{"id":24328,"date":"2024-12-20T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-boys-wrestling-beats-ignacio-at-home-triangular\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:51:59","slug":"dolores-boys-wrestling-beats-ignacio-at-home-triangular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-boys-wrestling-beats-ignacio-at-home-triangular\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores boys wrestling beats Ignacio at home triangular"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Ignacio's Zane Pontine, left, controls Dolores' River Wickstrom during their 157-pound bout in the SJBL teams' meeting Wednesday night at the DHS-hosted triangular. Pontine would win via technical fall, but the Bobcats came up short against the Bears, who won the dual 30-28. (Joel Priest\/Special to the Herald)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Dolores may not have something of a comeback wrestler-of-the-year award. But were one existed, count Darren Hicks as the favorite to earn it.<\/p>\n

Despite not yet being truly up to speed in this winter\u2019s early goings, the sophomore 144-pounder looked in fine enough form Wednesday night to first pin Monticello, Utah\u2019s Ronnie Harris in DHS\u2019 first dual of a home triangular, then did likewise to Ignacio\u2019s Dillon Brann in the squad\u2019s second.<\/p>\n

Hicks\u2019 stick of Harris ended up being the Bears\u2019 only head-to-head win in a 47-24 loss to the talented Buckaroos, while his pin of Brann increased the Bears\u2019 first lead on the San Juan Basin League rival Bobcats to 18-11, en route to a 30-28 victory \u2013 a definite positive for DHS, what with a journey to Manti, Utah, for the Templar Holiday Classic on Friday rapidly approaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cIgnacio\u2019s a great team,\u201d Dolores head coach Casen Eldredge said. \u201cAwesome kids \u2026 coached by a great coach, and it\u2019s an honor to battle against them. And being from Monticello [Eldredge graduated from MHS in 2004], it\u2019s always a pride thing; they have a great program established there \u2026. Both have state-ranked wrestlers, and we battled super tough; I didn\u2019t see any of our guys give up \u2013 I couldn\u2019t ask for anything more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kenji Edwards\u2019 second-period pin of IHS\u2019 Norman Hackett at 138 pounds had given Dolores a 12-11 advantage, after IHS\u2019 Aven Bourriague started the dual winning by forfeit at 120 and teammate Josh Kerrigan more or less offset Cameron Bell\u2019s loss by pin at 126 (he\u2019d started the night listed at 132) with a technical-fall defeat of Mason Hill at 132.<\/p>\n

Following Hicks\u2019 triumph, 150-pounder Nathan Hill received a forfeit increasing the Bears\u2019 lead to 24-11 before Bobcat Zane Pontine defeated River Wickstrom by technical fall at 157. Lincoln deKay then followed up his earlier tech of MHS\u2019 Tavon Black (a bout contested at Black\u2019s 175 pounds) with a pin of DHS\u2019 Kale Bates at 165 pounds to bring the \u2019Cats back to 24-22, and Kendrick Nossaman then claimed forfeit points at 175 \u2013 putting Ignacio up 28-24.<\/p>\n

With neither side represented at 106, 113, 190, nor heavyweight, Dolores 215-pounder Daniel Jacket\u2019s forfeit win ultimately made the difference.<\/p>\n

Narrowly defeated, 31-22, by MHS in the night\u2019s opener, Ignacio had deKay, Bourriague, Pontine and Kerrigan each go 2-0 (entered at 126, Kerrigan notched a first-period pin of Buckaroo Miles Coleman and was then bumped up a weight to meet Mason Hill). Nossaman could have went 2-0, but accepted a match against MHS 190-pounder Tyson Wheeler and lost in the third period via technical fall (Robison and heavyweight Camren Carpenter then each won by forfeit to deny IHS the dual).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wrestled well, but want to wrestle better,\u201d said Ignacio head coach Jordan Larsen. \u201cLittle things to work on, back in the (practice) room. Josh had a good night, was starting to open up on offense a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bobcats will next compete on Saturday at Walsenburg\u2019s Pete & Ina Gomez Invitational.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking forward to it,\u201d Larsen said. \u201cThey always have competition at all levels \u2026 and it\u2019ll give (the Bobcats) a chance to see some tougher kids from the other side of the state. (WHS senior Giovanni) Aldretti at 157\u2019s is super tough \u2013 we want a match with him \u2013 and I\u2019m not sure who\u2019s at 65s \u2026 probably somebody tough. Same with Bourriague; I think there\u2019s a kid from Swink (Trinidad State-bound senior Thomas Valdez) that\u2019s super-tough \u2026. We\u2019re just looking forward to getting those matchups so that we can work on things for the \u2018big show\u2019 in about a month and a half.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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