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WEDNESDAy, DECEMbER 19, 2018
Bulldogs take down Richland,
Kennewick in MCC duals
By ANNIE FOWLER
STAFF WRITER
Staff photo by Kathy Aney/East Oregonian
Andrea Hernandez, of Hermiston (right), starts her match with Pasco’s Makenna Bartels in
the 115-pound weight class during Wednesday night’s MCC mixer.
Hermiston’s Deike wins
two matches at MCC mixer
By ANNIE FOWLER
STAFF WRITER
Each time out on the mat
is a learning experience for
the Hermiston girls wres-
tling team.
Wednesday, the Bull-
dogs hosted five other
Mid-Columbia
Confer-
ence teams in a mixer,
where each girl got any-
where between one and
four matches depending on
the number of competitors
in their weight class.
Hermiston’s
Jazmin
Deike won both of her
matches at 190 pounds,
beating Chiawana’s Liz-
zeth Jauregui 13-3, then
pinning Chiawana’s Rachel
Castaneda in 3 minutes.
“I have won a few
matches,” said Deike, who
is in her first year of wres-
tling. “If I win, it is by good
luck.”
Or by using her training
— all four weeks of it.
Against
Castaneda,
Deike trailed 5-1 in the sec-
ond round, and Castaneda
had her cradled and on her
back. Deike was able to
break her grasp, maneuver
a reversal, and get a quick
pin.
“I just made sure to get
my leg out,” Deike said. “I
knew if I got to my belly
I had a fighting chance.
This is really physically
demanding. You have
to want it and give it all
you’ve got. It’s super fun.”
Deike’s reward for a
good day on the mat?
“I’m going to go home
and eat a fat burrito,” she
said. “I’m 10 pounds under
weight.”
Other big wins for
Hermiston came from Laly
Morin, who earned an 11-6
decision over Adriana Bon-
ner of Richland at 155
pounds, and Sally Wooster,
who pinned Kamiakin’s
Addison Fountain in 5:53
after taking a 6-0 lead in
the third round.
“I saw a lot of fight,”
Hermiston coach Andy
Hall said. “Andrea Her-
nandez (115) fought really
hard, and Jazmin went 2-0.
She did as good as always.
Our middleweights are bat-
tling for positions.”
Other Hermiston wres-
tlers did not have as good
a night.
Pasco’s Cassandra De
La Mora pinned Schae Bor-
rego in the second round at
145, and Kamiakin’s Sarah
Hamilton pinned Amree
Braithwaite in 50 seconds
at 145.
“From here, we go back
and teach what we do,”
Hall said. “Once is not
enough.”
Hermiston
returns
to action Dec. 21 at the
Columbia-Burbank Invite.
MORE WINNERS. MORE OFTEN.
For the first time in five
years, Kennewick High
School is able to put a full
lineup on the mat for a dual.
It didn’t much matter
against Hermiston, which
won nine of 14 matches
to hand the Lions a 54-27
Mid-Columbia Conference
loss Thursday night at the
Dawg House.
The Bulldogs made a
clean sweep of the double
dual, beating Richland 69-8,
a match in which Hermis-
ton took advantage of seven
forfeits.
“It keeps things in per-
spective,” Hermiston coach
Kyle Larson said of the
matches. “We know who is
tough. We are just trying to
put guys in position to do
their best.”
That was Jordan Frank-
lin. The 138-pound junior
won both of his matches on
the mat.
Against Richland, he
recorded a technical fall
(21-5) over Taylor Cole-
man, then pinned Blake
Brooks of Kennewick in 4
minutes, 17 seconds.
“We try to leave the
room a little bit better every
day,” Larson said. “We have
a ton of work to do, and we
are continuing to work on
the fundamentals and the
basics.”
Against Richland, the
Bombers forfeited 106
to 126, and in the upper
weights from 195 to 285.
In the middle, the Bull-
dogs got pins from Gage
Shipley (132), Chris Lomeli
(145) and Blake Betz (182).
Richand’s Patrick Work-
man earned a technical fall
(18-3) over Trevor Wag-
ner at 160, and the Bomb-
ers’ other win came at 170,
where Connor Gibbon
defeated Ethan Teel 11-9,
registering a takedown with
6 seconds left in the match.
The Lions put up more of
a fight.
The Bulldogs jumped
out to an 18-3 lead with
pins by Isaac Lambert (120)
and Hunter Dyer (126) and
Franklin.
