We went to Joseph City on Wednesday and had a great meet. This is the email that I sent out to other teachers to let them know how we did...
We wrestled three team duels, the winners were determined by team points
Joseph City beat us in the first one 36 to 28
We crushed NPA 42 to 24
We defeated Many Farms 36 to 24
Our team did excellent at the meet with several pins and a few major decisions.
Jeff talked about the same meet with a bit more detail...
"Pinon wrestled yesterday, December 7th, at the Joseph City Multiple. The wrestlers who participated were: the younger Teller, Winfred Yazzie, Francis, Tsosie-Hood, Teller, Spencer, Tsosie, Nez, and Reyes. We wrestled well, and came in second in a four-team meet.
"Pinon started slow, and suffered some early pins. This trend was reversed, however, when Teller managed to pin his Joseph City opponent in the second period. Nez won the next match on a major decision (winning by over eight points at the end of time). Reyes was then awarded an injury default victory, in a heavyweight bout with Joseph City, after the Joseph City wrestler strained his knee trying to “break down” Reyes.
"After wrestling Joseph City, Pinon drew Northland Preparatory Academy. After having been bloodied in our first bouts, Pinon came out with something to prove. Tsosie pinned his opponent in just a minute and 13 seconds. Teller came out like a madman – with a chip on his sholder, and chased his opponent all over the ring. He pinned him – after giving up a reverse in a minute and nine seconds. Yazzie, excited at finally getting to wrestle after a year, took exactly 12 seconds to pin his opponent. The only problem – Winfred – is that it was exhibition and he was wrestling above his weight class.
"We finished the evening with a challenging bout with Many Farms. Thanks to Pins by Spencer, Teller, Nez, Tsosie, and Reyes (exhibition). Pinon defeated Many Farms by a team score of 36 to 24."
On Friday we went to Ganado for another multiple tournament. There were 8 teams there including us and we were able to wrestle with 4 of them. Out of those 4 matches we won 3 as a team.
We started our day against Monument Valley High School. We dominated the school from Kayenta. I was surprised at the sheer number of pins that we got. We defeated them 48 to 25. I was very disappointed that my camera wasn't working during the match because I wanted pictures of those pins. I was very proud.
Pride comes before the fall and fall we did against Red Mesa. 36 to 24, some of the same students who had wrestled so well against MVHS fell and were pinned in embarrassing short periods of time. We did have several wrestlers have great matches in which they kept our team alive by their own pins. After MVHS I think we were too confident for our own good. Perhaps that is why the wrestlers who went later on did better. (Of course the camera was working then so I now have pictures of my team getting pinned.)
Chinle Wildcats fought hard against us but in the end our wrestlers were better. The final score was 45 to 30. It was a match that really could have gone either way.
The last team we wrestled was Wingate. We were able to defeat them 32 to 24. Several of those matches were close, others our wrestlers completely dominated. Nez won by Technical Fall, meaning that he won by 15 points. Watching him wrestle was like watching my old cat Flip play with mice before finally finishing them off. The victory wasn't as sweet however as I would have liked since I needed to spend time with one of my students in the Emergency Room. He lost his bout because of his injury. The poor kid from Wingate felt so bad about it and was very apologetic.
I'm excited about the great start that we've had so far. Holbrook was a tournament that I was excited for but it got snowed out. Teams that had traveled and were there anyway got to wrestle still in a mini tournament but we weren't able to make it there.
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