Dec 19th marked the home dual for the Eagles, an ESD matchup with Pierre. Pierre is the top ranked dual team in the state featuring 10 wrestlers ranked in the top 8 of their respective weight classes. They showed why they are the best dual team in the state handing us a 11-54 defeat. Aberdeen won two matches the entire dual. Garrett Mitzel got a first period pin over Jaret Clarke at 170 lbs and Brenden Salfrank won via tech fall over Trey Lewis at 113. The score doesn't reflect how close a lot of the matches were but Pierre's experience showed as they were able to win those close matches.
Two days later the varsity went up to Valley City ND to compete in what's called the Valley City Holiday Tournament. This 16 team tournament is new to the schedule. Aberdeen finished with a 7th place finish seeing marketable improvement up and down the lineup.
106: Jacob Bellefuille, 1-2 with a pin over Sawyer Carr from West Fargo Sheyenne
113: Brenden Salfrank, 4-0, Champion. 3 straight pins before beating Tanefue for the second time this year for the title. Tanefue is the ND Class A state champ last year at 106 from Bismark
126: Brock Martin, 3-2, 6th place, Brock opened with a tech fall over Hunter Owens (Wahpeton)then bounced back from a quarterfinal loss to tech fall Schuldheisz from Valley City. He then beat Tate Olson from Bismarck before losing to Jamestown's Bowmen.
132: Ethan Allen, 0-2
145: Logan Beadle, 1-2. Logan WBMD over Richter from Bismark St. Mary's
152: Samuel Calvert, 0-2
160: Garrett Mitzel, 2-2, 4th place finish. Pinned Palmer from Mandan in the first period and followed that up by pinning Bridgeford from Grand Forks Central also in period one. Garrett lost a tight one 4-6 in the semi's then another close one to finish in 4th.
170: Dylan Schaunaman, 1-2, 7th place finish. Dylan pinned Ethan Mitchell from Bismarck Legacy in the 2nd period.
195: Dillon Stoebner: 3-0 all pins, Champion: After a 1st round bye Dillon stuck Lisbon's Nord in the later part of the 3rd period. he then pinned Surpris from Fargo North in the first period to send him to the finals. There he would pin Jamestown's Austin Kessler in the first period as well. A very dominant performance by the senior.
220: Samson Flakus. 0-2
285: Connor Bockorny 3-1. 4th place. Connor started by pinning Dillman out of Mandan then followed that up with a first period pin in the quarter finals over Burckhard from Century. Connor ended the day in 4th place.
The next action will be on January 4th, an ESD dual against Mitchell in Mitchell.
Friday, December 27, 2019
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
The Watertown Dual Tourney and Rapid City
The Eagles wrestling season got underway at Watertown in their dual tournament. 7 teams this year instead of the usual 8. Aberdeen was in a pool of 3 with Yankton and Harrisburg. Our first action was against the Bucks from Yankton. It looked like we weren't all settled as to what weight class everyone was going to be at for the year as I saw different kids at different weights throughout the day. Starting off at 106 was freshman Jacob Bellefuille. He was dominating his opponent showing some aggressiveness on his feet before pinning him in a spladel during the 3rd period. Following at 113 was defending state champion Brenden Salfrank who also got a pin over Tucker Bahm. Yankton followed with a pin of their own before Aberdeen rattled off 6 straight wins to put the dual out of reach. Brock Martin and Calvin Beadle would get decisions. Ethan Allen, Logan Beadle and Dylan Schaunaman would earn falls while Garrett Mitzel got a forfeit and Landon Merkel, with his first wrestling action of his career, would also get a forfeit. The Eagles won 54-21.
The next dual would not go the Eagles way facing a very strong Harrisburg Tigers team who beat us 20-53. Bellefuille would earn another pin. Brenden Salfrank won via Tech Fall. Garrett Mitzel won a close one 4-3 and finishing out the scoring for Aberdeen was Connor Bockorny pinning Larsen in the second period.
Going 1-1 in pool play put us in the match for 3rd place where we would face Mitchell. Just like the previous two duals Jacob Bellefuille started the dual out with a pin, this time early in the 2nd period. What a great beginning to his career going 3-0 with 3 pins and earning the Varsity Wrestler of the Week. Salfrank got a 2nd period pin as well putting us up 12-0. a Mitchell pin at 120 was followed by a decision for Brock Martin then a pin from Drew Salfrank. Mitchell would then roll off 4 straight pins before they forfeited to Mitzel at 170. Richard Steuck kept the scoring going pinning Fick in the second period. A Stoebner pin at 195 in under a minute and another forfeit to Landon Merkel sealed the dual for the Eagles who would win 45-33.
