TILLAMOOK ICES ASTORIA IN WRESTLING DUAL
It was the Barricho family 2, the Banta family 0 as the Tillamook wrestling team defeated Astoria 58-15 in Wednesday night's Cowapa League dual.
With two other league duals cancelled due to snowy weather, yesterday's meet was moved up in the day and completed, leaving the Fishermen 0-2 in league after taking on the two Cowapa favorites.
Although the Cheesemakers were a considerable favorite, Adam Barricho's 9-6 win over Jake Banta was not necessarily part of the plans. Not that Barricho has never beaten Banta, he has, but Astoria's 215-pounder came in as the top-ranked 4A wrestler in his class and scored a win against 6A's best at the Northwest Duals. Banta appeared a bit sluggish after wrestling a Japanese national champion the night before in a cultural exchange event in Portland featuring elite wrestlers from all classes from throughout Northwest Oregon.
"It's just a neat experience for those kids," said Astoria head coach Cam McFarland. "Josh [Banta, Jake's brother] and Jake didn't win their matches. Josh scored a few points and didn't do too bad. But they don't wrestle freestyle.
"It's a faster-paced style of wrestling. You get more points if you throw guys and you get points if their back just shows to the mat. There's a lot of starting and stopping after moves based on what happens with the moves."
Dustin Morrison, a 103-pound freshman, scored Astoria's only pin, taking down Tillamook's Jimmy Sprat in 1:13.
"Dustin has really come on," said McFarland. "He had a really big ego-booster at the Junction City Tournament because he wrestled hard and came out as champion. He came out and I think he got better from that weekend to today. That kid [Sprat] wasn't bad."
The closest match came at 152-pounds, where fellow frosh Tim Clark went to a third overtime before defeating Martin Zepada 4-3. Clark has won both of his Cowapa duals in dramatic fashion, after coming from behind with a reversal and near fall with 10 seconds left to defeat his opponent from Scappoose last week.
"He just has a couple little technical things we have to work on," said McFarland.
"If he wins two more, which is entirely possible for him, he's going to get a nice seed and a nice spot in the [district] bracket and will have a good chance to go to state."
The dual was not without controversy. Astoria senior heavyweight Ben Mattingly recovered from a second period injury to take highly-ranked Jarrett "Bubba" Owens right to the wire. But with 30 seconds remaining in a match tied at 2-all, Mattingly was called for stalling, giving the go-ahead point to Owens. Forced to aggressively go for points in the waning seconds, Mattingly was taken down by Owens, who came away with a 5-2 win, but not before McFarland spent a time out to furiously vent his disagreement to the referee.
"All Owens was doing was pushing Ben around the mat," said Mattingly. "Well, he's bigger and stronger and he's going to be able to push Ben around. Ben was working for an offensive move and he'd gotten to the leg three times, actually got the whole leg and was working on an offensive move and we got dinged for stalling. I really disagreed with that.
"I think if that doensn't happen, then that match goes to overtime and who knows what happens. I think Ben is in better shape. Ben is in great shape and he works as hard as anybody out there."
Owens, a junior, finished third at state last year and is currently ranked number one in the popular poll produced by Bill Bettis. Mattingly is unranked.
While Adam Barichio got the best of Jake Banta, Aaron Barichio pinned Cole Banta in 1:07. Astoria's only other points were scored when Josh Banta earned a forfeit at 160 when a Tillamook wrestler was unprepared to take the mat at the scheduled time.
The Fishermen will participate in Friday's Clatsop County Championships at Warrenton, that will pit the best of the four county schools against each other in a bracketed meet that begins at 4:00 p.m. tomorrow.
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With two other league duals cancelled due to snowy weather, yesterday's meet was moved up in the day and completed, leaving the Fishermen 0-2 in league after taking on the two Cowapa favorites.
Although the Cheesemakers were a considerable favorite, Adam Barricho's 9-6 win over Jake Banta was not necessarily part of the plans. Not that Barricho has never beaten Banta, he has, but Astoria's 215-pounder came in as the top-ranked 4A wrestler in his class and scored a win against 6A's best at the Northwest Duals. Banta appeared a bit sluggish after wrestling a Japanese national champion the night before in a cultural exchange event in Portland featuring elite wrestlers from all classes from throughout Northwest Oregon.
"It's just a neat experience for those kids," said Astoria head coach Cam McFarland. "Josh [Banta, Jake's brother] and Jake didn't win their matches. Josh scored a few points and didn't do too bad. But they don't wrestle freestyle.
"It's a faster-paced style of wrestling. You get more points if you throw guys and you get points if their back just shows to the mat. There's a lot of starting and stopping after moves based on what happens with the moves."
Dustin Morrison, a 103-pound freshman, scored Astoria's only pin, taking down Tillamook's Jimmy Sprat in 1:13.
"Dustin has really come on," said McFarland. "He had a really big ego-booster at the Junction City Tournament because he wrestled hard and came out as champion. He came out and I think he got better from that weekend to today. That kid [Sprat] wasn't bad."
The closest match came at 152-pounds, where fellow frosh Tim Clark went to a third overtime before defeating Martin Zepada 4-3. Clark has won both of his Cowapa duals in dramatic fashion, after coming from behind with a reversal and near fall with 10 seconds left to defeat his opponent from Scappoose last week.
"He just has a couple little technical things we have to work on," said McFarland.
"If he wins two more, which is entirely possible for him, he's going to get a nice seed and a nice spot in the [district] bracket and will have a good chance to go to state."
The dual was not without controversy. Astoria senior heavyweight Ben Mattingly recovered from a second period injury to take highly-ranked Jarrett "Bubba" Owens right to the wire. But with 30 seconds remaining in a match tied at 2-all, Mattingly was called for stalling, giving the go-ahead point to Owens. Forced to aggressively go for points in the waning seconds, Mattingly was taken down by Owens, who came away with a 5-2 win, but not before McFarland spent a time out to furiously vent his disagreement to the referee.
"All Owens was doing was pushing Ben around the mat," said Mattingly. "Well, he's bigger and stronger and he's going to be able to push Ben around. Ben was working for an offensive move and he'd gotten to the leg three times, actually got the whole leg and was working on an offensive move and we got dinged for stalling. I really disagreed with that.
"I think if that doensn't happen, then that match goes to overtime and who knows what happens. I think Ben is in better shape. Ben is in great shape and he works as hard as anybody out there."
Owens, a junior, finished third at state last year and is currently ranked number one in the popular poll produced by Bill Bettis. Mattingly is unranked.
While Adam Barichio got the best of Jake Banta, Aaron Barichio pinned Cole Banta in 1:07. Astoria's only other points were scored when Josh Banta earned a forfeit at 160 when a Tillamook wrestler was unprepared to take the mat at the scheduled time.
The Fishermen will participate in Friday's Clatsop County Championships at Warrenton, that will pit the best of the four county schools against each other in a bracketed meet that begins at 4:00 p.m. tomorrow.
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