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VHS Winter Sports Update
Wrestling – The Loggers are preparing for the District
Tournament at Monroe High School on February 2-3,
where they will be favored to repeat as champions.
After dominating their League Tournament at
Neah-Kah-Nie on January 24, the Loggers will head to
the District Tournament with numerous #1 seeds and
two strong wrestlers in almost every weight class up to
195. The top two finishers at the District Tournament
earn a spot at the State Tournament on February 16-17.
Head coach Chris Barnes and assistant Dan
Rice are quietly confident that the Loggers will win the
District and hope to qualify at least five to eight wres-
tlers for the State Tournament.
ment, but finished strong and has a
chance to qualify for State. Cutter
Barklow will compete in a tough
182 bracket. Storm Henson at 160
and Murad Yazanedov at 195 both
sat out the League Tournament but
are threats to win at District.
Barnes says the team was
working to clean up mistakes and
improve technique before heading
to District.
Barnes also noted that Kai-
lia Jackson took fourth place at the
Girls State Tournament in a 32 per-
son bracket. “Kailia wrestled re-
ally well,” said Barnes.
Courtney Barklow
Jake Patton
“We’ll see what happens because there are
some very good wrestlers at some weight classes in our
District,” said Barnes.
At the League Tournament, Hepner Forster
moved up to 170 and pinned everyone he wrestled to
earn a #1 seed at Districts. Mekhi Williams at 132 and
Josh Rice at 152 also won against every opponent and
will both be placed as the #1 seed. Jake Patton at 145
pinned the third place finisher in the state last year and
has a good shot to get to State. Wyatt Jones won every
match at 113. Kailia Jackson and Patrick Fletcher both
have a chance to get to state at 106. Elijah Bozied has a
shot at 132 as does Isaiah Thompson at 138. Nick Ben-
nett got off to a slow start at 170 at the League Tourna-
Boys Basketball – The Loggers
make layups at the rim, and we
Clay Sullivan
are 10-4 in Northwest League play
need to increase our intensity.”
after falling to Columbia Christian for the second time
Sophomore Kale Sullivan has been a bright
this season 78-63 on January 30. Columbia Christian is
spot for Weller, playing point guard and adding some
ranked #2 in the state and looks like a threat to compete
strong outside shooting; Kale Sullivan hit 5 three point-
for the state title this year. The Loggers look like they
ers against Neah-Kah-Nie in a 56-35 win on January
will finish in third place in the league behind Columbia
27. “He’s done a great job handling the ball for us and
Christian and Knappa, the #3 ranked team in the state,
creating good opportunities on offense,” said Weller.
and earn a spot in the first round of State Playoffs. The
Weller says he is looking for someone to step
Loggers lost their second game of the season to Knappa
up. Junior Jake Handegard has had some great games,
61-48 on January 25.
scoring 28 points early in the season, but then disap-
Senior Clay Sullivan continues to lead the Log-
pearing and only scoring 3 against Neah-Kah-Nie. Se-
gers and be the focal point of the offense, consistently
nior starters Andrew Vasquez and Gaven Everett have
scoring around 40 points per game. Head coach David
also been inconsistent. Weller says exchange student
Weller says he is hoping to get more consistent play
Nick Biondi has a high basketball IQ and is earning
from the rest of his team to take some of the pressure
more playing time. Weller’s bench is also not very
off Sullivan. “We haven’t been able to have a full var-
deep. “We just really lack experience and that is show-
sity practice for about two weeks now due to sickness,
ing,” says Weller. “We have been improving, but we
which hasn’t helped,” said Weller. “We were right
need to be more consistent.”
there against Knappa, but Knappa did everything right
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and we didn’t. We need to rebound better, we need to
improve our free throw shooting, we need to finish and
Correction
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In our January 18, 2018 issue in the
School Board Report the caption for
the photo of School Board Recogni-
tion Month failed to mention School
Board members Melissa Zavales and
Stacey Pelster who were not present
at the meeting.
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