Independently owned since 1905
Independently owned since 1905
CONTEMPLATING HIS NEXT MOVE - Plains senior Conrad Vanderwall won second place at 138 pounds in the Buzz Lucey Memorial tournament in Eureka Saturday. Area wrestlers return to mat action Jan. 3 at the Ronan Duals.
Led by the placing efforts of Conrad Vanderwall (second at 138 pounds), Mason Elliott (third at 120) and Jesse Uski (fourth at 160), the Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen scored 70 team points and finished seventh in team scoring at the Buzz Lucey Memorial wrestling tournament in Eureka Saturday. The Savage Horsemen grapplers also participated in a mixer match in Eureka Friday.
"It was an encouraging effort from the whole team in Eureka," coach Jeff Kujala said. "The kids are working really hard and learning as we go. We look forward to getting back after it after Christmas."
Like most Western B-C teams in the area, Plains-Hot Springs will return to action competing in the Ronan Duals tourney Jan. 3-4.
Vanderwall's second-place win was the highlight for P-HS last week. Vanderwall won a 9-4 decision form Aaron Gaitan of Kalispell Flathead in the semifinals before facing off with Eureka's Nathan Schmidt in the 138 final.
Schmidt won by pin in 5:07. Kujala said Vanderwall also went three rounds with Schmidt in the mixer match Friday.
"I am really happy with how Conrad is wrestling," Kujala said. "Schmidt is a pretty tough opponent, we will have to work on a strategy with how to wrestle him in the future."
Only a freshman, Elliott won his first high school tournament medal in Eureka, pinning Ryan Schwegel of Libby in 1:52 of the 120 consolation final. Uski earned his fourth place medal at 160 by winning four matches and losing only two Saturday.
Brady Schrenk (1-2 at 113 pounds), Taylor Angle (0-2 at 113), Gage Fuhrman (1-2 at 145), Bert DeTienne, (3-2 and one match win away from placing at 152), and Stephen Yother (1-2 at 285) also all grappled in Eureka.
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