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Three wrestlers win tourney titles for Davison
Monday, December 11, 2000
The Flint Journal
Davison had three individual wrestling champions in finishing third at the 15-team Howell Invitational.
The Cardinals scored 157 points. Eaton Rapids won with 197 and Lowell was second with 187. Lansing Eastern (1351?2) was fourth, Howell (119) fifth and Goodrich (118) sixth.
Davison's Chase Metcalf was named Most Valuable Wrestler in the lower weights after winning the 130-pound crown and Goodrich's Ryan Tripp was MVP in the upper weights after claiming the 145 title.
John Whitman (125) and Casey Streeter (171) also finished first for Davison. Keristen Labelle (103), Chad Roush (152) and Adam Wilmont (189) were second. Dan Charron (112) took fourth.
Nick Oertel (140) was second and Zachariah Pyles (125) third for Goodrich.
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Palo Duro wins El Paso tournament
12/4/2000
EL PASO- The Palo Duro Lady Dons won the El Paso Invitational Saturday, scoring 194 points, easily outdistancing second place Amarillo Caprock, which had 132 points.
Wrestling action continues tonight with two dual matches. Amarillo High will be hosting River Road in boys action. Junior varsity action begins at 6 p.m., followed by varsity action at 7.
Also the Palo Duro Dons will be hosting Dumas at 7. Junior varsity actions gets started at 6.
Third place went to El Paso Hanks with 79 points, followed by El Paso Burgess with 43 point sand fifth place Tascosa with 33 points. Amarillo High was seventh in the nine-team tournament with 10 points.
Palo Duro dominated, winning eight of the 10 weight divisions. Winning for the Lady Dons were Kruncy Inthirath (95 pounds), Lauren Lindsey (119), Vivana Rios (128), Tabitha Powell (138), Janice Gooden (148), Casey Brittain (165), Rachael Morgan (185) and Dyana McIntyre (heavyweight).
Winning first place in the 110-pound division was Caprock's Deedra Puentes. The only non-Amarillo winner was El Paso Hanks' Victoria Morales, who won the 102-pound division.
Tasia Benefield of Tascosa got second in the 148-pound division.
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PD girl wrestlers wipe out Tascosa
By STEVE BELVIN 12/13/2000
Globe-News Sports Writer
Janice Gooden came, saw and conquered. So did her teammates as the Palo Duro Lady Dons defeated the Tascosa Lady Rebels 48-9 in wrestling action Tuesday night at the Tascosa gym.
Gooden, last year's state runnerup, pinned Shelbee Hutchens in 1:34 in the 148-pound weight division. Gooden won despite nursing a pulled muscle in her chest cavity.
"It tightens up and makes it hard for me to breathe," said Gooden, who lost last in the state championship to former Caprock wrestler Tori Adams, the No. 1 wrestler in the nation last year.
"Coach had told us they were an upper body team so we could shoot for their legs. I told him I wanted to pick her up long enough to enjoy it, slam her down and pin her. He said it sounded like a plan to him."
Gooden was holding a 2-0 lead when she pinned Hutchens with a bar-arm-half. She admits her many battles with Adams last year are paying off.
"I wrestled her 10 times last year," she said. "A lot of times she didn't go as hard as she could just because she needed the mat time. We talked some. I learned a lot from her. I look up to her."
One of the main reasons for the lopsided score was that Tascosa forfeited three matches, but the Lady Dons still outscored them 30-9.
Tascosa coach Johnny Cobb said his team's goal is to be ready for district.
"We eventually hope to have a full team, all the girls ready to compete, injury free," said Cobb. "We've been working on this for a long time. Maybe by district we'll be able to rattle some cages. But the girls did well, considering they're wrestling against maybe the No. 1 team in the country."
Tascosa's three wins came via a forfeit in the 110-pound division; Jennifer Brantley nipping Stormy Grear 12-11 in the 102-pound division, and Houston Shepard pinning Tabitha Powell in 1:59.
Brantley, a sophomore, started out quickly against Grear, getting three back points and a near pin to take a 7-2 lead. But the Palo Duro freshman battled back, tying the score at 7-apiece with a chicken wing move. But Brantley reversed the hold for two points and never trailed after that. The match ended with Grear going for a barbed wire hold but never being able to get it on.
"I was just thinking I've got to get up. If I don't I'm going to get my but kicked," said Brantley. "This is her first year wrestling and I've been wrestling since the seventh grade. I have a little more technique than she does."
Grear who is 1-4 in matches this year, said all of her matches have been close.
"I didn't know the score was that close, mostly I was just trying to pin her with the barbed wire. She had real good technique and was real strong in her upper body."
Getting pin wins for the Lady Dons were Lauren Lindsey in the 119-pound division, Viviana Rios (128) and Casey Brittan (165).
"I think we had some girls that wrestled really well and some that didn't wrestle as well as they could've," said Palo Duro coach Lisa Hunt. "I'm real pleased with the way Stormy (Grear), Lauren (Lindsey) and Viviana (Rios) wrestled. Tabitha (Powell) can wrestle a lot better than she wrestled tonight, but their wild techniques threw us off."
In a scary moment, Palo Duro's junior varsity wrestler Roberta Gallegos injured her back and had to be taken out on a stretcher. She was released from Northwest Texas Hospital Tuesday night.
In the boys competition, the Tascosa Rebels edged the Dons 45-36. The match was decided when Rebels sophomore heavyweight Justin Adams pinned Joe Perez in 1:08. Palo Duro coach Steve Nelson had originally entered Perez in the 215-pound division. But he withdrew Perez from that division and put him in the heavyweight division. If he had pinned Adams, Palo Duro would've won 42-39. If he had won a decision, the match would've ended in a 39-39 tie.
"I have to give Steve Nelson credit, he almost pulled one over on us," said Cobb of the Palo Duro coach. Not only is he one of my good friends, I should've known he would try something like this. And the way those heavyweights were going, the match could've gone either way."
In other wrestling action, the Amarillo High Sandies held off Hereford 37-33. Hereford won the last six matches to make the score close.
The Sandies got pin wins from Doug Frey (140), T.J. Waller (1:38) and Dan Gianoutsos (152).
Kevin Dudding (130) got a technical fall win while Clark Griffin (103), Robert Gill (112) and Justin Schaeffer (125) all won decisions.
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Women's Freestyle Open
at Minnesota-Morris
12/1/00
46kg
1. Julie Harris (University of Calgary) dec. Clarris Chun (MVC), 9-4
3. Sandron Padron (MVC) pinned Jenny Donahoe (UM-Morris), 1:47
51kg
1. Eric Sharp (University of Calgary) tech. fall Marianne Vollmer (MVC), 10-0
3. Amy Alvadro (MVC) won by def. over Angela Hesener (MVC)
56kg
1. Leigh Jaynes (MVC) dec. Aimee McNab (MVC), 13-9
3. Grace Magnussen (MVC) tech. fall Sarah Devers (UM-Morris), 10-0
5. Katie Ross (UM-Morris) pinned Crystal Metz (UM-Morris), 1:04
62kg
1. Mollie Keith (MVC) dec. Melissa Fogarty (MVC), 8-3
68kg
1. Katie Downing (UM-Morris) pinned Kaci Lyle (MVC), 4:02
3. Megan Williams (MVC) dec. Amanda Kelling (UM-Morris), 10-3
75kg
1. Alison Patrick (UM-Morris) pinned Alicia Mena (Westside/Westend), 2:15
3. Donell Bradley (MVC) dec. Samantha Branka (UM-Morris), 9-7
*Most Outstanding Wreslter: Leigh Jaynes (Missouri Valley College), 56 kg