Routt County high schools have qualified nine wrestlers for the Colorado High School Activities Association 2024 State Wrestling Tournament in Denver from Thursday to Saturday. Soroco and Hayden boys each competed at the regional tournament.
Moffat County wrestling sure knows how to bounce back in a big way.
Nearly one week after a tough weekend in Palisade in a quad dual, the Bulldogs hit the mat Thursday night in Steamboat for a triangular dual against the host Sailors and the Middle Park Panthers.
Against the Sailors and Panthers, Moffat County cruised to two dominant wins, defeating the Panthers 60-24, before then sinking the Sailors 53-18 on the Sailors’ Senior Night.
Opening up the triangular dual against the Panthers, Moffat County raced out to a quick 36-0 lead winning the first six matches of the night.
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Summit Tigers sophomore PJ Trujillo won both of his matches versus his Steamboat Springs and Glenwood Springs opponents at Thursday night’s Steamboat tri meet in Steamboat Springs.
Wrestling in the 120-pound weight division, Trujillo won by fall at 1 minute and 45 seconds versus Nathan Sandoval of Glenwood Springs. Trujillo also won by fall against Steamboat’s Kaleb Young at 4 minutes.
Battling a shoulder injury, Summit senior leader Giovanni Marquez (113 pounds) wrestled only once Thursday night, pinning Jairo Achovarria of Glenwood Springs at 2:56. In the Tigers’ other matchups versus Glenwood Springs, Jamie Gonzalez (126 pounds) won by fall at 45 seconds versus Nathan Sandoval, Sylas Marsteller wrestled up at 152 pounds to defeat Kodiak Kellogg with a fall at 2:47, and Ethan Sicat pinned Malachi Sandoval at 2:58 in an extra, non-weight-specific match.