Wednesday, December 11, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Sisters Outlaws wrestling team competes in invitational
Outlaws wrestlers com-
peted at the Perry Burlison
Invitational at Cascade High
School last weekend, in a one-
day tournament that also fea-
tured JV and girls divisions.
<I really enjoy starting the
season off with tough compe-
tition,= said Head Coach John
Downs. <This type of tourna-
ment helps the team realize at
what level they need to train at
to compete. Come Monday9s
practice, I am sure the whole
team will be wanting to try
harder and be better partners
for each other. I am always
impressed how they come
back and don9t have a disap-
pointed attitude about their
performance, but instead want
to work even harder and accept
the harder drills and training.=
Cascade High had invited
29 teams to join in the three
tournaments. The Outlaws
took 11 wrestlers to the tour-
nament; six wrestled varsity,
five wrestled JV and one
girl competed in the girls
tournament.
Crescent Valley ran away
with the varsity tournament
with 298.5 points, and Crook
County was not even a close
second with 191.0 points.
Rounding out the top five
was Sweet Home with 155.5,
Scappoose with 100.00 and
Central High with 92.0.
Five of the six Outlaws
varsity wrestlers were in a
higher weight classes than
they wanted to compete in.
Downs explained:
<At the beginning of
every wrestling season, most
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wrestlers start in a higher
weight class than they plan
to compete in because they
need to follow their monitored
weight loss plan (monitored
by Oregon School Activities
Association, OSAA). If a
wrestler loses more weight
than allowed in a week, then
the coach must send a mes-
sage to OSAA explaining why
this happened.=
Sophomore varsity wres-
tler Wyatt Maffey had it the
toughest. He was in a higher
weight of 138 and competed
in two difficult matches.
<I was very impressed on
how hard he fought through-
out his matches,= Downs said.
<Wyatt went almost all three
rounds in both matches but
eventually lost, first versus a
junior from Elmira and then
against a Senior from North
Marion.
Junior Chaz Patterson, at
145 pounds, did quite well in
his two matches.
<He is the one on the team
that does not quit,= Downs
said. <He lost both tough
matches, but went all three
rounds with each opponent
without getting pinned, fight-
ing off his back multiple
times.=
Senior Anthony Randoph
wrestled at 152, weighing only
146.
<I am always impressed
with Anthony,= Downs
said. <He competed in three
matches, winning his second
match and fighting through his
other two but eventually los-
ing to his larger opponents.=
Senior Dillon King was at
the 170-pound weight class
and should have been at 160,
but he weighed in at 160.6 at
the beginning of the season.
<The 10-pound differ-
ence is tough to adjust to
and Dillon had to work very
hard in his two matches,=
Downs reported. <Losing both
matches only helped Dillon
conclude that he needs to con-
centrate and stay down at 160
pounds.
Senior Ethan Martin was
able to participate in his
weight class of 195 as he did
last year, and he had three
exciting matches. He went two
rounds in both of his losses
and was able to pin his other
opponent in the third round.
In the 285 weight class
Senior Damien King, who
weighs 260, competed well.
<Damien does look much
better than last year already
and it definitely showed
against his larger opponents,=
Downs said. <Damien9s
second match was versus a
very large wrestler who had to
be six-feet-plus and pushing
the 285-pound limit. Damien
was able to go two rounds and
even had his opponent on his
back. Damien eventually lost
this match but showed me and
hopefully himself that no mat-
ter the size of his opponents,
he should not be intimidated
and just do his best.=
There were four Outlaws
that wrestled in the JV tourna-
ment. At 145 pounds, junior
Landon Nothiger wrestled in
three matches earning a fifth-
place with a pin in the plac-
ing rounds. At 170, sopho-
more Jared Miller tied with a
seventh-place finish. At 285,
sophomore Jacob Washington
earned a fifth-place finish with
a pin and at 220, freshman
Henry Rard had a great JV
tournament winning all three
of his matches with pins and
earning a first-place medal.
It was also a great day for
the only girl on the team, Tyler
<Daisy= Patterson. She is a
second-year wrestling sopho-
more for the Outlaws and
wrestles at 125 pounds, but
her weight-loss plan placed
her in the 130-pound weight
class in the girls tournament.
Patterson was able to fight
her way to the championship
finals among 13 wrestlers. Her
first match she won by fall in
just under two minutes, and
then her second match was a
fight. She wrestled against a
girl that had just beat the No.
2-seeded girl, and in the end
Patterson won 9 -7. With this
win she entered the champion-
ship match versus Jessy Hart
of Sweet Home. Hart was
seeded first and was a tough
opponent. Hart was able to
get the upper hand on her and
pinned her in the first round.
With Patterson9s efforts this
weekend she was able, as a
team of one, to earn the Sisters
girls team a 19th-place fin-
ish out of 29 girls teams that
attended.
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