Basketball, wrestling
BROKEN BOW - The Class B No. 4 Broken Bow wrestling team opened up their season in dominant fashion, with two victories to begin the year. At their home triangular on Dec. 4, they won both their duals, and then they won the Broken Bow Invite with 237 points on Dec. 5.
“I thought we really wrestled well this week,” Broken Bow head coach Ed Schaaf said. “It was a different environment with wrestlers staying in the classrooms until their matches were called, but we handled it well. It was pretty cool that our varsity won and our JV got fourth. It showed that we have a very competitive team from top to bottom.”
At the dual on Thursday, the Indians competed against Arcadia-Loup City and Wood River. The first dual of the night was between Wood River and Broken Bow.
During this dual, senior Lathan Duda who is rated No. 1 in Class B at 195 picked up the 150th win of his career. He was able to accomplish this by pinning Eli English in 0:35.
Other wrestlers for Broken Bow who picked up wins with pins, were Wilson Cucul Tzin at 120, Cyrus Wells at 126, Schylar Campbell at 132, and Max Denson at 170 pounds.
With the mixture of wins on the mat and forfeits, Broken Bow cruised to a 69-9 dual victory.
Next up on the mat was Wood River and A-LC. The Rebels came into this year with little experience, outside of Tyron Calleroz at 152 who made it to state last year.
Wood River ended up forfeiting every weight class except for 152, 170, and 220.
Calleroz was first up in the dual against Carson Thompson for the Eagles. He made quick work of his opponent and got him on his back for a pin in 1:14.
Chase Stieb was able to follow in his teammate’s footsteps and picked up a pin over Gunner Lacey 1:20 into their match.
The only loss for the Rebels in the dual, was by Chase Lewandowski at 220. He was pinned in 1:85 by Eli English.
When everything was said and done, A-LC walked away with a 48-18 win over Wood River.
The final dual of the night was between the Rebels and Indians. Unlike the previous two bouts with the Eagles, most of the weight classes were filled for both teams.
Before the dual actually started, there were two exhibition matches. They were at 220 between Cameron Russell of A-LC and Hagen Campbell of BB and at 285 between Tyler Thomas of BB and Luke Heil of A-LC.
Russell won his match by pinning Campbell in 4:39, and Thomas was able to pin Luke Heil in 0:26.
In the actual dual, Broken Bow got victories from Cucul Tzin at 120, Trey Garey at 138, Connor Wells at 145, Zackary Gaffney at 152, Kaden Powers at 182, Keifer Anderson at 220, and Sawyer Bumgarner at 285. For the Rebels, Calleroz at 160 and Chase Stieb at 170 both won.
Broken Bow ended up winning the dual by a final of f 69-12.
Overall, erall, A-LC coach Craige ge Trampe was proud of the he way his team performed ed in their two duals. He stated tated that the team fought ht hard and never gave up. He was particularly impressed with Calleroz at 160 who went 2-0.
“Tyron yron came out and wrestled tled like he is capable of,” Trampe said. “He is picking ing up right where he left ft off last year and I expect him t0 have ave a strong ng season.” on.”
At the Broken Bow Invite, e, there were 11 teams eams that competed peted and one other local team besides Broken Bow in South Loup.
They had two medalists with Logan Peterson at 120 and Clay Witthuhn at 195.
Peterson, a state medalist from a year ago was able to pin Mason Oner of Perkins County in 1:06 and then lost a 4-3 decision to Kaleb Power of St. Paul in the Finals. Wittun of South Loup was pinned in 3:48 in the third-place match by Bryson Warner of Southern Valley.
Overall the Bobcats finished in ninth place with 36 points.
“As a whole, I thought we wrestled pretty good,” South Loup head coach Todd Phelps said. “We are a pretty inexperienced team and we made several mistakes that cost us matches. As we get further into the season those mistakes should go away.”
The Broken Bow JV team had six wrestlers medal on their way to a fourth- place finish with 85 points.
They were Trey Hurlburt who was third at 113, Amarion McFarland who placed third at 126, Braylan Rynearson who was fourth at 132, Jack Myers who was second at 152, and Thomas was third at 285.
Everybody on the Broken Bow varsity team placed in their first meet this year. They were Dalton Garey who finished second at 106, Cucul Tzin who was second at 113, Cyrus Wells picked up first at 126, Schylar Campbell was first at 132, Trey Garey was first at 138, Connor Wells finished first at 145, Layton Linder was fourth at 160, Denson was third at 170, Kaden Powers was first at 182, Duda was first at 195, Anderson was second at 220, and Bumgarner finished first at 285.
South Loup will be at the Twin Loup Invite on Dec. 11, while Brok Broken Bow is attending H Holdrege Invite and A-LC is at the Anselm-Merna Invite on Dec. 12. For compl complete stats check o out the sports at custercoun custercountychief.com.