Thursday the team went west for a triangular with Rapid City Central and Sturgis. Both teams bested us as we wrestled shorthanded with 3 forfeits. I believe several starters were out to take their ACT college entrance exams. Those that made the trip competed hard and it started out just like in Watertown with Jacob Bellefuille at 106 earning a second period fall over Jacob Pavlicek. If that name is familiar it's because they were from Aberdeen and he wrestled his elementary years in our youth program. Brenden would also continue the winning ways beating Steven Perman via tech fall. The Cobblers would go on to win the next 6 matches before Garrett Mitzel put an end to that pinning Landin Winter at the 4 minute mark. Dillon Stoebner would also get a fall in the last match of the dual. Aberdeen would forfeit the last two weights. The final score was 23-56
It was an even more lopsided dual against Sturgis, they beat us 60-9. Brenden Salfrank won 5-0 and Dillon Stoebner pinned Clayton Smith in the first period for our only two victories. Early in the season it is easy to see we give up too many pins which are hard to overcome in a dual format. As the season progresses and we get more experience I would expect to see that diminish.
The following day was the Rapid Invite. This tourney is growing and gaining popularity amongst the out of state teams. A total of 40 teams this year and some really good competition early in the year. Aberdeen had only 3 kids make it to day two of the tourney with two of them placing. Below is a synopsis of each kid at their weight class.
106 Jacob Bellefuille. He went 1-2 on the weekend. Beating Spenser Eldeen from Mitchell 11-0
113 Brenden Salfrank. Brenden had a fantastic tournament bringing home the title and defeating a couple state champions along the way. Brenden rattled off 3 straight pins getting him to the semi-finals where he would face Nebraska Class B state champ, Quinton Chavez. Brenden handled him 7-2. This put him in the finals against Bismarck ND High state champ Christian Tanefeu. Brenden must not have been happy with his semi finals performance because he got after Tanefeu and totally dominated him beating him 15-0. An incredible performance by the senior who is now 10-0 on the year.
120 Drew Salfrank. Drew got down to this weight class which will certainly help him and the team as the year progresses. He went 1-2 beating a kid from Williston.
126 Brock Martin. 2-2 and just missed placing. Brock beat Sparks from Mitchell and Bismark Legacy's Blumhagen.
132, Open
138 Calvin Beadle 1-2 beating Heggney from Mandan
145 Logan Beadle 0-2
145 Brayden Steuck 0-2
152 Samuel Calvert 1-2 beat McCubbin from SF Washington
160 Garrett Mitzel 2-2 defeated Schneck from Milbank and Booth from Dickinson
170 Dylan Schaunaman 0-2
182 Andrew Richardson 1-2 beating Borrelli from Worland via pin
195 Dillon Stoebner had a really good tournament. The 5 seed finished in 3rd place. He opened the tourney pinning Christensen from Huron then a major decision over Atwood from Hot Springs. In the quarter finals he would beat the 4 seed Holtquist from Milbank 8-2. Day two he faced the top seed Sam Adams from Harding County losing 7-3. Dillon would bounce back with another major decision, this time over Glatt form Bismark then would go on to beat Regan Bollweg from Pierre in a wild 17-12 match for 3rd place. Of Note: both Milbank and Pierre are in our Region so these two wins have region seeding implications.
220 Open
285 Open
Bismark High would go on to win the tournament with 188 points. Brandon Valley is the top finishing South Dakota School in 3rd place with 173.5 RC Stevens 5th, Pierre 6th. RCC 8th, Sturgis 9th, Chamberlain 10th. Aberdeen would finish in 17th place.
Next action is Thursday Dec 19th. The home dual opener against Pierre. Varsity action starts at 7:00, JV 6:00 middle school around 5:00
The next dual would not go the Eagles way facing a very strong Harrisburg Tigers team who beat us 20-53. Bellefuille would earn another pin. Brenden Salfrank won via Tech Fall. Garrett Mitzel won a close one 4-3 and finishing out the scoring for Aberdeen was Connor Bockorny pinning Larsen in the second period.
