Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Triangular and the Lee Wolf

     Last weekend was a busy one with Aberdeen hosting both Harrisburg and Watertown in a triangular dual at the old Civic Arena. Injuries and sickness has been an issue lately with the team causing them to have 5 opens. Spotting any team 30 points makes it difficult to win a dual and that proved to be the case Thursday night. Harrisburg handed us a 24-48 setback. Kaden Johnson and Will Jarrott won by fall, Brenden Salfrank by tech fall, Brock Martin earned a major decision and Sam Calvert won by decision. For the Watertown dual Aberdeen fell 18-58. Pins for Aberdeen were Salfrank, Jarrott and Johnson. The next dual will be Thursday, January 31 in Brookings.
     On Saturday was the annual Lee Wolf Invite, this year had 18 teams and several top ranked kids in ND and SD. Aberdeen, still short several wrestlers, had a good showing finishing in 7th place. It would have been nice to see how they would have done with a full lineup. The top ranked B school in SD, Canton, won the tournament followed by Winner then Watertown.
     106 Brenden Salfrank. The top ranked A wrestler in South Dakota dominated the #2 ranked B wrestler, Andy Meyer, from Canton winning 11-1. Brenden pinned his way to the finals before capping off the win against Meyer to earn the Title at the Lee Wolf. Salfrank remains undefeated this year with a current record of 29-0 while recording 19 pins along the way.
     106 Logan Opitz went 0-2
     113 Brock Martin is currently sitting at a record of 17-14 and earned an 8th place finish. He had a nice win shutting out Mobridge-Pollocks Isaac Aman winning by major decision 8-0.
     113 Drew Salfrank went 1-2 earning a win over Huron's Will Radke.
     132 Calvin Beadle went 1-2 earning a 4-2 decision over Bismarck Legacy, Caedmon Marx.
     132 Caden Rush went 0-2
     138 Logan Beadle went 0-2
     138 Braydon Steuck went 1-2. He earned a tough fought overtime victory over Preston Gall from Jamestown.
     145 Garrett Mitzel is 15-18 on the year and finished in 6th place. He beat a couple kids that had beaten him earlier in the year. Garrett went 3-3 on the day earning two pins and a decision. The win over Huron's Daynon Huber was a big one for him and will help in the region seedings.
     152 Sam Calvert went 1-2 beating Riley Martin from Bismarck Legacy 6-1
     160 Will Jarrott's record on the year so far is 26-4. He is ranked #2 and had a good tournament losing in the finals to the top ranked kid in the B's, Sam Kruger, to earn a Runner Up finish. He had two pins and a 6-0 decision to get to the finals.
     195 Alex Hopfinger is 16-14 on the year. Alex has been picking up nice wins as the year goes on and is real close to breaking out and getting those big wins. He went 3-2 on the day for 5th place at the Lee Wolf collecting two pins along the way.
     220 Richard Steuck went 0-2
     285 Kaden Johnson is 25-5 this year. He earned another pin en-route to the finals where he fell victim to Nash Hutmacher of Chamberlain to get a Runner Up finish. Kaden collected a pin in the quarter finals over Sebastian Cardona from Huron.


     You'll notice Aberdeen had some JV wrestlers participating in the tournament. That is some valuable experience they gained. The Lee Wolf is a tough one day tournament with a really cool atmosphere. Wrestling in this tournament will pay dividends down the road.


     The next tournament for the Eagles in in Huron on Feb 9. That is the last regular season event for the team, the following Saturday is the Region 3 tourney also being held in Huron. The state tourney, is in Rapid City Feb 22-23.



































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