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McLaughlin, Durbin win bronze
Carson Durbin finished third at the Tri-County Classic wrestling tournament on Dec. 21 at Central Valley High School in Spokane Valley.
SPOKANE VALLEY – Two Reardan boys brought home bronze medals from the Tri-County Classic wrestling tournament Thursday, Dec. 21.
Sterling McLaughlin was third at 190 pounds and Carson Durbin third at 215. Other Screaming Eagles winning medals included Alex Matusik, fourth at 120, and Joey Matusik, sixth at 113.
As a team, Reardan amassed 83 points, good enough for an eighth-place finish out of 20 teams. Mead won the tournament with 169 team points, followed by Central Valley (Spokane Valley) in second with 135.5.
The highest placing Class B team was Jenkins (Chewelah), which finished sixth overall with 109 points.
McLaughlin earned his 190-pound medal after opening with a bye and then pinning Payton Hauser-Plumb of Hanford in 15 seconds.
In the quarterfinals, he was pinned by Matthew Duthie of West Valley (Spokane Valley) in 2:05.
McLaughlin would then win his next four bouts to win bronze.
He pinned Ronald Ensor of Cheney in 18 seconds, Benji Ikelang of Central Valley in 2:01 and then Issac Nelson of Colfax in 38 seconds.
In the match for third, he pinned Logan Ullah of Mead in 51 seconds.
Durbin followed a similar medal track at 215.
He opened with a bye and then pinned Charley Tonasket of Shadle Park in 2:49.
In the quarterfinals, he lost a 5-1 decision to True Cole of Medical Lake.
He then won four matches in a row to earn bronze.
He pinned Cameron Gadayan of Ridgelin in 1:12 and Mica Nelson of East Valley (Spokane Valley) in 56 seconds. He then won a 2-0 decision over Jaxon Frisby of Hanford to reach the medal match.
In the bout for third, he won a 3-1 decision over Macade Munro of Cheney tow in the bronze.
Alex Matusik, too, had to win four in a row to medal.
At 120 pounds, he opened with a bye and then was pinned by Kenneth Sampson of Mead in 26 seconds, dropping him immediately into wrestlebacks.
In the wrestlebacks, he pinned Lincoln Edminster of Ridgeline in 1:43, then won a 19-13 decision over Aiden Carr of Cheney.
His third win was a 10-8 "sudden victory" overtime win over Jacob Klauder of Colville.
Alex Matusik's fourth win came with a 3:32 pin of Nakoa Rocha of Northwest Christian (Colbert).
In the bout for third place, he was pinned in 14 seconds by Joseph Mason of Mead to finish fourth.
Joey Matusik's sixth-place medal run at 113 began with a 1:12 pin over Isaiah McCorkle of Cheney. But in the quarter finals, he lost a 4-3 decision to Spencer Duty of Selkirk.
In the consolation round, pinned Dean Freudenberg of Ridgeline in 1:30 to reach the match for fifth place.
In that bout, Joey Matusik lost by technical fall (17-2 in 3:34) to Abram Kane of Medical Lake.
In other Reardan results at the Tri-County Classic:
132 pounds – Landon Smith was pinned by Logan Allen of Freeman in his opening match and then pinned Micah Jeffers of Cheney. Times were not reported. Smith won his second match of the day with a 39 second pin of Boston Gross of West Valley (Spokane Valley. He was eliminated by Elliot Wilson of Mead by pin in 1:28.
144 pounds – Coen Caldwell lost his opening match by major decision, 10-2, to Hudson Somes of Northwest Christian (Colbert) and was dropped into the wrestlebacks, where he first received a bye then won a 6-0 decisioin over David Bernal of Central Valley. Caldwell then pinned Titan Tapia of Jenkins (Chewelah) in 2:35. He was eliminated by Lincoln Wright of Freeman in a 10-4 loss by decision.
150 pounds -- H.K. Bird was pinned by Jarrett Dickson of East Valley (Spokane Valley) in 1:19 and then by Gavin Mears of Ferris in 3:35.
190 pounds – Conner Kline was pinned in his opening match by Brayden Burgerner of Shadle Park. He then received two consolation round byes before losing by injury default to Zephaniah Miller of Mount Spokane.
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