REGION
CHAMPS • Juab Wrestlers show off the trophy
that they won at the Region 14 Tournament. Juab
competes at the State tournament, February 12-14
at UVSC.
By Brandon Day.
On February 6, the Juab High School wrestling traveled
to Juan Diego High School to compete in the Region 14
wrestling tournament. There were five teams competing for
the title of region champion: Juab, Juan Diego, Grand, North
Summit, and South Summit. In the end Juab became region
champions for the seventh consecutive time. The Wasps won
the tournament with 421.5 points followed by North Summit at
196 points, Grand with 183 points, South Summit with 157
points, and Juan Diego with 62.5 points.
The Wasps started off the tournament by jumping to a
huge lead scoring 95.5. Followed by an even bigger jump in
the second round jumping to 319 points. At the end of the
second round the closest team was North Summit with 144
points.
The Wasps had set themselves up well to blow away the
rest of the competition, and going into the finals matches
there was only two weights that Juab wrestlers weren't
wrestling in.
To start the finals off, Justin Reynoso 103 lbs.
wrestled a hard match coming up short against Nick Robinson
of North Summit.
Followed up at 112 pounds with a quick thirty-two
second pin by Tyson McPherson over Mason Littledike of South
Summit.
At 119 pounds Jake Revoir took on Ryan Reather for the
second time this year. In the end though Jake lost with a
final score of 5-4.
Juab once again came out victorious at 125 pounds with
Steward Allred beating Cody Wall 10-8.
It was Juab against Juab in the 130-pound championship
match. Brady Shepherd took on Shaun Allred in what was a
very tight match. Brady edged out Shaun 4-3.
Jade Greenhalgh went into his match at 135-pounds
ready to win himself a region championship and pinned Matt
Keogh.
Brandon Day went into his finals match in hopes of
totally dominating his opponent and did so in a quick
1:08.
Once again at 145 pounds it was Juab against Juab
because of injury, Johnny Adams forfeited to Travis
Warner.
At 152 Thad Pay took on a tough Cliff Leavitt from
South Summit to come up two points short in the final
seconds of the last round.
Kyle Worwood wrestled a solid match against Logan
Bryant of North Summit beating him 4-1.
The next weight Juab wrestled at was 215 where Jesse
Boyd took on a highly ranked Trevor Clegg, but in the end
fell short losing 12-3.
The match of the night was at heavy weight (275 lbs)
an undefeated Jordan Guillory took on Zane Taylor of Grand.
The match was nip and tuck all the way until the third round
where Zane Taylor took advantage of Jordan's mistake pinning
Jordan in what was the upset of the tournament.
Placing for Juab were: 1st Tyson McPherson, Steward
Allred, Brady Shepherd, Jade Greenhalgh, Brandon Day, Travis
Warner, and Kyle Worwood; 2nd Justin Reynoso, Jake Revoir,
Shaun Allred, Johnny Adams, Thad Pay, Jesse Boyd, and Jordan
Guillory; 3rd Chad Greenhalgh, Shad McPherson, Kevin
Worwood, Nathan Bastian, Paul Everitt, and Cameron Pitts;
4th Wyet Ingram, John Terry, Dallen Proctor, and Zach
Larsen. Joe Allred placed 5th.
At the end of the tournament, Juab qualified 25 out of
27 wrestlers for state. Tyson McPherson was named as one of
four outstanding wrestlers.
The State tournament will be February 12-14 at UVSC.
We hope to see you all there.
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