Connor Blunt competed at the Colorado Middle School State. Blunt placed sixth at 120 pounds in a field of 35 wrestlers; in middle school state there is no class distinction as in high school and all school sizes compete against each other. Brendan Clatterbaugh also placed sixth at state in[Read More…]
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BMS wrestlers take gold at regional tournament, head to state competition
MEEKER | Twelve Cowboys competed during the Region 5 middle school tournament, all trying to wrestle their way to Colorado middle school state tournament. Nearly 200 boys were in Montrose, Colo., competing for seven spots in each weight, with no school class size distinction. Only in high school does[Read More…]
Meeker hosts middle school tournament
MEEKER | Regular season middle school wrestling wrapped up with the Western Slope Championships hosted by the Meeker Cowboys, who also took first place with 256 points, narrowly beating Moffat County by four points. Results: First place: Reed Goedert (70), Casey Brink (100), Connor Blunt (125), Brendan Clatterbaugh (135), Elijah[Read More…]
BMS wrestling gets underway
MEEKER | Middle school Cowboy wrestling opened this week in a tri with Hayden and Craig on Tuesday followed by the Gypsum Creek Middle School Tournament in Gypsum, Colo., on Saturday. Coaching this year are head coach Todd Morris, assistant coach Kurt Blunt and volunteers Steve Gianinetti and Chris Selle.[Read More…]
Turner, Blunt win state championships
MEEKER | The late Bill Turner, was Rio Blanco County’s first state wrestling champion, winning an individual title for the Rangely Panthers in 1958, then coaching Meeker’s first state championship team in any sport in 1979. Now two of his grandsons have continued the tradition, one becoming Meeker’s first elementary school[Read More…]
BMS wrestlers finish second in league finale
MEEKER | Nineteen Barone Middle School wrestlers competed in the final league tournament of the school season in Rangely last Saturday, with 17 returning with medals and a second place team trophy. A few of the young Cowboys will wrestle in the state-qualifying regional tournament this weekend in Grand Junction but[Read More…]
BMS wrestlers finish second at Oak Creek
MEEKER | Twenty Barone Middle School wrestlers competed in Oak Creek last Saturday and three-quarters of them came back with medals, including four gold. The young Cowboys will end the regular season Saturday in Rangely in the Northwest League Championships, yet some wrestlers will continue on in the middle school regional[Read More…]
Barone wrestlers win dual meet tourney
MEEKER | Sixteen varsity Barone Middle School wrestlers won four dual meets Saturday to win the team title for the Gypsum Creek Dual tournament. Five JV BMS wrestlers got matches by wrestling on other teams and all BMS varsity and JV wrestlers won at least one match. The young Cowboys will[Read More…]
BMS wrestlers host tourney
MEEKER | The Barone Middle School wrestling team ended the regular season by hosting its annual tournament, finishing third in a field of nine teams with one individual champion and several top four placers. Meeker finished behind champion Craig and runner-up Gypsum Creek. Barone Middle School seventh-grader Kelton Turner, was[Read More…]
BMS wrestlers finish fourth
MEEKER | The Barone Middle School wrestling team finished fourth last Saturday in the Eagle Valley tournament, which featured a 16-man bracket in each of the weights. The young Cowboys took 19 wrestlers and seven placed in the top four, including three champions. Kelton Turner, Ty Goedert and Tyson Portwood[Read More…]
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Nine county middle school wrestlers qualify for state
RBC I Ten Rio Blanco middle school wrestlers, including eight from Rangely, wrestled in the Western Slope Regional Tournament in Grand Junction. Nine of those 10 wrestlers qualified for the state tournament in Denver.