Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Kimball's Trevor Ryschon controls his opponent, Jacob Chapman or Yoder, Wyo., at the Rocky Mountain Nationals wrestling tournament on March 19-20. Ryschon took third in the 13-15 year old rookie bracket at 123 pounds.
The Kimball High Wrestling program appears to be on the right track with improvement showed this past season and everyone returning next year. The highlight of the season was sophomore Garrett Pedersen qualifying for the State Tournament and charting a win at the state tourney. Pedersen wound up the year with a record of 16-16 for the team's best win-loss record. Pedersen wrestled at 120 pounds this season.
Other records for the year show Jordan Cluff wrestling at 106 ending up at 7-10 and named Western Trails All Conference. Jake Jenkins at 120 was 4-17. Trevor Ryschon at 126 was 15-19. Zachery Wagner at 132 was 2-11. Toby McManigal at 170 went 6-22. Cody Kirby at 220 was also All Conference and ended up 10-11. Eric Escajeda at 285 was 10-16.
Coach Wade Brashear remains upbeat about the Kimball program and says, "Overall we had a solid improvement as a team throughout the year. The future looks bright for us. This year I feel as if we are beginning to create a solid base of wrestlers throughout the junior and senior high. We are having ongoing practices in the morning and have a good core of students attending. Just this
past weekend we attended Rocky Mountain Nationals in Denver with seven Kimball wrestlers picking up 4 medals. The team will continue to attend spring national tournaments, and we will follow with summer wrestling camps. Wrestling takes lots of training, dedication, and technique to do well. We have a great deal of work to do, but we are willing to do it."
