Jan. 2, 2007: Tooele-Transcript Bulletin

Buff Grapplers Take Tough, Contending Region Loss to Bears
by Steve Schwartzman

Tooele's Monte Schmalhaus posted the biggest defeat of the Buffs wrestling region match between Bear River on Dec. 14, defeating Bear River's Baden Peterson, last season's 3A second place finisher, 6-5.

Tooele posted seven wins in the match to match Bear River's 7, but failed to meet the amount of pinfalls, leading them to a sudden upset losing 42-30.

Braeden Torgensen began the Buffs seven victories with a pinfall victory, by nailing the Bears' Chad Scott's back flat on the mat. Buff tandem Josh Austin and Zeb Hansen also walked from the mat with a win by pinfall.

Lone THS varsity senior Jake Foster won by decision (6-2) to aid with decision victories by Jake Golden (8-7), and Schmalhaus. Buff grappling standout, junior Daniel Goode, extended his match winning streak to 14-0 with a 4-1 decision.

Buff trio Wally Hendrickson, Chris Heaps and Jesse Bisseger all suffered tough losses by pinfall as Chisolm Wooley, Isaac Brown and Nick Buxton, replacing injured Eric Hernandez, all fell to the mat for losses themselves tallying the final score.

The Buff JV squad pursued a much more positive outcome with a 46-33 victory over the Bears.

Travis Gustafson and Mike Trujillo began the match dominating by technical fall. Glenn Kummer, Kent Heder, Jai Knighton and Cassity Adams all flattened their opponents, winning by pinfall.

Buffs Finish 14th in Juab Invite

Daniel Goode led the way for the Buff squad at the Juab Classic on Dec. 8-9 with a 9-0 record & eight by pinfall, one by technical pinfall & awarding him a medal, and a perfect 13-0 record on the season.

The Buff grapplers finished 14th overall out of 30 teams from Utah, Wyoming and Idaho in 1A-5A classes.

Tooele finished with a 4-5 record in dual style format going 3-2 on the first day with wins against Springville, San Juan and Spanish Fork and losing to Manti and Preston. On the second day, THS posted a 1-3 record with a win over Logan and losses to North Sevier, Altamont and Aberdeen.

Monte Schmalhaus also posted a perfect 9-0 record to help lead the team to it's top 20 placing.

Isaac Brown finished with a 6-2 record, and as Chisolm Wooley (4-2) and Jacob Foster (5-2) both finished with strong records.

Zeb Hansen finished with a 5-3 record as Austin Hansen finished at 5-4. Braeden Torgensen finished with an eve 4-4 record as the duo of Jake Golden and Wally Henderson finished at 5-4 and 2-7 respectively.

Josh Austin finished at 3-6 and tandem Chris Heaps and Jesse Bisseger both resulted with 1-8 records. Eric Hernandez finished with a record of 4-5, but had to leave due to injury. Nick Buxton and Brady Wice both chimed with a match a piece, but ended with close losses.

The Buffs' next match will be the best of the West tournament at THS on Jan. 5-6.