Sweet Victory at Mt Ridge

Thursday, January 3rd was a great evening!  Our Southern Rams visited Frostburg to take on the Miners of Mt Ridge and came home with a hard fought 41-33 win.

It didn't start out too well for the Rams.  In the very first match, freshman, Corey Horner had to face defending stat champion Adam Martz at 138.  Corey wrestled had, but Martz earned the pin to give the Miners a 6-0 lead.  At 145, Justyce Fulmer filled in for Tanner Massey who was out sick.  It was a close match but in the end, Fulmer was unable to escape and lost a 4-3 decision.  MR 9 - SG 0   Stephen Collins wrestled hard at 152, but lost a 6-3 decision Mt Ridge and Will Foulke was pinned at 160 and Southern was suddenly trailing Mt Ridge 18-0.

Junior Seth Kisner goes for the pin!

Junior Seth Kisner was up next at 170 in a must win situation for the Rams.  Seth, in his first year wrestling, got a quick takedown to take the lead but could not hold his opponent down.   After the escape, the Mt Ridge wrestler was able to get a takedown of his own and put Seth on his back.  After a few nervous seconds, Seth came out of the hold and got a reversal and the Ridge kid was on his back.  As the first period ended, Seth had a 7-5 lead.  The second period started in the neutral position and within a minute, Kisner took the kid right to his back and squeezed hard until he was awarded the pin.  It was a huge win for Seth and the Rams.  MR 18 - SG 6

Brian Rinker gets another pin!

We lost by pin at 182 and recieved a forfeit at 195 to make the score 24-12 heading into the heavier weights.  We bumped around in the higher weight classes to get the best matchups and it paid off.  At 220, Brian Rinker went right to work and picked up a pin in the second period.  Scott Cooper went out at heavyweight and also scored a huge pin for Southern.  As we made the turn to the lightweights, the team score was tied at 24 and everyone knew we were in a tight match for sure.

Scott Cooper bumped up to heavyweight for the match

At 106, Devan Hamrick was dominant as usual, but was unable to pin his opponent.  He won by tech fall 16-0, but we needed a pin and we were worried that it would come back to bite us in the end.  We gave Mt Ridge a forfeit at 113 and Austin Shaffer picked up another pin at 120 and we held a slight 5 point lead with two matches to go.

State Champion Austin Shaffer pins again!

At 126, Cooper McCauley stormed out to a quick 5-0 lead but was unable to hold the lead and the second period ended with the score tied 5-5.  In the third, there was alot of action and scoring and as time was winding down, Cooper was down 8-7 and tried a throw that did not work and he ended up losing a 13-7 decision.  SG 35 - MR 33 with one match remaining.

Cooper McCauley in control early in a tight match

In the final bout of the evening, Zach Tichnell put together a dominating performance, scoring 2 in the first and 8 in the second to take a 10-0 lead into the third.  With the entire match on the line, Zach added one more takedown, this time to his opponents back and scored the pin to bring the final score to SG 41 - MR 33.

Zach Tichnell pins for the win!

It was a great night of wrestling in Frostburg and the Rams came home with an exciting win.



Joy!



Southern Garrett 41 - Mountain Ridge 33

106 - Devan Hamrick (SG) tech fall Brock Peterbrink (MR) 16-0
113 - Cody Matthews (MR) via Forfeit
120 - Austin Shaffer (SG) pins Colton White (MR) 3:23
126 - JT Thomas (MR) dec Cooper McCauley (SG) 13-7
132 - Zach Tichnell (SG) pins Tim Everly (MR) 4:24
138 - Adam Martz (MR) pins Corey Horner (SG) 2:56
145 - Justin Bryant (MR) dec Justyce Fulmer (SG) 4-3
152 - Nick Shifflett (MR) dec Stephen Collins (SG) 6-3
160 - Tyler Maynard (MR) pins Will Foulke (SG) 3:32
170 - Seth Kisner (SG) pins Tyler Valentine (MR) 3:06
182 - Austin Clark (MR) pins Dalton Cooper (SG) :59
195 - John Zimmerman (SG) via Forfeit
220 - Brian Rinker (SG) pins James Halcomb (MR) 2:21
285 - Scott Cooper (SG) pins Brian Fuente (MR) 1:28