Kennewick made things
interesting as Jacoby Weiber
pinned Lomeli in the sec-
ond round, and Brody Ray
pinned Avant Ortiz at 3:18.
Hermiston won the next
two matches to make it
30-15, but the Lions refused
to back down.
We want to put a
product on the mat
that people want to
see. We like them
old or young. We
just want to fill the
stands.”
Kyle Larson,
Hermiston coach
Dylan Holt pinned Betz
at 182, and Caleb Gragg did
the same to Stanley Scott at
195 to make it 30-27 with
four matches remaining.
“We are freshman and
sophomore heavy, but they
are stepping it up,” said
Kennewick coach AJ Vogt-
man, whose team opened
the night with a 63-18 win
over Richland. “We are a lot
more aggressive and they
are putting it together.”
The Bulldogs won the
final four matches by pin
— Jon Lee (220), Dus-
tyn Coughlin (285), Zayne
Helfer (106) and Adrian
Delgado (113) — to secure
the win and improve to 2-2
in the MCC standings.
“We want to put a prod-
uct on the mat that peo-
ple want to see,” Larson
said. “We like them old or
young. We just want to fill
the stands.”
Tri-State
Hermiston’s Adrian Del-
gado placed eighth at 106
pounds Saturday at the Tri-
State tournament at North
Idaho College in Coeur
d’Alene.
Delgado, who finished
3-3 on the weekend, was
pinned by Rene Pierre of
Polson (Mont.) in the sev-
enth/eighth placing match.
The Bulldogs, who had
just one placer, finished
34th in the team standings
with 42 points.
Isaac Lambert (113) won
his first match of the tourna-
ment before finishing 2-2.
Hermiston had two wres-
tlers at 220 pounds. Jon Lee
lost in the quarterfinals and
finished 2-2. Sean Stewart
also finished 2-2.
At 120 pounds, Hunter
Dyer won his first match,
then lost his next two.
Gage Shipley (126) won
his first match then lost in
the quarterfinals. He won
his first consolation match,
then fell to Riley Buth of
Mt. Spokane 6-4.
At 152, Trevor Wagner
won his first match by pin,
lost in the quarterfinals, then
went 1-1 in the consolation
bracket.
Jordan Franklin went 1-2
at 138 pounds.
MATCH RESULTS
Team score: Hermiston 69, Richland 8.
106 — Zayne Helfer (H) won by forfeit.
*113 — Adrian Delgado (H) won by for-
feit. 120 — Isaac Lambert (H) won by for-
feit. 126 — Hunter Dyer (H) won by forfeit.
132 — Gage Shipley (H) p. Tyler birchen-
ough, 3:40. 138 — Jordan Franklin (H) tf.
Taylor Coleman, 21-5. 145 — Chris Lomeli
(H) p. Tristan Allgaier, 2:35. 152 — Avant
Ortiz (H) md. Sam Lemieux, 13-5. 160 —
Patrick Workman, (R) tf. Trevor Wagner,
18-3. 170 — Connor Gibbon (R) d. Ethan
Teel, 11-9. 182 — blake betz (H) p. Tyler
bonser, 2:38. 195 — Stanley Scott (H) won
by forfeit. 220 — Jon Lee (H) won by for-
feit. 285 — Dustyn Coughlin (H) won by
forfeit.
Team score: Hermiston 54, Kennewick 27.
106 — Zayne Helfer (H) p. Eduardo San-
chez-Gutierrez, 3:13. 113 — Adrian Del-
gado (H) pin Ler Htoo, 4:41. *120 — Isaac
Lambert (H) p. Porter brower, 1:01. 126
— Hunter Dyer (H) p. Chris Tiscerano,
4:34. 132 — Antonio Ramos (K) d. Gage
Shipley, 4-3. 138 — Jordan Franklin (H) p.
blake brooks, 4:17. 145 — Jacoby Weiber
(K) p. Chris Lomeli, 3:55. 152 — brody
Ray (K) p. Avant Ortiz, 3:18. 160 — Trevor
Wagner (H) p. Sunnie Gomez, 2:33. 170
— Ethan Teel (H) p. Hser Htoo, 1:06. 182
— Dylan Holt (K) p. blake betz, 4:33. 195
— Caleb Gragg (K) p. Stanley Scott, 2:38.
220 — Jon Lee (H) p. Chayc Ottum, 5:05.
285 — Dustyn Coughlin (H) p. Mason
Epperly, :53.
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