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Hawks put four on medal stand at State Wrestling Tournament
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Led Class 3A state runner-up Zach McCool at 130-pounds the West Delaware wrestling team landed four wrestlers on the medal stand last Saturday night in Des Moines.
McCool’s state championship match at 130-pounds on Saturday night was the center of attention for all those in attendance.
Zach had the dubious honor of facing off against three-time defending state champion TJ Sebolt of Centerville with Sebolt gunning for his fourth consecutive state title.
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The Hawks Zach McCool gets ready to take down TJ Sebolt of Centerville during their 130-pound championship match on Saturday night. KEN BOESENBERG/Press |
KEN BOESENBERG/Press At left, West Delaware freshman Nathan Vaske controls his opponent, David Stubblefield of Bishop Heelan Catholic during his 15-0 technical fall win in the first round Class 2A consolation matches on Wednesday evening. At right, The Hawks Chris Harbaugh controls his opponent, Tyler Murtaugh of Harlan during their first round match at the State Tournament. Although Chris did not place he wrestled two very good matches in his first appearance.
KEN BOESENBERG/Press At left, Nate Lahr of West Delaware puts some pressure on his opponent, Jeff Ohnemus of DeWitt Central during consolation action at the State Wrestling Tournament. Nate placed fifth in his first ever appearance at the tournament. At right, The Hawks Dustin Jaeger has Brooks Kopsa of East Marshall crying “uncle” during the semi-final round match which Jaeger won 11-10. Dustin went on to place sixth for the Hawks in the State Tournament at 152-pounds. |
The match was a good one and in the end Sebolt prevailed, 9-3 to became only the 17th wrestler in Iowa history to win four state titles.
Zach, who was rated second behind Sebolt all season long lived up to that lofty ranking by making it to the finals.
In round one Zach pinned Alex Bogue of Battle Creek Ida Grove at the 5:22 mark of their match. On Thursday Zach continued his run to the finals with a win by fall at 1:18 over Dylan Jans of GRNT Reinbeck/North Tama.
In his championship semi-final round he recorded a 4-3 decision over Bryan Sundall of Emmetsburg Armstrong Ringstead to set up his championship match with Sebolt.
Freshman 103-pounder Nathan Vaske came home with a seventh place finish.
Nathan lost a hard fought 5-4 decision to Ryan Hill of Vinton Shellsburg in his first round match.
He bounced in the consolation round later on Wednesday nicely to post a technical fall victory, 15-0, over David Stubblefield of Bishop Heelan Catholic. On Thursday Nathan earned his right to be on the medal stand with a 3-0 decision win over Dylan Rusher of Roland-Story.
Nathan lost his third round consolation match, 5-1 to Tucker Weber of Clear Lake. He rebounded nicely to defeat Matt Mullikin of Sigourney Keota in Saturday afternoons seventh and eighth place match.
Chris Harbaugh made his first appearance at the state wrestling tournament for the Hawks at 140-pounds. Chris wrestled very hard during his two matches at the state tournament, losing in the first round to Tyler Murtaugh of Harlan 9-1. His second match was also a tough match where he lost 7-2 to Kyle Malm of Emmetsburg Armstrong Ringstead.
At 152-pounds the Hawks Dustin Jaeger did not have an easy task in front of him. Dustin won his first match of the tournament, 5-2 over Andy Johnson of Osage to stay on the winners side.
His quarterfinal match was a wild affair against Brooks Kopsa of East Marshall LeGrand. In the end Dustin survived the antics of Kopsa and some close calls by the officials to emerge with an 11-10 win.
In the championship semi-finals Dustin faced eventual 152-pound runner-up Ryan Collins of Glenwood where he lost a hard fought match 9-3.
In his semi-finals consolation match he lost a very close 1-0 decision to Jake Durbin of Gilbert before losing to Kopsa in the fifth, sixth place match.
The fifth Hawk in the tournament was Nate Lahr at 160-pounds. Nate had a very good tournament and came home with a fifth place finish after battling all the way back on the back side from a first round loss by fall to Curtis Barber of Winterset.
Nate then won his first consolation match with a 7-5 decision over Chris Finn of GRNT Reinbeck North Tama. He followed that with a big 9-1 decision win over WaMaC Conference opponent Jeff Ohnemus of DeWitt Central.
Nate again faced Barber from Winterset in the consolation semi-finals where he lost by decision, 8-0.
Again Nate bounced back from a defeat to down Jim Weiser of Clarke Osceola 4-2 to advance to the fifth/sixth place match on Saturday afternoon. In that match he came all the way back from a 7-0 deficit to win 9-8 over Brian Schmidt of Gilbert.
The Hawks scored 43.5 team points to place 10th overall in the team race.
Emmetsburg won the team title with 95 points while Centerville took second with 72.5 points.
Rounding out the rest of the top 10 teams were Creston third 70.5; Spirit Lake Park fourth 70; Winterset fifth 68; Glenwood sixth 67.5; Osage seventh 55; Columbus Junction eighth 48 and Independence ninth with 45 points.
Here are some interesting side notes from the State Tournament.
From the district where the Hawks qualified their five wrestlers there were 22 of those 28 wrestlers that made the medal stand on Saturday night. That is 79% of the advancing wrestlers from that district that were placewinners in Des Moines.
