaTora from Phoenix and lost 6-2. This marked Warburton’s third match of the day that went all three rounds. “Casey w a s exhausted and just didn’t have the energy to fin- ish strong enough,” said Downs. “At the end of the day he barely had enough PHOTO BY TREVOR SMITH e n e r g y Casey Warburton won his match against No. 4 seeded to walk Dallas Lamphere from Henley in a 6-5 decision. back to the stands. He had such an amazing sea- “Walking out with him son, especially giving up 20, from staging to the mat gave 30, or even 50 pounds to his me a sense of pride,” said opponents. His success was Downs. “I felt like everyone noticed by other teams and was watching us, and I was coaches, where they started escorting a champion.” talking about him as the The three seniors also ‘Baby Heavyweight.’ The earned All League Honorable teams all knew that they’d Mention from their success at have to work extremely hard the regional tournaments last to get past him. weekend. PHOTO BY TREVOR SMITH Dustin Smith goes head to head against Bryce Anderson from Sutherlin. OSU to require HIT A POTHOLE? WE CAN HELP! students Alignments, Shocks, Struts, Wheels, Tires to disclose DAVIS TIRE 541-549-1026 convictions s Siste e r d! n Ow A lab of lov or e “Peter is a perfectionist and master of his trade. He worked tirelessly on our carpets until they were immaculately clean. 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