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Show ' State Ends Wrestling Year PVEWIGHAM 5ports rnEN - As exPCCIcJ lhe Bengals of M,n walked away with their seventh Bn- , wrestling tide at the state 4A tourna-N tourna-N !rJl-. j ast weekend on the campus of We-""Ue. We-""Ue. The Bengals used some superior Ms they crowned three champions. Jlotne great depth to earn the title. FfioN ONE champions Box Elder gave Briuhton club the stillest competition as W Bee's finished in second place with 129. h uLcst as- third with 125 with up start West U n in fourth with 104. The best finish by a local side was the fifth showing of Jim Dickson's Darts. The ll ' ',ltn one state title and then came up with . "'w,nii place, a fourth place and one fifth ''finish to pile up 93 team points. AVTON WAS the next local side as the I oa'rs- coached by Mike Hansen, captured - Estate title one fourth place showing and a 'lie of fifth Pliices for 84 Pints and e'Shth jj:e Right behind the Lancers was rival karfielil. by one-half of a point, as the Fal-0n Fal-0n had 'one third, three wrestlers claim fourth and one fifth. Vicmont. Woods Cross and Bountiful each 3': bJ one wrestler place with the Vikings getting lecond place effort, the Wildcats a third place "honing and the Braves a fifth place effort. THE BEST finish of any local wrestler was tool' Davis senior Nate Hinckley who took a M decision in the finals over a sophomore from West Jordan to capture the state crown in ,l,c 55 pound division. This win gave Nate a perfect 24-0 record for his final year. Last year ol ;ite lost in the state finals but this time around 'f he was the best at his weight. :iif. Shawn Robinson of the Darts got into the K finals at 112. considered by everyone as the at' Mughest classification in the tournament, but ' 1 ' iken dropped a 5-0 decision to Dave Lucero of dr Cyprus. Lucero closed out a brilliant high ichool career in which he never lost a match in three years. m L 3 Davis placed fifth, highest among the local squads, while Vicwmont, Woods Cross and Bountiful each had one wrestler place. GREG McNABB of the Darts was involved in a classic battle in the semi-finals with a wrestler from Hillcrest. Greg was down most of the match but each time he fought back to draw even. The match was tied at the end of regulation and then tied again at the end of the overtime period. As it turned out the Hillcrest man had the win but Greg came back to claim the fourth place spot. Senior Derek Green was the other Dart to place in the top six as he fought his way to a fifth place showing at 105 pounds. Shon Wilson knew he had an uphill battle at state in the 145 pound division since he was the defending state champion. However Shon looked strong and impressive in getting into the finals one more time but this time he was knocked off by a Brighton wrestler. Shon finished out his senior year with a great 26-2 record. Many observers felt that Shon would drop his battle with a West Jordan wrestler in the semi-finals but he proved all of them wrong with a convincing 9-3 decision, maybe it took more out of him than anticipated. JOE GILLESPIE of Woods Cross had to be the smallest heavyweight in the state tournament tourna-ment but that didn't prevent him from placing third in the division. His lone loss came in the semi-finals as he lost to the Brighton wrestler, who went on to place second. Joe had a family thing going since his brother Ben placed fifth last year but this time around Joe came up with the third place showing for the Gillespie clan. Jeff Olson of Bountiful has been fighting for respect all season and he won a lot of it with his fifth place showing at state in the tough 119 pound division. One of his defeats came to the eventual state champion but he battled back to claim fifth. DURING THE three day affair many topics of interest came up so here are a few thoughts and observations from the tournament. --Throughout the tournament the coacfies were complaining about the lack of officials yet the state continues to schedule the state tournaments tour-naments at the same time. Wrestling should do like basketball and schedule their state events on different weeks so the good officials can work them all. --VIEWMONT WOULD have to get the hard luck award for the state event. Some coaches felt the Vikes would place in the top five as a team but before the first matches were wrestled wres-tled the Vikes lost two of their best prospects. One was lost to injuries while another to disciplinary disci-plinary reasons. "That killed Monte" admitted Woods Cross coach Bob Steele, "both of those kids would have placed at state. They lost as much as 30 team points with those two cut out." Add 30 to the Vikes total and they would have had enough points to place in the top ten as a team. -There was a lot of comments and talk about the proposed two team at region theory presented pre-sented in this paper a week ago. The 4A coaches met as a group to discuss the plan and they like it and are going to push for it to pass. --SEEDING OR the draw had as much to do with some of the outcomes as anything else. Some wrestlers got a great draw in the tournament tourna-ment while others didn't. Consider the plight of Viewmont's Casey Kleinman who lost twice to the same guy. Casey got to wrestle four matches match-es with two of them against the same dude. -Coaching wrestling is like all the other sports in one aspect. The coaches that were in the battle for a team trophy were tense and up tight while others were loose. Guess the pressure press-ure of winning is in all sports. |