Of those 22 placewinners four were champions, Kyle Pedretti of MFL at 119; JJ Krutsinger of Waterloo Columbus at 125; Andy O’loughlin of Independence at 171 and Kyle Slifka of Crestwood Cresco at 275.
There were six state runners-up, Cory Olson of Denver at 103; Blake Hilmer of Denver at 125; Zach McCool of West Delaware at 130; Blake Suckow of North Fayette at 189; Ben Lehman of Independence at 215 and Blake Rasing of New Hampton at 275.
Stephen Swart of Waukon placed fourth at 189; Nate Lahr of West Delaware placed fifth.
There were four sixth place finishers - Taylor Reicks of MFL at 112; Russell Evans of New Hampton at 130; Dustin Jaeger of West Delaware at 152 and John Helgerson of North Fayette at 215.
The two seventh place finishers were Nathan Vaske of West Delaware at 103 and Paul Schuchhardt of New Hampton at 135.
Four wrestlers placed eighth. They were Alex Hansen of Waterloo Columbus at 119, Jaydon Mitchell of New Hampton at 152, Mason Berns of Waukon at 160 and Mike Moser of North Fayette at 171. |
 Hawks end regular season with loss to Marion
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The West Delaware boys basketball team ended their regular season with a hard fought 47-42 loss to Marion in Manchester last Tuesday night.
The Hawks got 14 points and nine rebounds from BJ Hermsen.
It was not a very good shooting night for the Hawks as they made just 7 of 23 (30.4%) from two-point range and 6 of 16 (37.5%) from behind the three-point arc.
The Hawks had a good first quarter as they led the Indians 10-8.
Marion came back with an 11-9 scoring advantage in the second quarter to tie the game at half time, 19-19.
Marion used an 11-5 third quarter scoring advantage to take a six-point lead, 30-24 into the fourth quarter.
Both team stepped up their offensive out put during the games final eight minutes, 18 points for the Hawks and 17 for the Indians.
Game stats
vs. Marion
Field goals: WD 13-39-33.3%; free throws: WD 9-14-64.3%; assists: WD 12 (Alex Boom 2, BJ Hermsen 1, Eric Crawford 2, Chad Bolsinger 1, Austin Cole 3, Chris Crawford 3); steals: WD 12 (Alex Boom 4, BJ Hermsen 2, Eric Crawford 3, Chris Crawford 1, Brett Manternach 2); blocked shots: WD 5 (BJ Hermsen 4, Brett Manternach 1); rebounds: WD 25 (Alex Boom 1, BJ Hermsen 9, Eric Crawford 1, Austin Cole 3, Chris Crawford 4, Brett Manternach 7); turnovers: WD 12; fouls: WD 19; Individual West Delaware scoring: Alex Boom 2, Justin Krogmann 3, BJ Hermsen 14, Eric Crawford 9, Austin Cole 8, Brett Manternach 5.
The Hawks opened District Tournament action last night (Monday) with a first round home contest against Western Dubuque.
Also last night on the bottom half of District 6 the Oelwein Huskies hosted the Mustangs of Independence.
The winners of the West Delaware vs. Western Dubuque and the Oelwein vs. Independence games will face each other on Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. on the campus of Upper Iowa University in Fayette.
The upper half of the Hawks sub-state bracket is District 5 where New Hampton visits Crestwood and Decorah travels to Waukon.
The winners of those two contests will face off at Luther College on Thursday night at 7:00 p.m.
The two District champions will then meet in a sub-state final contest at Upper Iowa University in Fayette on Monday night, March 6th at 7:00 p.m. to determine who will advance to the Class 3A State Basketball Tournament in Des Moines on either Tuesday March 14th or Wednesday, March 15th. |
Ed-Co boys fall to Kee High, 48-36
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The Ed-Co Viking boys basketball team saw their season end with a 48-36 first round tournament loss to Kee High last Wednesday night in Postville.
The Vikings got off to an extremely slow start as they trailed 13-2 at the end of the first quarter.
Ryan Putz was the only Viking to score in double figures, he tallied 17 points to lead Ed-Co.
Matt Mescher and Spenser Smith each scored seven for the Vikings.
Key high upped their 11-point first quarter lead to 16-points by half time, 28-12.
The Vikings ate into the 16-point Kee High lead during the third quarter with a 16-8 scoring advantage. That eight point advantage left them trailing by just eight points, 36-28 heading into the final eight minutes of action.
Kee High was able to hold off the Viking comeback attempt during the fourth quarter to win by a final margin of 12 points, 48-36.
Game stats
vs. Kee High
Field goals: EC 16-46-34.8%; free throws: EC 1-3-33.3%; assists: EC 8 (Brian Daker 1, Spenser Smith 2, Ryan Putz 3, Adam Clauson 2); steals: EC 11 (Spenser Smith 3, Andy Oldfather 1, Ryan PUtz 3, Matt Mescher 1, Tyler McDowell 1, Adam Clauson 2); blocked shots: EC 1 (Ryan Putz); rebounds: EC 19 (Brian Daker 4, Spenser Smith 4, Andy Oldfather 1, Matt Mescher 3, Adam Clauson 6); turnovers: EC 11; fouls: EC 20; Viking scoring: Spenser Smith 7, Andy Oldfather 2, Ryan Putz 17, Matt Mescher 7, Adam Clauson 3. |
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