| Show Uintah Ute wrestlers win 1 state crown The Box Elder Bees had a point lead of to going into the final day of but the Uintah Utes swatted the Bees with a stinging rally which netted the fifth straight and championship for the Vernal team at the State Wrestling Tournament at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City last Uintah amazed the crowd at the Special Events Center in Salt Lake City when they won 9 of 14 matches in the consolation bracket Saturday morning for a to The Utes went on to win their championship in 12 years with a total of Following the Uintah Utes in the final standings Box 1 Pleasant Woods 61 Spanish 50 and Bear Uintah's Morgan Woodhouse clinched the state championship for the Utes when he dropped Pleasant Grove's Jeff Faux for a fall with 16 seconds left in the The win by Woodhouse in the pound class was the second first place title in a row for the Vernal Woodhouse placed first in 1978 at The Utes had a slim lead of points going into the pound A first place win and a pin by Woodhouse would give the Utes six points points for first place and two points for the and a 12 point Box Elder had only two matches left and pins in both contests would leave the Bees hi point Woodhouse fulfilled the dream of a pin by the Utes as placed the Viking shoulder blades flat against the Uintah's other first place crown win ner was Josh Reynolds at 98 Reynolds was the only sophomore to capture first place in the state The Utes' Reynolds was defeated in a dual meet and in the Region Five meet by Phil Torres of who was picked to win the state the third time was the charm for Reynolds as he 6 to for the first place The match was tied at after one round of Reynolds nabbed an escape and a takedown in the second round for a Torres garnered a Reynolds pocketed an escape and a and Torres picked up an escape in the third round to make the final score 6 and Box Elder came within points of the Uintah lead when they won three of the next four Garry Box nipped Barry Frazier of Pleasant for the pound Spanish Fork's Mike LaFontaine performed a good deed for the Utes when he toppled undefeated Kerry Norman of Box for the pound Norman cut La Fontaine's lead to but the Spanish Fork grappler nabbed an takedown and a near fall in the third round for a six-point The Bees' Todd Williams won his second state title when he downed Nikki Pino of 12 to in the pound Box Elder was on the brink of disaster in the pound battle but Matt Smoot netted a reversal at the buzzer for a victory over Fred Allen of Spanish Allen was with 20 seconds left in the contest when Smoot was called for The win by Smoot brightened the Bees' hopes for the state but Morgan Woodhouse's pin crushed the Box Elder Bees' title Uintah also had Wayne and Ken garner second place crowns in the state Huber was downed by Jason Whitney of Woods 17 to in the first place The Utes' Ken who weighs was pinned by Russ with one minute left in the second Uintah wrestlers in the consolation bracket supplied the fuel for the Ute surge past Box Elder for first Frank Scott Matt and Kay netted third place Allan placed fifth and Ray and Rick a nabbed sixth Jaramillo blanked Kendall for third Murray placed third when he nipped Joe Matt Hacking gained third place when he shut out John Droubay of Kay Pleasant Grove's David for third Holmes pocketed fifth place when he edged Stan of Cedar Uintah's Huber was defeated by Max Cloward of and Perry was downed by Joe Meldrum of Spanish Carbon High School gained two first places when Wes Hicks swatted a Bee from Box Elder by the name of Bert in the pound class and Doug pinned John Leonar-di with one minute left in the third from Mark and Tom Pleasant joined Morgan Woodhouse and Todd Williams with two state titles in a Tate edged Shayne Anderson of Box and Phelon pinned Jeff Oyler of Bear River with left in the third |
