Broadus Wrestlers Travel To Moorcroft

Broadus wrestlers traveled to Moorcroft, Wyoming last Friday and Saturday to compete in the Dylan Humes Memorial.

The Hawks showed up ready to wrestle, as five of the nine team members wrestling varsity matches placed at the event.

Kail Irish wrestled at 132, and lost two matches by decision.

Raiden Aurand won one championship round match at 138.

Collin Weatherall at 157 won one match by pin.

Riggin Schaffer, also at 157, placed 4th and had 19 team points. Riggin won four matches in the championship round, falling 12-14 in the 3rd place match by decision to Ethan Hague of Casper.

Reuben Kinzer, wrestling at 215, placed 4th and scored 20 team points. Reuben had 3 wins by pin, and lost in a 1-5 decision to Mekhi Boyee of Casper in the 3rd place match.

In JV, Braydn Stoddard-Terill won two matches, while Hunter Stanton lost two. Jackson Knapp won two matches.

In the girls tournament, Macyn McDowell won 4th place, scoring 20 team points as she won 4 matches.

Bonita Kinzer placed 3rd, with 18 team points and 3 wins, including beating Wright's Ryley Knight by pin in the 3rd place match.

Novalee Blakeman scored her first two wins of her wrestling career in Moorcroft, pinning two opponents and gaining 7 team points.

Aspen Krantz placed third and scored 14 team points, winning two matches including a pin against Tayler Small of Colstrip in the third place match.

The Broadus girls scored 59 points, tying with Wright, WY for 9th out of 25 teams. Broadus boys scored 43 points for 15 out of 28 teams.

Broadus Head Coach Frankie Schoonover told us Monday that the team as a whole did a phenomenal job in Moorcroft – he noted that Riggin Schaffer and Reuben have been consistent, reliable wrestlers and teammates on the boys side, while the girls are wrestling better than anything he could've imagined for athletes with two months of experience in a sport.

"The team, coaching staff, and manager did a great job dealing with being spread out over three different schools. They didn't get nervous about who was coaching who; they managed everything exceptionally well," Frankie noted. He continued: "This sport is like a wheel, when it stops you gotta be ready to get after it, and this team is doing that."

This weekend the wheel of the regular season rolls to a stop in Hardin, but not before Broadus hosts a home mixer on Thursday evening featuring wrestlers from Miles City (featuring one mat of high school wrestlers, and another of AAU wrestlers; it promises to be a loud boisterous time), and a dual against Sidney at home on Friday. On Saturday the Hawks travel to Hardin for a mixer.

As Robert Jordan put it "The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend." The Hawks will look to leave memories that become legend at tournament time, next weekend in Wolf Point and then on to State, February 9th and 10th in Billings.