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Show T -,r-r.v.y iWtM'a-,.."JJ' 'J 1 ii HI. J- "U- .t.LJ,L.i,H)i.WliiH'. i.LilfyTinir-nr-7TT II 'I IT-HI )lin-1 ff-i-w..-,': ' ' K If J I ! At the awards ceremony Matt McNiel of Viewmont (back row, second from right) and Benson Alder of Bountiful (back right) received medals at the Viking tournament. Top Clubs Take Tommey By DAVE W1GHAM Clipper Sports VIEWMONT -- Three defending state championship wrestling teams rolled into town last weekend and left with top honors in the Viking Invitational tournament. BIG WINNERS were the Box Elder Bees, the defending 3A state champions, who won top team honors with a total of iVh points. That was good enough for a narrow victory over Brighton, the defending 4A champions, who finished with 162 points. Union, the 2A state champs, surprised the bigger schools and left town with third place and 158 team points. It wasn't until the Box Elder wrestler claimed the individual title in the 185 pound class that the team title was decided, had he lost his match then the Brighton team would have won. Layton High, which won their own tournament tourna-ment a couple of weeks ago, placed fourth in this event followed by Pleasant Grove, Alta, Hillcrest. Davis and Mountain View. Other teams involved were Bountiful, Clearfield, Woods Cross, Tooele, Weber, Sky View and the host Viewmont club. ON AN individual basis Box Elder, Brighton. Bright-on. Union, Pleasant Grove and Mountain View all had two champions with the other top spots going to Layton and Davis. Locally the big winner was Chris Cardinet of Davis who won the title in the 132 pound class with a pin over Ric Gallegoes of Layton in their title match. Layton's champion came in the 105 pound class when Rodney Rietnzes surprised sur-prised everyone with a great 4-1 victory over a highly regarded Gary Gordon of Alta, who was the top seed going into the tournament. VIEWMONT coach Steve Sanderson was upset at the performance of his wrestlers in his tournament. 'T guess I shouldn't be that upset since we only have two seniors on the club, but after finishing second at Layton this is a big disappointment for us. We're a young club and I'll guarantee you we'll be better by the time region gets here" he said with a tint of determination determi-nation in his voice. As Matt McNiel of the Vikings put it, "practice isn't going to be fun next week." It was McNiel who finished the highest for the Vikes as he came away with third place in the 138 pound class. Matt ran into trouble on Wearing the white mask, Chris Cardinet of Davis puts the pinning move on his opponent en route to the title. Friday night when he lost in the semifinals to the eventual champion from Union. "I was tired. Take nothing away from that guy he's good, but it had been a long day for all of us helping run the tournament." The only other Viking to take home a medal, by placing in the top six, was junior Mark Zesiger who finished in sixth spot in the 185 pound division. THREE WOODS Cross grapplers worked their way through this third tournament to earn medals led by Ben Gillespie who finished third in the 167 class. Ben lost his opening round match but then came back strong to win his next four matches including a win in the consolation con-solation finals over the same wrestler that beat him in the opening round. Other finishers for the Cats were Tim Goodwin (119) and Tracy Kirkham (132) who both finished sixth. For the Bountiful club two wrestlers carried their colors in the medal department with Dave Smith claiming fourth in the unlimited class and Benson Alder earned fifth in the 138 pound division. BESIDES the championship of Cardinet the Darts saw three other grapplers take some hardware home with them. Junior Nate Hinckley Hinc-kley took home the fourth place medal in the 155 pound class, Shawn Robinson the award for fifth in the 105 pound class and Roger Reynard the fifth place award at 126. All in all this was a great tournament, probably prob-ably the best way to sum it up came from Brighton Coach Dave Chavis when he commented, com-mented, "This tournament is as tough as state. Come to think of it with the top clubs from all the classifications this event is tougher than the state meet. It's just a great event." |
