Wednesday, February 21, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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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.
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