Steamboat wrestling places 4th at West Grand tournament
Sunday, December 19, 2010
2010-11 Sailors wrestling schedule
- Dec. 4: Steamboat places 3 at Middle Park
- Dec. 10: Steamboat 34, Battle Mountain 33
- Dec. 18: Steamboat places 4th at West Grand Tournament
- Jan. 15: Williams finishes first in Evergreen
- Jan. 27: Steamboat wins triangluar against Soroco, West Grand
- Jan. 29: 5 p.m. at Thin Air Tournament, Estes Park
- Feb. 1: 6 p.m. vs. Palisade Triangular
- Feb. 3: Hayden 42, Steamboat 30; Soroco 36, Steamboat 21
- Feb. 11 and 12: TBA at Regionals at Grand Junction
- Feb. 17 to 19: TBA at State wrestling at Denver
Steamboat Springs — Despite its youth, the Steamboat Springs High School wrestling team is showing little signs of inexperience.
The Sailors placed fourth as a team Saturday in West Grand, just behind Hayden, Norwood and Coal Ridge. Steamboat was in second place going into the finals but lost both its matches and fell to fourth.
“We opened up the tournament slow, and the finals were hard on us,” coach Shane Yeager said. “But to keep it in perspective, it was good for a bunch of freshmen and sophomores.”
Five of Steamboat’s nine wrestlers placed, led by three second-place finishes. Nick Rossman at 125 pounds, Casey Williams at 140 pounds and Nathan Mack at 145 pounds advanced to the finals before losing.
Nathan Parks at 112 pounds finished third, and Dane Koepfer at 130 pounds finished fourth.
“It’s a tight bunch of guys in the room,” Yeager said. “They have good practice partners, match up well and push each other. The leadership coming out of the sophomores; they’re pushing the freshmen to be better. It’s going to be a fun bunch of guys to watch over the next couple of years.”
Steamboat returns to action Jan. 7 and 8 at the Tournament of Champions in Vernal, Utah.
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