{"id":60027,"date":"2014-01-29T22:54:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T05:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wrestlers-impressive-in-ariz-tournament\/"},"modified":"2014-01-30T05:54:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T05:54:59","slug":"wrestlers-impressive-in-ariz-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wrestlers-impressive-in-ariz-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestlers impressive in Ariz. tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5cbe149e-e733-4198-bf70-6afef56c7205&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1421\" height=\"1727\" alt=\"Bears' junior Guy Wallace poses with his outstanding wrestler award after winning the Sand Devil Classic wrestling tournament.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Bears' junior Guy Wallace poses with his outstanding wrestler award after winning the Sand Devil Classic wrestling tournament.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Photo\/Leo Garand<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Putting together their finest performance of the season at the Sand Devil Tournament in Page, Ariz., on Jan. 24-25, the Bears finished ninth out of 24 teams, placing all five of their wrestlers on the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way for the Bears was junior Guy Wallace, who, wrestling as well as he has throughout his career, placed first in the 138-pound division.<\/p>\n<p>By virtue of his performance, which included a semifinals victory over top-ranked Colter McMenimen of Bayfield, Wallace was named the tournament\u2019s outstanding wrestler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Wallace) wrestled better than I\u2019ve ever seen him wrestle,\u201d said Bears coach Leo Garand. \u201cHe\u2019s hitting a whole new level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also performing impressively for the Bears was senior Ethen Upton, who, after losing his first- round match, recovered to win-out and place third at 182 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of his performance, Upton was named comeback wrestler of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the Bears\u2019 placers, freshman Richard Martinez placed third at 113 pounds division, senior Deano Valdez placed fourth at 145, and freshman Brandon Ward placed fourth at 106.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very competitive tournament, and the team wrestled well,\u201d said Garand.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Bears grapplers will be the Ignacio Invitational Tournament on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bears&#8217; junior Guy Wallace poses with his outstanding wrestler award after winning the Sand Devil Classic wrestling tournament.Courtesy Photo\/Leo Garand Putting together their finest performance of the season at the Sand Devil Tournament in Page, Ariz., on Jan. 24-25, the Bears finished ninth out of 24 teams, placing all five of their wrestlers on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-60027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60027"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=60027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}