Going 1-1 in pool play put us in the match for 3rd place where we would face Mitchell. Just like the previous two duals Jacob Bellefuille started the dual out with a pin, this time early in the 2nd period. What a great beginning to his career going 3-0 with 3 pins and earning the Varsity Wrestler of the Week. Salfrank got a 2nd period pin as well putting us up 12-0. a Mitchell pin at 120 was followed by a decision for Brock Martin then a pin from Drew Salfrank. Mitchell would then roll off 4 straight pins before they forfeited to Mitzel at 170. Richard Steuck kept the scoring going pinning Fick in the second period. A Stoebner pin at 195 in under a minute and another forfeit to Landon Merkel sealed the dual for the Eagles who would win 45-33.
Thursday the team went west for a triangular with Rapid City Central and Sturgis. Both teams bested us as we wrestled shorthanded with 3 forfeits. I believe several starters were out to take their ACT college entrance exams. Those that made the trip competed hard and it started out just like in Watertown with Jacob Bellefuille at 106 earning a second period fall over Jacob Pavlicek. If that name is familiar it's because they were from Aberdeen and he wrestled his elementary years in our youth program. Brenden would also continue the winning ways beating Steven Perman via tech fall. The Cobblers would go on to win the next 6 matches before Garrett Mitzel put an end to that pinning Landin Winter at the 4 minute mark. Dillon Stoebner would also get a fall in the last match of the dual. Aberdeen would forfeit the last two weights. The final score was 23-56
It was an even more lopsided dual against Sturgis, they beat us 60-9. Brenden Salfrank won 5-0 and Dillon Stoebner pinned Clayton Smith in the first period for our only two victories. Early in the season it is easy to see we give up too many pins which are hard to overcome in a dual format. As the season progresses and we get more experience I would expect to see that diminish.
The following day was the Rapid Invite. This tourney is growing and gaining popularity amongst the out of state teams. A total of 40 teams this year and some really good competition early in the year. Aberdeen had only 3 kids make it to day two of the tourney with two of them placing. Below is a synopsis of each kid at their weight class.
106 Jacob Bellefuille. He went 1-2 on the weekend. Beating Spenser Eldeen from Mitchell 11-0
113 Brenden Salfrank. Brenden had a fantastic tournament bringing home the title and defeating a couple state champions along the way. Brenden rattled off 3 straight pins getting him to the semi-finals where he would face Nebraska Class B state champ, Quinton Chavez. Brenden handled him 7-2. This put him in the finals against Bismarck ND High state champ Christian Tanefeu. Brenden must not have been happy with his semi finals performance because he got after Tanefeu and totally dominated him beating him 15-0. An incredible performance by the senior who is now 10-0 on the year.
120 Drew Salfrank. Drew got down to this weight class which will certainly help him and the team as the year progresses. He went 1-2 beating a kid from Williston.
126 Brock Martin. 2-2 and just missed placing. Brock beat Sparks from Mitchell and Bismark Legacy's Blumhagen.
132, Open
138 Calvin Beadle 1-2 beating Heggney from Mandan
145 Logan Beadle 0-2
145 Brayden Steuck 0-2
152 Samuel Calvert 1-2 beat McCubbin from SF Washington
160 Garrett Mitzel 2-2 defeated Schneck from Milbank and Booth from Dickinson
170 Dylan Schaunaman 0-2
182 Andrew Richardson 1-2 beating Borrelli from Worland via pin
195 Dillon Stoebner had a really good tournament. The 5 seed finished in 3rd place. He opened the tourney pinning Christensen from Huron then a major decision over Atwood from Hot Springs. In the quarter finals he would beat the 4 seed Holtquist from Milbank 8-2. Day two he faced the top seed Sam Adams from Harding County losing 7-3. Dillon would bounce back with another major decision, this time over Glatt form Bismark then would go on to beat Regan Bollweg from Pierre in a wild 17-12 match for 3rd place. Of Note: both Milbank and Pierre are in our Region so these two wins have region seeding implications.
220 Open
285 Open
Bismark High would go on to win the tournament with 188 points. Brandon Valley is the top finishing South Dakota School in 3rd place with 173.5 RC Stevens 5th, Pierre 6th. RCC 8th, Sturgis 9th, Chamberlain 10th. Aberdeen would finish in 17th place.
