Middle School Wrestling - OHMS and NWMS vs Mt. Baker and LaVenture at LaVenture

Both Oak Harbor and North Whidbey middle schools were in Mt. Vernon on Thursday the 19th for a double dual wrestling meet against Mt. Baker middle and host LaVenture.

OHMS has a rather small team this year, and has been further depleted by injuries, so only 5 wrestlers were able to take the mat. Middle schools, unlike the high schools, do not draw for the starting weight – they start with the lightest and end with the heaviest weight class. However, in the OHMS/Mt. Baker match, Jordan Green, at 164 lbs, went first as he would be wrestling twice. Green faced off against Singh, and was in control through the first round, leading 4-2. In the 2nd, Jordan made a single mistake, and Singh was able to take advantage of it and pinned Jordan halfway through the round.

Anthony Smith, at 95 lbs, dominated his opponent. He jumped to an 8-0 1st round lead, the finally got the pin with 7 seconds left in the 2nd.

AT 110 lbs, Jimmy Ullrich also won by pin in the 2nd round. He built an early 7-1 lead over DePiro, and earned 3 more in the 2nd before sticking his opponent with 33 seconds left.

Sam Schultz, at 137 lbs, held a tight 2-0 lead at the end of the first round, but in the 2nd, scored a quick 5 points with a reverse and near fall before finally pinning Arauz with 49 seconds left in the 2nd.

Mark Scarborough faced Zeveleta at 154 lbs and was quickly pinned.

Green’s 2nd match was against Minor, who was normally in the 175 lb class, so Jordan was giving up over 10 pounds to his opponent. Jordan scored a takedown, but then gave up 4 penalty points and an escape to Minor, ending the 1st round down 5-2. In the 2nd, Jordan allowed only 1 point, an escape, but could score only 3 points of his own. He almost got an escape near the end of the match, but fell 6-5 to Minor.

Since Oak Harbor has such a small team, the team scores are meaningless, but OH did win half the matches the wrestled, and all the wins were by fall.

OHMS’s 2nd match was against host LaVenture with a total of 6 matches, and the OH boys won 5 of them, all by pinfall.

Anthony Smith, the only winner to get to the 2nd round, pinned Morales just 23 seconds into the 2nd round.

Jimmy Ulrich wrestled twice in the meet – the first against Morales, which he lost 4-1, but he didn’t let it get him down, and pinned Santos in his 2nd match in just 31 seconds.

Sam Schultz’s pin took just 56 seconds.

Mark Scarborough, also with a 1st round pin, was down to just 17 seconds in the period before the ref slapped the mat.

Jordan Green recovered nicely from his two losses in the meet against Mt. Baker, pinning Prom in 42 seconds.

North Whidbey Middle School has a large team, with only 1 or 2 empty spots in the lineup. The Cougars started with LaVenture and wrestled a total of 13 matches.

First was Emmett Basaca at 85 lbs. He and Weymouth had an exciting, close match. The score was tied 4-4 at the end of the 1st and 7-7 at the end of the 2nd. With time running down and the score tied at 13, Emmett was able to make the escape and a 14-13 win.

At 90 lbs, Antonio Unpingco lost to Morales 6-0

100 pounder Pedro Basaca led 5-0 in the 1st round before pinning Bamba in just 45 seconds.

Kurtis Williams just didn’t have an answer for Garcia, losing 11-4.

Robert Clemena got even for him, scoring a pin over McKey in just 22 seconds.

Nick Roeseler continued the winning with a pin over Holt-Watson 34 seconds into the 2nd round.

Chris Pingol was all over Shanander, running up a 16-4 score.

Carl Krueger also had a quick pin, equaling Clemena’s 22 seconds for fasted pin in the meet.

Raymond Green pinned Prom in 2:06

Peter Case-Smith lost to Reyes 11-0

At 114 lbs, Stacy Jappert faced off against Janet Solano, and the two wrestlers seemed closely matched. Solano scored a takedown, but Stacy escaped, and also got a penalty point to tie the match 2-2 at the end of the 1st. Solano scored an escape in the 2nd for that period’s only scoring, then Stacy got his own escape point in the 3rd to end regulation 3-3. There was no scoring in the sudden victory overtime period, and in the 2nd OT, both grapplers were awarded a penalty point, but Solano was able to escape and win 5-4.

Julian Faralan wrestled twice – his first, against Narkewicz, went to the 3rd period, but Julian scored the pin. The 2nd match went much quicker, with Julian sticking Santos in 38 seconds.

Due to the large number of Cougar pins, and helped by 4 forfeits, NW beat LaVenture 61-9.

The final meet, and the one that went the longest, was NWMS vs Mt. Baker MS as both teams have a fairly full roster. Out of 17 weight classes, there were 2 double forfeits, and one individual forfeit by each team.

Emmett Basaca got things rolling again, using 42 seconds to pin his opponent.

Antonio Unpingco worked hard, but couldn’t hold off long enough and got pinned with 13 seconds left in the 1st.

Conner Craig worked hard, but lost 6-2.

Pedro Basaca worked his man, earning a pin with just 7 seconds left in the 2nd round.

Things weren’t going well for Kurtis Williams in the 1st round as he found himself on the short end of a 10-2 score. He made up for it in the 2nd, escaping and taking down his opponent before pinning him with 14 seconds left.

Robert Clemena likes the number ‘22’, as that’s how many seconds it took him to pin each opponent on Thursday.

Cody Fakkema tried to beat Robert’s pin time, but couldn’t quite make it, taking 36 seconds.

Nick Roeseler had a tough match against Saura. Both wrestlers had a takedown and escape in the 1st to start the 2nd tied 3-3. Nick escaped in the 2nd, but Saura took him back down so Nick escaped again, knotting the match again at 5-5. In the 3rd, Nick scored a 2-point near fall, but Saura reversed for two, and time expired with the score 7-7. In the 1-minute sudden victory overtime, Nick was able to score a takedown to win 9-7.

James Kurfis had a fairly easy time with Arauz, winning 9-1.

Carl Krueger and Kyle Hall also went to OT at 145 lbs, and in the 1st OT period, Carl was able to get the takedown for an 8-6 win.

7th grader Peter Case-Smith went to the 2nd period before being pinned by Zeveleta.

In yet another OT match, Jeremy Alonzo lost to Singh. Jeremy was down 4-2 starting the 3rd period, but scored a reverse in the 3rd to tie at 4 each. Neither wrestler could score in sudden victory, so the boys went to the 2nd OT. In the 2nd OT, two 30-seconds rounds are wrestled, no matter what scoring occurs. The wrestler who scored first in the match gets the first choice of position. Singh chose down, and was able to reverse and score a 3-point near fall in the first 30 seconds. In the 2nd, Jeremy chose down, but was able to get only a single escape point, losing 9-5.

Raymond Green avenged Jeremy’s loss with a 41 second pin over Minor.

James Engen continued with his own pin in 26 seconds over Miller.

The final match of the day, an exhibition, featured Cameron Bester against former NWMS student Sergio Guerrero. Most of the NW boys were cheering for Sergio when he was wrestling the other team. Sergio is a good wrestler, and wasted no time pinning Bester to end the days’ action.

While official results are not available, the team scores appear to be NWMS 55,
Mt. Baker 33.

OHMS photos are posted HERE.

NWMS photos are posted HERE.