Indians Lose Close Dual to Rawlins County
On Thursday, January 17th, the St. Francis Indian wrestling team lost a close dual to Rawlins County in St. Francis. The Indians fell behind early in the dual due to open weights and several early losses, but came on strong in the upper weights to take the lead after the 195 pound class was wrestled. The Indians did not have anyone in the upper to two weight classes and lost the dual 36-39. Only eight weight classes were wrestled with each team winning four.
Coach Dylan Loyd had the following comments on the evening, "This really was a good dual with some good matches. Atwood has themselves a pretty tough team, they have a couple of high quality kids. We wrestled pretty well for the most part; there definitely are something’s that we need to work on. We have got to get better on our feet, I think this is an area that we really didn’t perform well Thursday. We still struggle with picking up the intensity on our feet, I feel like sometimes maybe we try to rush things instead of working a good set-up to a shot but, we battled them tough. We have a short week, we travel to Hoxie on Thursday night to take on a tough Hoxie team, and then Saturday we head to Oberlin for the Western Kansas Tournament of Champions. It will be a very tough week/weekend but, After this weekend we should have a pretty good feel of where we are at as a team."
"Thursday night really was a neat deal though. We had the kids club, junior high, and high school all come together in one setting as one big family and get to support one another which I think is a pretty neat deal. The fan support we had at our first home dual was tremendous!"
Coach’s Awards: Most Exciting match - Hobrock by fall over Portschy
Coach’s Award - Lane Hobrock
Practice Wrestler - Casey Keller
Best Freshman Performance - Lane Hobrock
Key Match Award - Lane Hobrock’s fall over Portschy
Most Outstanding Performance - Hobrock, Wolaver, Gienger, Douthit all were able to pin their opponents in the dual Thursday night
Individual results for the dual are listed below.
106 - Hunter Leibbrandt (RC) won by forfeit (St. Francis was open)
113 - Joey McFee (RC) won by forfeit (St. Francis was open)
120 - Casey Keller lost by 2-4 decision to Macrae Migchelbrink
126 - Clay Cassaw lost by fall (3:40) to Rhett Mizer
132 - Austin White won by forfeit (Rawlins Co. was open)
138 - Logan Lampe lost by 3-5 decision to Jonathan Markland
145 - Justin Pacheco lost by 6-13 decision to Sheldon McCain
152 - Mikey Leibbrandt won by forfeit (Rawlins Co. was open)
160 - Dylan Wolaver won by fall (5:10) over Austin Reuber
170 - Lane Hobrock won by fall (4:20) over Neil Portschy
182 - Zach Gienger won by fall (1:53) over Anthony Merida
195 - Thomas Douthit won by fall (1:09) over Trever Sattler
220 - Brody Malsom (RC) won by forfeit (St. Francis was open)
285 - Bryce Henry (RC) won by forfeit (St. Francis was open)
The Indians will wrestle in the Northwest Kansas League Tournament on Saturday, January 26th, in Oberlin.
