Wednesday, December 23, 2020

2021 Season Has Begun

Welcome everyone to the first blog of the 20/21 season. Aberdeen has a young team this year with just one Senior, Same Calvert who is at 170 lbs. The first tournament of the year, as normal is the dual tournament in Watertown. The team went 2-2 on the day and was competitive in all 4 duals. The action started against the home team of Watertown who beat us 27-46. Lots of close matches and a competitive dual for the most part. New this year is the duals will draw to see what weight they start at instead of the usual start at 106. We started at 195, lost at 195 and 220 before getting a forfeit at 285. Next was 9th grader Rayden Zens at 106. Rayden went undefeated on the day including a 7-1 decision over Sloan Johannsen from Watertown. When the rankings came out Rayden was ranked #2 and Sloan #3. This was a good win for Rayden early in the year. At 113 for Aberdeen is 8th grader Mason Schremmp. Although this is no shock to me, he turned a lot of heads with his performance on the day going undefeated as well. Mason beat Briggs 4-2 to tie the dual score at 12 each. Jacob Bellefuille at 120 wbd over Le and Brock Martin earned a 2nd period fall against Krause to extend Aberdeen's lead 21-12. A pin from Watertown at 132 was answered by a pin by Junior Braydon Steuck over Dowling at 138. That would be the end of the scoring for Aberdeen as Watertown tallied 3 pins, a forfeit and a major decision to win. Next up was Huron and another competitive dual. Starting at 182 Huron earned a tech fall before Aberdeen's Anthony Brunmaier got a pin over Dah Moo and Bryce Beitelspacher earned a forfeit. A pin at 285 for Huron and a forfeit at 106 gave Central the lead 18-11/ Schrempp pinned Bischoff in the first period to extend the lead before Huron answered with a fall of their own at 120. Junior Brock Martin replied to that pin by getting his second straight pin at 126. The back and forth dual continued when Huron earned a fall at 132 then Braydon Steuck WBD over Oschsner 4-0. Team score at this poins is 33- 23 Aberdeen. Huron would get two straight pins then win by decision to take the dual 33-38. Milbank was our next opponent and became our first dual victory. This was a pin or get pinned dual with several forfeits from Milbank. Our young guys in the lineup are getting valuable experience and hopefully as the season progresses they can find ways to stay off their backs and avoid giving up those bonus points. Aberdeen got pins by Freshman Bryce Beitelspacher and Sam Calvert and a tech fall from Brock Martin. We also received 4 forfeits. We won the dual 47-35. Our final dual of the day was against Tea Area, also a young team with only a few upper classman. This dual started at 285 with Tea getting a fall. Zens at 106 finished his day witha fall of his own and Schrempp earned a decision to put us up 9-6. Next at 120 Tea has Quincy Hulverson who is a past state finalist and earned a fall giving Tea the lead, they would add to that lead until Braydon Steuck at 138 won in a high scoring match 20-12 earning a major decision. A 1st period pin by Sophomore Brayden Senger at 145 then a forfeit for 8th grader Cordell Rychlik put Aberdeen in the lead 25-18. A pin, forfeit and pin for Tea and a forfiet for Aberdeen made the score 36-31 in favor of Tea Area, this brought up a big moment early in the year for the team with Freshman Bryce Beitelspacher taking the mat at 220. Needing a pin to win the dual that's exactly what Bryce did at the 1:57 mark to earn an exciting dual victory 37-36. For the first time girls wrestling is a sanctioned sport in SD. There aren't established weight classes yet but I believe there will be by the end of the year. Looking up the data it appears Morgan Woosley got the first win for varsity girls with a pin over Brooklyn Brant from Sturgis during the Rapid Invite!Congrats Brooklyn, it's exciting to see there is a sanctioned varsity girls sport in the state. Girls wrestling is the fastest growing female sport in the country and will only help the sport grow. RAPID INVITE This years Rapid Invite was different due to the virus. Day one was an 8 team individual tournament and day two was a dual tourney. Day one results: 106. Rayden Zens Runner up finish. lbd to Johannsen of Watertown in the finals. 113. Mason Schrempp 3rd place. wbmd over Anderson from Chamberlain 120. Jacob Bellefuille 0-2 126. Brock Martin 1-2 132. Logan Opitz 0-2 138. Braydon Steuck Runner up finish. LBD to Allen of RCS 4-3 145. Braden Senger 1-2 160. Ayden Gisi 0-2 170. Sam Calvert 0-2 182. Dylan Schaunaman 1-2 220. Landon Merkel 0-2 285. Bryce Beitlespacher 1-2 Rapid Invite Duals Aberdeen over Harding County 66-11 Earning pins were Dylan Schaunaman, Mason Schrempp, Brock Martin, Avery Ligon at 132, Lots of forfeits from Harding County. Aberdeen over Belle Fourche 58-23. Earning pins were Rayden Zens, Mason Schrempp, Jacob Bellefuille, Brock Martin, Braydon Steuck, Ayden Gisi and Dylan Schaunaman. Sam Calvert won by Major decision. Abedeen over Rapid City Central 50-29 Earning pins were Bryce Beitelspacher, Rayden Zens, Mason Schrempp, Brock Martin, Avery Ligon, Sam Calvert. Dylan Schaunaman wins BMD, Jacob Bellefuille wbmd and Cordell Rychlick wins by forfeit Sturgis over Aberdeen 23-50. Rayden Zens wbf he had 3 pins and a forfeit victory. Mason Schrempp won by Tech fall, he had 3 pins and a tech fall victory. Brock Martin won by decision. He had 3 pins and win by decision. Sam Calvert beat Merwin 6-2 Aberdeen will have its first home dual on New Years Eve. The Middle school, JV and Varsity will all compete. Varsity action starts at 2:30. I do not know for sure if people can go and watch or if the only option is to watch on line. I believe they are limitin attendance to 4 family members per wrestler. My next update will include the dual against Pierre, the Brookings invite and Mitchell dual. Happy Holidays everyone. Go Eagles!