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Reardan sophomore Carson Kline tries to pin Okanogan's Timber Super in the 138-pound quarterfinals at the State Mat Classic in Tacoma Friday, Feb. 16. Kline finished second in the 138-pound weight class.
Reardan sophomore Carson Kline tries to pin Okanogan's Timber Super in the 138-pound quarterfinals at the State Mat Classic in Tacoma Friday, Feb. 16. Kline finished second in the 138-pound weight class.
TACOMA - The Reardan wrestling team took eight athletes to the Tacoma Dome for the state Mat Classic last weekend, including six qualifiers and two alternates. And of the five that ended up competing, three came away with top-5 finishes for the Screaming Eagles.
The best finish belonged to sophomore Carson Kline, who finished second in the 138-pound class. Kline defeated Okanogan's Timber Super 14-4 in the quarterfinals and pinned Granger's Leonardo Hernandez in 1:38 in the semifinals before falling to Tonasket's Gus Ray 2-1 in the championship round.
Another Kline, Conner, fought through a torn ACL to take third place in the 190-pound class. This Kline fell to Willapa Valley's Cody Strozyk 9-0 to start competition, then tore through the rest of his competition.
Kline pinned Warden's Jaden Hernandez in 35 seconds and Okanogan's Oakley Bonewell in 1:54, then exacted his revenge on Strozyk with a 7-5 win. He then defeated Kalama's Zach Foreman 13-5 in the 3rd/4th place match.
At 215 pounds, Carson Durbin notched a 5th-place finish. Durbin defeated Kittitas's Preston Stingley 9-3, then fell to North Beach's Adin Wollum 14-9 in the quarterfinals.
Durbin then pinned Rainier's Blake Roberts in 3:41 and fell to Liberty Bell's Damien Spears in 2:43. The senior finished his career with a 5-1 revenge victory over Wollum in the 5th-place match.
"We took a beating in the first round, but the kids came back and beat the kids who beat them in the first place," head coach Arron Mauzay said. "Not just beat them, but the hell out of them."
In other Reardan wrestling, senior Coen Caldwell, wrestling at 138 pounds, pinned Forks's Landon Thomas in 1:11 before falling to Tonasket's Logan Stucker 9-2.
Caldwell pinned Willapa Valley's Kasen Clements in 1:41, but fell to Ocosta's Ronin Rutzer 3-2.
And Danika Bretz, wrestling at 170 pounds, pinned Meridian's Kennedy Farrar in 4:20, then was pinned by Montesano's Kya Rountree in 4:54. Bretz then pinned Aberdeen's Mycah Good in 31 seconds, but fell to Seattle Academy's Kate Risse in 4:15.
Joey Matusik was a favorite to win the 106-pound class but failed to make weight.
"Overall, for someone who only had 11 kids on the team for the year, to take six to state with two alternates, that's pretty damn good," Mauzay said.
Drew Lawson is the former managing editor of the Davenport Times and a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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