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SPORTS TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2016 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS Prep Wrestling Staff photos by Kathy Aney MAIN: Hermiston’s Andy Wagner reacts after beating Brawley Lamer, of Crescent Valley, to win the 5A wrestling title for 126-pounders Saturday at Veterans Memorial Col- iseum. TOP LEFT: Hermiston’s Bob Coleman (left) wrestles Cavin Gilispie, of Crater, on his way to as 5A state wrestling title. TOP INSET LEFT: Hermiston’s John Henry Line (left) and Sam Colbray square off for the 195-pound i nal. BOTTOM INSET LEFT: Hermiston’s Valen Wyse throws Tanner Earhart, of Dallas, to the mat during his victorious championship. BOTTOM LEFT: Hermiston’s Brock McDonough (in black) pinned Oraslo Lopez, of Lebonon, Saturday in the semii nal round. Hermiston wins 10th state championship Colbray joins elite club 4x STATE TITLIST “It’s just another match, another day, another wrestling tournament, another consecutive year.” — Sam Colbray, Hermiston senior 195-pounder Bulldogs blow away the competition another wrestling tournament, another consecutive year,” he said. “Just going out there with an arsenal and wrestling how you know how to wrestle.” PORTLAND — For teams that Coleman was equally humble. consistently win, a question is often Top 10 i nal team scores from the Class 5A wrestling state “It feels like a lot of the stuff you’ve asked of them: Doesn’t winning get OSAA championships. GRQH LV ¿QDOO\ SD\LQJ RII OLNH DOO WKH old? KDUGZRUN¿QDOO\KDVVRPHYDOXH´KH 1. Hermiston ........................ 226.5 The answer is often “No, it doesn’t.” 2. Churchill .....................................137.0 said. “It’s pretty nice to know you won And the same goes for the Hermiston 3. Crater .........................................137.0 Reser’s and the state tournament. Call Bulldogs, who wrapped up their 10th, 4. Dallas .........................................120.0 it luck, call it whatever.” ninth in ten years and fourth-straight 5. Lebanon ..................................... 114.0 Day one started slowly for the team title at the Veteran’s Memorial 6. Redmond ................................... 110.5 Bulldogs, but ended in a crescendo Coliseum this weekend in Portland. 7. Sandy.........................................107.5 of pins that rocketed the Bulldogs up 8. Hillsboro .......................................78.5 Four Bulldogs — Sam Colbray 9. Central .........................................77.0 the standings. By the end of Friday’s (195), Andy Wagner (126), Bob 10. St. Helens ..................................67.5 action, the Bulldogs had a 40-point Coleman (182) and Valen Wyse (152) lead and was in the driver’s seat to won state titles, and three other Bull- dogs — Liam Tarvin (113), Brock the beginning of the year, and you set bring home yet another banner. Shortly McDonough (170) and John-Henry goals, meet goals, meet expectations.” WKURXJK WKH VHPL¿QDOV ² WKURXJK As ever, Colbray was humble in which Hermiston went perfect — the Line each were runners-up. “Long season. A lot of work put in. YLFWRU\ +H GLGQ¶W SXPS KLV ¿VW RU Bulldogs essentially wrapped it up. A lot of sweat, tears. A lot of wrestling,” UDLVHIRXU¿QJHUV+HZDVJUDFLRXVDQG +HUPLVWRQKDGVL[ZUHVWOHUVLQWKH¿QDO rounds. Crater, the second-place team, ¿UVW\HDU KHDG FRDFK .\OH /DUVRQ even-keeled. “It’s just another match, another day, said. “(The state title) is the goal at See TITLE X/2B By SAM BARBEE East Oregonian Moreno caps Mac-Hi career at top of podium An exhaust- ed Gregory Moreno, of Mac-Hi, re- ceives con- gratulations from his coaches Saturday after win- ning his 3A state i nals wrestling match in the 295-pound weight class at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Pioneers place five; Holcomb third for Pendleton By SAM BARBEE East Oregonian PORTLAND — Mac-Hi senior Gregory Moreno’s last year wrestling for the Pioneers didn’t get off to the greatest start thanks to a sprained ankle suffered in WKH WHDP¶V ¿UVW WRXUQDPHQW JRLQJ against Banks wrestler Twister McComas. Moreno would have plenty of WLPHWRWKLQNDERXWWKDW¿UVWORVVDV he worked his way back onto the mats, and on Saturday in the last match of his high school career, the 285-pound Pioneer got to give McComas a little payback. Moreno avoided injury this time and handed McComas a 3-1 defeat in the OSAA 4A wrestling state championships at Portland’s Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum. ,W ZDV KLV ¿UVW VWDWH WLWOH DIWHU placing fourth last season. “He came back in the biggest match of the year, and beat the kid Staff photo by Kathy Aney ZKR JDYH KLP KLV ¿UVW ORVV RI WKH \HDU´0DF+LFRDFK&KDG.LOEXUJ said. Moreno almost didn’t advance WRWKH¿QDOEXWDODWHFRPHEDFNLQ WKH VHPL¿QDOV RQ ,DQ -RKQVRQ RI Hidden Valley propelled him. Moreno was down 5-2 inside WKH¿QDOPLQXWHRIWKHWKLUGSHULRG Starting the round on top, he needed to either stick Johnson to win, or get a three-point near fall to force an overtime. He got the three points, then pinned Johnson shortly there- after with six seconds left. He advanced to the semis after a 6-2 battle with Dylan Porter of Elimra that had to be settled with a tiebreaker. Also placing for Mac-Hi were Riley Chester (5th, 132), Cole Skramstad (5th, 152), Alyxander Shaw (5th, 170) and Spencer Shaw (5th, 220). Meanwhile in the 5A bracket, Pendleton’s Morgan Holcomb could feel the pressure. A great deal, in fact. The junior 145-pounder failed to place at last year’s state tournament despite being the second-seeded wrester at his weight. Entering this year’s tourney, he was worried it would happen again. “All I was worried about was placing because that didn’t happen last year and I was seeded second,” he said. “I’m glad I placed. Hope- fully I can do better next year, you know, hopefully make it into the ¿QDOV´ Fortunately for him, it did not. After losing by fall to Crater’s Logan Meek, a match Holcomb was winning until a mistake gave Meek the leverage he needed to pin Holcomb, the junior rallied ZLWK WZR SLQV ² WKH ¿UVW LQ seconds and the second in the third URXQG²WR¿QLVKDVWKHWKLUGEHVW See STATE WRESTLING/2B
