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Stacking up against tough field

By Shawn Linenberger - | Jan 21, 2016

In one of the marquee tournaments each wrestling season, Tonganoxie finished in the middle of the pack as a team this year.

Tonganoxie High placed three wrestlers individually, helping the Chieftains to a 19th-place finish at Saturday’s Bobcat Classic at Basehor-Linwood.

Goddard won this year’s tournament with 221 points. Basehor-Linwood was the top Kaw Valley League school, finished 14th with 74 points. Tonganoxie tallied 61.5 points in the 37-team field.

Korbin Riedel finished fifth in his weight class, while Gad Huseman and Patterson Starcher each placed sixth.

Riedel won the fifth-place match in the 120-pound division with a 5-0 decision against St. James Academy sophomore Drew Ernsdorff (22-13). The THS freshman improved to 29-4 on the season.

Huseman finished sixth at 126. The sophomore lost by fall at the 3-minute, 37-second mark of the fifth-place match to Smithville junior Thomas Nielsen (15-6). That loss dropped the Tonganoxie sophomore to 26-7 on the season.

Starcher, also a sophomore, lost by a 6-3 decision to Prarie View senior Case Pemberton (23-2) in the 132 fifth-place match. Starcher now is 25-7 on the season.

THS gears up for its next action this coming weekend in Holton.

The 19th annual Gerald Sadowski Wrestling Tournament starts at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The Chieftains then compete Jan. 30 in the Baldwin Invitational. The final home dual of the season is Feb. 4 against Bonner Springs.

THS will get a bit of a rest before the final stretch. The squad has nine days between that dual and the KvL Meet on Feb. 13 at Basehor-Linwood.

The team is back there Feb. 19 and 20 for a Class 4A regional. The top four individual wrestlers in each weight class advance to the state tournament Feb. 27 in Salina.

Team scores

  1. Goddard, 221; 2. Smithville, 206.5; 3. Platte County, 206; 4. Rossville, 135; 5. Glenwood, 115; 6. St. James Academy, 109.5; 7. Abilene, 103.5; 8. Santa Fe Trail, 96.5; 9. Olathe North, 94; 10. Pittsburg, 82; 11. Clay Center, 81.5; 12. Blue Springs, 79; 13. Turner, 76.5; 14. Basehor-Linwood, 74.0; 15. Mountain Range, 68.5; 16. Andale, 66.5; 17. Riley County, 66; 18. Olathe South, 65; 19. Tonganoxie, 61.5; 20. Baldwin, 55.5; 21. Blue Valley, 54; 22. Lansing, 53; 23. Wabaunsee, 52; 24. Topeka Seaman, 51.5; 25. Prairie View, 51; 26. Chapman, 45; 27. Bonner Springs, 38.5; 28. Columbus, 37.5; 29. Fort Scott, 34; 30. Sumner, 31; 31. Schlagle, 23.5; 32. (tie) Paola, 23, St. Thomas Aquinas, 23; 34. Osawatomie, 12; 35., Atchison County, 11; 36. (tie) Bishop Ward, 6, Piper, 6.