Next action is Thursday Dec 19th. The home dual opener against Pierre. Varsity action starts at 7:00, JV 6:00 middle school around 5:00
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
2019-2020 A New Season
Hello everyone and welcome to another year of Aberdeen Golden Eagle Wrestling. The summer seemed to fly by and here we are just a few days away from the first competition of the year. Some schedule changes this year, the first one I noticed is we are not going to the Rumble on the Red. South Dakota now has a "no contact" time during the December holiday's and that is when the Rumble tournament is. I do see we are going to one in Valley City and one in Sioux City so getting to wrestle some different competition. However, as has been tradition for quite some time, the first tourney of the year is the Watertown dual tournament. After an opening round bye we will wrestle Harrisburg followed by Yankton. We will see who we have after that depending on the outcome of those two duals. Then the team heads out west on Thursday for a triangular against Sturgis and Rapid City Central before the big Rapid Invite tourney.
Speaking of duals, South Dakota finally adopted a state dual tournament following the same formula that North Dakota has been doing for several years now. the duals will be mixed in with the individual state tourney adding an additional day of wrestling. Competition will start on a Thursday this year instead of Friday. I, as a fan, am very excited about this. A hotly contested dual can be extremely intense, add in that it could be for a state title now. I can't wait!
Coach Bowden has around 30 wrestlers in the room this year. He sent 15 to Brookings Tuesday night to wrestle in the Brookings JV Jamboree. Sounds like we had quite a few kids do well there. Talking to coach last night we have all weights filled, some with a lot of experience and some with little experience but expectations are the same. Returning starters this year are Brenden Salfrank, Drew Salfrank, Brock Martin, Ethan Allen, Calvin Beadle, Logan Beadle, Sam Calvert, Garrett Mitzel, Richard Stoick and Dillon Stoebner. Expected to make a significant contribution will be Jacob Bellefeuille, Dylan Schaunaman, Landon Merkel and Connor Bockorny.
Coach Swenson has almost 40 kids in the middle school room. a huge 6th grade class of 22 kids so far added to around 16 7th graders makes for a competitive wrestling room. I interviewed both coaches last night. Here is the YouTube link for that interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je_Y4QxSMNM
These interviews can also be found on our website www.aberdeenwrestling.com along with a lot of other wrestling information.
You can follow the high school team on Facebook Aberdeen Central Wrestling. Twitter is AC Wrestling which is @Golden EaglesWR. Also, the middle school Twitter page is Aberdeen Middle School Wrestling, @ eaglesmswr
Looking forward to the season. Good luck to all Aberdeen wrestlers!
Speaking of duals, South Dakota finally adopted a state dual tournament following the same formula that North Dakota has been doing for several years now. the duals will be mixed in with the individual state tourney adding an additional day of wrestling. Competition will start on a Thursday this year instead of Friday. I, as a fan, am very excited about this. A hotly contested dual can be extremely intense, add in that it could be for a state title now. I can't wait!
Coach Bowden has around 30 wrestlers in the room this year. He sent 15 to Brookings Tuesday night to wrestle in the Brookings JV Jamboree. Sounds like we had quite a few kids do well there. Talking to coach last night we have all weights filled, some with a lot of experience and some with little experience but expectations are the same. Returning starters this year are Brenden Salfrank, Drew Salfrank, Brock Martin, Ethan Allen, Calvin Beadle, Logan Beadle, Sam Calvert, Garrett Mitzel, Richard Stoick and Dillon Stoebner. Expected to make a significant contribution will be Jacob Bellefeuille, Dylan Schaunaman, Landon Merkel and Connor Bockorny.
Coach Swenson has almost 40 kids in the middle school room. a huge 6th grade class of 22 kids so far added to around 16 7th graders makes for a competitive wrestling room. I interviewed both coaches last night. Here is the YouTube link for that interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je_Y4QxSMNM
These interviews can also be found on our website www.aberdeenwrestling.com along with a lot of other wrestling information.
You can follow the high school team on Facebook Aberdeen Central Wrestling. Twitter is AC Wrestling which is @Golden EaglesWR. Also, the middle school Twitter page is Aberdeen Middle School Wrestling, @ eaglesmswr
Looking forward to the season. Good luck to all Aberdeen wrestlers!
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