10 I The Lovell Chronicle I February 22, 2018
BY DAVID PECK
Coach Pat Winland
called it a tune-up, but
perhaps the Rocky Moun-
tain's win over Shosho-
ni Saturday was more like
a statement as the Grizz
pounded on the visitors
from Fremont County, 66-
11, in Cowley.
"It was the last tune-
up before Regionals for
us, and we definitely came
out firing on all cylinders '
Winland said. "I'm happy
we came out healthy??'
The afternoon game
was the final home out-
ing for seniors Jonathan
Allred, Scott Banks, Col-
by Davidson, Tristan Jew-
ell and Lathan May, and
the five started the game
as the Grizz quickly went
up 8-0 and had two more
runs of 6-0 and 8-0 as they
led 22-4 at the end of the
first quarter.
Davidson was on fire
for the Grizz, driving to the
basket, hitting the boards
for follow shots and scor-
same in the third quarter
as the Grizzlies outscored
Shoshoni 23-5 to lead 60-
11 after three, reaching the
40-point mercy rule run-
ning clock at 50-9 on a
Davison fast-break buck-
et midway through the
quarter.
Rocky won the
time-shortened : fourth
quarter 6-0.
"I can't think of a bet-
ter way for those seniors
to go ouff' Winland said.
Davidson finished with
a game high 22 points, hit-
ting 11 of 13 shots from
the field. Allred added 12
points, freshman Jayden
Hocker t0, May 7 and Price
5.
The Grizz shot 61 per-
cent from the field (30 of
49) and had 23 assists, sev-
en from Jewell and four
from freshman Jess Wam-
beke. Wambeke led the
team with four steals, and
Jewell had three blocked
shots. Allred grabbed sev-
en rebounds.
ing on the fast break. "When we pass the ball
"Colby was able to like that and get every-
have a good bounce- body involved, we're tough
back game" Winland said. to beat:' Winland said. "It's
"He seemed to be in the a credit to the seniors and
fight spot at the right their leadorch;p .~ ;, to
time, which should help next week playing at a high
his confidence going into level"
Regionals" Winland noted that
Rocky started the sec- the three high school boys
ond quarter with a 15-0 basketball teams com-
run as May, Davison, Mired bined to win more than
and junior Ethan Price put 80 percent of their games
points on the board. Sho- this season, going45-8 (85
shoni finally scored in the percent).
final quarter, and Rocky "Overall, the program
led 37-6 at halftime, had a great regular season:'
It was more of the he said, "from the varsi-
ty all the way down to the
freshmen. It's a credit to
the kids and the coaches??'
SHOSHONI (11)
Dylan Konija 0 0-0 O, Kaden Sanderson
0 1-2 1, Wade Cornell 1 1-2 3,Andrew
Jennings 1 0-2 2, Kade Fike 1 0-0 2,
Justin LaJeunesse 1 0-0 3, Cameron
Griffin 0 0-0 O, Lucas Juan-Pedro 0 0-0
O. Totals 4 2-6 11.
ROCKY (66)
Ethan Price 1 2-2 5, Scott Banks 0 0-0
O, Zach Simmons 0 0-0 O, Tristan Jewell
2 0-0 4, Jess Wambeke 2 0-0 4, Lathan
May 3 0-0 7, Taylor Winland 1 0-0 2, Tyler
Banks 0 0-0 O, Dominic Estes 0 0-0 O,
Jayden Hocker 4 1-2 1 O, Colby Davison
11 0-2 22, Jonathan AIIred 6 0-0 12.
Totals 30 3-6 66.
Shoshoni 4 2 5 O- 11
Rocky Mtn. 22 15 23 6-66
Three-point field goals - LaJeunesse 1;
Price 1, May 1, Hocker 1. Fouled out-
none. Total fouls - Shoshoni three, Rocky
nine.
REGIONAL TOURNEY
The Grizz (18-2) will
begin the 2A West Region-
al Tournament at 4 p.m.
today (Thursday) at Riv-
erton High School with a
game against 1-19 Kem-
merer, the fourth seed out
of the Southwest. A win
would place the Grizz in a
7:30 p.m. semifinal against
either Wyoming Indian
or Greybull at 7:30 p.m.
Friday.
"Our focus is on Kem-
merer first," Winland said,
"We have to keep the same
mentality, one game at a
time, like we have all year.
Obviously, we have tape
on all of the teams down
there. For sure we'll pre-
pare for seeing some half-
court and three-quarter-
court pressure defense??'
DAVID PECK
Rocky freshman Jayden Hocker swoops to the hoop in the Grizzlies' senior night win
over Shoshoni Saturday afternoon in Cowley. Hocker had 10 points in the game.
BY DAVID PECK
Though coach Daniel
Robertson would have liked
his team to wrestle a bit
better, the four-man Rocky
Mountain High School
wrestling team beat out
five schools at the 2A West
Regional Wrestling Tour-
nament Saturday in Ethete.
