The stretch run is upon us! With only 3 weekends remaining, the Highlanders split up this past weekend at the “Border Brawl” in Plentywood and at the Montana Middle School State Wrestling Championships in Lewistown. It was another banner weekend for our GWC kids of ALL ages.
In Plentywood, we entered an event-best 35 wrestlers! The small inter-divisional meet featured 167 kids from 8 local clubs. The Highlanders were flat out dominant throughout. When the dust settled, GWC had captured 16 individual CHAMPIONSHIPS and 34 top-3 finishes. We won 75% of our matches overall and really set the tone for the rest of the season.
At Middle School State, thirteen of our 5th thru 8th grade grapplers turned in a solid overall performance finishing in 11th overall out of 49 teams at the event with 109 points. The 109 team points was good enough for 3rd place amongst Class B/C towns. The highlight of MS State for the Highlanders was TWO individual STATE CHAMPS! 8th Graders, William Kirkland (135) and Khye Gamas (140) brought home the GOLD. It is a 2nd consecutive MS State title for Gamas. Congrats to both gentleman! Allen Leslie, Andrew Linder, and Ethan Engstrom also secured impressive top 6 finishes at the prestigious event.
This coming weekend; the Glasgow Wrestling Club will attend the Brodie Gorder Memorial Tournament in Sidney. The team Duals will be held on Saturday and the individual tournament for ALL ages will be on Sunday. After that it is back to back weekends at the Billings Metra for AAU State and the Montana Open respectively. Here are the results from this past weekend below.
Border Brawl (Plentywood):
Tot–
Ledger Kaufman 1st
Collins Flaten 1st
Abel Krauth 3rd
Tot Girls–
Olive Marks 1st
Aurora Markle 2nd
Lillie Holzworth 2nd
Collins Flaten 1st
Bantam–
Dayton Markle
Tate Lehner
Caleb See
Milo Marks 3rd
Jett Morehouse 1st
Murdock Pattison 1st
CJ Sillerud 3rd
Jaxon Budde 2nd
Buddy Cole 3rd
Calex Greenough 3rd
Carson Young 2nd
Cameron Burns 1st
Bantam Girls–
Piper See 1st
Midget–
Anders Aune 3rd
Ryker Nixdorf 2nd
Knoxsen Harris 3rd
Walker Kirkland 1st
Eli Holinde 1st
Asher Wersal 2nd
Kellan Holzworth 5th
Devon Munroe 1st
Deymian Jones 1st
George Zumbuhl 4th
Midget Girls–
Khloe Kaufman 2nd
Riley Pattison 2nd
Novice–
William Mulder 1st
DC Flaten 1st
Ashton Earll 3rd
Leo Erickson 2nd
Middle School State (Lewistown):
Aiden Aune 65 lbs.
Hunter Pierce 70 lbs.
Weston Kirkland 85 lbs.
Makiya Plummer 105 lbs.
Cash Richardson 115 lbs.
Andrew Leslie 125 lbs.
Ethan Engstrom 130 lbs. 6th Place
William Kirkland 135 lbs. Champion
Khye Gamas 140 lbs. Champion
Allen Leslie 145 lbs. 5th Place
Andrew Linder 189 lbs. 6th Place
Riley Pedersen 100 lbs. Girls
Jaxson Kemp 134-144 JV Boys 2nd Place