LRS five advance to regional wrestling

The plan worked perfectly, the LRS wrestling team took five wrestlers to Colfax Saturday for the Sub-Regional Wrestling Tournament and advanced all of them to this week’s regional event in Kittitas.

Each of the LRS wrestlers will have a chance to fight their way into the state’s Mat Classic. At the regional event, the top five wrestlers in each weight class will advance.

The top performer for the Broncos was Layne Hawks. He finished in second place at 285. He wrestled twice Saturday. He won his first match against Nick McAdams of Colfax by pin. He then lost by pin to Tristan Newman of Waitsburg-Prescott.

Matt Vercoe won his first match against Tyler Hoffman of WP by pin. In his second match he was pinned by Evan Lord of Colfax. Vercoe also lost his third match when he was pinned by Eric Sackett of Davenport.

Karl Hawks wrestled three times at 195. In his first match against Cameron Danforth of Davenport, he lost by pin. In the second match he pinned Jacob Vogel Almira-Coulee/Hartline. He lost his third match when he was pinned by Kevin Winder of Liberty.

Matthias Ferderer, wrestling at 106 pounds, had only one match and lost by pin to Kyle Degon of Liberty.

Hoang Vu, 152, wrestled twice and lost both matches by pin to Kevin Knaff of Garfield-Palouse and Drew Johnson of Wilbur-Creston.