! ixth in the ll-team field
with 55 team points, plac-
ing ahead of Wind River,
Greybull/Riverside, Sho '
shoni, Wyoming Indian arid
Dubois, and only Dubois
has a smaller roster, Rob-
ertson said.
"For the most part we
kind of finished one place
lower across the board
than we should have ' Rob-
ertson said. "It was a little
bit disappointing there.
"We lost to people we
had beat before, or we
would be ahead and do
something ridiculous to
lose the match at pivot-
al moments, meat-grinder
moments."
Still, the Grizz battled
to an overall record of 9-5
in matches wrestled Sat-
urday as freshman Tonka
Lytle placed second at 126
pounds, juniors Travis Ly-
tie and Nathan Hatch third
at 132 and 170 pounds, re-
"Laird gave him a better
run than he has in the past"
Robertson said. "He (Lytle)
got into trouble in the first
SAM SMITH
a pin on Power wrestler Evan Habeck at the
spectively. Senior Wyatt
Horrocks won one match Rocky freshman Tonka Lytle executes
and will advance to State. Greybull Memorial Tournament Feb. 3.
Tonka Lytle pinned An-
dres Vega of Kemmerer in 45 seconds and was down relentless??' mad" after that, Robertson
2:24 and Lyle Laird of Wind 6-2 after the first period. It Julian led 4-0 after the said, adding, "It was a solid
River in 3:59 befOre falling was kind of nerve-racking. I first period, but Lytle took match" for Lytle.
to Colter Julian of Kern- didn't feel we were in con- him down in the second pc- "The Kemmerer kids
merer 8-2 in the champi- trol like we're used to.riod to cut the lead in half. are obviously very, very
onship match. "Tonka was feeling ill However, Julian reversed well acquainted with the
all day, and it caught up him for two points later in weight room;' Robertson
with us in that one (the Ju- the second, turned him for added.
lian match). Julian wrestles a two-point near fall in the THIRD-PLACE FINISHERS
with a lot of pressure. He's third and "rode him like Travis Lytle had a sol-
id tournament at 132, wres-
tling to a 3-1 record and
losing only to the eventual
champion, Carson CarlsOn
of Kemmerer. Lytle pinned
Weston Murdock of Cokev-
file in 38 seconds, then fell
in 2:05 and crushing Tyler
Long of Big Piney 9-1.
Wrestling at 160, Wy-
att Horrocks fell to a wres-
tler he'd beaten three times
- Shawn Erhart of Grey-
bull/Riverside - because,
to Carlson 8-2. though leading 12-4, he was
Carlson is, obvious- disqualified when he locked
ly really good,' Robert- his hands for the third time
son said: '"He and,"-(goeh- i -'the'-.match, Robertson
lyn) Teichert (second place,
Cokeville) are close. That
was a good, tough weight
class. Travis wrestled a
quality match. He does a
good job keeping people at
bay and looking for his own
opportunities??'
Lytle rebounded to pin
Billy Heffner of Big Pin-
ey in 2:03 and stick Hiissiis
Goodnight of Wyoming In-
dian in 2:20 for third place.
"Travis has been a treat
to have all year long;' Rob-
ertson said. "He's been re-
said.
"That was unfortunate;'
the coach said.
Horrocks came back
to beat Spencer Brown of
Cokeville 9-2, then fell to
Colter Collver of Wind Riv-
er 16-5.
Horrocks wrestled a
"very solid match" against
Brown, reversing him for
five points in the second
period, Robertson said, and
though he had upset Coil'
ver in Greybull, the Wind
River Cougar was ready
ally steady, and I've come to this time.
appreciate it."
Hatch also went 3-1 at
170 pounds to place third.
He pinned Kaden Hedley
of Saratoga in 45 seconds,
then fell to Brayden John-
son of Cokeville 10-6.
Robertson said Hatch
led 6-5 with about 20 sec-
onds left in the match but
tried what would normal-
"Collver was out for
blood ' Robertson noted.
STATE TOURNAMENT
The four Rocky wres-
tlers are off to the Wyo-
ming State Wrestling Tour-
nament this week with
action beginning at 9 a.m.
both Friday and Saturday at
the Casper Events Center.
With only four wres-
ly be a "desperation move" tiers, the Grizz won't chal-
and got reversed to his lenge for a team trophy, of
back for a five-point rever- course, but Robertson said
sal/near fall. he would like to see all four
"Instead of being cau- of his wrestlers place.
tiously aggressive and fin-"Medals are item one:'
ishing strong, he sent for he said. "The big thing, is
a desperation move:' Rob- individual hardware. We ve
ertson said. "He finished managed to beat the crud
strong (next two matches),
but he really should have
been in the finals??'
Hatch finished out the
tournament by pinning
Tristan Gray of Saratoga
after seeing some sick-
ness earlier in the season,
and we're healthy as far as
injuries. We have a chance
to medal in most of our
weights??'
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