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against Stayton."
Next up for the Huskies,
ranked fourth in the state 4A divi-
sion behind Henley, Crook County
and Cascade, is the regional tour-
nament, which will be hosted by
Sweet Home this Friday and Satur-
day, Feb. 17-18.
This is where it counts, Thorpe
said.
"I told the kids, in a season
oVerview, that they've won all these
matches, but who cares. We don't
get any points for what we've done
so far. The next two tournaments
are the ones that matter'now."
The Huskies have done well
in nearly all the weight divisions
against regional competition, their
only dual meet loss to a District 4
team coming against Cascade early
in the season. Since then, they've
beaten the Cougars three times,
though Cascade is still ranked high-
er by state wrestling pollsters.
Thorpe said he believes District
4, which includes Central, Cottage
Grove, Elmira, Junction City, New-
port, Philomath, Stayton, Sweet
Home and Taft, is the toughest of
the four 4A districts in Oregon.
"Our region is head and shoul-
ders above the other regions in the
state," he said. "When you have
Cascade and Sweet Home, the No.
3 and 4-ranked teams, in the same
region, we'll beat each other up.
Then you have to remember Philo-
math. They're seventh in the state.
It's tough, tough. Everything is
tough."
In addition to the team smength
in the district, Elmira's Kyle Smith
is undefeated as the No. 1 heavy-
weight in the 4A division and
Mitchell Kuenzi of Stayton is No.
2 at 195 - behind Sweet Home's
Wade Paulus. Josh Stanley of Cot-
tage Grove is No. 1 at 160 pounds,
ahead of Braden Calder of Philo-
math, who is fourth.
Cascade has seven wrestlers
ranked in the top five in 4A: Tra-
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vis Bledsoe (fourth) and Spencer
Crawford (fifth) at 126, Ryan Doz-
ler (third) at 138, Tyler Howe (first)
at 170, Cody Crawford (first) and
Zach Soto (fifth) at 182 and Dustin
Johnson (second) at 220, with a few
more ranked slightly lower.
Sweet Home, on the other
hand, goes into the tournament
with six ranked in the state's top
five: Justin Nicholson fourth at
106, Colton Schilling (first) and
Scottie Stockman (fifth) at 120, Ty-
ler Cowger (second) at 138, Paulus
(first) at 195, and Zach Gill (third)
at 285.
The likely line-up for the Hus-
kies going into the regional will
be: 106 pounds - Tyler Schilling
and Justin Nicholson; 113 - Nene
Mauer and Anthony Hardy; 120
- Colton Schilling and Scottie
Stockman; 126 - Dylan Elder and
Ty Kirkland; 132 -Ty Harvey and
Ryan Adams; 138 - Tyler Cowger
and JT Weld; 145 - Trever Olson
and Bobby Malloy; 152 - Raul
Hernandez and Inn Search; 160 -
Nate Melcher and Nick Hall; 170
- Alex Armstrong and Ben Terry;
182 - Chance Jucutan and Quin
Wise; 195 - Wade Paulus and Da-
vid Skeen; 220 - Troy Hazelton;
and 285 - Zach Gill.
"We've come a long way,"
Thorpe said. "We've come togeth-
er. It hasn't been anything short of
hard work. We have a team full of
guys who absolutely reliable, re-
sourceful and unselfish. That's what
makes for our success at the end.
"But, like I said before, we
haven't done anything yet, but what
we're about to do is what we've
worked towards."
Tournament sessions start at
11 a.m. both Friday and Saturday.
Saturday's wrestling will be di-
vided into an early session, which
will end after the fifth-sixth conso-
lation matches, and a later session
that will include third/fourth-place
and .championship matches and the
awards ceremony, which will start
later in the afternoon or early eve-
ning. Admission for each session
is $6 for adults and $4 for students
K through 12. Only OSAA Gold
Cards will be accepted.
Sweet Home 70, Stayton 6
106 - Tyler Schilling (SH) pinned
Taylor (S) 1:47; 113 - Justin Nichol-
son (SH) won by forfeit; 120 - Colton
Schilling (SH) pinned Austin Coblentz
(S) :11; 126 - Scottie Stockman (SH)
pinned Ethan Large (S) 2:27; 132- Ty
Harvey (SH) pinned Jaymz Becket
(S) :24; 138 - Ryan Adams (SH) won
by forfeit; 145 - Tyler Cowger (SH)
dec. Shane Sheppard (S) 1-0; 152
- Trever Olson (SH) pinned Dylan
Krieger (S) 1:45; 160 - Nate Melcher
(SH) maj. dec. Clay Wallen (S) 20-8;
170 - Zak Williams (S) pinned Nick
Hall (SH) 5:42; 182 - Chance Jucutan
(SH) pinned McComber (S) :34; 195
- Wade Paulus (SH) dec. Kuenzi (S)
14-7; 220 - David Skeen (SH) pinned
Randy Smith (S) :53; 285 - Zach Gill
(SH) won by forfeit.
Sweet Home 84, Taft 0
106 - Tyler Schilling (SH) won by for-
feit; 113 - Justin Nicholson (SH) won
by forfeit; 120 - Colton Shilling (SH)
won by forfeit; 126 - Scottie Stockman
(SH) pinned Salsberry (T) 3:06; 132
- Ty Harvey (SH) won by forfeit; 138
-Tyler Cowger (SH) pinned Steere (T)
:25; 145 - Trever Olson (SH) pinned
Vlasquez (T) :24; 152 - Raul Hernan-
dez (SH) pinned Kovachevich (T) 2:40;
160 - Nate Melcher (SH) pinned Fitch
(T) :41; 170 - Nick Hall (SH) won by
forfeit; 182 - Alex Armstrong (SH) won
by forfeit; 195 - Chance Jucutan (SH)
won by forfeit; 220 - Wade Paulus
(SH) won by forfeit; 285 - Zach Gill
(SH) won by forfeit.
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