Cheff and Stagg dominate the Mining City Duals
The Ronan wrestling team was able to see their team’s progression from their first tournament at the Owen Invitational.
The Chiefs, who only had six wrestlers show up at the Owen Invitational, were closer to full strength at the Mining City Duals on Dec. 8-9 at Butte Central, coach Dylan Kramer said.
“You always see a nice variety of competition there and see where you and size up against some of the other Double A schools,” Kramer said.
Kramer’s team, who has aspirations of making another trip the Montana High School Activities Association state wrestling tournament in Billings, said duals, like Mining City, gives his team an opportunity to see competition from the east which they won’t see again until Billings.
“You can see some of the teams from the eastern portion of the state which is nice because you won’t get to see them again until (later in the season),” Kramer said.
Kramer said he felt Noah Cheff and Spencer Stagg excelled in the duals. The two wrestlers were undefeated in the Duals.
“Anytime (wrestlers go undefeated), its pretty special,” Kramer said. “We saw some great competition and our whole team elevated to a higher level but Noah and Spencer really shined.”
Bulldogs shine in duals
The Mission-Charlo Bulldogs wrestling program won back-to-back duals against Arlee and Anaconda.
Mission defeated the Warriors wrestling team by a score of 45-21. Wrestlers that won that tournament include Darwin Adams (138) def. Kanoa Palazzolo by pin, Isaiah Alilik (152) def. James Crazyboy in 1 minutes, 23 seconds, Miles Anderson won by pin over Ashley Potts in 1 minutes, 13 seconds, and Gus Bosley pinned George Schick in 3 minutes, 5 seconds.
The Bulldogs defeated Anaconda 42-36 Thursday night at Anaconda.
Winning by pins for the Bulldogs were 113-pounder Walker Murphy def. Thomas Blaz in 1 minutes, 13 seconds, 126-pounder Bailey Weible def. Kyle Adams in 1 minutes, 5 seconds, 132-pounder Cole Gilleard
def Dan Byrne in 3 minutes, 15 seconds, 138-pounder Darwin Adams def. Wyatt Theard in 1 minutes, 54 seconds, 152-pounder Isaiah Allik def. Dylan Skodich in 4 minutes, 8 seconds, 170-pound Miles Anderson def. Grady Snow 1 minute, 29 seconds and 182-pounder Gus Bosley def. Jake Whaley in 16 seconds.
Bosley also finished second at the Bob Kinney Classic in Superior wrestling at the 170-pound weight class.
Other placers for the Bulldogs included Lucas Wohltmann, who finished fourth at 205, Darwin Adams finished fourth at 138 pounds and Bailey Wieble placed third at 126.
Lady Vikings split first four games
The Charlo High School girls basketball team have split its first four contest.
The Lady Vikings split its first two contest of the season at the Western C Tip-Off Classic in Frenchtown.
Charlo won its first game against Drummond 33-21. Kaitlin Cox led the Lady Vikes with 15 points, Carlee Fryberger had six and Liev Smith finished with four points.
Other contributors included Allie Delaney, Brooklyn Foust Sakoya Guastad and Tyrah Hammond, who all scored two points each in the win.
Charlo followed up the tip-off tournament with a closely-contested loss falling to Clark Fork 35-33.
Cox finished with seven points, Hammond had seven and Smith led the Lady Vikes with five points.
Guastad finished with three points and Hammond and Foust finished with two points.
The Lady Vikings fell to St. Regis 38-27.
Charlo was led by Smith,who led the Lady Vikings with seven points in the losing effort.
The Lady Vikings followed this up with a 61-10 victory over Victor Saturday night at Charlo High School.
Hammond, who finished with 12 points, led Charlo, Gaustad finished with 10 points, Cox had nine points and Fryberger also finished with nine points.
Lady Vikes’ coach Bret Thompson said he felt his team still has a “long way to go,” in the early portion of the season.
“We are shooting a lot, but we are only averaging scoring 30 points a game,” Thompson said.