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State 2010

As another Wrestling season comes to an end, the opportunity of achieving our #1 team goal begins.  Although regionals can be important in the seeding of the State bracket, downtown has a way of separating the contenders from the pretenders.

The 2010 Ponderosa State bound team offers 9 quality wrestlers that can do some serious damage in their individual weights.  The 9 qualifiers are:  Sam Jones (119), John Lewis (125), Tyler Brice (130), Austin Olson (140), Jacob Snider (145), Steven Kelly (152), Gary Walliser (160), Austin Gabel (171), and Derek Good (189).

All of these wrestlers have a good chance at placing, and most can win State if they put together a good tournament.  This group seems very focused and serious about the task at hand.  We are still the team to beat and all we need to do is wrestle like we are supposed to and we will claim the programs 10th overall State Title! 

Congrats Jake!

Congratulations to Jacob Snider, winner of the Continental league athlete of the month for January.  Jake won this award over ALL other athletes in the league.  He is very deserving of this award, especially since he seems to get snubbed for OW honors at tournaments!

League Leaders

The program continued its league dominance at all levels over the weekend.  On Saturday the Junior Varsity won the Continental league Championships in convincing fashion.  It looked like a dual between Ponderosa and Heritage in the championship finals but we were able to win 6 out of the 7 matches against them!  The lower level team capped their amazing season with this accomplishment…Great Job Men!

The varsity also won a league title after we defeated Heritage Friday evening.  But first on Thursday we had to take care of a little business with Chaparral.  It is always interesting when we wrestle Chap, not for events that happen on the mat but off it.  The most exciting part of the night was how crowded the Gym was, they actually had to turn people away at the door!  Our boys continued the undefeated streak against Chap and soundly beat them 49-22.  This is our 16th consecutive League Championship!!!

Next up…Regionals at Adams City High School on Friday and Saturday.

Weekly Wrestling Wrap-Up

This was another successful week for Ponderosa Wrestling!

On Monday the team took one step closer to winning our 17th consecutive league title by defeating Mountain Vista 55-12.

Over the weekend the Junior Varsity placed 2nd at the Douglas County Invitational.  Great Job Guys!
Special recognition should be given to Cameron GrandPre, Will Martinez, Casey Scheidt, J.D. Robinson, Thad Gallegos, and Josh Eller for placing first; Connor Crane and Jeremiah Turco for placing second; Zach Simpson for placing third, and Tylor Jakino for placing 5th.

The Varsity traveled to Garden City, Kansas to compete against top ranked teams from Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico.  The team is starting to peak as we won the tournament with 8 tournament placers.  John Lewis placed 5th, Sam Jones and Gary Walliser took 4th, Austin Olson and Steven Kelly were runners-up, and tournament champions were Jacob Snider, Austin Gabel, and Derek Good.

Next up for everyone is Chaparral at home on Thursday night.  The following day the JV starts their league tournament and the Varsity duals @ Heritage at 3:45. This is a re-scheduled dual and the only time they could do it.

The JV has only a week of competition left and Regionals for Varsity is only two weeks away!  Please help your son achieve his goals by ensuring he is eating properly and getting enough sleep.