Hood River Valley won six of eight wrestled matches enroute to a 63-18 Dec. 15 dual win over visiting Milwaukie High, and a few days later, Connor Farlow highlighted HRV’s performances at the weekend Liberty tourney in Hillsboro.
At Liberty, the Eagles placed 14th out of 23 teams with 109 points. Farlow continued his stellar season with a runner-up finish at 113 pounds. Farlow pinned his way through three rounds before running into junior Jeremiah Wachsmuth of Clackamas in the final. Wachsmuth was second in the 2022 Class 6A state tournament at 106 pounds and earned a first-round fall over Farlow for the Liberty title.
The Liberty tourney provided most of the HRV wrestlers great competition. Joel Bronson placed 10th at 182 with two wins in four matches. His lone loss was to Logan Sunnell of Tualatin in the second round. Sunnell made it to the quarterfinals of the 2022 Class 6A state tourney at 160 pounds as a freshman. Robert Wood won his first two matches at 126 pounds, including an 8-6 second-round decision over Teagan Paxton of Portland’s Cleveland High. Aloha’s Moises Lopez, who wrestled at the Class 6A state tourney a season ago, pinned Wood in the quarterfinals. Wood then lost in the third round of consolation to place eighth.
Also placing eighth for HRV was Treshaun Douglass, who won his first two 126-pound matches by pin before losing to Jacob Larson of Clackamas in the quarterfinals. Larson won three matches in the 6A state tourney at 113 a season ago.
Jesus Ortega-Laur had a good tourney for the Eagles, also at 126 pounds. He won by four successive pins after losing in the first round to Dallas Ochoa of Liberty in sudden victory.
Connor Tennant split his four 182-pound matches at Liberty, with his two wins coming by fall. Tennant wrestled Aden Oehlert of St. Helens in the second round; Oehlert was a 5A state tourney wrestler in 2022.
Jack McLaughlin was 14th at 152 pounds with two wins by pin. After winning his first-round match, McLaughlin was bumped into the consolation round by Josue Gutierrez of Tualatin. Gutierrez was a 6A state tourney competitor in 2022 at 138 pounds.
The 138-pound bracket included Silverton sophomore Bo Zurcher, who wrestled in the Class 5A state tourney last season as a freshman at 126 pounds, and HRV standout Carson Farlow, who competed at state in 2022 at 132 pounds. Zurcher caught Farlow early and won by fall in the first round. But the Eagle wrestler was clean the rest of the tourney with four pins in his four remaining matches in the consolation rounds, improving to 12-2 on the season.
Reid Richardson of HRV won one of three matches at 170 pounds. At 160, Kevin Castro (12th place) and Leif Mortenson (22nd place) each split four matches. At 132 pounds, Abelardo Gomes Gordian won one of three wrestled matches for the Eagles, a 17-second pin in the third round of consolation. At 113 pounds, Leyton Adams won one of two wrestled matches for HRV. His loss came to Jace Spencer, who was a 5A state tourney wrestler a year ago at 106 pounds for Dallas High.
In the home match against Milwaukie, the Eagles received pins from Bronson (182 pounds), Castro (160), McLaughlin (152), Carson Farlow (145), and Douglass (132), and a 7-5 decision from Connor Farlow (126). The latter match featured two wrestlers who competed in the 2022 OSAA state tourney. Farlow lost in the fifth-place match at state a year ago at 106 pounds, while Milwaukie’s Theo Baldwin competed at state at 126 for the Mustangs.
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